| Pandemonium | |
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| Directed by | Alfred Sole |
| Written by | Jaime Klein Richard Whitley |
| Produced by | Doug Chapin |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Michel Hugo |
| Edited by | Eric Jenkins |
| Music by | Dana Kaproff |
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| Distributed by | MGM/UA Distribution and Marketing |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $5 million[1] |
Pandemonium is a 1982 American parody slasher film.[2] It was directed by Alfred Sole and features an ensemble cast including Tom Smothers, Eileen Brennan, Phil Hartman, Tab Hunter, Judge Reinhold, Carol Kane, David Lander, Eve Arden, and Paul Reubens.[3]
The film went into production under the working title of Thursday the 12th.[4] The film was the last feature in which Eve Arden appeared[5] and also the last feature film Sole directed in his career.
The film is set in Indiana, focusing on a fictional cheerleading camp. The camp closed in 1963, following the murders of several cheerleaders at an affiliated university. Nearly twenty years later, a veteran cheerleader re-opens the camp and ignores warnings about a supposed curse on the camp. The killings soon start again. The killer turns out to be a local celebrity, who never fullfilled his dreams of becoming a cheerleader.
Pandemonium was released in theatres on April 2, 1982.
- ^ Fox, Jordan R. (1981). "Thursday the 12th". Cinefantastique. Fourth Castle Micromedia. Retrieved August 2, 2023.
- ^ Hutchings, Peter (2 September 2009). A to Z of Horror Cinema. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810870505.
- ^ Dan Pavlides (2008). "Pandemonium". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2008-01-17. Retrieved 2012-01-14.
- ^ "At the Movies: 'Off Beat' perils of Judge Reinhold in N.Y.". The Philadelphia Inquirer. April 13, 1986. p. J02 (Features / Entertainment / Art). Retrieved June 21, 2011.
There was also Thursday the 12th, a comic horror parody that Reinhold says, with evident relief, is confined to the vaults at MGM.
- ^ Karol, Michael (2006). "Eve Arden". Sitcom Queens: Divas of the Small Screen. iUniverse. p. 6. ISBN 0-595-40251-8. Retrieved June 16, 2011.