The Slumber Party Massacre
Tags: cult, murder, violence

Plot synopsis:
In a suburban Los Angeles neighborhood, a paperboy tosses a newspaper with the headline that screams: "MASS MURDERER OF 5 RUSS THORN ESCAPES". In one house, 18-year-old Trish Deveraux (Michele Michaels) wakes up, dresses, and gathers some dolls to throw away. Over her radio alarm clock, a news reporter talks about a mass murder, named Russ Thorn, who escaped from the state insane asylum where he was incarcerated since 1969 for killing five people in nearby Venice, California. Outside, Trish's parents are leaving for the weekend and her mother tells her that their next door neighbor Mr. Contant (Ryan Kennedy) is there if she needs help with anything. Her parents leave and Trish throws her bag of old dolls in a trash can and begins to walk to school. As she is leaving, someone takes one of the dolls out of the trash.At the local high school, two guys, named Jeff (David Millbern) and Neil (Joe Johnson), are talking about girls and about rumors of a slumber party that Trish is throwing at her house tonight. Jeff hits on a telephone repairwoman, named Mary, as she is fixing a phone line to one of the buildings on the school grounds. Neil pulls Jeff aside and the boys keep walking as the woman stands by her van. Suddenly, a man pulls Mary into the van and drills her to death with a large power drill.In the school gymnasium, Trish is playing basketball with the rest of her teammates. Trish is part of the school's girls basketball team. Jeff and Neil arrive to watch the girls practice and discuss the new girl, Valerie Bates (Robin Stille) whom is also on the court. The girls coach Jana (Pamela Roylance) yells to get the girls motivated. Valerie impresses the coach by scoring a few baskets, but the others ignore her because she is the new girl at school. In the locker room showers, Valerie continues to be ignored until Trish approaches her and compliments her on her basketball skills. A little later, Trish suggests to her teammates Diane (Gina Mari), Jackie (Andree Honore) and Kim (Debra Deliso) about inviting Valerie to their slumber party. But Diane rejects the idea and begins to bad-mouth Valerie to the rest of the girls. Valerie hears the girls and begins to leave until she is stopped by Trish. Valerie coldly says that she cannot come over to Trish's house for the party and she leaves.Outside the gym, the group is leaving as Trish, Jackie, Kim, Diane, and another teammate named Linda (Brinke Stevens) discuss the party and they are joined by Jeff and Neil. They are observed by the killer Russ Thorn (Michael Villella), a wild-eyed, casually dressed, middle-aged man watching them from the telephone repairwoman's van. Linda returns to the gymnasium to her locker to get a book as Russ Thorn watches the group leave, passing by a dumpster, with the dead telephone repairwoman in it, as well as Coach Jana also leaving the gymnasium. As Linda retrieves a book from her locker, she finds that she is locked in the building. As she looks for a way out, Russ Thorn appears and walks up to her in the hallway and attacks her with the large phallic power drill, drilling through her left arm. Linda runs and hides in the dark shower room and under a counter door. After looking around, Thorn sees her blood seeping under the door and drills right through the door. Linda screams, but her screams do not last long. Thorn runs back to the van and drives off.While walking home from school, Diane meets her boyfriend John Minor (Jim Boyce) who surprises her. John asks Diane if she can get around the no-boys-allowed rule at Trish's party. Diane tells John to call her later at Trish's house to ask again.Across town, Coach Jana arrives home only to be surprised when a drill bit crashes through her front door, but it is only her carpenter Pam drilling a peak-hole for her front door. Jana asks the carpenter if she had seen her pet cat, but she hadn't.Meanwhile, Trish arrives home and talks on the phone with Diane until she hears a noise, and is scared by Mr. Contant, who offers to sit and wait with her until the girls arrive.At Coach Jana's house, she hears a noise and opens up a closet door to find her cat, Muffin, jump out and scare her.At nightfall, the driller killer, Russ Thorn, arrives in the telephone repairwoman's van on Trish's street, where he gets out, and lurks in the bushes around Trish's house. Jackie and Kim arrive at Trish's house and show her a bag of marijuana they brought with them and begin to smoke some of