''Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader'' is a 2012 American 3D

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directed by Kevin O'Neill and produced by

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as his first 3D production. The film stars

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, and Jena Sims. The film was released on August 25, 2012 on

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Plot

Cassie Stratford is a plain science

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, whose mother was

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of the cheer squad at Iron Coast University and president of Zeta Mu Sorority, so she is pressured to join both

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and the

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. However, Brittany Andrews, current Zeta President and Cheer Captain rejects her. Cassie works in the Biology Building of the University, where she and her friend Kyle are working on a

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that turns things beautiful. In the night, Cassie steals the drug and injects herself with it. While she does become beautiful and makes the cheer squad when one of the cheerleaders is injured, she then discovers the drug has a

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when she starts to grow taller and taller until she is a

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. Brittany discovers this and tries to

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Kyle into telling her the secret, which leads to her being accidentally injected with more of the drug than Cassie and growing also. Brittany makes her way to the

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. Brittany enters the stadium where Cassie confronts Brittany which leads to a

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, Cassie wins the fight by injecting Brittany with a

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of the antidote before knocking her out. Kyle then injects Cassie with the antidote and she is returned to normal. While Cassie and Kyle kiss, Brittany is shrunken to dwarf size due to the overdose and is made fun of by her fellow cheerleading squad.

Cast

Production

stated that for each of the 350+ films he's produced, he has worked efficiently and planned them in advance. He told the ''

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'' that he hoped to premiere the film at

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in July 2012. In a compliment he paid to the actress

, Corman told her, "Sean, you were great in the picture but you were miscast. You look too good to be the mother!" This was Corman's first 3D production. The actress in the title role, Jena Sims, was crowned

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2007. During filming, both Sims and

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heavily promoted the film, sharing behind the scenes photos with fans on

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and videos on

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. Sims and Alexander even accompanied Roger Corman at

while wearing their giant cheerleader outfits and also accompanied Corman at the

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. The movie was featured in the 2013 book ''Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses: Roger Corman: King of the B Movie'' by author Chris Nashawaty. The song "Attack Attack", sung by Olivia Alexander, is featured during the opening credits of the film. Alexander wrote and sung three songs for the film: "Attack Attack", "It's On" and "VIP." A music video for "It's On" was filmed on August 9, 2012 and is available on Alexander's YouTube channel.

Release

The film premiered at

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on July 14, 2012. It also screened at the 3D Film Festival on September 22, 2012. It was formally released on August 25, 2012 on

. Lionsgate released the film on DVD in 2015 with no special features. There are currently no plans for a

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release making ''Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader'' one of the few films to receive a standard DVD release without a version available in the Blu-ray format.

References

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