#cheerleader camp

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Cheerleader Camp (1988) dir. John Quinn

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Cheerleader Camp (1988)

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Scream King - George 'Buck' Flower

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Cheerleader Camp (1988)

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Cheerleader Camp (1988)

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Cheerleader Camp aka Bloody Pom Poms

Dir. John Quinn, 1988

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Released June 1, 1988.

#CheerleaderCamp aka #BloodyPomPoms

#horror #thriller #comedy

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Schlocktoberfest XIII: Triskaidekaphobic Recap

Let‘s review! The Schlocktoberfest —Day 1: Friday the 13th Part X: To Hell and Back The Schlocktoberfest —Day 2: Too Scared to Scream The Schlocktoberfest —Day 3: Halloween II The Schlocktoberfest —Day 4: Friday the 13th: No Man’s Land The Schlocktoberfest —Day 5: Death Screams The Schlocktoberfest —Day 6: Graduation Day The Schlocktoberfest —Day 7: Friday the 13th: J’s Night The Schlocktoberfest…

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Cheerleader Camp (1988) Review

A group of spirited cheerleaders finds themselves in the crosshairs of an enigmatic killer amidst the isolation of a remote summer camp. Cheerleader Camp, also known as Bloody Pom Pom, is a spirited romp through the realm of slasher cinema. Director John Quinn offers a competent mishmash of horror elements, drawing inspiration from A Nightmare on Elm Street with its many dream sequences, Friday…

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Glam rock was the peak of queer music and gothic 19th century novels were the peak of queer literature and camp movies were the peak of queer cinema. By the way.

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Cheerleader Camp (1988) dir. John Quinn

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Teri Weigel in Cheerleader Camp

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Scream Queen - Betsy Russell

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Cheerleader Camp (1988)

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The camp aesthetic isn't dead. It's just doing what it's always done, waiting to be found and appreciated outside the mainstream of year-end lists and algorithms. Below, I've made a list of some prolific creators I see keeping it alive with two camp principles as guidance (apologies to Susan):

"Camp: doing more than is necessary with less than what you need." Zadie Smith, "Mark Bradford's Niagra"

"Decorative, 'amusing,' 'good theater,' witty in the right way, and likely to make heterosexual relationships look ridiculous." J.B. Priestley, "Block Thinking"

Julio Torres: the Salvadorian-American surrealist formerly of SNL

Los Espookys: a friend group uses special effects to fake paranormal activity to help rich people and government officials avoid their problems Problemista: an aspiring toy-maker must work for an art-world outcast played by Tilda Swinton to keep his visa Fantasmas: in a surreal NYC, Julio encounters a bunch of different people as he searches for a lost diamond oyster earring

Jojo Tichakorn: the Thai party-fiend with a love for the 90s and y2k

3 Will Be Free: Throuple escaping the mafia Mama Gogo: former diva inherits a male strip bar and has to make it successful The Warp Effect: High-schooler figures out what happened the night he blacked out when he wakes up ten years in the future Only Friends: Thai redux of Queer as Folk, updated for the current era The Heart Killers: Adaptation of 10 Things I Hate About You and Taming of The Shrew but with gay hitmen and BDSM

Nida Manzoor: the Pakistani-British romantic punk feminist

Enterprice: two young entrepreneurs, Kazim and Jeremiah, try to escape the South London hustle and get their business, Speedi-kazz, off the ground We Are Lady Parts: an anxious med-student, Amina, finds herself drawn into an all-muslim punk girl band Polite Society: when her sister decides to give up on her dream and get married, teenager Ria tries to save her, Bollywood action-movie style

Cheewin Thanamin: gender-fluid Thai director making cringe euphoric

Make It Right: the queer messy love stories of a gaggle of highschool boys Secret Crush on You: an underdog friend group helps one member deal with his obsessive habits as he falls for a popular jock Bed Friend: A private guy has a one night stand with a casanova coworker he hates Playboyy: Investigating a missing twin, a pair of friends find themselves sucked off into the sex-work industry

Kunihiko Ikuhara: none of us knows what exactly it means

Revolutionary Girl Utena: girl arrives at a mysterious high school and has to sword fight her way to a girlfriend Penguindrum: saved from the brink of death by a spirit in a hat, a girl's brothers must repay their debt by retrieving a 'drum' with the help of some penguins Yurikuma Arashi: Two girl bears disguise themselves as humans and sneak over the city wall to enroll in school Sarazanmai: A musical in which a spirit that sucks souls out of anuses recruits three boys to help stop package theft

Kenny Ortega: gay white American brings camp to the kids on Disney Channel & Netflix Hocus Pocus: the annual favorite about the rebirth of the kid-killing Sanderson sister witches into a 90s suburban neighborhood High School Musical 1, 2, 3: How can a boy possibly like basketball and musical theater at the same time without ruining society? The Descendants 1, 2, 3: Made-for-tv cinemusicals about the children of Disney villains Julie and the Phantoms: lonely teenage girl without a mom forms a band with some gay ghost boys

Manolo Caro: Mexican showrunner who believes telenovelas can be even queerer

House of Flowers: a family reckons with their secrets and a faltering flower shop after the patriarch's passing Someone Has to Die: a conservative family in Franco regime Spain recalls their son from Mexico for an arranged marriage only to find he's brought a male dancer along as his companion Once Upon a Time (Happily Never After): musical comedy about reincarnated lovers who must fall in love to save a town's love lives Holy Family: the bond amongst a group of mothers turns dangerous as someone's past starts to catch up to them