ALL CHEERLEADERS DIE is another generic high school horror flick, one let down by the usual weak scripting and emphasis on repetitive familiarity rather than freshness or verve. Caitlin Stasey, who I remember as a child actress in NEIGHBOURS, gives a good performance as the vengeance-driven outsider with a vendetta against her school's football team, but the rest of the cast are unmemorable and the plot feels tired and weak, a hash of bits and pieces left over from better movies. At first you think it's going to be the usual vengeful spirit story but eventually it becomes a cheesy vampire-style flick complete with bad CGI lights and the like. Nothing special, in other words.

This is a poor remake with poor production values. It almost looks amateurish.

Some High School cheerleaders get attacked one night by the High School Jocks and end up driving into the river.

Lucky for them a girl at the High School and also a friendly, neighbourhood witch revives them and they have unusual powers such as a lust for blood. Not sure how these girls have got a vampire type blood-lust.

The girls ineptly plan revenge on the boys who attacked them but the alpha male, who is the most sadistic and vile figures out that these cheerleaders have special powers and he is hell bent on acquiring them.

The film has a great deal of uneven tone. A typical High School comedy about the beautiful people, bitchiness to bullying and the worse kind of cruel, male bullying. It varies wildly unsure whether it wants to be a black horror comedy, campy silliness to supernatural, or just plain cruel.

This is a film that showed early promise, was a great idea, but the actors, dialogue, and plot couldn't bring it on. The film starts out as a reality film as they watch and interview a cheerleader. When she is killed while performing "America's most dangerous sport" her friend Maddy (Caitlin Stasey) takes her spot with the intent of enacting revenge especially on football player Terry (Tom Williamson). Added to this mix is witch Leena (Sianoa Smit-McPhee) who makes things happen with stones and crystals that act like a Monkey's Paw.

The film takes 30 minutes to develop. It was good getting there. Once we entered into the meat of the film, the writers didn't know what to do. Or at least they didn't do it well. Character build up was mostly ineffective.

Asylum production. Okay as an inexpensive rental.

Parental Guide: F-bomb. Sex. Rape. Nudity (Reanin Johannink- or body double Mallory Thompson)