It’s got a Carrie-inspired character (complete with crackpot religious nut Mother) who can shoot lasers out of her eyes, which perform the psychokinetic strangeness, and these are great for an opening gag and a bedroom fling, but one wonders what happened to them when she is later running for her life. Sure, you might say this was already done with the low budget slasher spoof Student Bodies (1981) a year or so before, but the cast here is generally better at pulling off the laughs-plenty of professional comedians at the time filled out this movie. It’s a comedy all right, and it juggles a dozen or more subplots, and some of the humor is a tad forced (or has not aged particularly well), but in general the movie is a fast-paced comedy. There are a variety of unlikely deaths and slasher/suspense circumstances, and by the end of the film the rather filled out cast is reduced, the killer’s identity is revealed, and the flick gives us a surprisingly happy conclusion (despite all the death and mayhem). They are not very good at the cheering thing, though Mandy is the veteran of some kind of beauty pageant lifestyle (her family is weird) so she knows how to look charming and has a killer smile (from brushing her teeth ten times a day, thanks to said weird family and some kind of toothpaste fetish). Pandemonium has a bunch of potential victims with rhyming names, including Candy (Carol Kane), Mandy (Teri Landrum), Sandy (Debralee Scott), Andy (Miles Chapin), Randy (Marc McClure), and Glenn … Glenn Dandy (Judge Reinhold). It’s also a laugh at the sorts of well-meaning chumps who attend cheerleader camp. It’s also a send up of human horror flicks. A Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) with a better through line or a Wet Hot American Summer (2001) type movie. The flick’s original poster gives us a Meatballs (1979) style sex comedy approach. Alas, the rest of the at-the-time promotional materials fly in the face of just what is going on with this picture. Some movies are perfectly titled, clueing an audience in not only to plot, genre, and theme but all-around mood. However, doing so is no easy task with so many walk-on roles (plenty of them comedians) in director Alfred Sole’s 1982 screwball slasher flick Pandemonium. It is up to displaced Canadian Royal Mounty Cooper (Tom Smothers), his horse Bob (uncredited), and the peon Johnson (Paul Reubens) to crack the case, ID the perp, and get their man. As expected, a mysterious killer strikes. These two killers’ journeys will bring them together and to the town where the university & camp are located. A murderer Jarrett (Richard Romanus) with a penchant for turning his victims into furniture has escaped prison. The lunatic Fletcher (Jim Boeke) has escaped the asylum. There are six students (each introduced with cheery title cards Victim #1,2,3, etc.), and there are several possibilities for killers. Even the townsfolk know the students are dead mean. Lander) and his mother Salt (Izabella Telezynska). She ignores the expected warning from caretaker Pepe (David L. Thirty years later, following the destruction of numerous other cheerleaders, Bambi decides to reopen the program under new management. Synopsis: After horror strikes a cheerleading squad of a small town University in 1963 Indiana, it leaves five girls impaled with javelins, it leaves unknown others blown up (their feet missing), and it leaves Bambi (Candice Azzara) in a state of mourning for her beloved football playing jock of an unrequited love Blue Grange (Tab Hunter). Rei Clearly on Shawna the Vampire Slayer: Bla…ĭanielRobichaud on I Am Special, I Am Loved, I Am…ĭanielRobichaud on Shawna the Vampire Slayer: Bla… I Am Special, I Am Loved, I Am Enough, I Am Doing My Best: Sissy (2022)ĭamien de Soto on Down but Not Yet Out in Chicag….Finger Lickin’ for the Pickin’: Kenzie Jennings’ Reception.Knock & Wait: The Other Side of the Underneath.Down but Not Yet Out in Chicago: Michael La Ronn’s Dead Rat Walking. Brother, Brother, Brother … What’s Going On? Da 5 Bloods.
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