All Cheerleaders Die

Plot synopsis:
The film opens with Maddy Killian (Caitlin Stasey) recording footage of her childhood friend Alexis (Felisha Cooper) as she prepares for the final days of school before summer break and for cheerleading practice. She discusses how important it is to remain fit and how dangerous cheerleading can be, pointing out how easy it is for some of the more advanced cheerleader moves to end with severe or deadly injuries. This proves to be the case when 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. After being accepted, Maddy notes that Tracy (Brooke Butler) has begun dating Terry (Tom Williamson), a star football player who had been dating Alexis prior to her death. She begins to get along with the other cheerleaders, the overly religious and prissy Martha (Reanin Johannink) and her shy sister Hanna (Amanda Grace Cooper), who serves as the cheerleading mascot. This provokes Maddy's ex-girlfriend Leena (Sianoa Smit-McPhee), who can't understand why Maddy would want to hang out with the cheerleaders. Unbeknownst to everyone else, Maddy has actually joined the cheerleading squad to take revenge on Terry for as yet unspecified reasons.
Maddy begins taking her revenge by convincing Tracy that Terry had cheated on her during the summer and even manages to successfully seduce her at a group gathering of cheerleaders and football players. This greatly hurts Leena (who had been watching the gathering from afar) and angers Terry, who starts a fight, and bans the "dogs" (football players) from dating the "bitches" (cheerleaders).
He then punches Tracy in a fit of anger. The cheerleaders all try to escape the raging football players, only for Terry to cause an accident that claims the lives of all of the cheerleaders. Horrified at what she's seen, Leena manages to revive all of the dead cheerleaders using Wicca magic and magic stones. The following day the girls are all disoriented and scared, especially Martha and Hanna, as they have also somehow swapped bodies.
None of them recollect exactly what happened until Leena reveals to them what occurred the night before. They're also very hungry, which prompts them to attack one of Leena's neighbors and suck out all of his blood. The girls then go to school, where the football players all watch them with disbelief, as they'd thought them all dead. During the day the cheerleaders pick off the football players one by one, either out of hunger or, in the case of Martha, out of anger when she realizes that her sister slept with her boyfriend, Manny (Leigh Parker), using her body.
While the girls were all initially willing to work together, their solidarity unravels due to the day's deaths and the discovery from Maddy's video diaries that she had joined the squad out of revenge. She tries to explain her cruel criticism of them, but none of the others will listen to her, especially not Tracy, as she had genuinely begun to fall in love with Maddy.
The only person who will listen is Leena and Maddy tells her that she had been raped by Terry while attempting to film a memorial video for Alexis and that up until that point, she had not wanted revenge. The girls are then picked off one by one by Terry, who has figured out what is going on and manages to defeat them by cutting out the magic stones (which reside in the girls' bodies) and swallowing them.
Terry manages to corner Maddy and Leena in a graveyard where he tries to force Leena to show him how to use her magic for his benefit, only for him to die after Maddy attacks him and Leena's magic somehow manages to force the stones out of him. Maddy dies again as a result of this but Leena manages to revive her through her own grief, the same thing that caused the original resurrection. The two embrace and kiss, only to find that a bloody Alexis is tearing her way out of Terry's corpse (as he had landed on her grave) and screaming Leena's name. The film then cuts to the title card, which reveals that the film is part one in a series and that there will be a sequel.

Tags: mystery, murder

Review:
Having Lucky McKee doing a movie like this might be the biggest surprise though.
And that is a good thing, because the movie works.Giving the cheerleader to do what they want and making this all about women/girls was a really good decision, even if at one or two moments I thought some of the guys where painted to dark, without some shades.
The Woman (2011) was definitely memorable and made headlines for its festival showing and a paying attendee that was less than thrilled with what he saw on the big screen (YouTube it, you'll thank me).McKee's newest project, All Cheerleaders Die, got a coveted spot amongst the 10 films picked as part of the Midnight Madness series at this year's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) where it will be making its World Premiere.The title sounds rudimentary, but the film is anything but.
The opening scenes before the title card set up a plot device that really comes full circle by the film's final shot and the audience at the packed Bloor Cinema collectively gasped and clapped with the first fatality.Fans of horrors films would likely yawn at such an introductory synopsis.