it. Mr. Contant walks in and does not seem to mine and he leaves the house, walking next door to the right of Trish's house.Coincidently, the other next door house to the left of Trish's is the Bates home where Valerie is with her younger 14-year-old sister, Courtney (Jennifer Myers), and looking after her while their divorced mother is away for the weekend as well. Valerie checks outside when she hears a noise to see an overturned trash can.Meanwhile, Jeff and Neil arrive and lurk outside the house on the other side to watch the girls change their clothes, smoke more pot, and make a fire in the fireplace. Inside the house, the girls hear a noise and investigate the kitchen, only to find that Diane has arrived. Trish suggests ordering a pizza, and Diane goes outside to get more wood for the fireplace. She meets Mr. Contant, who is chopping snails with a meat cleaver. Diane says goodnight to him and leaves. Just as Mr. Contant is preparing to snag another snail, the driller killer walks up to him from behind and drills him through the neck.A little later, Russ Thorn continues lurking outside the house and just when he is about climb in through a window, Trish appears and closes the window, unaware that he is there. When she looks again, the sees a melted doll (the same one she threw in the garbage earlier), stuck up to the window with the meat cleaver. Trish and Diane go to the garage to check if there is someone there and see that it is not locked. Diane calls John on the phone, while the stoned and giggly girls listen in on the line. Diane hears them and tells John to come over soon. Just then, the lights in the house go out. The girls go to the garage to check the fuse box and find some fuses missing. The are scared by Jeff and Neil, and in turn Jeff gets punched by Trish for scaring them. Trish forces them to re-install the fuses, making the lights in the house come on again and all of them go inside.Next door, Valerie hears a noise again and she sees both trash cans lying down on the ground. Courtney thinks that it just may be some stray dogs looking for food. Courtney looks through her bedroom window at Trish's house, curious about the party going on and she sees John pulling up on the driveway in his car. John honks his car horn and Diane comes out saying she cannot leave right now. John pulls his car into the garage.Meanwhile, Courtney suggests crashing Trish's party while Valerie brushes her hair. Valerie tells her sister that she just wants to be alone and does not feel very sociable. In Trish's garage, Diane and John are making out in his car while the others are inside. John suggests going over to his house for some intimate time and Diane goes in the house and tells Trish that she and John are going out for beer. Trish, aware that Diane only wants to go someplace to have sex with John, replies "you don't have to ask my permission, Diane". Diane returns to the car where she gets in the front seat only to find John's head falling off his body. She screams, but her screams are not heard because the girls inside are running a blender to make margaritas. Diane crawls out of the car and is killed by Thorn, who is still in the garage.Next door, Courtney thinks that she hears honking and screaming, but Valerie says that it's nothing. Courtney again asks Valerie if they could go over to the party, but Valerie again refuses. Courtney retreats to her bedroom while Valerie stays downstairs and turns on the living room TV to watch a movie.At Trish's house, the front doorbell rings and the group thinks its the pizza guy. Jeff asks through the door "what's the damage?" he hears a voice through the door saying "six... so far". Kim and Jackie are on the phone with Coach Jana to ask about an upcoming basketball game, and the front door is opened to find a dead pizza delivery guy, his eyes gorged out, who falls through the doorway and lands on the floor..... with the pizza still in his dead arms. The girls scream and Trish hangs up the phone to call the police, but Thorn cuts the phone lines. Coach Jana hears the screaming on the other line before she gets cut off. Jana tries calling the girls back, but there is no answer. Coach Jana calls Valerie suggesting checking out the house and she says that she will drive over there to help check it out herself.In Trish's house, Jeff and Neil arm themselves with kitchen knives and begin to lock all the doors and windows of the house. After a while, Jeff suggests that they make a run for it to get help. Neil decides to make