I have seen this movie SO. MANY. TIMES. but today was a rainy day and for whatever reason I like watching this during heavy rain so I revisited it again.

It’s such a great slasher that maybe isn’t quite as well known as the genre staples, but totally holds its own with those bigger guys. It brilliantly walks a line between silly and dark with clever jokes and funny scenes peppered throughout. The body in the refrigerator and the pizza eating are absolutely classic. This is basically one of those R.L. Stine YA novels given the grownup treatment and I am HERE. FOR. IT. Plus, you’ve got Brinke Stevens in her first role and you can clearly see how she would go on to become a scream queen. 

I love these strong 80’s vibes except that scene where she’s making Kool-Aid.....how did we ever think that much sugar was ok?!

Bananameter: 🍌 life goes on after all 🍌

A few too many fake outs drag this down slightly, but the director is clearly playing up the slasher-as-rapist/patriarchy angle in an amazing way. It's blunt (Excalibur is broken 'ere the killer dies), but fun in that slasher movie formula kind of way. I spent the film wondering who would be the "final girl" only to be surprised by the answer, so it breaks formula in a good way. It lingers obviously in an objectifying manner on the women's bodies, and at times it seems to jar with the message, but it feels like it's all just a build up, a welcoming into the mindset of the killer/comparison of your experience to the vileness of the killer, a la Texas Chain Saw Massacre's early portions letting you cheer Leatherface before the final girl turnaround, using the slasher formula to evoke your sympathy not just for the victims of the killer, but the victims of such objectification.

"he's dead all right...so cold..."
"is the pizza?"

Mjög sniðug mynd sem tekst að vera scary og fyndin. Mjög augljóslega skrifuð og leikstýrð af konum sem eru að grínast með slasher venjur. Sálgreiningar undirtónn og feminískt ívaf.
Virkilega skemmtileg

It's a cheesy 80s slasher. You like those? Well you know what to find and enjoy here.

Didn't expect to feel so ambivalent about this movie but here we are... A straight 50/50 score

Few scenes that were a tiny bit boring, but overall a cool slasher. The killer had quite the unique wapon, not usual that you see a drill as the killers main weapon. Hot girls and a cool killer, what more do you need?

This was one of those films my cousin and I always sought out at the video rental place and could never find. Honestly, I thought it was an urban legend at the time because I could never find it. I would have her retell me what she remembered of the film over and over. It’s like I knew the movie just because of her retelling.

It is as 80’s Slasher as 80’s Slasher films can be! Nudity for the sake of nudity. But a great body count, fun kills, fun dialogue. And it just keeps going and going. I will rewatch this and put it in rotation with other favorite horror flicks.

Great final battle!

Likeable characters and an actually pretty terrifying murderer, the fact that he isn’t masked and his face shows was really spooky to me. A+ slasher

Why watch Halloween 2018 when we already have this excellent little knock-off with it's prescient underlining critique of toxic masculinity...

Slumber Party Massacre was far better than I expected... it's quick, brutal and full of great one-liners. The acting isn't good, but the script is unexpectedly sharp with great dialog coming thick and fast.

I liked how the killer has no backstory. He's just a guy, dressed in double-denim, with a giant phallic drill and a hard on for killing girls. It ain't subtle but it sure makes an impression.

This progressive attitude is awkwardly juxtaposed with some real heavy sleaze, including one of the most gratuitous shower scenes I've encountered .... I guess nothing's ever perfect... but the guys do receive their

Overall, this is a fun little slasher flick that really has something to say.
Not bad for a cheapo-Halloween knock-off.

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