The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)

Close your eyes for a second... and sleep forever.

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Release Date: Nov 12, 1982
Rated: R | Runtime: 77 Mins | Language: English
Director: Amy Holden Jones
Stars: Michelle Michaels, Robin Stille, Michael Villella, Debra Deliso, Andree Honore, Jennifer Meyers, Joseph Alan Johnson

Summary

An 18-year-old high school girl is left at home by her parents and decides to have a slumber party. Meanwhile, a mass murderer with a propensity for power tools has escaped from prison, and eventually makes his way to the party where the guests begin dropping off one by one.

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What to Expect

Four years after John Carpenter’s Halloween changed the course of the genre, Amy Jones’s The Slumber Party Massacre received a theatrical release. Though it made a profit at the box office, it received mostly negative reviews from the press - though most critics did note that it has great pacing, and the fact that it got reviewed at all by top publications is evidence of how popular slashers had become in the early 80s. Due to its over-the-top nature in so many ways, Slumber Party Massacre has become a cult classic. To say the nudity is gratuitous is an understatement, and it never has any purpose. It’s hard to decipher whether this was to make fun of the unnecessary nudity that accompanies most slashers, or if it was because producers pushed for it in order to play to a certain audience. They did, after all, force feminist novelist Rita Mae Brown to restructure her parody script into a serious horror film.