Slumber Party Massacre III (1990)

Screenwriter Catherine Cyran isn't about to muck with the formula established in previous slasher flicks. So what we get is a pretty standard issue entry for the genre, but one that is still pretty enjoyable, because it gives the fans what they want. A bunch of incredibly hot young babes all come to party in their friend Jackies' (Keely Christian) house. Before the viewer has to wait too long, a sadistic psycho party crasher will come along and make mincemeat out of the gals and their male counterparts."Slumber Party Massacre III" does go on about ten minutes longer than the previous two flicks, with a tiny bit more story than usual. There might not be enough bare flesh to suit some people in the audience, but SPMIII makes up for that with its wonderfully tacky gore and reasonably high body count. Fortunately, it does also have decent enough characters. Sometimes, though, you can't help but want to yell at the screen for these girls to just HELP whoever's currently being threatened. Functioning as a whodunit, the movie does reveal its killer about a half hour before finishing. At that point, it pulls out all the stops.The performances are certainly adequate for this kind of material. Christian is a personable heroine. Hope Marie Carlton and Maria Ford are among the hotties flaunting their bodies, getting annoyed with their guys, and being terrorized by our villain. Experienced horror fans will note the presence of people like Wayne Grace ("Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter"), as a desk sergeant, Yan Birch ("The People Under the Stairs"), as an obvious red herring, and Marta Kober ("Friday the 13th Part 2"), as a pizza delivery girl.If you're looking for pretty straightforward slasher film style thrills, you could do a lot worse than this.Seven out of 10.

Slumber Party Massacre III (1990) * (out of 4) A group of gals are playing volleyball on the beach when they decide to meet at one of their houses later since the girl's parents are away. The slumber party is crashed by a few of their boyfriends but a psychopath killer also shows up wanting blood. This third film in the series proves that the previous entry wasn't the worst in the series and it's a real shame to see how bad the series fell especially considering how good the first movie was. It's clear that the only reason this movie was made was so Roger Corman could milk some more money out of the series and I'm sure this thing did well when it hit video shelves over twenty-years ago. The biggest problem with the film is clearly its screenplay because we're given some of the most uninteresting characters in any horror film I've seen and it also doesn't help matters that each of them are among the dumbest I've ever seen. For the life of me I can't understand what any of the characters were doing from the twenty-minute point on because it would have been easy for them to survive yet they just continued to make one stupid mistake after another. I know many reading that will say every horror movie has characters doing dumb things but the dumbness here is so obvious that you can't help but roll your eyes and become annoyed with the characters. The characters are all rather bland and there's not much to any of them. You certainly don't care what happens to any of them, which is another major issue because I've always felt that for a horror film like this to really work you need characters you either like or at least have fun watching. There are several weird characters that are used to add a mystery angle but the entire plot is just so boring that you really won't care who's doing the killing and way. It then comes as no shock that when we learn who the killer is you can't help but be confused by his reasoning's for the murders. The performances are pretty much what you'd expect in a film like this and the typical T&A is on hand, although it's not too much. The gore level isn't all that high and the death scenes are mostly forgettable as they're cheaply produced and we never get to actually see too much. The dildo electrocution might be a first though. SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE III is for die-hard fans of the genre only and I'm sure the majority of them will want to turn it off.

Teenage girls decide to have a slumber party which is interrupted(..to put it mildly)by a deranged madman whose mania derives from his sexual abuse as a child at the hands of his uncle.Third film in the series shows how tired the formula has become. Nothing at all fresh or original, even the killer's weapon of choice(..the cordless power drill)has become passé. The girls(..including bombshell Maria Ford)are all eye candy in their sleepover clothes, even if the actresses portraying them are unable to transcend their one-note characters. Basically, the film shows some of the girls having a beach hangout with their male friends from school. Juliette(Lulu Wilson)is enamored with a handsome blond, Kenny(Brittain Frye, in a dreadful performance)inviting him to the slumber party later that night..major catastrophic decision. The film presents two red herrings, a strange next door neighbor(Michael Harris) to Diane(Brandi Burkett), the one holding the slumber party, and an oddball staring at them at the beach(Yan Birch). I think no one will be fooled because it's just too obvious.But, the problem I have with this film(..despite the frustratingly questionable acts by the girls when up against the psychopath who locks them inside the house)is that the menace isn't the least bit convincing thanks in part to the performance of Frye. And, this guy is hit over the head by two lamps and a glass dish, is stabbed through the leg with a fireplace poker, with his eyes doused with floor cleaner, yet the girls still can not subdue him! There's one sequence which infuriated me..three girls, after the killer's eyes have been blinded, watch one of their own get her shirt ripped off and drilled to death without even attempting to help her! And, even when they do subdue him, the girls allow him to get free! You just want to pick up a heavy stone and clunk them over the heads! Anyway, the girls' boys are unable to stop him either, which makes this film hard to swallow because the killer isn't very imposing, except for his drill. The strength in numbers, even after they discover he's the wacko, fail to join forces to surround and cease him. They just disperse in all directions, with chaos as a result, the killer allowed to hunt each down, the drill doing some serious damage. Besides the drill boring through victims, there's little else that potent in the ultra-violence department. The murders are sadistic(..one victim's Achilles heel is sawed into with a chainsaw, another is stabbed in the chest by a "For Sale" sign post), but die-hard slasher fans have seen much worse. Maria Ford and Lulu Wilson shows us some flesh, so that's nice(..although Ford's mistreatment at the hands of the killer is pretty harsh). The motive for the killer to randomly kill women(..and the men who get in his way)is rather limp.

Un-pretty girls playing volleyball at the beach decide to have a slumber party at the house of one of the girls whose parents are away. A mystery maniac starts killing them off along with their pesky boyfriends who sneak around outside. Stupid sequel is another step-down for this series. There are some good grisly murders in the first half, and the thing almost seems likable (they even throw in a cameo by a memorable actress from Friday The 13th Part 2), but at the half way point, everything goes downhill. The kids discover dead bodies, call the police (who don't believe their story) but instead of fleeing the house, they stick around. It's not like they are trapped in the house, yet they are afraid the killer is somewhere outside. So what! He might still be somewhere in the house. The girls in this do the the most absurd things, and if they were a little bit smarter, a few of them could have lived. After they blind the killer with bleach, they still don't leave the stupid house, they run around trying to hide from the killer- after he's been blinded! Uggh. Annoying and stupid. Don't even get me started on the scene when the two girls are trying to help their friend through the window. Paper thin story with annoying characters and some wretched dialog. All the characters are bad clichés of bad characters (that cop character was stolen directly from Killer Klowns From Outer Space) and the films explanation to why the killer was seeking revenge is laughable. Cheesy B horror movies are fun, this one just doesn't do it for me. It takes itself way to seriously with it's incompetent script. The first half is not bad though when the killer is stacking up bodies, the cat and mouse chase in the second half is just wretched. One And A Half Stars.