Randall Adams and David Harris saw this movie at a Dallas drive-in on November 28, 1976--it was the second of a double header preceded by The Student Body (1976). Both mentioned their attendance in alibis while being investigated for the murder of Dallas police officer Robert W. Wood. Adams also said that he had to leave this movie before it was finished, as he didn't feel comfortable with its content. Adams' eventual conviction was the subject of the movie The Thin Blue Line (1988).
Originally filmed as "Stand Up and Holler." Jack Hill later admitted they auditioned actresses using the title Stand Up and Holler on purpose because "Actresses had a way of not wanting to be in a movie called The Swinging Cheerleaders." He was right, because some of the actresses said they never would have accepted their roles had they known the title would be changed to "The Swinging Cheerleaders."
Selected by Quentin Tarantino for the First Quentin Tarantino Film Fest in Austin, Texas, 1996. This movie was also featured in the Satan's Cheerleader Camp Film Fest in Austin in 2000, hosted by The Satan's Cheerleaders, who were given special thanks at the end of Grindhouse (2007).
Only role for actress Jo Johnston.
The film was released under the titles Locker Room Girls and H.O.T.S. II. It is the sequel of sorts to the 1973 film The Cheerleaders, directed by Paul Glickler; and was itself followed by Revenge of the Cheerleaders (1976), directed by Richard Lerner; and The Great American Girl Robbery (1979) (aka Cheerleaders Wild Weekend), directed by Jeff Werner.