Satan's Cheerleaders [Blu-ray]

Director: Greydon Clark Greydon Clark

Overview

The cheerleaders of Benedict High are a rowdy, randy bunch with little regard for rules, decorum, or anything that gets in the way of a good time with the stud football players they date. The big game against Baker High is coming up, and the intense rivalry between the schools leads to spirited chicken fights on the beach and extensive T.P. sessions. The cheerleaders' chaperone, Ms. Johnson (Jacqueline Cole), tries hard to rally her charges and keep their restless libidos from distracting the star players, but they continually take advantage of her sweet nature and naïveté, leading to high jinks which get some of their boyfriends suspended from the team. However, high school politics will soon be the least of their troubles. Benedict High's creepy janitor, Billy (Jack Kruschen), is a member of a local Satanic group, and he wants revenge against all the kids who ridicule him on campus. He kidnaps the four cheerleaders and Ms. Johnson, then drives them to a remote location to sacrifice and ravage his victims on a Satanic altar. Suddenly overcome by the dark forces of the underworld, Patti (Kerry Sherman) strips naked of her own volition and climbs upon the altar, where she is imbued with a strange power that knocks Billy cold. The girls seek out the nearest law, which turns out to be Sherriff Bubb (John Ireland); he also doubles as the Satanic High Priest of the area. When his wife, Emma (Yvonne DeCarlo), senses the dark power that has invaded Patti, they decide that they have been delivered the perfect virgin sacrifice to their evil Lord. The girls make a hasty escape, but discover that the tiny town they've landed in is a hotbed of Satanism, so they are recaptured and brought once again before the devil's altar for a Black Mass. But which of these sassy, over-sexed girls is the virgin meant for sacrifice? The shocking answer leads to death, destruction, and a whole new way of life for the cheerleaders of Benedict High.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/07/2017
UPC:	0089859903229
Original Release:	1977
Rating:	R
Source:	MUSIC VIDEO DIST.***
Region Code:	A
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:32:00
Sales rank:	22,222

Special Features

Commentary Track with the Director, Greydon Clark; Commentary Track with genre Film Director David DeCoteau (Puppet Master lll: Toulon's Revenge) and film historian and journalist, David Del Valle; Behind the Scenes Photo Gallery

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

John Ireland	The Sheriff
Yvonne DeCarlo	Emmy / Sheriff's Wife / High Priestess
Jack Kruschen	Billy the Janitor
John Carradine	The Bum
Sydney Chaplin	Mond
Jacqulin Cole	Ms. Johnson,Ms. Johnson
Kerry Sherman	Patti
Hillary Horan	Chris
Alisa Powell	Debbie
Sherry Marks	Sharon
Lane Caudell	Stevie
Joseph Carlo	Coach
Michael Donovan O'Donnell	Farmer
Robin Greer	Baker Girl

Technical Credits

Greydon Clark	Director
Alvin Fast	Producer

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Satan's Cheerleaders
0. Chapters
1. Chapter 1 [2:58]
2. Chapter 2 [:02]
0. Chapters
1. Chapter 1 [7:37]
2. Chapter 2 [7:23]
3. Chapter 3 [7:40]
4. Chapter 4 [7:24]
5. Chapter 5 [7:45]
6. Chapter 6 [8:00]
7. Chapter 7 [8:19]
8. Chapter 8 [7:30]
9. Chapter 9 [7:45]
10. Chapter 10 [7:33]
11. Chapter 11 [7:08]
12. Chapter 12 [8:13]
13. Chapter 13 [:03]

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Editorial Reviews

There isn't much wiggle room for a film with a title like Satan's Cheerleaders, and this boneheaded (but thoroughly enjoyable) campfest delivers everything such a ridiculous moniker would suggest: trampy teenage vixens, double and triple entendres galore, and bushels of ersatz Satanism. Though light on graphic violence, sex, and special effects, Satan's Cheerleaders takes a far more entertaining route, offering a quartet of bodacious pom-pom girls wearing extremely flattering uniforms (each with their names stitched across their breasts) who flirt and flaunt their way through the most harrowing of experiences with brainless aplomb. Director Greydon Clark approaches the material with shifting degrees of seriousness, so the Satanists are at one moment vicious rapists, the next bumbling stooges. It's an energetic stupidity that carries this disco-scored horror-comedy, which would be enough to recommend it for drunken parties and late-night sleaze fans, but the film also boasts performances from several familiar character actors that will please lovers of Hollywood trivia. Sydney Chaplin (one of Charlie Chaplin's sons) appears as a devil-worshipping monk, veteran horror cameo expert John Carradine plays a crazy old bum, The Munsters star Yvonne de Carlo performs a number of ludicrous Satanic rituals, and fans of Russ Meyer's high-concept dirty movie Vixen will recognize that film's Irish Anarchist Michael Donovan O'Donnell as a farmer for Lucifer. Add B-movie and television regulars John Ireland and Jack Kruschen to this list and the result is an all-"star" cast having a lot of fun with a script that was too dumb to actually make, yet somehow (thankfully) was financed and released.

All Movie Guide - Fred Beldin