a run for Valerie's house while Jeff will make a run for Mr. Contant's house to get to a phone. Trish and the girls reluctantly agree. Jeff goes out the back door while Neil runs out the front door. But by splitting up, the guys guarantee their own demise. Jeff has to run through the back yard and through the garage to get out the back way where he finds a dead Diane in the garage. Thorn is in the garage waiting for him and drills Jeff in the back. Thorn then runs after Neil who makes it to Valerie's front door and begins frantically knocking and screaming for help. But Valerie either ignores the knocking or doesn't hear it due to the loud television. Courtney doesn't hear Neil calling for help either because she is on her phone in her bedroom talking to a friend while playing loud rock music on her radio. Thorn approaches and attacks Neil in which he manages to twist the knife Neil has from his hands and gorily stabs the boy to death. When Valerie finally goes to the front door, she cannot see anything as Thorn is carrying Neil's dead body back to the garage and throws him in the trunk of John's car where the dead bodies of John, Mr. Contant, and Diane are stuffed in. Thorn counts the bodies and realizes that one is missing. It is Jeff, who despite being gravely wounded, is crawling back towards the back door.Inside, Trish, Diane, and Kim sit in a circle with knives in their hands. Jackie goes for the dead pizza boy's delivery and enjoys a slice of pizza. The girls hear the wounded Jeff scraching on the back door. But they are too afraid to open the door thinking that it might be a trick. Then they hear Thorn approach Jeff and drill him to death. Meanwhile, Coach Jana gets in her car and begins to drive over to Trish's house, while Valerie goes upstairs to find Courtney gone. Valerie sees her sister walking to Trish's house and runs after Courtney.Courtney sees Valerie approaching and ducks away from her by running around the side of the house. Valerie goes up to the front door and rings the doorbell and knocks on the front door. When she gets no reply, she leaves. Jackie runs to the front door from the kitchen to let Valerie in and when she opens it, Thorn is now standing there and swipes the drill across Jackie's neck, killing her. Trish and Kim run upstairs and barricade themselves in Trish's bedroom.Meanwhile, Valerie finds Courtney in the back of the house and she tells her that she does not think anyone is home after looking in the windows and seeing no one. Valerie tells her that she will check the front door again. She walks inside the house through the front door after finding it conspicuously wide open after knowing that the front door was closed and locked just a few minutes ago. Valerie calls out the girls' names, and, upstairs, Kim wants to respond, but Trish suggests that Valerie might be helping the killer. Looking around the downstairs and finding nobody in sight, Valerie walks out through the kitchen into the backyard to find Courtney gone.Upstairs in Trish's bedroom, Trish and Kim talk about what they are going to do, when Thorn sneaks in through a window and attacks them. Trish defends herself by knocking the driller killer down with a baseball bat and then tries moving the furniture away from the blocked door. But Thorn quickly revives and Kim attacks him with a knife. Thorn twists the knife out of Kim's hands and stabs her to death. Trish runs and hides in her parents' bedroom closet.While Thorn searches for Trish upstairs, Valerie goes outside and finds Courtney and they go back inside Trish's house where they find Kim's dead body in the refrigerator. (Note: there is a minor plot hole here as well as some cheating as one would wonder why in the world would the killer drag Kim, after having killed her upstairs, downstairs to the kitchen to stuff her into the refrigerator, and in such a short time). Both girls scream, and Thorn hears them. Valerie sees the shadow of Thorn on the stairway and hides in the basement while Courtney ducks under the living room couch. Thorn walks downstairs and looks around and sees no one. He closes the front door and drags the dead pizza guy away into the basement, while Valerie hides under the basement stairs. Then, for some odd reason, Thorn lies down on the living room floor and covers himself with a blanket.A few minutes later, Coach Jana arrives at the house and calls out the girls' names and walks inside. Courtney, still hiding under the living room couch just feet away from Thorn, Trish, still hiding