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Best movie ever!
Taraparain
Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.
Nicole
I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
bensonmum2
While her parents are away for the weekend, Trish invites a few of her girlfriends over for the weekend. Their plans include beer, weed, and pizza. Plans are interrupted, however, by an escaped mental patient with a very large power drill that he enjoys plunging into his victims. Girls in pajamas (or less) and a deranged killer – sounds like a good mix.I never realized the screenplay for Slumber Party Massacre was written by novelist Rita Mae Brown. Over the years, I've enjoyed her Mrs Murphy mystery series. I've read that she originally intended the movie to be a parody of the slasher genre, but the producers went ahead and made it a more serious movie. There's still a lot of humor in the film that I find quite funny – the refrigerator door scene near the end being one example. Also, knowing that this was originally meant to be a parody, it helps explain a lot to me about the killer and the rest of the movie. On his own, Russ Thorn is not very frightening – just odd. Some of his facial expressions in the finale are priceless. I haven't read through all the comments on IMDb, so I'm sure this has been endlessly written about, but exactly what kind of power source was he using with that drill? There was no power cord and I've never seen a battery powered drill that can maintain that much power for that length of time. It must have been one of those nuclear drills so popular in the early 80s. The giant drill also makes for a very unwieldy, noisy weapon. Not the weapon of choice when sneaking up on people. I'll bet this was most likely a leftover irony from the original script.Since its release, I think I've now seen Slumber Party Massacre three times. I enjoyed it much more this time, but still can't rate it higher than a 5/10. I think that had they gone ahead and made this a full- on parody, it would have been a much better movie.
Mr_Ectoplasma
"The Slumber Party Massacre" focuses on a group of teenagers in suburban Los Angeles who are having a get-together over the weekend while their parents are away. Lo and behold, a maniac with an electric drill of all things has been lurking around the high school, and has followed them home to join the party.This fast and easy slasher flick was originally written as a feminist satire of slasher movies by Rita Mae Brown, but was directed by Amy Holden Jones as a more or less straightforward horror film, and it certainly reads that way. Though it's dotted with bits of slight humor, "The Slumber Party Massacre" actually feels fairly dark for a slasher movie. Cribbing "Halloween" in set-up and "Texas Chainsaw" in title, the film manages to achieve a somber and weirdly unsettling tone from early on. Part of it has to do with the dampened, shadowy cinematography that manages to make even sunny Southern California a dark place, and part of it is the sheer arbitrariness of it all. The killer's arrival is given no context or back story, not dissimilar from 1980's "Final Exam."At 77 minutes, the film is brisk, but it manages to deliver on just about all accounts. There is ample gore that is surprisingly well done, and there are some unique, extremely eerie shots in which the camera follows behind the killer as he approaches his unknowing victims; there are also classic shots that are the inverse of this, in which he's entered the frame from behind the girls. This dichotomy illustrates the tension between the more playful elements of the film and the more sinister ones. The killer, as much as he is shown on screen from the get-go, is considerably creepy, and the sense of threat is consistent throughout. The performances are a mixed bag, but by and large are perfectly fine.Overall, "The Slumber Party Massacre" was a surprise success for me. Given the derivative and somewhat hokey title, I had many preconceptions about this film that were blown away once I finally had a chance to watch it. It's not a flawless film, but it is certainly well done for what it is. Memorable and moody cinematography lends the film a gritty edge, and there are more than enough playful and menacing moments to be had. Despite its slight ventures into humor, it's a far darker and more serious slasher film than you may expect. 8/10.
Darth-Helmet
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.
gwnightscream
This 1982 horror film stars Michelle Michaels, Robin Stille and Michael Villella. Michaels plays teenage girl, Trish who decides to have a slumber party with her friends while her parents go away for the weekend. Soon, an escaped killer, Russ Thorn (Villella) decides to crash the party providing bloody mayhem. Stille plays Valerie, the new girl in school who is invited by Trish, but decides not to join because she feels she doesn't fit in with her friends. She also lives across the street which makes it handy for the girls in their time of need. Though some of the acting is weak, This is a pretty good 80's slasher flick with plenty of gore and a bit of humor. Fans of the horror/slasher genre may want to see this.
