Character actor Marc McClure is perhaps best known for playing Jimmy Olsen for Christopher Reeves Clark Kent in 1978’s Superman, its three sequels and 1984’s Supergirl, and the lovable, personality-free Dave McFly in the first and third Back to the to play Future” movies (he only appears in a deleted scene in “Back to the Future Part II”). McClure has also appeared in other successful films, including Apollo 13, the ’78 and 2003 versions of Freaky Friday, and Zack Snyder’s Justice League, and like most actors, he’s also appeared in a few Stinkers. … the most fragrant of these is probably “Pandemonium” from 1982.
A spoof of slasher films, Pandemonium has an impressive pedigree: director Alfred Sole helmed the chilling horror Alice, Sweet Alice in 1976, while co-writer Richard Whitley also helped write the cult classic Rock ‘n’ Roll High School .” There are some very funny people in the cast too, including Paul Reubens and other Groundlings and Pee-Wee’s Playhouse alumni Phil Hartman, Edie McClurg, John Paragon and Lynne Marie Stewart, as well as Carol Kane, Judge Reinhold, David L . Lander and Tom Smothers What it doesn’t have is a funny script or competent directing: Sole seems utterly unsure how to deliver the “airplane”-style jokes, aside from a few fun visual puns (a number of cheerleaders impaled by a single spear), the script is dead-on-arrival. Like most of his castmates, McClure knows a gag and makes his mark as a lecherous male Chee rleader a few laughs while trying to maintain his dignity in moments when the killer shoves a pom-pom down his throat. That’s the level of yucks in Pandemonium, so proceed with caution.
