CAST
Michelle Michaels as Trish Devereaux
Robin Stille as Valerie 'Val' Bates
Michael Villella as Russ Thorn
Debra Deliso as Kimberly 'Kim' Clarke
Andree Honore as Jackie
Jennifer Meyers as Courtney Bates
Gina Mari as Diane
Pamela Roylance as Coach Jana
Michelle Michaels as Trish Devereaux
Robin Stille as Valerie 'Val' Bates
Michael Villella as Russ Thorn
Debra Deliso as Kimberly 'Kim' Clarke
Andree Honore as Jackie
Jennifer Meyers as Courtney Bates
Gina Mari as Diane
Pamela Roylance as Coach Jana
Plot
Trish's parents leave town for a while, so Trish
decides to throw a slumber party and just invites
the "gang" for old times sake. She later changes
her mind and would like to invite the "new" girl
Valerie. Diane doesn't approve, and talks trash
about her. Jealous much? Well, Valerie over hears
it and declines the invitation when Trish asks
anyway. Meantime, we eventually get a shot of a
newspaper that sports the headline..."Russ Thorn
escapes!". What do you bet Russ Thorn invites
himself to the girls slumber party?!?!
Review
Slumber Party Massacre was originally released on November
12, 1982. Its one of the shortest horror movies i have ever
come across. Running at only 77 minutes! It was directed by
Amy Holden Jones. And surprisingly was written by Rita Mae
Brown, a feminist. The movie has a fair share of nudity,
at almost every chance it gets to show some boobies and
booty. So we start with Trish, plotting the slumber party.
And we find out Russ Thorn is on the loose, who is responsible
for a slew of brutal slayings that took place in Venice, CA back
in 1969, according to a radio news cast playing. Some how Russ
ends up at the girls high school and kills a telephone repair
girl. And follows another girl back into the school because she
forgot a book. When she realizes this dude is about to kill her
she tries to escape the school. But every door she comes to its
all chained locked. So I'm like wtf? Can we say "fire hazard"?
And some how Russ knows where this party is going to take place
and shows up in the neighborhood. All these movies like this must
have psychic power killers. Just so happens Valerie lives right
across the street from Trish to. So the movie takes place mainly
at Trish's house. But it also swings over at Valerie's in between
shots of action. The boys eventually show up, like always. They
are not supposed to be there, but they wanted to scare the girls.
So they sneak into the garage and shut the power off from the fuse
box. Which in turn brings the girls out to investigate. They succeed
in scaring the girls. One got punched in the eye, so they feel sorry
for him and invite them both into the house. Diane soon after wants to ditch the party to go back to her boyfriends house for a romp in the sack. When she returns to his car, she discovers he was decapitated. She soon gets picked off afterwards. During a phone call the girls make to their coach about some game, the call is abruptly cut short due to the line being cut by Russ. Coach Jana becomes concerned and calls Valerie to ask her if she would go check it out. Shes reluctant to do so. Pizza shows up at Trish's, but when they open the door the pizza dude falls forward into their living room, dead! Well the guys decide they have to help the girls. So they decide to split up and leave the house going in separate directions. Needless to say, their attempts to get help are not successful. We eventually are down to just Trish left at the house. Courtney, who is Valerie's younger sister comes up missing. Valerie looks out the window just in time to see Courtney heading over to Trish's. Valerie goes after her. The two soon realize something is terribly wrong when they find one of the girls murdered and was stuffed into the refrigerator! Courtney hides under a piece of furniture. She sees the killer lay on the floor and pulls a blanket over his body to hide. Valerie looks for a weapon in the basement. Coach Jana has arrived just in time to find the killer hiding under the blanket. While she battles him, Valerie find a machete! And the end is near! Now i actually liked this movie. In spite of some of the nonsense and things that don't make sense. Like how does Valerie not see the blood stain on the back door of Trish's house when she goes over there? The kills in this movie are not creative by any means. Its just Russ and his huge ass two handed drill. He turns it on, sticks it in and we see a little bit of blood and that's it. But the end of the movie shows its most graphic scenes when its just Valerie battling Russ out in the back yard next to the swimming pool. Not that there aren't any more survivors, i just don't want to give away the end of the movie for those that may not have seen it. But it is an old early 80's horror movie. So don't expect to much. I think the movie also was decently written and directed for its time. Still a favorite amongst old horror movie goers. So to the newer generation of fans out there, i recommend it. Especially to see what happens to Russ!
