It’s the same old story: Bitchy cheerleaders run the high school; bitchy cheerleaders are run off the road — and off a riverside cliff — by douchebag jocks, and they all die as they hit the water. But then they all wake up the next morning, resurrected by … something bad, it seems — and seem endowed with supernatural speed, strength…and hunger.
Same ol’, same ol’.
Judging by the trailer, this is a slightly insane cross between Mean Girls, The Faculty (maybe it should be called The Students), and the zombie apocalypse. Regardless, the cast is almost entirely Australian, putting on more than respectable Amurrican accents. The only one slightly recognizable to USAvians might be Caitlin Stassey, who was the lead in the little-seen but pretty wonderful screen version of the Aussie Red Dawn, Tomorrow, When the War Began.
It’s the brainchild of Lucky McKee, a horror-ish movie director who’s already given us some worthwhile work to chew on, including the understated and chilling Red, made in 2006, and 2008’s The Woman, a brutal and bizarre story of a feral woman captured by a … normal? … American family. (Both films, by the way, are based on equally whacked-out short novels by Jack Ketchum. Read at your own risk.) Cheerleaders seems a good deal more splashy — especially when it comes to blood and body parts — than Red, and with a whole lot more of a sense of humor than The Woman, but Lucky’s already shown his ability to put together an effective story, so … we’re in, regardless.
Check out the trailer…