upstairs, and Valerie, still hiding in the basement, do not call out in fear of being discovered by the killer. When Coach Jana approaches a figure, covered, on the living room floor, Thorn jumps up and goes after the coach with the drill while she defends herself with a fireplace poker. Courtney intervenes and trips Thorn, who gets beaten by the coach with the fireplace poker, and Trish runs in and stabs Thorn once in the back. He sits back up and slashes Coach Jana across the chest with the drill, killing her, and knocks Trish to the floor. Speaking for the first time, Thorn makes a remark to Trish how pretty she is and that all of her friends are very pretty. The driller killer tells Trish that "it takes a lot of love for a person to do this."Just then, Valerie runs up from the basement, wielding a large machete and swings it at Thorn who runs out the back door and stands by the backyard swimming pool while Valerie continues swinging the machete at him. With a powerful swing, Valerie chops off his drill bit and further attacks, chopping off Thorn's left hand and slashes him in the abdomen in which he falls into the pool. Valerie drops the machete and she and her sister embrace. Thorn crawls out of the pool and jumps atop Valerie to get at the machete. Courtney tries to stop him, but Thorn punches her in the face and knocks her aside. Trish runs out and attacks him again. Thorn knocks Trish down and jumps for Valerie, who grabs the machete, and he lands right on top of it. Thorn falls to the ground, dead at last. The shaken Trish, Valerie, and Courtney look on as police sirens are heard in the distance.

Review: Totally unpretentious '80's slasher is a cheesy, but fun ride.Some lovely young ladies decide to throw a get together, only to have some loonie with a drill stop in to kill them all.Slumber Party Massacre is a slasher fan's guilty pleasure with a pretty silly edge to it!
The acting, directing, and special FX are all B-grade stuff, but overall that helps rather than henders the mood of the film.At any rate, this film is strictly a good-time party kinda film, certainly nothing to be taken serious, but just enjoyed for it's humor (both intended and unintended) with the horror genre.*** out of ****.
Sure it's not the bloodiest, scariest, well acted or written horror movie that wonderful 80's produced- but it does have something that makes it special and a standout on its own.Trish (Michelle Michaels) is a popular basketball player whose parents have gone away for the weekend.
Eventually Val and Courtney get involved in the goings on and before you know it our girls are in some serious trouble.The movie works due to some genuinely funny comedic dialogue- and Michael Villella's great portrayal of the Driller Killer.
If you collect horror and are a big fan of the classic cheesy horror movies from the beloved 80's, Slumber Party Massacre is worth an entry into your DVD collection..
The film's premise is about a group of girls & company(voyeuristic boys, a neighbor, a basketball coach, etc...)spending an evening together for a slumber party only to have things go awry when an escaped serial killer with a penchant for drilling people to death comes onto the scene.
Okay, this is a slasher movie, so I wasn't expecting a great movie, but The Slumber Party Massacre is just uninspired garbage.
Talking purely in terms of 80's horror, "The Slumber Party Massacre" is a pretty good effort with likable characters, a fair amount of suspense and a handful of excellent gory killings.
Wow...I don't even know what to say...TERRIBLE MOVIE...I suppose they inserted topless teenage girl scenes to regain any audience interest, but I hate to say it...Even that wasn't enough to make me enjoy this film.
the story is simple some guy named Russ Thorn killed 5 people in 1969, he is in a mental hospital and one day he breaks out, thats all we find out about him, then we have Trish she is left home alone so she invites a few friends over for a slumber party, Trish wants to invite the nice shy girl Valerie over but her friends don't want her to.
A feminist director making a slasher movie with naked girls getting killed by a unique weapon?
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..
Although most of the 18-year-old girls in 1982's "The Slumber Party Massacre" do some pretty dumb and questionable things, Trish (Michele Michaels) shows perfectly sound judgment when it comes to one area: When your parents split for the weekend, THAT is certainly the time for an "open house"!
