-- Tribal Cheerleaders Destroyed ... | Martha -- Stella

Rating: ⭐½ (One and a half out of five stars)

If you’ve ever watched a cheerleading competition and thought, “You know what this needs? Ritualistic dismemberment and confusing twin mythology,” then Martha / Stella: Tribal Cheerleaders Destroyed is your cinematic spirit animal. For everyone else, this is 78 minutes of glorious, baffling, often boring carnage that plays like a fever dream written by a teenager who just discovered pagan forums. Martha -- Stella -- Tribal Cheerleaders Destroyed ...

The film follows Martha (a wooden Jenna Kline) and Stella (a slightly more emotive Lia Torres), twin sisters who are co-captains of the “Serpent Creek Vipers,” a high school cheer squad with a hidden past. During a team-building retreat on land leased from a local tribe, the girls accidentally perform a routine that mirrors an ancient “purification dance.” The tribe’s exiled elder (a scenery-chewing character named “Old Crow”) warns that the squad has “three sunsets to undo the cheer, or the land will take its sacrifice.” Rating: ⭐½ (One and a half out of

“Spirit fingers won’t save you from the old gods.” The film follows Martha (a wooden Jenna Kline)