Satan's Cheerleaders (1977) - USA - Horror Comedy - Rated R
Directed by Greydon Clark
Starring John Ireland, Yvonne De Carlo, Jack Kruschen, John Carradine, Sydney Chaplin, Kerry Sherman, Jaqueline Cole
Rah rah sis boom bah, this movie's a dud. With a title like Satan's Cheerleaders how could it miss? Yet, like a tipsy redneck in a public restroom, it does.
A janitor at a college upset with being laughed at by the school's cheerleader squad, not that it has anything to do with his spying on them during showers (ahem), is also a member of a satanic cult. He has plans to get even with them with the help of Satan, and have the pretty blond girl, Patti, for himself. Satan has other plans for her as the squad ends up in a small town where everyone from the sheriff on down is a member of the cult and out to sacrifice the girls in a black mass.
I presume this was intended to be a comedy. With corny names like Nether, California for the town and B.L.Bubb for the sheriff, it certainly seems like it was headed there, unfortunately like the squad of cheerleaders in the movie, it gets lost along the way as well.
Kerry Sherman plays Patti who is the focus of the story, and who is definitely an attractive woman. She is the primary skin content of the movie, yet what is in the movie is not very much. The comedy as I mentioned is much the same.
Recommend: No. They had the right idea to take a popular theme of horror movies of the 70s, Satan, and mix it with a comedy exploitation movie theme, but the ingredients just are not there in any substantial proportion. Not enough sleaze, comedy or horror.
It is available on DVD and is now in widescreen. As you can tell from my screencaps my copy is not widescreen.
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