Pandemonium (1982 film)

Pandemonium
Pandemonium
Directed by	Alfred Sole
Written by	Jaime Klein; Richard Whitley
Produced by	Doug Chapin
Starring	Tom Smothers; Carol Kane; Judge Reinhold; Paul Reubens; Debralee Scott; Candice Azzara;
Cinematography	Michel Hugo
Edited by	Eric Jenkins
Music by	Dana Kaproff
Production; companies	United Artists; Krost/Chapin Productions; TMC Venture;
Distributed by	MGM/UA Distribution and Marketing
Release date	April 2, 1982;
Running time	82 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$5 million

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, 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.

[PandemoniumProd-1] Fox, Jordan R. (1981). "Thursday the 12th". Cinefantastique. Fourth Castle Micromedia. Retrieved August 2, 2023.

[2] Hutchings, Peter (2 September 2009). A to Z of Horror Cinema. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810870505.

[3] Dan Pavlides (2008). "Pandemonium". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2008-01-17. Retrieved 2012-01-14.

[4] "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.

[5] Karol, Michael (2006). "Eve Arden". Sitcom Queens: Divas of the Small Screen. iUniverse. p. 6. ISBN 0-595-40251-8. Retrieved June 16, 2011.

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