Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Wuchak The original script was written as a parody, but that was changed when production began and it was shot as a serious slasher. Perhaps this explains why I busted out laughing on at least four occasions. The amusing pizza-eating scene and the refrigerator sequence are good examples. Despite this, "The Slumber Party Massacre" (1981) IS a serious slasher flick featuring the 'driller killer' and it's pretty well-done. The problem is, there's an unimaginative bluntness to the proceedings and the final act isn't all that compelling (I found my mind wandering a couple of times).The female cast is decent, but not quite as good as in the Friday the 13th movies. Diane (Gina Smika Hunter, aka Gina Mari) is arguably the best, followed by the black chick. The movie is short & sweet at 77 minutes and was shot entirely in Los Angeles with the neighborhood sequences filmed in Venice. GRADE: C

Darth-Helmet When Trish (Michele Michaels) invites her friends over to a slumber party while her parents are away for the weekend, they are expected to have a good time on Friday night. 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. There is nudity with graphic violence and gore abound with some very weak acting plus an okay story, i saw this on video as a kid and thought it was decent.slasher film. Not a very good movie but still a decent time waster.

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.

Scott LeBrun 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. Noted feminist writer Rita Mae Brown wrote the screenplay, and Amy Jones, a graduate of the Roger Corman filmmaking school, is the director. Its element of satire may not be readily apparent, but it *is* there. When the movie comes to its now iconic shot of the killer standing astride a cowering victim, with his deadly weapon dangling suggestively between his legs, it does become more apparent that this movie does work as a comment on other slasher films of the era: how they centre on depraved male killers and how their weapon can be viewed as a surrogate penis. Note, too, how most of the male characters are not terribly useful, even if they're not utterly demented: the women will have to learn to fight for their lives if they're going to survive this night.Of course, this delightfully trashy flick does manage to have it both ways, as it's heavily exploitative as well, taking the time (and we do appreciate the movie for this) to stress the ladies' assets in a nice shower scene. Gore effects are also impressively done, and some great and memorable gags are created, like the one with the pizza delivery guy. Clocking in at a very reasonable 77 minutes, "The Slumber Party Massacre" is the kind of flick that gets down to business pretty quickly, and in which the prospective viewer won't have to deal with too much in the way of filler. The acting is just what one should expect: adequate at best, although it must be said what a beauty co-star Robin Stille is, as the appealing next-door neighbour Valerie. The film also began a very respectable B movie career for co-star Brinke Stevens, who plays an early victim. Hell, there's a lot of eye candy here, as even an unfortunate telephone repair woman is played by a lovely blonde named Jean Vargas. The music, which is by the brother of director Jones, is some delicious organ based stuff, strongly reminiscent of Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor", and is cheesy and creepy in equal measure.All in all, this is fun stuff if one enjoys the sleazier side of slashers, and it works whether you care about the movies' message or not.Eight out of 10.