He even uses the drill on one of the girls' heads.Standard slasher film, made by mostly women, including writer (Rita Mae Brown) and director (Amy Jones, who also co-produced), is pointless, gory and exploitive.
There are some funny moments in it (like when killer counts the number of bodies in the trunk) but there is almost nothing memorable about SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE except for the nudity at the beginning of the film.
Slumber Party Massacre boasting a movie poster that had four scantly clad women viewed from between the legs of the killer was something of teenage pin up fantasy.
The victims are a bunch of high school girls that look as old as College sophomores but thanks to the tight form fitting fashions of the time (the film was shot in 1982) they are every bit as sexually stimulating as they were intended.So with the setting established  a slumber party at the home of one of the girls homes, the characters all exposed as expendable and the killer on the loose after having escaped authorities, we were set for some bloodletting.There is nothing new about Slumber Party Massacre.
And there is a killer that has a kill toy of choice even if he doesn't have any kind of personality present within the film's frames.Slumber Party Massacre was originally written with the intention of being a slasher movie spoof.
A slumber party is invaded by a psycho slasher who kills with a large drill in this would-be satire of the hack-'em-up genre scripted by feminist author Rita Mae Brown.However the film becomes a prime example of the gratuitous sex and violence toward women which it hopes to mock.Horror fans will surely enjoy it particularly a jolting scene involving a pizza-delivery man who shows up at the door at the wrong time.The film has some genuinely inspired moments of sheer lunacy and offers tons of female nudity.The uncut version features also a good bit of tasty gore including some lovingly bloody electric drill killings.I haven't seen three sequels that followed,but maybe someday...8 out of 10 for this crypto-feminist slasher flick..
I wouldn't call it great and it's quite routine as they go, but 'Slumber Party Massacre' holds a maniac edge and competent air that easily makes it one of the sub-genres' best and funniest to view.Brimming with attitude and energy (thanks to Amy Holden Jones' efficiently upbeat and gusty direction and an effectively foreboding electronic score), it pretty much gets right into it and never really let's go.
What it was turned out to be one simple fact...it just wasn't that gory.Be that as it may, it's still a fun watch and is chock full of (what are now) clichés, subtle hints of what have become one-liners, classic screams, a bunch of kills, "creepy" 80's synth sounds, and a good all around production.While many people bash this aspect of the early slasher movies, I enjoy the stupid decisions kids make in horror movies.
"Don't worry, even though I know shouldn't, I'll go out there alone,""Yeh, one of my friends was just randomly killed...oh wait....2...no 3...no 4...it's still ok to open the front door,""(Before crazy horror acts begin) Ooooh, I'm scared to go in the garage to get a get something, but (now that a deranged killer is stalking my party) I'll go outside and to the neighbor's house and see if they're ok after hearing screams, phones going dead, and my gym teacher disappeared doing the same thing."The first rule of watch most movies, but horror in general, is to never question "WHY." You just gotta to with it.
Problem is a silent, stone faced killer Russ Thorn (Michael Villella) has escaped from a mental institution and is ready to wreck havoc on this party.Thing is there is something more to this 1982 slasher than just kills and scantily clad women.
I enjoyed in how the film was shot (by director Amy Holden Jones) and extra parts to the script written by Rita Mae Brown (like more going on than just a psycho guy with a drill coming to kill you) that really aren't in your average slasher.
Despite this, "The Slumber Party Massacre" (1981) IS a serious slasher flick featuring the 'driller killer' and it's pretty well-done.
1) Snobby girls have sleepover, excluding one of their teammates because shes new to town.2) Snobbist Girl gets killed early in her high school locker room3) The actor who played the killer was dead On: Great Job4) Once at the party and the killer strikes its up to the ones not invited to save the day.5) The blood was good and the nudity flowed like most 80's Slasher FlicksActing: A- Gore: A Plot: B+ Directing: B+ Nudity: A-Overall: A-.
