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8''All Cheerleaders Die'' is a 2013 [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror Comedy Horror]] film written and directed by Lucky [=McKee=] (the man behind ''Film/{{May}}'', ''Film/{{The Woman}}'' and the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "Sick Girl") and Chris Sivertson (who directed ''Film/IKnowWhoKilledMe'').
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10The plot follows a girl named Maddy (Creator/CaitlinStasey) who joins the cheerleading squad following the death of her friend and former captain in a freak accident. When she and the other girls are killed in a car accident unintentionally caused by football players, they are resurrected as zombie cannibal succubi.
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12This film is actually a [[SelfRemake remake]] of a film [=McKee=] and Sivertson both shot back in 2001.
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14!!This film has examples of the following tropes:
15* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: All the cheerleaders are treated as HeadTurningBeauty and LustObject for both the characters and the audience. Their uniforms are the types that expose their midriffs and [[LegFocus legs]].
16* AcademicAthlete: Maddy, who is both very studious and athletic. She mentions she used to do gymnastics when she was younger.
17* AdultsAreUseless: The only adult presence in the film is a teacher that Vik attempts to report to concerning the car accident with the cheerleaders, but then he sees them all come to the school looking perfectly fine, so he changes his mind.
18* AlphaBitch: Alexis definitely qualifies as this before she dies in the opening scene, being the hot, popular girl with a bitchy attitude and being the captain of the cheerleading squad. She's replaced by her BetaBitch Tracy, who maintains most of the same attributes.
19* AmbiguouslyBi: Tracy seems to be bi, as she's been with Terry in the past but later is attracted to Maddy (they also have sex). Her sexual orientation is not discussed in the film however.
20* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Martha's younger sister Hanna (who dresses as the school mascot) is ironically looked at as this by everyone except her sister.
21* AttractiveZombie: All of the resurrected cheerleaders retain their attractive appearance.
22* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: Terry was already a psychopath with homicidal tendencies but initially of the stoic and cool kind. Once he gains the stones' power he becomes truly bloody insane.]]
23* BearTrap: Terry digs a pit trap in the cemetery and lines it with bear traps as part of his plan to destroy the cheerleaders. It winds up killing [[spoiler:Tracy]] when a bear trap closes on her head.
24* BeautyIsNeverTarnished:
25** {{Averted|Trope}} with Tracy, who gets an ugly bruise on her face after Terry punches her.
26** {{Downplayed|Trope}} on regards to the drowned cheerleaders, who only get a few superficial wounds and look much better than actual drowning victims would.
27* BedTrick: Hanna has sex with Manny while in Martha's body, effectively raping both [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Manny]] and [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale Martha]], but the movie doesn't seem to realize this. Martha is appropriately pissed off when she learns of it, but the movie never addresses it as rape.
28* BettyAndVeronica: Tracy and Leena are this for Maddy's Archie, although it's debatable as to who is the Betty and who is the Veronica. Tracy's status as the LovableAlphaBitch and her relationship with Maddy being relatively recent, along with Leena's low social status and deep history with Maddy paint them as, respectively, the Veronica and the Betty. It's complicated, though, by the fact that [[spoiler: Maddy was at least initially using Tracy to anger Terry, whereas Tracy had been genuine in her feelings for Maddy]] and with Leena being a bit of a StalkerWithACrush towards Maddy.
29* BigBad: Terry the JerkJock who incites all the events on the movie, from [[spoiler:raping Maddy]] to killing the cheerleaders.
30* BigManOnCampus: Terry, being the handsome and most popular guy on school and captain of the football team.
31* BrainyBrunette: The brunette Maddy is much more studious and intelligent than her fellow cheerleaders, who are mostly {{Brainless Beaut|y}}ies.
32* BrickJoke: When picking Maddy up for the party, Tracy makes a snide comment to Leena (who had been talking to Maddy) about her self-made clothes. Later, when the cheerleaders wake up in Leena's room after she resurrects them, Tracy is the only one who isn't wearing one of Leena's clothes, instead left in [[LingerieScene her bra and underwear]].
33* CameBackStrong: All the cheerleaders get SuperStrength after they're resurrected.
34* CameBackWrong: Leena uses her magic to bring Maddy and the other cheerleaders BackFromTheDead. She succeeds, but they return as [[LiteralManeater zombie cannibal succubi]]. And with the exception of [[OnlySaneWoman Maddy]], all their personalities change drastically [[TookALevelInJerkass for the worse]].