But the movie hardly heads in directions one can foresee and before long, Maddy, school friend Leena (Sianoa Smit-McPhee) and the whole squad of short skirt/white sneaker females are battling the opposite sex with a supernatural element under toning the struggles.McKee and fellow director Chris Sivertson throw the proverbial kitchen sink at the audience and I can best describe All Cheerleaders Die as a movie which if the creative makers behind Heathers, Carrie, the television Charmed and Jennifer's Body all took a big dump in a blender and the resulting mixture was then baked into a soufflé would be the result.Most of what is being cooked works.
Witches, evil quarterbacks, zombies, walking dead, supernatural, conjuringlike we said, "the kitchen sink" I liken All Cheerleaders Die therefore to last year's Monster's Brawl.
It's a lot of fun with an audience and there are some elements of originality, but if sitting in a darkened basement screening the film by one's lonesome, you might not enjoy the audience effect fun-factor that can sometimes elevate a reviewer's response.McKee is definitely out of his downer-phase.
It starts slow but it really picks up with a few twist that make it stand out from other horror flicks, kinda like the horror film, You're Next did a year back, putting a different spin on what at first seem like a by the numbers horror film, though All Cheerleaders Die is a few levels down from You're Next.
I went to go see the movie because I was hoping because of the title that I would see a group of hot sexy cheerleaders getting killed with some possible nudity and I got all that plus a little girl on girl, but it's technically not enough of it to really keep you interested.
It goes from a revenge flick to a supernatural horror flick and then to something else entirely, and the story all blends together well.This was a fun ride worth the watch..
All Cheerleaders Die takes it time before it all really starts but once it starts it does deliver the horror, it's low profile, I admit but you will keep watching it until the end.
Yet another step in the wrong direction for the once promising Lucky McKee and a major step up from Chris Sivertson's I Know Who Killed Me. TV production values don't help here either.www.moviehemorrhage.com.
A goth teen (Sianoa Smit-McPhee) who once dated one of the cheerleaders (Caitlin Stasey) finds their bodies and brings them back to life through witchcraft.
Certainly not one of McKee's best works, but it's better than a majority of the horror films that are being released nowadays..
Now i watched the original film and i liked it,but it was a low budget film..and i love low budget films.This was a great bigger film of a small film,now i read how someone didn't like the CGI blood and didn't care about the characters..are FFFFFnnn kidding me!Why cant people enjoy films anymore?Because they all think their critics.Well i loved this one made my night.If you like horror comedy this one the one to watch.Just the opening sequence got me into it now there is all the clichés of high school and jocks and cheerleaders but thats what we know,am i right.Good vs evil teenage style.In closing i put this up as at least a seven,hell crack a beer and have some fun..
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.
This latest release from Lucky McKee, the man who brought us the fantastic The Woman and the very original May, and co-director Chris Sivertson (The Lost) strays from their more serious tone and delivers us a new take on the slasher movie.
Caitlin Stasey did a great job as Maddy, and I am definitely looking forward to seeing her develop her career, hopefully in horror.
Okay some of the SFX look a little basic, but the movie didn't have a huge budget and it really doesn't detract from the film.
We are treated to some of the silliness that is expected of a film from this sub-genre, and of course not all of the decisions the characters take are logical, but the way the film is made is reminiscent of some of the best teen horror of the 90's, which for me can only be a good thing.
The biggest plus for me is that the directors have imbued a definite feminist slant into the movie, which is something I absolutely love, and something that can be found in Lucky McKee's other work.
In a similar vein to Chastity Bites (also recommended), the directors have taken a familiar concept and updated and revived it, to provide audiences with a fresh angle, and I think making horror, particularly slashers, more empowering to women can only ever be a good thing.The obligatory teen-horror tropes are there, the pretty cheerleaders, the jocks, making the whole setup feel comfortingly familiar to those of us who are partial to a good slasher.
But McKee uses his talents to nicely subvert the traditional 'pretty girl gets slashed to bits' thread and provide us with an entertaining watching experience in the company of some female lead characters who seem distinct, more than mere stereotypes.
You grow to like them, particularly Maddy, Caitlin Stasey's character, which is more than can be said for many female characters in slasher movies.
