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Seen on: 04/03/2010

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Pandemonium (1982)

Directed by Alfred Sole

Comedy

Most recently watched by noahphex

Overview

A former high school student who always wanted to be a cheerleader decides to reopen the cheerleading program at her former high school after years of closure for being targeted by a serial killer.

Rated PG | Length 82 minutes

Actors

Judge Reinhold | Eve Arden | Marc McClure | Richard Romanus | Edie McClurg | Paul Reubens | Sydney Lassick | Michael Tucci | Candice Azzara | Carol Kane | Donald O'Connor | Phil Hartman | Izabella Telezynska | Alix Elias | Eileen Brennan | John Paragon | Debralee Scott | Tab Hunter | David Lander | Victoria Carroll | Jim McKrell | Pat Ast | Miles Chapin | Lenny Montana | Ebbe Roe Smith | Kaye Ballard | Gary Allen | Suzanne Kent | Tom Smothers | Teri Landrum | David McCharen | Sallee Young | Lynn Herring | Lynne Marie Stewart | Shirley Prestia | Candi Brough | Randi Brough | Don McLeod | Bradley Lieberman | Randy Bennett

Viewing Notes

Pandemonium is a horror/comedy with total spoofy elements that had been made popular with Airplane! It doesn’t really have the best jokes but everything is made up for by having a cast that just goes all out and seems to be having fun. And what a cast…Carol Kane, Paul Ruebens, Phil Hartman, Tom Smothers, and more faces you’ll recognize from later films like Grease and Ferris Bueller.

The one gimmick that got me to even see this was the one that made me chuckle the most…the cheerleaders who are getting offed by a killer are all named with names ending in Y, so there’s a gag of the roll call where Bambi, the lady running the camp has everyone say their names: Mandy! Sandy! Candy! Randy! Andy! and Glenn! *confused looks* Glenn Dandy!

Stupid, yes, but it’s funny enough that it works. Also you have Tom Smothers as a Canadian Mountie who can’t ever seem to say Canadian Mountie and is never seen without his horse, who like Petey from Little Rascals, has a circle painted around one eye. Another strange but funny gag.

All in all, it’s not a movie that is even close to the level of some of the best spoofs, but for something completely goofy it was a clever enough watch for a Saturday night with a little booze in the system.

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