35* ChildhoodFriends: Alexis and Maddy used to be friends when they were young, which is why Maddy is making the documentary film at the start as a favor to Alexis, despite clearly not caring about cheerleading. It's also why she goes on her {{Revenge}} quest.
36* CrimeAfterCrime: After Terry punches Tracy, the rest of the cheerleaders intend to report it, which will likely get him kicked out of school. So Terry rams his car on theirs, sending them off the road into the water where they drown.
37* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler: Terry cutting the stones out of the cheerleaders]] (or attempting to) is played similarly to sexual violence and violation. In particular, the scene where Maddy confides in Leena that Terry had [[spoiler:raped her shortly after Lexi's death,]] the flashbacks of this event (and Maddy's description of it) are interplayed with [[spoiler: Terry's first kill, Hanna in Martha's body]] with some of Maddy's narration matching what’s happening.
38* DomesticAbuse: Terry punches Tracy, his girlfriend, right in the face after she [[LousyLoversAreLosers publicly insults him about being a bad lover]] and praises Maddy [[SexGoddess as fantastic]].
39* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: [[spoiler: Terry after swallowing the Wicca stones and obviously taking pleasure in his new power shows his inner haminess in strong contrast with the [[TheStoic cold-blooded and almost emotionless sociopath he was before]].]]
40* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Leena, a goth girl, has dark brown hair and nearly alabaster skin. She stalks her ex-girlfriend Maddy at first while practicing Wicca magic in a rather creepy fashion. It turns out that she's CreepyGood though, with her saving Maddy and the other girls who Terry had killed.
41* EmasculatedCuckold: Terry is extremely angry at Maddy for seducing Tracy, especially because she's not only a girl but also [[SexGoddess a much better lover than him]].
42* EmptyShell: All that's left of the men the cheerleaders feed on are lifeless husks.
43* EvilWearsBlack: The newly CameBackWrong cheerleaders start to wear a black version of their uniforms to school.
44* ForcedOrgasm: When Hanna has sex with Manny in the bathroom and reaches her climax, it causes Maddy, Martha, Leena and Tracy to all experience it due to their PsychicLink. It's particularly humiliating for Maddy and Martha, since the former was trying to intimidate Terry, while the latter was in the school hallways filled with students.
45* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the prologue, Alexis is telling a dismissive Maddy about cheerleader being the "most dangerous sport in American high school" due to all the injuries. A few minutes later, Alexis ends up breaking her neck while practicing.
46* FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Maddy and Alexis were close ChildhoodFriends, but grew more distant as they grew older and pursued different interests, but they still remained good enough friends.
47* FreakyFridayFlip: When Leena resurrected the girls, she inadvertently swapped Hannah and Martha's bodies with each other.
48* GirlOnGirlIsHot: {{Inverted}} InUniverse. Terry does not take Tracy hooking up with Maddy very well at all.
49* GirlsVsBoysPlot: A more deadly example. Terry essentially sets up a war of the sexes between the cheerleaders (the "bitches") and his football squad (the "dogs").
50* GothGirlsKnowMagic: The goth Leena is capable of doing Wiccan magic, which she uses to [[spoiler:bring the cheerleaders BackFromTheDead. She also casually brings her cat BackFromTheDead when Tracy accidentally kills it]].
51* HorrorHunger: The resurrected cheerleaders can only feed on human blood (and are implied to also be draining their souls) and it quickly becomes apart that they need a ''lot'' of it. Maddy, Martha and Hanna are pretty horrified about it, but Tracy doesn't really care.
52* HotAsHell: PlayedWith. After initially seducing him into letting his guard down enough for her to pierce his skin, Tracy seems to MindControl Leena's neighbor Larry into staying still so that she and the other zombie cheerleaders can feed off of him, and it’s during her PsychicLink orgasm that her stone is driven through Ben's skull and allows her to absorb his blood.
53* IncompatibleOrientation: Vik has a crush on Maddy, apparently unaware that she is a lesbian.
54* TheImmodestOrgasm: When the girls get to experience Hanna's orgasm, most of them [[PostCoitalCollapse collapse on the floor]] and moan rather loudly, with only Maddy managing to [[TheModestOrgasm control herself not to scream]]. Tracy screams, Leena writhes on the floor moaning, and Martha falls to her knees and [[OhMyGods calls for Jesus]].
