The Majorettes (1986) 12 out of 100

James "The Jimi" Hattar submitted the following investigation for The Feminist Slasher Project.

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“The Majorettes” (aka: “One by One”) (1986) directed by S. William Hinzman and written by “Night of the Living Dead” co-writer John A. Russo, is a B-movie Slasher flick at its most crappiest. There's more than meets the eye in this wacky combination of horror flick, murder mystery, action thriller and teen drama.
Dressed in army surplus garb, a hooded psycho is killing off the members of a high school cheerleading squad one by one in a small Pennsylvania town. The local sheriff and a federal officer investigate the killings. Other back stories are happening around them that includes a greedy nurse plotting to kill her elderly employer and her daughter for a piece of an inheritance. The nurse's creepy son, who is a janitor at the school, stumbles upon a clue in the killings and a local drug dealing biker gang that's suspected in the killings complicates matters for the investigators.
The murders of each cheerleader consist of the killer cutting their throats with a big knife. Not very inventive horror at all. Another problem with this flick really begins when the killer’s identity is revealed far too soon leaving the last half of the story filled with a poorly made and generic Rambo style action sequence where the school quarterback chases and fights some biker dudes with a machine gun in the middle of a forest. This bizarre action scene comes off like a parody more than anything else. The other scenes dealing with the nurse trying to kill an elderly woman for her money is played out like a bad, made for TV murder mystery.
“The Majorettes” was not scary, interesting or entertaining at all. This flick had me either laughing or cursing the Gods the whole time. The horrible acting and dialogue, the really cheap production values and a score that sounds like it was made on a $25 Casio keyboard are just some of the horrors that await you if you watch this piece of fecal matter. Don’t say The Jimi didn’t warn you.


Feminist Slasher Project Research:

What was the role of the women in this film? Well, the cheerleaders were eye-candy and that’s it. They were victims and dumb ones at that. When they're not performing badly choreographed cheerleading routines, they are prancing around in butt-hugging leotards or skimpy bikinis or they take long, hot showers (Hmmmmm…The Jimi likes long, hot showers). The nurse character was portrayed as an old, murdering, money grubbing bitch. This flick had no strong or interesting female characters at all. I hated this movie very much and because I love women, I’ll have to give “The Majorettes” a bright RED light for the Feminist Slasher Project.