Welcome
to a site dedicated to one of the grooviest drive-in B-horror flicks
ever made -- Satan's Cheerleaders! And with a righteous cast comprised
of John Ireland, Sydney Chaplin (son of film great, Charlie Chaplin),
Yvonne De Carlo and John Carradine (to name but a few), you know that
you're in for one crazy trip, man. But, perhaps there is the slightest
chance that you've never seen this campy and charming send-up to the
Devil and his curvaceous pep squad. Or, maybe you have already spoken
the infernal words of "Audi Precas Maeya, Satana Blessed Be"
to yourself, but haven't dared cop to your love for Debbie, Sharon,
Chris and Patti in front of others. Whether this site salutes your desire
to be "one for all and all for one" with this foxy quartet,
or aids you in discovering this Greydon Clark directed slice of cinematic
glory, you're sure to get yourself a handful. Right on! So, let's get
down and go through a brief plot synopsis of this 1977 classic.
Our
cheerleading team (played by Kerry Sherman, Alisa Powell, Hillary Horan,
and Sherry Marks), led by their not-so-bright coach, Ms. Johnson (Jacqulin
Cole), are getting ready for the first big football game of the season
against their rivals from Baker High. A few of the football players
are practicing on the beach alongside the gals, including Debbie's main
squeeze, Stevie (Lane Caudell). But, the football coach (Joseph Carlo)
doesn't dig that the cheerleaders are getting a bit frisky with the
players, warning Stevie in particular to not "waste his precious
bodily fluids" before game time. Still, Stevie and Debbie get in
a quick romp behind the bushes before the kids from Baker High show
up and invade their turf uninvited. To solve the dilemma, they get into
a "chicken fight" -- two person teams, one on the other's
shoulders, all to wrestle it out. Naturally, the Baker kids lose and
have to leave the beach, but not before swearing revenge on Benedict
High -- by toilet papering (or T.P.ing) their entire school. That'll
teach 'em.
The
next day, the school janitor, Billy (Jack Kruschen) cleans up the mess
of Baker's revenge, but also has quite the fixation on the cheerleaders.
Being the member of "some crazy Devil cult," he also has been
promised by the "High Priest" of his group one of the cheerleaders
for his sexual gratification. So, after peeking in on them through a
grate in the shower room, he waits for them to leave and then casts
a small spell over their clothes -- rubbing his eyeball pentacle necklace
while chanting "Audi Precas Maeya, Satana Blessed Be" over
them. Stevie and two of the other football players discover him in the
locker room and denounce him as a "prevert," warning him to
stay away from the girls. But "Billy Boy" is tenacious and
will not rest until he has his way with his favorite cheerleader: Patti.
At this point, he has laid the groundwork for his ultimate plans of
seduction.
On
the ride to the big game, the girls and Ms. Johnson get run off the
road by another vehicle, while Billy follows from behind in his pickup
truck, chanting and rubbing that necklace of his. While the girls attempt
hitchhiking as a means to get to the game, Billy Boy shows up and offers
to drive them there. But Billy doesn't intend to take them to their
destination, and instead takes a "detour" to an isolated area.
Once there,
they make their way to a small clearing, revealing an altar, overtop
of which looms a wooden head sculpture of demonic proportions. While
Billy works his magic, Patti, in a trancelike state, undresses, lies
upon the altar, and proceeds to get one Hell of an orgasm from the invisible
force of Satan himself. Billy tries to touch her, but the Devil is just
not having it. Billy ultimately chokes and is presumed dead by the girls.
They then take his pickup to look for help.
After
asking a roadside bum (John Carradine) for directions, they find the
home of Sheriff B.L. Bubb (John Ireland) and relay their tale of horror
to him and his wife, Emmy (Yvonne De Carlo). But little do they know
that the Sheriff and his wife are the "High Priest" and "High
Priestess" of the cult and, upon the couple realizing that the
aggressor in question was one of their members, Emmy keeps an eye on
the girls while Bubb investigates the scene.
Once there,
he revives Billy, who is not too happy that the girl he was infernally
promised was taken instead by their Main Man. A fight ensues, and Bubb
ends up beating and then throwing Billy down the hill, exclaiming "Geronimo!"
for some unexplained reason. Meanwhile, back at the Sheriff's home,
Patti begins getting premonitions of what exactly is going on, but doesn't
seem the least bit alarmed. During an outside conversation between Bubb
and his wife, Chris overhears their talk of planning a Black Mass and
making a "sacrifice" of one (or all?) of the girls -- in effect,
covering up the girls' discovery of Billy's membership in the cult as
well their knowledge of the altar.
The
girls manage to escape through a window upstairs, but Ms. Johnson is
discovered by Sheriff Bubb, who in turn roughs her up a bit and then
gives her "a real lesson" while undoing his pants. The girls
are all caught and then placed in a shoddily locked shack with Bubb's
two Dobermans, Lucifer and Diablo, to guard them. They escape once more
through Patti's strange influence on the dogs, but are captured once
again by the cult and coerced into participating in their ritual at
the outdoor altar. Emmy, unfortunately, is mauled and killed by her
own dogs during the second escape -- under the unholy guidance of Patti,
who appears to have gained diabolical powers from her conjugation with
the dread Prince of Darkness. At her own altar in the house, Emmy cries
"why have thou forsaken me" as she is being devoured by these
Hounds of Hell.
The film
ends with a confrontation between Patti and the not-so-sincere Bubb,
as his phony devotion to Satan is revealed and then answered for by
a murderous (and presumedly resurrected) Billy, who drives a large piece
of wood through his gut. Led now by Patti, the cult praises the Devil
and chants their famous line through the end of the ritual. As Ms. Johnson
says later at the football game, "I don't think we're going to
lose any games this season." Indeed.
