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“This is a message for Jeff and I’m really disturbed about the movie he’s making. My daughter is a Cheerleader and if anything ever happens to her and the perpetrator says that he watched this movie… I think Jeff is gonna get sued”

The movie starts with a recording of a phone call, supposedly from a concerned parent. The call, quoted above, goes on to say that out of any money he might make from Head Cheerleader Dead Cheerleader he won’t see a cent, due to any possible lawsuits. Of course, after watching the film it becomes pretty obvious that, in the unlikely event of a lawsuit, there probably wouldn’t have been enough to cover his legal expenses, let alone any compensation, as after the openings genius moment (the call), it quickly descends into another substandard post Scream slasher.

I’m not going to bore you too much with the plot. It’s basically cheerleaders getting offed while the head cheerleader is being terrorized with phone calls. And that’s pretty much what makes up this movie. Not the cheerleader deaths (they are about 10 minutes of the total running time… and that includes setting the scene), but the phone calls. It seems as though the film makers saw how profitable Scream and co. were and decided they wanted a slice of the pie. Unfortunately, they didn’t have much of a budget. So to get round that they decided to have 75% of the action take place in and around one house (with other scenes probably filmed in other unused rooms.) Phone calls, and an endless precession of visitors. All telling her to stay in the house. And the scenes that weren’t in the house (other than the cheerleader deaths) were red herrings getting thrown in. Of course, anyone who has seen Scream (or any slasher really) will know they are red herrings, and know who the killers are. There is a little twist at the end, though, that gives the red herrings an actual role in the movie rather than just being introduced simply to be red herrings.

That’s not the only thing wrong with this movie. In fact, everything about it is completely incompetent. From the terrible acting to the awful editing via dull direction, terrible effects and jump scares that, if they actually scared you, you might want to consider giving up watching horror. Everything here is just bad.

I would give this 0/10, but I’m going to be generous. I’m going to give half a point for each of the three deaths that were unintentionally hilarious. Two of which involved bad rubber breasts being axed off. The other, a brains eye view of an axe hole. I’m also giving half a point for the one thing that they did right. Even though it may have been accidental. The movie really looked like a low budget 80’s slasher. The bad effects, the cheap grainy film and the big hair.