Aspiring college cheerleader Cassie Stratford consumes an experimental drug that grants her beauty and enough athletic ability to make the cheer squad. It has an unforeseen side effect - she... Read allAspiring college cheerleader Cassie Stratford consumes an experimental drug that grants her beauty and enough athletic ability to make the cheer squad. It has an unforeseen side effect - she starts to grow and grow and grow.Aspiring college cheerleader Cassie Stratford consumes an experimental drug that grants her beauty and enough athletic ability to make the cheer squad. It has an unforeseen side effect - she starts to grow and grow and grow.
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- Brandon
- (as AJ Lamas, A. J. Lamas)
- The Buccaneer
- (as Nicholas Baumann)
- Zeta Sister #3
- (as Betsy Landin)
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- TriviaJohn Landis and B movie icon Roger Corman have small roles.
- GoofsAfter Tif is attacked by the huge spider, she shows up at cheer leading practice with a wrapping on her left leg. At the annual undie run, she is now favoring her right leg.
- Quotes
Jett: What's up, big mama?
Cassie Stratford: Nothing much. Just growing into a gigantic mutant. You?
Jett: Better than you.
- ConnectionsReferences Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage (1937)
The one thing that I do not understand if the use of remanufactured breasts. If you are going to show bosoms, the show ones that look real. Ms. Sims, an otherwise lovely lady, displayed breasts that would shame most plastic surgeons. Most of the others topless actresses were similarly endowed. The most nuanced and effective character was Mary Woronov as the house mother, who was part Masterpiece Theater and part House of Horrors.
As for the plot, yes there was a plot, the story held up. University research onto cell regeneration turns into an overblown disaster. Of course, people growing and shrinking like balloons was completely implausible, but that was par for the movie. The pharma angle, which included clown-like pharma-enforcers was the only truly camp acting that held up, mostly thanks to Treat. The chemistry between the Ryan Merriman character, Kyle, and Cassie was as contrived as the pink serum that made her grow. The big finale might have worked if the special effects had really held their own.
One last mention of Sean Young, if you are old enough to remember Ms. Young in Blade Runner (when it premiered), then this movie will make you quite sad. Still a looker, the actress who played Jenna's mom was a total waste in this production. If you looked closely, you could still see tiny hints of the actress who was so compelling in Jane Austen in Manhattan and No Way Out. However, you had to look though a microscope, which is a hard way to watch a movie. Such is life.
- msmith-56
- Jul 17, 2014
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- Нападение пятидесятифутовой чирлидерши
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- $1,000,000 (estimated)