55* JerkJock: All of the football players, with the exception of Vik, but ''especially'' Terry. [[spoiler: Unfortunately that's not even the worst of him.]]
56* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: After Lexi's death, Maddy wanted to make a memorial film for her, inviting Terry to be a part of it, noting that despite always seeing him as an asshole, he acted like a boyfriend in mourning and attempted to console him. [[spoiler: Then he raped her.]]
57* JustifiedTitle: [[spoiler:By the end of the film, all of the cheerleaders are killed by Terry. Maddy doesn't count as she was merely infiltrating the group as part of her revenge on him and was never really one of them to begin with.]] Though there are multiple cheerleaders who aren't main characters that presumably [[spoiler: survive.]]
58* KnightTemplarBigBrother: Martha is this for her little sister Hanna, being very protective of her when she's mistreated or exposed to something "indecent".
59* LargeHam: [[spoiler: Terry after eating the Wiccan stones gets far more dramatic and florid because of how they energize him.]]
60* LettingHerHairDown: Maddy wears her hair up when she's being her true self, and lets it down when she's playing as her "cheerleader" self, in order to look more "wild" and "sexy".
61* LifeWillKillYou: Alexis gets a SurprisinglySuddenDeath when a botched move during cheerleading practice has her fall in a bad angle, causing her neck to break.
62* LingerieScene: Tracy wakes up in her underwear after she resurrects, and stays that way for a while, even going outside without a care to get food.
63* LipstickLesbian: Maddy and Leena both wear makeup and feminine clothing, with Maddy especially being indistinguishable from the other cheerleaders in her style. Tracy, who also has sex with Maddy, is pretty much a GirlyGirl as well. Played with, though, in that Leena is more of a PerkyGoth and that Maddy is implied to have been closer to a ButchLesbian before changing her look to join the cheer squad.
64* LoserTeamMascot: The awkward and shy Hanna is the team's mascot, and is looked down upon by the cheerleaders.
65* LousyLoversAreLosers: Terry never managed to give Tracy an orgasm, something she rubs in his face in public to humiliate him.
66* MakeWayForThePrincess: Done by Leena and the newly undead cheerleaders on the first day of school. Featuring stunned reactions from the bystanders, and done in slow motion to catch every swish of the cheerleaders' hips.
67* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces:
68** Maddy and Tracy have sex in the woods together.
69** Hanna, in Martha's body, has sex with Manny in the disabled bathroom, angering a student in a wheelchair who is pounding on the door wanting to get in.
70* MaleGaze: Lots of (often slow motion) shots of the female character's bodies-in particular during [[WorkoutFanservice their workouts]] and the [[PoolScene pool party]]-some of which is explicitly from [[StrawMisogynist Terry's]] point of view.
71* MsFanservice: All of the cheerleaders get {{fanservice}} scenes, but Tracy gets the most, including spending a lot of time in just her underwear.
72* NinjaPirateRobotZombie: The cheerleaders are resurrected by Leena's Wiccan magic stones as cannibalistic succubi.
73* NotMeThisTime: Terry is an asshole and guilty of a lot of things, but Maddy was actually lying to Tracy when she said he cheated on her.
74* OhCrap: The very final scene has [[spoiler:Leena saying this as she sees Alexis rising from her grave.]]
75* PoolScene: The cheerleaders' traditional annual pool party, with all of the cheerleaders in bikinis. It is here that Maddy plants the first seeds to break up Tracy and Terry.
76* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Some of the {{Jerk Jock}}s refer to Maddy as a dyke to insult her.
77* PostCoitalCollapse: When the girls suddenly experience Hanna's orgasm via their PsychicLink, they all drop to the floor in ecstasy.
78* PsychicLink: The girls and Leena all become psychically linked after they're resurrected, able to sense when the others are having sex or feeding.
79* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler:Unknown to any of the others, Terry secretly raped Maddy when she attempted to console him after Alexis' death, leading to her hatred of him and plot to ruin his life.]]
80* RapeAndRevenge [[spoiler:Terry raped Maddy shortly after Alexis's death when she went to his house to record a tribute to her. She joined the cheerleader squad with the purpose of getting close to him and ruining his life, which she starts by seducing his girlfriend.]]
81* TheRemake: Lucky [=McKee=] and Chris Sivertson shot the original film back in 2001 immediately after graduating from college.
