The Slumber Party Massacre

1982 "You know the drill."
5.6| 1h17m| R| en| More Info
Released: 10 September 1982 Released
Producted By: Santa Fe Productions
Country: United States of America
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Trish invites her high school basketball teammates over for a night they'll never forget -- or survive -- when an unexpected guest crashes the party: an escaped psychopath with a portable power drill.

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Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?
SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling
Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
Claudio Carvalho After the training of the high school girls' basketball team, a group of players schedule a slumber party. Most of the girls agrees to go to the party. Meanwhile, the serial-killer Russ Thorn (Michael Villela) escapes from prison and comes to the school with a drilling machine in the beginning of his crime spree. "The Slumber Party Massacre" is a weak slasher, since the killer's identity is known from the beginning and the story is not original. In 1979, Abel Ferrara directed "The Driller Killer", where a serial-killer kills his victims with a driller. There are hot girls nude, but they do not save the movie since the story is lame. My vote is four.Title (Brazil): Not available on DVD or Blu-Ray
loomis78-815-989034 When Trish's (Michaels) parents leave town for the weekend, she invites three High school friends over for a slumber party. She also invites her new neighbor Valerie (Stille) who lives across the street. Valerie declines because she overhears Diane (Gina Mari) talking bad about her. Meanwhile, mad killer Russ Thorn (Villela) has killed a phone repair woman with a giant power drill at the girl's school and stalks the girls to their house. While the girls get high and order pizza Russ waits in the shadow with his huge drill and begins picking them off. This routine slasher film garnered some attention on its release due to its female Director Amy Jones and Female writer Rita Mae Brown. With slasher films getting clobbered by critics due to their violence towards women at the time, Jones and Brown use every cliché in the book with gratuitous nudity and gore! They would say this was a parody and there are some flashes of that, but this is a straight ahead slasher film. An early scene has Linda (Brinke Stevens) locked in the school gym and dodging the killer. This scene draws out some real suspense and the scene is visually engaging. Everything is very predictable but the massive power drill provides a lot of gore and the killer himself meets his match with neighbor Valerie in the conclusion. If you can get pass the mindless script, this film can be fun especially for stalk and slash fans.
larawoolley Yeah, I gave this a high rating - it's totally worth it. I don't understand why some ratings for this film are so low - it's an 80s slasher, what are you expecting? There were plenty of gruesome kills, it didn't take the film long to get in to the killing so doesn't keep you waiting like some modern slasher films do. There is a good, basic story line which doesn't make the film difficult to follow. We are reminded throughout the film that a killer has escaped from jail so it's not a random attacker. The loose ends are tied up, there aren't any questions left unanswered at the end (apart from when she plays her piano after she thinks she hears someone in her house, haha)and the story line isn't dragged out unnecessarily. I totally recommend this film and will be buying the DVD to watch again (I watched it on the horror channel). I find that the older slasher/ driller killer films are far better than the more modern horror flicks - the killing is more original, better thought out and more believable.
culmo80 I love 80's horror movies. They are so cheesy now, but having grown up in the 80's, it is fun to watch them and be taken back to my parents basement when we would watch these "really scary" movies as kids!Anyway, Slumber Party Massacre is not original. If you have seen Halloween, Friday the 13th, or any of the dozens of slasher-horror movies, then you know what happens here.So the plot is that a mass-murderer escaped from prison recently and he begins killing high schoolers almost immediately. You know the rest, some kids have a slumber party where the murderer descends and gore and blood ensue.This movie has all the typical 80's horror movie elements: gratuitous nudity, lots of blood and gory death scenes, mediocre acting, and ever- present "boo" scary music.Spoilers:Now, like I said, pretty much all the slasher movies are the same, other than the killer and his weapon of choice. In this movie, the killer picks a power drill (or whatever it is called) as his weapon of choice. That would not have been my pick if I were a mass-murderer. I mean, sure it can be efficient, but it sure is bulky, and very noisy. You better hope that there are a lot of coincidental cover noises around when you are dispatching another hapless teen. Luckily for this killer, there are plenty of blenders and other noises to allow him to kill around a dozen people before people suspect something!I laughed out loud at some of the scenes...especially the par where the killer is running from the school, where he recently killed a girl, in broad daylight with his bloody drill and he's looking around to see if anyone sees him...hahaha, I mean, subtlety is not this guy's motif!And of course there is plenty of nudity. Lot's breasts in this movie and an prolonged shower scene where the camera actually does a slow pan down a girl's back to see her butt. I'm not complaining but at least in other movies, the nudity isn't this blatant.The acting is about what you expect from a movie like this...below average. Now I will say, I did enjoy this movie, but its not going to be considered a true classic.