The Cheerleader Sleepover Slaughter is a surprisingly spry and entertaining little chiller. It’s a throwback to the Golden Era of slasher films of the ‘80s, with a touch of the Cheerleader movie craze of the ‘70s. It’s only an hour long, has a solid body count, and features a bevy of skin. What more could you honestly ask for?
A bunch of snotty high school cheerleaders plan a big slumber party. Trouble is someone is killing them off one by one. Could it be the goodie two shoes girl who will do anything to make the team? Or the nerdy guy who is always taking pictures of the cheerleaders during practice? Or is it the strict cheerleading coach?
The Cheerleader Sleepover Slaughter offers up a fair amount of blood as the killer slits plenty of throats in an hour’s time. It also gives us a little bit of old-fashioned T & A as there are scenes of the cheerleaders taking showers, having sex in a hot tub, and changing in the locker room. There are even some newfangled 21st century skin-and-bare-it situations like cheerleaders sexting their boyfriends, which means this will appeal to modern audiences as well as fans of old school slashers and/or cheerleadersploitation flicks.
Overall, this is a film that proves you don’t have to reinvent the wheel provided you know how to keep the wheel rolling. That said, even though it’s just barely over an hour long, there’s still some padding here and there. Since said padding mostly involves the cheerleaders holding a twerking competition and shaking their Pom Poms on the field in slow motion, it’s hard to get too upset. Plus, The Cheerleader Sleepover Slaughter contains what I believe is the only scene in cinema history in which someone gets stabbed with a Pom Pom knife, so if that doesn’t scream “Highly Recommended”, I don’t know what does.
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