THE MAJORETTES

A camouflage-clad serial killer has begun mysteriously killing the members of the school's majorette squad under the guise of "saving their souls" before they reach adulthood. Local Sheriff Braden and a federal agent investigate the killings. Pregnant teenager Nicole Hendricks is among the first victims, who is attacked and murdered alongside Tommy Harvack, a male acquaintance. Her body is found lying on the shore of a creek. Meanwhile, detective Roland Martell is carrying on an affair with teenaged Marie Morgan, a friend of Nicole.

Meanwhile, Vicky McAllister lives with her rich but invalid grandmother and her grandmother's housekeeper, Helga Schuler. Unknown to Vicky, Helga and her son Harry (a pervert who spies on Vicky and her fellow majorette friends in the shower and takes nude photos of them) poisoned her grandmother (rendering her paralyzed, mute, and utterly helpless) and murdered Vicky's parents years earlier. Helga has rewritten the grandmother's will to inherit everything if Vicky and her grandmother die, but a small catch can foil the entire plot: Due to an irrevocable clause in the original will that had to be left intact in the forged revised will, if Vicky dies before her 18th birthday, the grandmother's fortune will go to the state without an adult heir left alive to inherit.

After another majorette, Barbara, is found murdered in her swimming pool, Roland suspects that there is a significance to the fact that the victims are being found in water—he surmises it has a symbolic significance, akin to a baptismal purification ritual. Helga ultimately finds out the identity of the killer, Sheriff Braden, when Harry discovers him killing another victim, Judy, in the shower. She managed to remove his hood from his head prior to dying. The housekeeper and her son ambush Braden at his house, discovering he is a religious fanatic that is murdering the majorette squad before they turn 18 so that they will stay pure and not become sinful adults who have pre-marital sex or do drugs. They instruct the sheriff that he is to kill Vicky for the pair, but only after she turns 18 so they can steal the entire family fortune.

A local biker gang kidnaps Vicky and Jeff with the intent to rape and kill the former. In the midst of a violent outburst led by gang member Bart, she's shot and killed, as is Harry. Grief-stricken, her boyfriend, Jeff, accrues a large number of weapons and enacts a siege against the bikers' headquarters to avenge Vicky's death. Meanwhile, Braden secretly barges into Helga's home, hangs her, stages the scene as a self-suicide, and destroys photographic evidence proving him to be the killer. The Sheriff subsequently frames the deceased Harry for the murders, as he had a history of being a peeping tom.

Jeff survives, albeit sedated and in shock. Some time later, the sheriff watches from a distance as a coach trains a young group of elementary school girls to be majorettes.

Sheriff Braden is revealed as the killer, manipulates others to cover his crimes, and frames the deceased Harry for the murders. Jeff survives the ordeal, but the cycle hints at continuing as Braden watches new majorettes train.

The film ends with authority figures abusing power and escaping justice, leaving the true killer at large. Braden’s religious fanaticism and calculated framing of Harry highlight the vulnerability of the innocent in corrupt systems. The final shot of Braden observing young girls hints at the perpetuation of violence and the chilling endurance of evil beneath the surface of small-town America.