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THE
MAJORETTES
PLOT
Someone in a camouflage jumpsuit is slashing the pretty majorettes of a
posh high school.
REVIEW
Really, the above plot synopsis makes this sound better (and more basic)
than it really is.
It starts out like as a crappy, paint-by-numbers, rip-off of such classics
as "Night School" and "Graduation Day", careens into what looks like an
halfway-suspenseful thriller with a twist, and then ditches everything to
become a shitty vigilante picture. What can one say? I felt cheated. One
can only hope that John Russo's novel (upon which his own script is based)
is better.
It's hard to describe the events that make up the actual story. In a
nutshell, a killer with a hunting knife starts slitting the throats of
bouncy teenage girls and submerging their bodies in water. This leads to a
lot of pointless religious subtext as token local authorities try to make
sense of it. This all takes place as we're subjected to badly edited
scenes, lines like, 'Why are so many bad things happening to us!!!???', and
more red herrings then you can shake a fist at (including the proverbial
pervert janitor, and the local scumbag drug-dealer who knocked one of the
victims up).
The killer is revealed about mid-way, which actually leads to an
interesting subplot which shows promise...I won't let you in on it because
it spoils the ending...the final act is strictly the pits and ruins any
suspense this movie hoped of building. The acting is skid row, to say the
least. There are no characters to root for or really loathe because of the
shifting focus of the story. Overall, a bad time to be had.
Russo also produced this thing. Bill Hinzman, who played the graveyard
zombie in "Night of the Living Dead" directed.
GORE
Well, there is quite a bit of blood and violence, but fans of slashers
will be disappointed...the movie looks like it was edited with a rusty saw
and the gore scenes seem to suffer the most. The kills are pretty routine.
In one hilarious scene a naked dead girl falls out of a locker clutching her
breasts.
SOUNDTRACK
There's an opening scene where the girls are all dancing to a bad pop
song....the rest is just SCREECHING synth music that plays almost
unrelentlessly through the rest of the film...often to help make the
over-the-top acting seem more dramatic.
BOTTOM LINE
Only watch this if you are indiscriminate about the types of slashers you
watch...or if you are interested in the career of Russo. If you're
expecting an underrated gem, look elsewhere.
Review
By: The Scaremaker
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