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Slumber Party Massacre
DVD/APPROX. 74 MINS/1982/USA R18+
DVD/APPROX. 74 MINS/1982/USA R18+
Rare Licence DVDs was nicely to donate, Slumber Party Massacre, which is a pretty bloody good watch for a standard slasher flick. It’s about an
18 year old girl Trish (Michelle Michaels, who is clearly older than that) whose parents leave the house to her, so she has a slumber party with the
girls, just like the good old times. This is while an escaped murderer is on the loose whose weapon of choice is a power drill and has racked up a
body count of five previously in the same community. The killer terrorizes the girls killing them off one at a time, while the girl next door Val (Robin
Stille, the new girl at school) knows little of what’s going on, but later becomes the heroine.
It gets into it pretty much right away, unlike most other slasher films which screw you around for a while, and then eventually someone gets killed.
Not with this one, although it has a fair share of cheapness, false alarms and that sort of typical shit, like boys playing pranks, people sneaking up
on each other, arms on shoulders, jumping screeching cats. From the beginning it almost feels like a condensed form of other slasher films which is
good as it gets you into the action right away. Although that idea tends to fade away as the films plays out.
The kills are quite alright, although a little bit more on-screen violence would have been nice, most of the time it’s off screen and it’s mainly
watching the killer plunge the drill off the screen. Although what you get in the finale almost makes up for the lack of gore during the film. Still, it
was a shame there was no extreme close up of a drill going through a girls head.
It’s a pretty cleverly made film actually, it knows where it stands. It’s got the required gratuitous nudity, but I most enjoyed it from when the killer
enters the house in the end, from that point onwards, as it delivered some genuinely suspenseful moments, and the maniac killer is a classic. The
reason for the psycho’s actions isn’t really made clear until a fairly creepy line he gives in the final moments, which I found illustrates his pure
insanity.
The director Amy Holden Jones isn’t really all that interesting, she’s done a couple of other average films, comedies and thrillers, and did the
screenplay for The Relic which I’d says is the standout of her work behind Slumber Party Massacre.
The widescreen picture quality of the Umbrella DVD is fine, as is the audio, and it has a sweet cover and menu too.
For special features/extras there are only horror trailers, one being a pretty cool trailer of Women in Cages. Its got a nice running time of 74
minutes as well, so it doesn’t drag at all, which is something that can’t be said about The Slayer, and it has almost the same running time.
It’s an alright film which goes for the parody on other slasher films a bit. It can be a little funny throughout since it’s made so obvious he’s sneaking
around with a phallic symbol, the big long drill. So I'd say it’s pretty successful at being a tongue in cheek sort of film. Grab the DVD, it will look very
nice in your collection and it’s where it belongs, even if it’s good for only one watch.
18 year old girl Trish (Michelle Michaels, who is clearly older than that) whose parents leave the house to her, so she has a slumber party with the
girls, just like the good old times. This is while an escaped murderer is on the loose whose weapon of choice is a power drill and has racked up a
body count of five previously in the same community. The killer terrorizes the girls killing them off one at a time, while the girl next door Val (Robin
Stille, the new girl at school) knows little of what’s going on, but later becomes the heroine.
It gets into it pretty much right away, unlike most other slasher films which screw you around for a while, and then eventually someone gets killed.
Not with this one, although it has a fair share of cheapness, false alarms and that sort of typical shit, like boys playing pranks, people sneaking up
on each other, arms on shoulders, jumping screeching cats. From the beginning it almost feels like a condensed form of other slasher films which is
good as it gets you into the action right away. Although that idea tends to fade away as the films plays out.
The kills are quite alright, although a little bit more on-screen violence would have been nice, most of the time it’s off screen and it’s mainly
watching the killer plunge the drill off the screen. Although what you get in the finale almost makes up for the lack of gore during the film. Still, it
was a shame there was no extreme close up of a drill going through a girls head.
It’s a pretty cleverly made film actually, it knows where it stands. It’s got the required gratuitous nudity, but I most enjoyed it from when the killer
enters the house in the end, from that point onwards, as it delivered some genuinely suspenseful moments, and the maniac killer is a classic. The
reason for the psycho’s actions isn’t really made clear until a fairly creepy line he gives in the final moments, which I found illustrates his pure
insanity.
The director Amy Holden Jones isn’t really all that interesting, she’s done a couple of other average films, comedies and thrillers, and did the
screenplay for The Relic which I’d says is the standout of her work behind Slumber Party Massacre.
The widescreen picture quality of the Umbrella DVD is fine, as is the audio, and it has a sweet cover and menu too.
For special features/extras there are only horror trailers, one being a pretty cool trailer of Women in Cages. Its got a nice running time of 74
minutes as well, so it doesn’t drag at all, which is something that can’t be said about The Slayer, and it has almost the same running time.
It’s an alright film which goes for the parody on other slasher films a bit. It can be a little funny throughout since it’s made so obvious he’s sneaking
around with a phallic symbol, the big long drill. So I'd say it’s pretty successful at being a tongue in cheek sort of film. Grab the DVD, it will look very
nice in your collection and it’s where it belongs, even if it’s good for only one watch.
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