I enjoyed "The Slumber Party Massacre" because I found it to be a good suspense film with the right mix of violence and laughs.
At least, unlike the others, this one doesn't clumsily try to throw plot twists and possible suspects at you -- it's just straight-ahead, unashamed gore and exploitation about an escaped mental patient with a large power drill who crashes an all-girl basketball team's slumber party.
With all of the gratuitous nudity and violence, it's hard to believe that all three of these movies were directed by women -- if they were intended as feminist satires, then the makers didn't do a very good job of it (other than some obvious phallic references represented by the killer's probing `drill,' this movie could have been directed by any number of misogynistic men.)  And, as with the other movies in this lame series, there's a fundamental flaw in the plot that requires all of the characters to remain in the house with the killer when, several times, they could easily walk out the damn front door.
Sure its got the fake scares, the unnecessary nudity, the phony gore, the bad acting, and the stupid characters, but's thats why i love horror movies and always will...by the way, it's about some chicks who have this slumber party and half to put up with annoying guys and a creepy killer with a drill!
What a surprise!'The rest of the film starts turning into what fans of cheesy movies enjoy -- lots of bad lines, really horrible acting and as much blood and gore as you can pack into thirty minutes as possible.
I do like watching slasher movies, and oddly enough then I never gotten around to watching the "Slumber Party Massacre" trilogy.
But then again, some of the kills were just downright laughable.All in all, "Slumber Party Massacre" turned out to be a less than mediocre slasher movie, and one that I will not return to watch again, and nor will I attempt at watching parts 2 and 3..
Thron goes from victims to victim from one part of Tris Devereaud's,Michelle Michaels,house to another as he slowly knocks them off one person at a time until the final scene.Thorn is confronted at the end of "Slumber Party Massacre" by Trish together with Val and her kid sister Courtney, Robin Stille & Jenifer Meyers, and the girl's high-school coach Carpenter, Pamala Gazano,who all turned out to be more that a match for the insane killer.
"Slumber Party Massacre" is one of the foundation slasher flicks of it's time (early 80's).
Slumber Party Massacre (1982) is your typical early 80's slasher/horror flick.
what a dog this thing was.i'm just glad i saw it on premium cable,and didn't lose any money on it.i did however lose 77 minutes of my life.it actually seemed like three hours before this thing finally ended.it's done in the style of the original Halloween,and the original Prom Night,but it's nowhere near as good as either of them.there are some very funny moments here,(unintentional)and the acting is worse than usual for this genre.the plot is also sillier than usual.yes,there are some scenes of naked women,but that is not enough to save this clunker.the only reason i got through it were the above mentioned funny moments,which i at least got a chuckle out of.for that,i give Slumber Party Massacre a 2/10.
A maniac with a shrill drill terrorizes and kills horny teenagers at an innocent (?) slumber party.Director Amy Jones, working from feminist-of-some-repute Rita Mae Brown's screenplay, promises a potentially entertaining potboiler by delivering a slick, stylish opening.But by the time the false alarms and contrived scares approach double figures, you just know this filler has very little invention on its mind.Brown's dialog is quite realistic, to be fair, and Jones tries hard to raise the limitations of a tired genre, but the illogical climax, setting the film up for two sequels, negates all good intentions.Teener Trish Devereaux, who plays the film's leading lady, went on to be a top porno personality and is now married to the great John "Buttman" Stagliano..
Scriptwriter Rita Mae Brown originally intended The Slumber Party Massacre to be a feminist parody of the misogynistic slasher genre; however, thanks to intervention from the producers and a by-the-numbers treatment from director Amy Jones, there is very little evidence in the finished movie to suggest that this was ever going to be anything but a trashy, sexist, and violent body-count flick.
