Pep Squad

For the students at Oak Hill High, Iife is
a living hell. In a society full of violence, degradation and injustice, where the adults are mindless and walk around with blinkers, in the traditional parent manner, the frustration among the young grows in this, on the surface, calm middle class town.
When the amenable Beth (Jennifer Dreiling) is sexually harassed by the principal of the school, she and her friends kidnap him. The kidnapping set off a chain of events, which make life even more complicated for these hardened youngsters.
The directors nineteen year-old sister Brooke Balderson, plays the sadistic Cherry, who is society's worst nightmare. She does not hesitate to mow down a few fellow students, if that is what it takes to become Home Coming Queen, while her worst enemy Terra (Amy Keller) runs around in polyester cat suits with a constant cigarette in her mouth plotting Cherry's downfall.
The film, which is an inferno of alcoholic cheer leaders, chain-smoking rebels, suicidal brats, burning flags and a trigger happy ''bitch'' who literally kills for the school beauty queen crown, is a possible future classic in its genre.
Often it is in the small ''perfect'' commun ities, where deviance is not accepted, that you find the really terrible things. That is the case in Pep Squad. The film deals with issues like sexual harassment and school violence, and after the latest shootings in schools across America, this fi 1m is very topical, being the first film to portray such events.
Pep Squad is the first film that was not produced by themselves that the legendary, cult film company Troma Entertainments has taken under its bloody wings, having bought all rights to the film. Lloyd Kaufman has said that this film is best described as a ''dark comedy, mixing the best from John Waters, Federico Fellini, Andy Warhol and Quentin Tarantino'' (I). Quite
a hysteric mixture, which adds colour to both the film itself and the characters it portrays.
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Premiärstatus
Skandinavisk premiär: Medverkande
Brooke Balderson,Jennifer Dreiling,Amy Kelly: Producent
Clark Balderson: Manus
Steve Balderson: Foto
Rhet W. Bear: Musik
Johnette Napolitano: Talat språk
English