Twenty years ago, Bambi ( Candice Azzara), a high school misfit hopelessly infatuated with star quarterback Blue Grange ( Tab Hunter), witnessed the first in a long line of horrific cheerleader murders. Tom Smothers, Carol Kane, Judge Reinhold, Tab Hunter, Eileen Brennan, Teri Landrum, Debralee Scott, Miles Chapin, Mark McClure, Candice Azzara, Paul Reubens, Eve Arden, Phil Hartman, Donald O'Connor, Richard Romanus, Alix Elias, Ebbe Roe Smith What's So Funny About Brit Horror? Vampira and Bloodbath at the House of Death on Arrow Sex vs Violence: In the Realm of the Senses on Blu-ray Super Sammo: Warriors Two and The Prodigal Son on Blu-ray Moon Night - Space 1999: Super Space Theater on Blu-ray The Call of Nostalgia: Ghostbusters Afterlife on Blu-ray
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Thankfully a nearby Canadian Mountie (despite this taking place in the U.S.) is there to save the day. Naturally a homicidal maniac breaks out of the nearby asylum, not to mention a mass murderer breaks out of prison, and both of them are heading straight to the school.
She is joined by a small group of horror clichés, such as the popular girl, the hot girl, the shy guy, a couple of bros, etc. So three cheers, then, to Vinegar Syndrome for bringing out this forgot funny fright flick, but is it worth remembering today?Ī shy girl with psychic powers (a la Carrie) goes to a cursed cheerleader camp where, years earlier, a mass murder of cheerleaders happened. Yet today when you ask most horror fans if they’ve seen Pandemonium, you usually get only blank stares. Lander, Phil Hartman, Judge Reinhold, Paul (Pee Wee Herman) Reubens, and more. And the lack of knowledge of this one is surprising, considering the number of stars it has in it, such as Tom Smothers, Carol Kane, Eileen Brennan, David L. There was the somewhat well-known Student Bodies and Saturday the 14th from 1981, National Lampoon’s Class Reunion from 1982 along with the lesser known Wacko, the even more obscure Hysterical from 1983, and this one, also from ’82. So great was the glut that they gave birth to a surprising amount of horror spoofs. In the early 80s hardly a weekend went by without a new slasher in the theaters. The 1980s were not only a golden time for horror movies in general, but for slasher movies in particular. Stars: Tom Smothers, Carol Kane, Tammy Alverson
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