It won't revolutionise the horror world, and it certainly isn't 'serious' horror, but if you're looking for a movie to have a laugh with, and one that is a little different from the norm, then you could do far worse than All Cheerleaders Die. Recommended.
I haven't seen any horrors lately so when "All Cheerleaders Die" got into my hands I was pretty excited!
I and my wife kept asking each other questions like "What did she want?" or "Why did he say that?" and the answer was always "I have no idea".Several moments in the movie were quite much fun and "All Cheerleaders Die" would be really enjoyable if they lasted more than 5 minutes out of 90.
Aside from the standard obnoxious demonization of men, or in this case, boys, All Cheerleaders Die is a well-done and somewhat original supernatural horror movie.
Of course a movie like this depends entirely on the girls, and Caitlin Stasey and Brooke Butler make it work.
Attempting to get through high-school, a group of cheerleaders get into an accident at a party and awake to find themselves possessed by spiritual stones that give them dangerous powers against their classmates and forces them to battle the men to stay alive.This one was quite the enjoyable and truly fun effort.
Given the accident that sets everything in motion and how that plays into what happens later on, there's some really good work here on that front so that it brings out some of the film's greatest parts here with the big party scene out in the woods which manages to be the film's big moment as there's the crazy high-school antics throughout the party as they all begin drinking, hanging out and generally acting as well as indulging in their witchcraft and lesbian tendencies that run throughout the scene and then brings up the big fight that starts the big change-over into their car-crash that includes the big resurrection scene on the beach afterwards which makes this such a fun sequence.
There's still plenty of good times here once they get back to the school and begin tormenting the population which allows for some really fun sleazy antics of them seducing everyone and going after the required blood to stay alive and trying to hold out on the killing but still managing to engage in plenty of overall rowdy activities that give that section a boost as well as some solid set-up for the final half where they get wind of their true identities and turn the tables on them in order to set up the great finale in the cemetery which makes for some truly fun times here.
No, seriously watch 'Who's That Girl?' This is just how bad 'All Cheerleaders Die' is!.
I was after the hot chicks and I love horror,Great Combo!but I got more then I wanted,Great story, love the twists,the action, Hot girls, killings and NUDITY!
This felt like an old film in a good way, originally story line with its slasher and horror but also like a black comedy..
Not for people who didn't like evil dead or only watch a movie to see two girls getting it on.
I had to turn my volume up to around 90 to hear anything with any real clarity.The effects are even cheaper - if you're going to kill people on the cheap you may as well throw some real dead bodies around the screen as I'm fairly certain their acting would at a minimum be on a par with what I was watching on screen.45 minutes in I had to remind myself if I didn't claw my way to the end of this film I'd have wasted 45 minutes.
In the end, as expected it turned out I'd wasted 90.Even the hot women couldn't save this movie.
As a result Maddy decides that she will join the cheerleading team, as they must now find a replacement for Alexis, with the intent to seek revenge against Terry and Tracy.This is a remake of a 2001 film of the same name that was also written and directed by McKee and Sivertson.
The story has an outsider named Maddy (Aussie actress Caitlin Stasey) joining the Blackfoot High cheerleading squad, determined to get revenge on the star jock Terry Stankus (Tom Williamson).
However, thanks to some intervention by the witchy Leena (Sianoa Smit-McPhee, another Aussie), they return from the dead - with a decided change in attitude and appetite.The movie is fast paced, so you have to give the filmmakers that much, but the script and the characters generally lack any truly interesting features.
ll Cheerleaders DIe(2013) Starring:Caitlin Stasey, Chris Petrovski, Sianoa Smit-McPhee, Jordan Wilson, Brooke Butler, Leigh Parker, Amanda Grace Cooper, Reanin Johannink, Tom Williamson, and Natalie Castillo Directed By: Lucky McKee, Chris Sivertson Review Hello Kiddies your Pal The Crypt-Critic here with some hot stupidity.
We're also expected to overlook ridiculous things like the idea that magic, glowing rocks bring a group of air-headed cheerleaders back to life with an inexplicable (and unexplained) taste for blood.
