Deadly Cheers

Ok. So when you decide to watch a Lifetime movie called "Deadly Cheers" you should know exactly what you're getting... A trashy semi-exploitative movie of teens getting inexplicably killed or abused. And this is exactly what you got. Nothing more.. nothing less.

Surprisingly, I'm not as hard on this movie as other reviewers. No. This is NOT "the worst Lifetime movie ever" by any means. I will actually give the movie credit for not marching down the generic predictable plot line of stupid cheerleaders getting knocked off one by one. There was actually a mystery to be unraveled.. and did find myself engaged enough to want to watch to sort out who was or were the actual baddies.

This clearly is a low-budget movie .. even by Lifetime standards. Don't expect any mindless stupid decision-packed chase scene through a completely empty high school. We rarely even see the high school or other students.

But I did find interesting dynamics between everyone involved - and I'm even embarrassed so admit they were actually "multi-layered."

So I will give this movie a solid "5" for at least trying to be a psycho cheer movie that actually has some interesting twists and turns.