All Cheerleaders Die (2013)

Amateur movie with Big budget

A Disappointing Continuation

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

I've never been a big fan of Lucky McKee, even though I've only seen a few of his films. He comes of to me as an utterly pretentious, man-tool feminist. And this mess of a "film" is no exception. There's nothing funny or clever here. We're presented with a cast completely consisting of truly fathomable characters. We're also expected to overlook ridiculous things like the idea that magic, glowing rocks bring a group of air-headed cheerleaders back to life with an inexplicable (and unexplained) taste for blood. So we have a bunch of surprisingly average looking girls (who's acting skills aren't much better) wandering around, glowing like light-brites as they suck the blood out of jocks with the wretched power of CGI. Dismal stuff with no redeeming values. Please spare yourself, and don't give this guy any more of your money. Horror cannot be achieved through metaphorical, feminist crap like this.

This is a poor remake with poor production values. It almost looks amateurish.Some High School cheerleaders get attacked one night by the High School Jocks and end up driving into the river.Lucky for them a girl at the High School and also a friendly, neighbourhood witch revives them and they have unusual powers such as a lust for blood. Not sure how these girls have got a vampire type blood-lust.The girls ineptly plan revenge on the boys who attacked them but the alpha male, who is the most sadistic and vile figures out that these cheerleaders have special powers and he is hell bent on acquiring them.The film has a great deal of uneven tone. A typical High School comedy about the beautiful people, bitchiness to bullying and the worse kind of cruel, male bullying. It varies wildly unsure whether it wants to be a black horror comedy, campy silliness to supernatural, or just plain cruel.

...is really not a good idea, but Lucky "May" McKee and Chris "The Lost" Sivertson went right ahead and did it anyway. The cast of relative unknowns do their damnedest, to little avail, with a script that has no real idea what it wants to accomplish and takes its own sweet time doing it. Syd Field would not be pleased, nor any other screen writing guru, and apparently the most recent crop of IMDb mavens aren't, either. I'm not surprised. There's some nonsense involving a totally distorted interpretation of Wiccan magic, some very limp lipstick lesbianism, a touch of unimpressive gore, and a coterie of actors who (at least according to the DVD's brief making-of feature) had more fun making this film than they reveal on screen. I can only hope they were paid scale at least; they deserve it after consenting to be in this mess. Forgettable at best, and a definite blot on any self-respecting public library's reputation, this is not going to lead to bigger and better things for anyone involved. Strictly for the indiscriminate viewer only.

I really wanted to love this movie. The first 20 minutes are so are very promising, and the individual scenes are well done. But there's something not quite right with the overall production. The plot? the pacing? Its difficult to put a finger on exactly what it is, and that's frustrating, because the acting is generally okay and the individual scenarios, absent the structure of the rest of the movie, are entertaining.It's hard to pinpoint just where things go wrong. One flaw, tho, IMO is that the first cheerleader's death feels unconnected to the rest of the film. That's unfortunate, because that was where the movie seemed most coherent and interesting. Later it turns into a zombie movie (sort of). But the problem from the moment the rest of the girl's pass away is that there is no meaningful conflict left in the movie. And this moment comes later in the picture than it feels like it should.The most disappointing part was the finale. The movie never introduces a true villain. There is a particularly nasty football captain guy, yes, but he feels like an afterthought in the overall drama.What makes me sad is that all of these problems are things another 20-30 minutes of footage in the middle and some cuts to the beginning would probably fix. There's definitely capable film making going on here. Maybe the movie ran into budget problems? Regardless, it's a shame.