{"id":39423,"date":"2023-10-11T00:13:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T04:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=39423"},"modified":"2023-10-11T00:00:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T04:00:04","slug":"bring-it-on-cheer-or-die-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/11\/bring-it-on-cheer-or-die-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring it On: Cheer or Die (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There\u2019s a horror sequel to \u201cBring it On<\/a>.\u201d Repeat: There is a horror sequel (part seven!) to \u201cBring it On.\u201d The cheerleading sports teen comedy that birthed a series of cheerleading sports teen comedies actually has a sequel that is a full on horror movie. That\u2019s kind of like a sequel to \u201cMission Impossible\u201d that\u2019s a full on slasher film or something. It\u2019s kind of amazing. It\u2019s too bad \u201cCheer or Die\u201d just isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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When Abby and her Diablos teammates are forbidden from doing any risky cheer stunts by their overly cautious school, they fear that they will be laughed out of the upcoming regional cheer competition. The squad comes up with a plan to choreograph a winning routine in secret at a nearby abandoned school. Once at the school to rehearse, one by one, the cheerleaders begin to disappear. By the time they realize they’re locked inside with a killer, it may be too late for any of them to survive.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

It feels like at one point this movie was called \u201cCheer or Die,\u201d so the studio just bought the script and put it under the \u201cBring it On\u201d banner, as some kind of tax write off. They then took five thousand bucks, spend three of it to train the actors for cheer performances, and spent the rest on salary and location shooting. That\u2019s about the level of budget that \u201cCheer or Die\u201d feels. It has a minimal cast, it\u2019s set in a school after hours, and utilizes about as little of cheer choreography as humanly possible, save for the prologue and epilogue of the film. Everything in the film\u2019s budget seems to indicate the director cut a lot of corners.<\/p>\n

This means shying away from a live audience of extras for the performances, and one scene involving our heroine running over someone in a bus that is so poorly staged it\u2019s kind of funny. If you know anything about the \u201cBring it On\u201d series it began life as a teen sports comedy, then has lived on in the Direct to DVD market for years. This turn in to horror is bizarre, and doesn\u2019t amount to a good movie at all. \u201cCheer or Die\u201d is generally a lousy and painfully boring slasher film that doesn\u2019t aim to do much with the sub-genre. Our killer has a bow and arrow and a small knife, and offs the characters in off screen methods.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s not a lot of characterization or exposition save for the necessary set information dumps that we need to know. Once the big reveal occurs, it\u2019s about as ridiculous and convoluted as you\u2019d assume it would be. It then pretty much drags its feet to climax, leaving everything feeling so hollow and pointless. If you\u2019re morbidly curious and are interested in just enduring a bad slasher flick, \u201cCheer or Die\u201d is an unusual direction for this series and might tickle your fancy. It\u2019s terrible, though, you\u2019ve been warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a horror sequel to \u201cBring it On.\u201d Repeat: There is a horror sequel (part seven!) to \u201cBring it On.\u201d The cheerleading sports teen comedy that birthed a series of cheerleading sports teen comedies actually has a sequel that is a full on horror movie. That\u2019s kind of like a sequel to \u201cMission Impossible\u201d that\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,17],"tags":[703,840,922,950,974,1012,1130,1186],"class_list":["post-39423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","category-tv-tomb","tag-mystery","tag-revenge","tag-sequel","tag-slasher","tag-sports","tag-survival","tag-tv-movie","tag-whodunit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39425,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39423\/revisions\/39425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}