Death of a Cheerleader

It's 1983 in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in California. Bridget Moretti (Aubrey Peeples) is an outsider from a modest family. She is desperate to befriend Kelly Locke, the coolest girl in school, and join the Bobettes. Nina Miller is not into the superficial and narrates as Bridget gets arrested for the murder of Kelly Locke.

It's a Lifetime movie. That's the start and the end of it. The cinematic look is poor. The places look cheap despite this is supposed to be the wealthiest neighborhood. The girls are twenty somethings. From the start, Nina should have the same look. I didn't connect her to the opening of the movie. She has no rooting interest. Peeples needs to go full force right from the beginning. She does have a few nice acting moments. That's probably the only good from this. Mostly, it's all very flat. The ending tries to wrap it up by blaming it on the pressure. That needs to be set up much better. All of this needs to be much better.

Horrible remake, horrible camerawork, horrible wigs. They took out some of the storyline, which really just deflates any emotion or reasoning behind everything. Did they blow their entire budget on Kellie Martin? They didn't even have enough extras to fill out "The Bobettes" - did you notice how the group seemed to only have 1 member when the new group joined?

The original was better. The first part is hard to follow - badly directed and unclear with too many characters and girls who kind of look alike. The camera is jerky. The The killing is scary still.

The killer isn't plain enough.

Not great. Just watch the original. An unnecessary remake.

So, my sister tells me that Lifetime has done a remake of A Friend to Die for AKA Death of a cheerleader. Both based on the true story of the Kristin Costas murder in 1984 in Orinda, CA. Bernadette Protti was the name of the killer IRL.

Anyhow, we like the original so we decided to watch the remake. It sucks. The acting is horrible and the movie is just all over the place.

Skip it and watch the original instead.

I was pretty excited to see the remake of an amazing movie but this wasn't so amazing. If you haven't seen the original, the story is pretty hard to follow and full of holes. If you have seen the original movie this one is just a huge disappointment.