School Spirit Massacre (1986)

“Go team… straight to the grave!” The mascot suit was supposed to be funny—until it became a coffin. Years later, the pep rally is back in session, and The Mascot is leading the team to victory… in Hell. With claws in his paws and revenge in his heart, he’s turning every high school tradition into a slaughter and a prank gone wrong. Rated R – for varsity violence, cheerleader carnage, and halftime horror. Episode 2 of 3 Deville High Trilogy. "Totally hokey, early 1980s slasher schlock, with nothing to really distinguish it from the rest of the glut of deranged killer movies from that era... save for a few halfhearted stabs at some genuine character work" - Roger Eggbert "For the devious bad guy's creative and unsettling garb alone, School Spirit Massacre earns more points than it otherwise probably warrants." - The Deville Post "It is respectful of slasher history, offering an ensemble of characters too messily complicated to be mere caricatures, and it locates its maddening trauma – unusually for the genre – in the amatory infidelities of its ‘players’." - Bob John Diggs