Review of Cheerleader Camp (1988) by Harry W — 17 Apr 2014

Cheerleader Camp is a routine, unstructured slasher film that never takes full advantage of the playboy models and even one of the cast members who would later become a high-profile pornstar for the nudity, which is especially sad because the film is a a slasher about cheerleaders.

So much of Cheerleader Camp makes no sense and confuses the viewer, and there isn't much blood or gore except in Pam's death scene, and even then it was unimpressive. A slasher film lacking much blood, gore or nudity is clearly a failure.

But Cheerleader Camp did have a decent premise for a generic slasher film and a decent lead from Betsy Russell considering the standard of the acting in the film, but she didn't have any nudity and considering that she was the immensely sexy woman from 1983's teen sex comedy Private School, that is a shame.

But it also gave a role to Leif Garrett who was better than the average actor in his situation. So Cheerleader camp is forgettable, but semi-decent by low budget slasher film standards, although that isn't much to boast about.