The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)

Absolutely Fantastic

A different way of telling a story

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

A feminist director making a slasher movie with naked girls getting killed by a unique weapon? Tell me how exactly did this happen? That would be like a Nun reading a tentacle hentai on her spare time. If false scares piss you off, please do not watch this film, there is at least 15 false scares in the movie. The "oh it was suppose to be the villain but it wasn't" kind of stuff. The kills are slightly tame however the characters act very realistic to their injuries and their situation. The best example is a girl who actually tries to hide her blood spilling so she can hide better, attention to detail, I like that.Overall very solid watch, but nowhere near on the top of my list of slasher movies.

When Trish (Michele Michaels) invites her friends over to a slumber party while her parents are away for the weekend, they are expected to have a good time on Friday night. However, a homicidal maniac(Michael Villea) has escaped from a mental hospital as he has a love for knives and power- drills as he crashes the party to start making a bloodbath but can some of the ladies escape from the killer?Exciting and intense 1982 slasher film from Roger Corman productions and was directed by Amy Jones and written by a feminist as it was one of the first horror movies made by women. There is nudity with graphic violence and gore abound with some very weak acting plus an okay story, i saw this on video as a kid and thought it was decent.slasher film. Not a very good movie but still a decent time waster.

When Trish's (Michaels) parents leave town for the weekend, she invites three High school friends over for a slumber party. She also invites her new neighbor Valerie (Stille) who lives across the street. Valerie declines because she overhears Diane (Gina Mari) talking bad about her. Meanwhile, mad killer Russ Thorn (Villela) has killed a phone repair woman with a giant power drill at the girl's school and stalks the girls to their house. While the girls get high and order pizza Russ waits in the shadow with his huge drill and begins picking them off. This routine slasher film garnered some attention on its release due to its female Director Amy Jones and Female writer Rita Mae Brown. With slasher films getting clobbered by critics due to their violence towards women at the time, Jones and Brown use every cliché in the book with gratuitous nudity and gore! They would say this was a parody and there are some flashes of that, but this is a straight ahead slasher film. An early scene has Linda (Brinke Stevens) locked in the school gym and dodging the killer. This scene draws out some real suspense and the scene is visually engaging. Everything is very predictable but the massive power drill provides a lot of gore and the killer himself meets his match with neighbor Valerie in the conclusion. If you can get pass the mindless script, this film can be fun especially for stalk and slash fans.

Originally intended to be a feminist parody of the slasher formula that was running rife post Halloween, The Slumber Party Massacre was tampered with so as to make a serious horror movie. So how come it's still hilarious then?Plot for what it's worth finds a bunch of teenage girls throwing a slumber party only to get menaced by some psycho with a power drill. Cue an excuse for nudity, tight fitting pants, some gore, a bad actor guy living next door, an awful 80s score that sounds like Harold Faltermeyer belching, and the killer's drill lamely portrayed as a penis extension.Devoid of shocks or suspense, film plays out as some ludicrous exercise in bad amateur dramatics. Even it 1982 the reliance on false scares were getting boorish, while the inability to not hide what is obviously coming around the corner in the next scene is just poor directing from Amy Holden Jones.Generic and predictable tosh that only succeeds in making you treasure the likes of Black Christmas and Halloween even more! 2/10