Slumber Party Massacre 2 -Review-

CAST

Crystal Bernard as Courtney Bates

Jennifer Rhodes as Mrs. Bates
Kimberly McArthur as Amy
Patrick Lowe as Matt Arbicost
Juliette Cummins as Sheila Barrington
Heidi Kozak as Sally Burns
Cindy Eilbacher as Valerie Bates
Atanas Ilitch as The Driller Killer
Joel Hoffman as T.J.
Scott Westmoreland as Jeff
Michael Delano as Officer Kreuger
Hamilton Mitchell as Officer Voorhies

Plot

Well if you remember from the first movie Courtney Bates is the younger sister of Valerie Bates. Valerie was the one who put a stop to Russ Thorns murderous rampage once and for all. Courtney, all growed up now still has problems with what happened that night. She has nightmares, hallucinations and to top it off her older sister Valerie was committed to an institution. Courtney is part of an all girl rock band made up of some friends. Well they decide to take a trip and stay at a condo, During the trip Courtney has her spastic moments with seeing things that aren't really happening. Once they arrive at the condo Courtney's episodes gradually get worse. And then eventually her worst nightmares start playing out in reality!

Review

Slumber Party Massacre 2 was released October 30, 1987. Was written and directed by Deborah Brock. Also stars Crystal Bernard, better known in her role on the t.v. show Wings. Slumber Party Massacre 2 is very different from the first movie. Even though the sequel stays true to the story's main characters of the first. The story here is Courtney, younger sister of Valerie Bates, is having terrible dreams brought on by that fateful night of when her and her sister was attacked by nut job Russ Thorn. Valerie has since been placed into a psyche institute and Courtney also having a difficult time dealing with that also. Courtney seems to space out alot, during these times she has visions of the man she dreams about and at times of her sister. As if her sister is trying to warn her about the doom to come. The man she dreams about doesn't appear to be real, no one has seen him but her. He mimics Elvis and even sings! He carries this red electric rocker style guitar, which is very cool looking actually, that is also a drill at the top of the neck. Courtney thinks that maybe all she needs is to get away for a while. So her and a few of her rocker band gal pals run off to a condo for the weekend for some band practicing and a girls night out weekend. But Courtney is already feeling bad before she leaves for the trip because her mother wanted her to go up and see Valerie with her that same weekend. Guilt can have quite the influence on a person mentally and may be exactly why Courtney's dreams and hallucinations get worse once she arrives at the condo. She trys to tell her friends about the dreams, but they don't believe her. They never do until its to late. So as you can guess, one by one Courtney's friends get the drill. This movie does something you don't see everyday in the horror genre. It incorporates the musical style theme you mostly see in movies like Grease etc. And i think the movie actually makes it work fairly decently. Not only are the tunes the girls sing catchy, but even the songs the driller killer sings is quite catchy and entertaining as well. A singing, dancing serial killer...got to admit its def different. And in some odd sick way, even though the driller killer wants to kill Courtney, you get this dreadful sense that he is in love with her to. So maybe we could call this movie Grease 3: The Domestic Violence Chronicles. Another aspect of this movie i think was taken from A Nightmare on Elm St. with the whole dream killer formula, especially when he finally comes out of her dreams and manifests in real life to start killing her friends. And if you pay attention to the two officers in the movie their names are officer Voorhies and officer Kreuger. Even though they spell them differently, i think we get the inside joke. I never found this movie to be boring and its one i can watch more then once. I think its a very fun type of movie, mostly because of the musical aspect. Once again, i didn't find the kills that creative in this series. But it does have its moments mainly in the dream and hallucination states. One scene that's hard to forget is when one of the girls comes up missing and Courtney freaks and swears up and down shes been murdered. So they finally call the cops, Voorhies & Kreuger. Well what do you know, their friend shows up. She had left to go get some oxy ten because she had a zit. But as shes telling Courtney this, Courtney starts to hallucinate this zit being 50 times bigger then what it really is on her face. And then it explodes! So there are a few memorable scenes. And of course your fair share of nudity. But sorry, no nudity for Crystal Bernard. The cast is very likable and seems to genuinely mesh well together though. Juliette Cummins also stars in this movie. You may know her better as Robin in Friday The 13th: A New Beginning. Even the driller killer is likable. So i would suggest this film for a watch. I found it quite entertaining in my opinion.

RATING: 3/5

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