The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)

The original script was written as a parody, but that was changed when production began and it was shot as a serious slasher. Perhaps this explains why I busted out laughing on at least four occasions. The amusing pizza-eating scene and the refrigerator sequence are good examples. Despite this, "The Slumber Party Massacre" (1981) IS a serious slasher flick featuring the 'driller killer' and it's pretty well-done. The problem is, there's an unimaginative bluntness to the proceedings and the final act isn't all that compelling (I found my mind wandering a couple of times).The female cast is decent, but not quite as good as in the Friday the 13th movies. Diane (Gina Smika Hunter, aka Gina Mari) is arguably the best, followed by the black chick. The movie is short & sweet at 77 minutes and was shot entirely in Los Angeles with the neighborhood sequences filmed in Venice. GRADE: C

Slumber Party Massacre will never stand out in the slasher genre the way My Bloody Valentine, Friday the 13th, Prom Night, Happy Birthday to Me, Black Christmas and Sleepaway Camp have. Still, it manages to be entertaining enough, although the killer is easily predictable.A group of basketball players decide to have a slumber party, but make snobby remarks about the new girl on the team and she refuses to go to their party. Little do the girls know that a killer with a thing for drills is out there...The soundtrack was terrible, just the same repetitive organ music played at the murders. However, the acting was decent enough. If you want a cheesy slasher film to pass the time, check this one out.

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.

I have seen "The Slumber Party Massacre" 3 times now. And to be honest I love it but I still stand by my rating above. It's an OK slasher but it definitely has a lot of clichés' going for it and a lot of 'fake' boo scares which should'nt have been there. It will never rank up with "Halloween (1978)" or "Black Christmas (1974)" but it sure is one of the most underrated slashers of the 1980's.First off, let's talk about the plot: The plot was great. Definitely not what you get from most modern slashers these days. This girl is left alone while her parents goes away. While they're gone, she decides to invited friends over, to have a SLUMBER PARTY. A killer called Russ Thorn though is on the loose and happens to make his way to the party. AND KILL THEM! Yes really a good plot which never suffered from gap holes.I loved the musical score. Quite chilling and undeniably scary. They say this is a spoof but I believe that this music really rang a door bell for me because it was that scary. It was like 8 bit music mixed in with stalkerish, piano-ish music. It was that darn creepy! The actors are all fine. They were all very convincing and the actress who played as Courtney was my favorite. She was really beautiful bringing innocence and naughtiness to her roll. The other girls were good. Just not as good as her.The guy who played as Russ Thorn was good. He's not a really memorable killer and he just runs around with a power drill, killing all these girls in weird, and bizarre ways. I thought that it was done OK, but he is definitely not a Billy Lenz or Michael Myers. He wouldn't rank up with them because sometimes he was a little off edge. But he did a pretty creepy job.I also liked the overall tone of this film.The cliché'd 'fake' boo scare did not work for me at all. It was just a little unnecessary and it didn't make me laugh nor get scared. If they wouldn't have used them, the film would've been 100% more scary in atmosphere and tension.Overall I can't really complain about this film that much. It's not up with many of the other greats, but it certainly beats a fair amount of cheesy, unworthy modern-like ones I've been seeing. Ones such as Uwe Boll's undeniably terrible "Seed" or the "Sorority Row" Remake from 2009. Those film were badly made for all the wrong reasons.But on another note, "Slumber" is definitely a good dose of slasher. Watch this at night time and I tell you, you will not regret it.It's 7 bloody power drills out of 10 for me. This film doesn't even come close to a 5.2/10.