RATING: 3/5
Tidbits:
Feminists back then protested the movie. They felt like it was a slap in the face and didn't get the inside joke. Can we say "no sense of humor". The director said in an interview that the haters were taking the movie and its violence way to seriously. Now in my opinion of what i have to say about that is, if you don't like something or even think you aren't going to like it. Then don't freakin watch it! But don't give others a hard time about it either!
Trish's parents leave town for a while, so Trish
decides to throw a slumber party and just invites
the "gang" for old times sake. She later changes
her mind and would like to invite the "new" girl
Valerie. Diane doesn't approve, and talks trash
about her. Jealous much? Well, Valerie over hears
it and declines the invitation when Trish asks
anyway. Meantime, we eventually get a shot of a
newspaper that sports the headline..."Russ Thorn
escapes!". What do you bet Russ Thorn invites
himself to the girls slumber party?!?!
Review
Slumber Party Massacre was originally released on November
12, 1982. Its one of the shortest horror movies i have ever
come across. Running at only 77 minutes! It was directed by
Amy Holden Jones. And surprisingly was written by Rita Mae
Brown, a feminist. The movie has a fair share of nudity,
at almost every chance it gets to show some boobies and
booty. So we start with Trish, plotting the slumber party.
And we find out Russ Thorn is on the loose, who is responsible
for a slew of brutal slayings that took place in Venice, CA back
in 1969, according to a radio news cast playing. Some how Russ
ends up at the girls high school and kills a telephone repair
girl. And follows another girl back into the school because she
forgot a book. When she realizes this dude is about to kill her
she tries to escape the school. But every door she comes to its
all chained locked. So I'm like wtf? Can we say "fire hazard"?
And some how Russ knows where this party is going to take place
and shows up in the neighborhood. All these movies like this must
have psychic power killers. Just so happens Valerie lives right
across the street from Trish to. So the movie takes place mainly
at Trish's house. But it also swings over at Valerie's in between
shots of action. The boys eventually show up, like always. They
are not supposed to be there, but they wanted to scare the girls.
So they sneak into the garage and shut the power off from the fuse
box. Which in turn brings the girls out to investigate. They succeed
in scaring the girls. One got punched in the eye, so they feel sorry
for him and invite them both into the house. Diane soon after wants to ditch the party to go back to her boyfriends house for a romp in the sack. When she returns to his car, she discovers he was decapitated. She soon gets picked off afterwards. During a phone call the girls make to their coach about some game, the call is abruptly cut short due to the line being cut by Russ. Coach Jana becomes concerned and calls Valerie to ask her if she would go check it out. Shes reluctant to do so. Pizza shows up at Trish's, but when they open the door the pizza dude falls forward into their living room, dead! Well the guys decide they have to help the girls. So they decide to split up and leave the house going in separate directions. Needless to say, their attempts to get help are not successful. We eventually are down to just Trish left at the house. Courtney, who is Valerie's younger sister comes up missing. Valerie looks out the window just in time to see Courtney heading over to Trish's. Valerie goes after her. The two soon realize something is terribly wrong when they find one of the girls murdered and was stuffed into the refrigerator! Courtney hides under a piece of furniture. She sees the killer lay on the floor and pulls a blanket over his body to hide. Valerie looks for a weapon in the basement. Coach Jana has arrived just in time to find the killer hiding under the blanket. While she battles him, Valerie find a machete! And the end is near! Now i actually liked this movie. In spite of some of the nonsense and things that don't make sense. Like how does Valerie not see the blood stain on the back door of Trish's house when she goes over there? The kills in this movie are not creative by any means. Its just Russ and his huge ass two handed drill. He turns it on, sticks it in and we see a little bit of blood and that's it. But the end of the movie shows its most graphic scenes when its just Valerie battling Russ out in the back yard next to the swimming pool. Not that there aren't any more survivors, i just don't want to give away the end of the movie for those that may not have seen it. But it is an old early 80's horror movie. So don't expect to much. I think the movie also was decently written and directed for its time. Still a favorite amongst old horror movie goers. So to the newer generation of fans out there, i recommend it. Especially to see what happens to Russ!
RATING: 3/5
Tidbits:
Feminists back then protested the movie. They felt like it was a slap in the face and didn't get the inside joke. Can we say "no sense of humor". The director said in an interview that the haters were taking the movie and its violence way to seriously. Now in my opinion of what i have to say about that is, if you don't like something or even think you aren't going to like it. Then don't freakin watch it! But don't give others a hard time about it either!
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