All Cheerleaders Die (2013)

Directors: Lucky McKee, Chris Sivertson

Writers: Lucky McKee, Chris Sivertson

Composer: Mads Heldtberg

Starring: Caitlin Stasey, Sianoa Smit-McPhee, Brooke Butler, Tom Williamson, Michael Bowen, Reanin Johannink. Leah Parker

More info: IMDb

Tagline: You can't kill their spirit.

Plot: A rebel girl signs up a group of cheerleaders to help her take down the captain of their high school football team, but a supernatural turn of events thrusts the girls into a different battle.

My rating: 7/10

Will I watch it again?  Yes.

From the first few minutes you get a good idea for what you're in for.  It's going to be a deliciously good dark comedy horror.  And that's what you get.  Well, you actually get two films.  What starts out as one thing, it ends as another.  It does what FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (1996) did but it's a lot smoother and natural in this picture.   It's fun, the kills are fun, Maddie is a great character and the ending is balls out insanely fun.  Where's the sequel, y'all?  It's a wild picture in a lot of ways but one thing I dug was not liking the cheerleaders (except for Maddie) until 'that thing' happens and then I dig 'em.  It's a cool shift that I didn't see coming.  The Image DVD anamorphic widescreen print looks great but there's only one extra and that's a behind the scenes featurette (24 mim).  A commentary would've been better.  It's OK to hear the actors talk about their characters but in this case I'd like to hear what the directors had to say.  This is a remake of McKee and Sivertson's first film by the same name from 2001.  Now to get my hands on that one...