The start was a little boring, I didn't watch it as I didn't think it'd affect my enjoyment of the main part of the movie if I didn't pay any attention to it and I was right.
I've waited a while before I finally tried this, heeding warnings like 'chick flick', 'silly FX' and 'terrible soundtrack' and lots of low ratings, but the title and the fact that Lucky McKee is one of the directors...
honestly i am not gonna waste my time writing a long review about this because this film don't deserve it is nowhere near entertaining its just got some sexy chicks that's it but guess what it lacks all the fun you want in a teenage horror comedy flick is available here the whole film is misleading i am not saying i expected something out of this but this was trash.the story goes as few chicks get attacked at party by boys of the same school they fall in the river & die next morning all girls wake up & find out that Leena a friendly witch saved their life & made them all just like herself.now the plot goes real bad & takes a turn to the worst these girls have discovered they got powers but they are so dumb instead of focusing on the next plan on how to take out & kill the boys who attacked them they go to the same school again giving them another chance by doing stupid things & wasting the time the film tries hard to be smart but end up being stupid.let me say this again nothing happens throughout the film until the climax & sadly it is one of the worst ending to a film ever these young amateurs don't know how comedy & horror works these guys should have take a lesson from master Johnny Depp his films are proof he made a career out of doing comedy,horror & suspense flicks.even with all the flaws not matter how much you try to enjoy this hoping this would get better in the next scene no way its got all those useless things like lesbian kissing,cheap dialogs & overrating by everyone except the good script.and since when did witches started behaving like vampires by drinking large amount of blood,eat flesh etc,this film categorizes itself in horror is a insult to the genre.the biggest turn off is the climax you won't believe it but hell yes it is abrupt yes the whole ending is unfinished so you won't get to see what happens in the end who win & who loose don't matter the funny thing is these stupid witches can kill a lot of innocent people but fail to kill one bad guy i mean common the directors were on drugs when they filmed it,critics are paid to praise this nonsense.the cast:well what can i say its got a lot of sexy girls in it but they get wasted here i felt sad for them the filmmakers wasted their chance to do something good with this huge cast almost every character is dumb.Overall All Cheerleaders Die 2013 is a terrible lame & extremely boring film my rating is 2/10.just watch anything else but not this title i am warning you this film is a waste or money & time stay away.Skipp It.
I've been a fan of director Lucky McKee since his 2nd film, May. Most notably, he's the man behind The Woman, which came out in 2011 and made a name both for itself and him due to the graphic violence depicted, and all around being a very good movie.
When I found out that Lucky was doing a new film, I instantly tweeted to him asking him three reasons people should watch All Cheerleaders Die, and he replied:These reasons weren't necessary for me, as I had already intended on renting it on VOD.
And, unbeknownst to most, All Cheerleaders Die is Lucky's remake of his very first film of the same title.
All Cheerleaders Die starts off in a shocking way, and I didn't expect what happens at all.
Leena sees this as a bad omen of things to come.When some football players discover that Maddy and Tracy (Brooke Butler) are hot for each other, it turns into a volatile situation that ends in all the cheerleaders dying.
However, the football team starts seeing weird things like the girls' lower backs glowing green, and know that something weird is indeed going on.
I don't know what it was about this movie that made me like it so much, but it definitely had me captivated from start to finish.
It was, at some points, pretty funny and at others, quite gruesome and lastly, in some parts of the movie, delved into the life of a teenage girl and the ups and downs of being in high school and having a relationship that starts off amazing, then can take a turn for the worst.
ALL CHEERLEADERS DIE (2013) ** Caitlin Stasey, Sianoa Smit-McPhee, Brooke Butler, Amanda Grace Cooper, Reanin Johannink,Tom Williamson, Chris Pertrovski, Leigh Parker, Nicholas S.
HEATHERS meets THE COVEN could've been the pitch for this meandering horror flick about a squad of high school cheerleaders left for dead after a car accident only to be revived by a Goth babe whose unrequited crush on another outsider come-popular hottie provides the reason for revenge upon the football team responsible.
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.
I love the title & artwork for this film, assumed that it was a slasher movie but it isn't.
Definitely a film aimed at a teen audience, it does have a Buffy/The Craft feel, plus of course girls in bikinis & guys with 6 packs.