In other words, good old-fashioned, unpretentious fun.The thin-as-a-wafer plot sees a promiscuous group of pot smokin' babes stalked and killed by an escaped psycho, and features all of the hokey clichés that one typically associates with such a film, including the virginal goody-goody heroine, her obnoxious younger sibling, a creepy neighbour who provides several scares, a cat leaping out of a cupboard, and a couple of overly-hormonal nerds just ripe for the slaughter.Whilst the killer himself isn't particularly memorable, the fact that he equips himself with one of the largest power-tools in slasher history (Leatherface's chainsaw aside) means that you won't forget him in a hurry: the huge cordless drill that he uses to slaughter teenagers is very impressive (what size Rawlplug fits a hole that size?!?!).After much routine stalk 'n' slash mayhem (plus a whole lot more female nudity), with a fairly impressive body count (but not that much in the way of gore), the film finishes by displaying a touch of the female empowerment that Rita Mae Brown had probably initially hoped for: the survivors attack the killer, with one character symbolically emasculating the lunatic by chopping off the end of his extremely phallic drill.6.5 out of 10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb..
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.
SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE ANOTHER GOOD OLE 80S SLASHER FLICK..
Slumber Party Massacre From 1981 Directed By Woman Named Amy Holden-Jones Who I'm Very Surprised Because is Mostly The Guys Directed And Make Slasher Movies But You Know What it's About Time That a Woman Made a Slasher Film There Should Be More Of Woman or Women Filmmakers Who All Should Make a Lot Of Slasher Movies Not Just All The Guys Making Them But Give The Females a Chance To Make These Kind Of Movies More Often, Michael Villela Who Plays Russ Thorn Delivers a Creepy And Scary Performance As The Drill Serial Killer Russ Thorn Who Walks And Moves Like a Peacock, Also Too Not Just Michael Villela As Russ Thorn Was Good in This Film But The Other Girls Were Great Too Like Michele Michaels Who Plays Trish, Robin Stille Who Plays Valerie The One Girl Who Kicked Russ Thron's Ass, Debra Deliso Who Plays Kim, Jennifer Meyers Who Plays Courtney Valerie's Sister, Andree Honore Who Plays Jackie, Gina Mari Who Plays Diane, Pamela Roylance Who Plays Coach Jana And Brinke Stevens Who Plays The ill Fated Character Linda Who Goes Back inside The School To Grab Her Book For The Upcoming Test But Sadly She Meets Her Death At The Hands Of Russ Thorn.
And This Film Slumber Party Massacre Will Be Another Great 80s Slasher Movie..
HELP!" noise is from outside - hey, why look at it sooner, it's a dumb slumber party she's not been invited to after all - it's too late.Oh, and of course there's the phallic imagery of the drill (one shot in one particular kill scene seems like the quintessential slasher- movie image outside of something from Halloween), though I'm not convinced that is intentionally some sort of comment.
pretty), and the girls in the cast are all game and only a couple of them are genuinely not good, like the "younger" sister (seriously, she looks almost as old if not *older* than the older sister!) The climax may try to bite off a little more than it can chew, but by then if one is already in, then it's still an entertaining ride, and whatever that drill is meant to represent - honestly, Ferrara probably meant more symbolically in his Driller Killer than this, on the whole - it's an effective visual.In other words: can women direct and write slashers?
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.
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.
This is a very simple story here of a group of high school girls having a slumber party (despite looking too old for that sort of thing) while their horny male counterparts goof off and while a degenerate mass murdering creep, Russ Thorn (Michael Villella) stalks both men and women alike with his handy power drill."The Slumber Party Massacre" is of course unique for the slasher sub genre for being written and directed by women.
The Slumber Party Massacre is a low budget slasher from the 80s written by feminist writer Rita Mae Brown and directed by Amy Jones.A lot of people have complained about this movie being bad, and yes it is bad but if your'e familiar with B-movies you should know that they arent going to be oscar winning material and will have bad acting and a terrible script.
"The Slumber Party Massacre," written and directed by women, is a perfect definition of what an 80's slasher movie is.