82* RomancingTheWidow: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Alexis and Terry were only dating, but many people disapprove of Tracy hooking up with Terry only a few months after Alexis's death. Tracy herself feels conflicted about it.
83* SequelHook: The film ends with [[spoiler:Alexis rising from her grave]].
84* SexGoddess: Maddy is apparently extraordinary in bed.
85-->'''Tracy:''' ''[describing sex with Maddy]'' Three people in my life have made me cum. Myself, of course. This really sweet boy at summer camp, the summer after freshman year. Lovely fingers on that boy. And then, not even ten minutes ago, I got my ''friggin' socks rocked off''.
86* SexualKarma: Protagonist Maddy is apparently an [[SexGoddess excellent lover]], in contrast [[spoiler:JerkJock Terry is a [[TheSociopath sociopath]] and a [[LousyLoversAreLosers terrible one]].]]
87* SexyDiscretionShot: When Tracy and Maddy sleep together in the woods, we see them kissing on the ground while they take their clothes off as the scene cuts away. The next time we see them, they're stepping out of the woods with smiles on their faces.
88* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: [[spoiler:Tracy seems to lose all sense of modesty after being resurrected, walking around in her underwear in public without an ounce of shame.]]
89* ShamingTheMob: Maddy is outraged that none of the other jocks turn against Terry after he punches Tracy in the face, calling them all pussies.
90* ShouldersUpNudity: When Hanna (in Martha's body) takes off her clothes to have sex with Manny, we only see her from the shoulders up or with ToplessnessFromTheBack. {{Subverted|Trope}} in the unrated version, which ''does'' show her breasts.
91* ShowingOffTheNewBody: When [[spoiler:Hanna]] finds herself in [[spoiler:Martha]]'s body, it isn't long before she starts flaunting her form in a way that the conservative [[spoiler:Martha]] never did.
92* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Terry is guilty of a laundry list of horrific acts, ranging from raping Maddy and punching Tracy in the face for criticizing his sexual prowess to running the girls off the road and letting them drown while unconscious. Although he did seem just as shocked as everyone else and he clearly didn't mean to kill them, he still showed no remorse about leaving them to die and saving his own skin. He gets worse after he starts eating Leena's Wiccan stones.]]
93* SoulJar: [[spoiler:The Wiccan stones become this to the cheerleaders after they get brought BackFromTheDead. Terry rips them off their bodies, which gets them KilledOffForReal.]]
94* StalkerWithACrush: Maddy ex, Leena, keeps stalking her even after they broke up, partly due to being worried over her sudden personality change, partly because she's a ClingyJealousGirl.
95* TheStoner: Several members of the football squad, to the point their van lets out so much steam it looks like a smoking machine.
96* TheStinger: [[spoiler:The film ends with Alexis being resurrected by one of Leena's crystals. The film then cuts to the title card, which reveals that the film is part one in a series and that there will be a sequel.]]
97* TeenyWeenie: Discussed and defied. Tracy tells Terry using this against him would be too cliche. He isn't ''big'', but ultimately the problem isn't the size but that he doesn't know what to do with it.
98* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: A VerbalTic of Alexis and Tracy is to end their phrases with "bitch".
99* TimeSkip: The movie skips to three months after the prologue, where most of the story takes place.
100* TokenGoodTeammate: Vik is the only one that tries to stand up to Terry, quitting the team and trying to report what happened to the girls.
101* TokenReligiousTeammate: Despite being a cheerleader, Martha acts and dresses very conservatively due to being very religious. Terry calls her a "Jesus freak who never puts out".
102* UndressingTheUnconscious: After Leena brings all the cheerleaders BackFromTheDead she apparently brought them all to her place, and dressed them all up in her clothing. Except for Tracy, because she [[BrickJoke insulted Leena's clothes earlier]].
103* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Leena names her new kitten 'Princess Madeline' after her crush. Maddy is less than impressed (and more than a little squicked out) by this turn of events. Even Leena admits it's pathetic.
104* WomanScorned: Martha feeds on Manny after she finds out Hanna and he had sex, mostly to hurt Hanna.
105* WouldHitAGirl: Terry has no problem punching Tracy in the face after she taunts him about the [[TeenyWeenie size of his penis]] and her [[EmasculatedCuckold hooking up with Maddy]]. [[spoiler:And after he finds out how the girls were resurrected, he shows no qualms with cutting the Wiccan stones right out of them, effectively re-killing them.]]

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