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ON THIS DAY IN HORROR - June 13th

"ALL CHEERLEADERS DIE" limited release in 2014

Writer/Director duo Lucky McKee and Chris Sivertson remake there own low budget 2001 film of the same name, All Cheerleaders Die. There's dead cheerleaders out for revenge, witchcraft and body switching galore going on as a rebel girl signs up a group of cheerleaders to help her take down the captain of their high school football team.

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Maddy Killian (Caitlin Stasey) is recording footage of her childhood friend Alexis (Felisha Cooper) routine for cheerleading practice, all the while pointing out how easy it is for some of the more advanced cheerleader moves to end with severe or deadly injuries - which is exactly what happens as Alexis is thrown into the air and her teammates fail to catch her in time, resulting in her death. Once school resumes Maddy decides that she will try out for the cheerleading team and manages to impress the entire team with her acrobatic skills. Unbeknownst to everyone else, Maddy has actually joined the cheerleading squad to take revenge on Terry, Alexis former boyfriend and captain of the football team, for as of yet unspecified reasons. As Maddy turns the rest of cheerleading squad against each other, Maddy's ex-girlfriend Leena (Sianoa Smit-McPhee) appears in an unexpected twist.

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Starring two Australian actresses in the leads, Stasey and Smit-McPhee, All Cheerleaders Die also stars Tom Williamson as Terry, and Brooke Butler, Reanin Johannink and Amanda Grace Cooper as the fellow cheerleaders. One of the locations for the filming of All Cheerleaders Die was Cathedral High School, near Chinatown in Los Angeles, and is located on what was the old Calvary Cemetery prior to 1900. Thus its athletes are nicknamed the Phantoms, because of the school's location on top of a cemetery. Perfect place to shoot a horror movie!

Critical reception for All Cheerleaders Die has been mixed with the consensus "All Cheerleaders Die sets out to subvert horror tropes, but ends up falling victim to many of the same trashy cliches it's trying to mock". However We Got This Covered praised the film for its originality, and summed the film up by saying "Mindless and contrived at points, no doubt, but All Cheerleaders Die is undeniably a witching, bitching good time worthy of the cliffhanger ending that suggests a future sequel may be in the cards."

The title card at the end of All Cheerleaders Die which reveals that the film is part one in a series and that there will be a sequel.

ROTTEN TOMATOES SCORE:    47%