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But as she takes on a new year of training, several girls start showing up murdered in the most bizarre ways. There is a photo gallery but sadly, no original trailer.Actors: Tom Smothers, Carol Kane, Tammy AlversonДЄlso known as: Thursday the 12th (Wordking title) | America, America (Italy)Дescription of Pandemonium movie: Bambi, the only survivor of a brutal cheerleaders killing a few years ago, is now leading a cheerleading University. ItвЂ™s a great interview but I wish some of the cast wouldвЂ™ve showed up to share stories as well.

In terms of extras, thereвЂ™s an interview with the Sole director -oops, I mean director Sole! He discusses how the project came together and shares some fun stories including how he found out that horses canвЂ™t go down a flight stairs, much less three flights of stairs. The editorвЂ™s reliance on zooming in wildly in post-production for the occasional gag means that thereвЂ™s some irreparable softness in a bunch of shots but it doesnвЂ™t detract from how good this film looks overall. Pandemonium looks and sounds pretty damn good on Blu.

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Vinegar Syndrome really knows how to make me stand up and cheer. As IвЂ™ve made abundantly clear, Pandemonium still works for me, though it pairs better with something like National LampoonвЂ™s Class Reunion (1982) than it does with Student Bodies (1981). As with all horror comedies, results may vary. And just lifting dialog from a horror movie, in this instance, Carrie (1976), instead of actually parodying it, is never funny.

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A scene with an airplane full of Japanese tourists would never get made today and for good reason. Surprisingly literally no one, certain parts of Pandemonium have aged terribly. ThereвЂ™s just something about it that still warms my heart to this day. Even with the jokes that miss their target by several feet or miles, I still laugh a lot during this movie. So, big shocker, I love the heck out of this damn thing. But when was that ever a problem? I saw Pandemonium at a very impressionable age, so young in fact that I wasnвЂ™t sure if this movie was supposed to be scary or not (itвЂ™s not!). Nostalgia alert! Can this reviewer be trusted? Not likely.

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And finally, thereвЂ™s streetwise Sandy (the lovely 70s TV personality Debralee Scott), who plays a mean game of strip poker. Knucklehead creepos Andy and Randy (played by Miles Chapin of The Funhouse (1981) and Jimmy Olsen himself Marc McClure) are just here to cheer and get laid but not necessarily in that order. Judge Reinhold plays Glenn Dandy, a cheerleader with a cheerleader fetish (coincidence?), who has the hots for Mandy (Teri Landrum), a bubbly gal who only has eyes for her toothbrush. Time to meet the squad! Carol Kane is in fine form here as horny goody two shoes Candy, but then again, IвЂ™ve never seen her in a film where she wasnвЂ™t great. Luckily, the cast would go on to bigger and better things, mostly. Co-screenwriter Richard Whitley, of Rock and Roll High School (1979), would take the success of this project and go on to disappear until the 1990s when he began writing for television. And the rest is history! I should probably mention that by вЂњhistoryвЂќ I mean that this film didnвЂ™t do very well and no one remembers it except me (and Vinegar Syndrome). LetвЂ™s not focus on the details.ДЄlfred Sole, best known to horror fans as the director of Alice, Sweet Alice (1976), tried his hand at a Zucker Brothers style comedy and gave the world Pandemonium (1982). Too bad the killer doesnвЂ™t know about cheerleading hopeful CandyвЂ™s (Carol Kane) telekinetic powers and the keen intellect of former Canadian Mountie Cooper (Tom Smothers) who just took the case! Well, actually heвЂ™s been on the case for years but is too incompetent to solve it. So, itвЂ™s no surprise when the new squad starts getting knocked off almost immediately. Years later, cheer wannabe Bambi (Candice Azzara) starts her own cheerleading camp at the very school where the murders took place. After the big game, a high school cheerleading squad is skewered on a javelin, thus kicking off a rash of brutal cheerleader murders.

Pandemonium movie 1982 review