Notoriously
campy horror movie, released in 1977. It was directed by
Greydon Clark and written by Clark and
Alvin L. Fast. It starred
John Ireland as the
sheriff,
Yvonne De Carlo as "Emma Bub/the
sheriff's wife/the
high priestess",
Jack Kruschen as
Billy the Janitor,
John Carradine as
the Bum,
Sydney Chaplin as Mond,
Joseph Carlo as the coach,
Lane Caudell as Stevie,
Jacqueline Cole as Ms. Johnson,
Robin Greer as the Baker Girl,
Hillary Horan as Chris,
Sherry Marks as Sharon,
Michael Donovan O'Donnell as the farmer,
Alisa Powell as Debbie,
Kerry Sherman as Patti, and
Dennis West in a bravura turn as
Gyppo the Evil Dwarf.
Here's the
plot, such as it is:
Billy the Janitor kidnaps the
cheerleading squad so the
local Satanic cult can
sacrifice them! Oh, no! But one of the
cheerleaders is secretly a
witch! She teaches all the other cheerleaders
spells and they mop up on the
devil worshippers.
This
movie perfectly demonstrates the
sociological impacts of a
marginalized but close-knit
subculture on the
traditional mores of
dominant society and -- ha ha, of course I am
kidding. Really, the only point of this movie is:
buxom girls in short skirts abandoning
conventional morality to practice
magic and
make nookie with boys and commit
bloody murder on
janitors,
high priestesses and
Gyppo the Evil Dwarf. No, I haven't seen it. The local
video store said the tape got
stolen every time they ordered one.
Research from the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com)