Saturday, March 8, 2008

Cheerleader Camp (1988)

Alison is haunted by nightmares and hallucinations of death and blood. She joins her cheerleading team for a trip to Camp Hurrah, where there are competitions for the cheerleaders, mascots (who are second class citizens), and queen. There doesn't seem to be any criteria to win the queen competition.

The mascots are excluded from the cheering activities and even have a separate dinner time where they must eat while wearing their massive mascot heads. Why would they think this was okay?

Alison's nightmares continue and her boyfriend Brent, played by Leif Garrett, is a total sleazebag as he hits on other cheerleaders right in front of her, and even pursues the easy girl on their own cheering team. When Alison voices her dismay, Brent apologizes and then dumps her when she has qualms about having sex at camp. What a great guy. Soon cheerleaders are getting killed and Alison's teammates are disappearing.

The film boasts the worst rap I have ever seen, which is done by Brent and Timmy, the two male members of the cheerleading squad. Their role on the team appears to be dancing badly in the background as the girls do some elementary moves. You can't appreciate the awfulness of their rap without seeing it. It is the whitest rap ever.

Watch for the scene in the camp office where there is a copy of Leif Garrett's 1978 "Feel the Need" album sitting on top of the record player and leaning up against the wall.

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