1982 Directed by Amy Holden Jones
An 18-year-old high school girl is left at home by her parents and decides to have a slumber party. Meanwhile, a mass murderer with a propensity for power tools has escaped from prison, and eventually makes his way to the party where the guests begin dropping off one by one.
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the girls at this slumber party: let’s try not to get murdered
me last weekend at my last slumber party after one shot of grey goose: i just don’t know what i’m doing with my life 😔 now let’s yell about the state of american politics for a while
Part of Hoop-Tober
“That’s odd. None of the fuses are blown, but some of them are missing.”
In her seminal 1975 essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey wrote at length and persuasively about the pervasive male gaze in movies. Positing a psychoanalytic approach to film interpretation heavily indebted to Freud, Mulvey spoke of the patriarchal system in which classical Hollywood cinema had developed and the way in which that system interacted with male and female characters. Male protagonists and women to be looked at with both lust and fear (their lack of certain key organs symbolic of castration). A phallocentric approach, with men associated with activity and women associated with passivity. It is truly a…
Brevity in my recent logs is only because of lack of time at the moment. Hopefully I can return to these pages in the future to add thoughts.
Extremely underrated feminist slasher. Classic in my opinion.
Watched at Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Kansas City as part of their Terror Tuesday series. It was a blast. Had never seen it projected. Must be the Shout Factory restoration. Looked great.
hearing the director talk about how she passed up editing E.T. to make this project instead and how she still fucking loves it… maybe the most badass q&a i’ve ever SEEN
That drill seems to mean something. Like it's a drill, but it also might be something else. I can't quite explain. It's almost like it's a symbol, meant to imply some other object or idea that for some reason we can't see on-screen. I don't know, I could be imagining things. Maybe sometimes a drill is just a drill.
The Slumber Party Massacre is, at least to me, one of the best 80’s slasher jams—clever as fuck and FILLED with tongue firmly planted in cheek intentional humor (if you don’t see that or are unable to comprehend that than you’re an idiot—sorry), great kills, and a creepy bird-like killer who needs no mask while stalking with his penis power drill.
When I first started branching out from the super well known slasher films of the era that’s where I discovered movies like My Bloody Valentine, The Prowler, The Burning, and The Slumber Party Massacre. I love this flick and it’s absolutely one of my top ten favorite slasher and one of the best movies with "massacre" in the title. I adore the sequel as well, but there’s just something about this movie that I can’t get enough of.
Slasher royalty in my eyes.
Rotten Tomatoes: 40%
Metacritic Metascore: 54
IMDb: 5.7
81/100
Release Date: 12 November 1982
Distributor: New World Pictures
Budget: $250K
Total Film Awards: 0
Russ Thorn: "One, two, three, four... four... Shit."
SYNOPSIS: Some lovely young ladies decide to throw a get-together, only to have some loonie with a drill stop in to kill them all.
Totally unpretentious '80's slasher is a cheesy, but a fun ride nonetheless.
Slumber Party Massacre is a slasher fan's guilty pleasure with a pretty silly edge to it! One might just gather that from the DVD cover or poster for this film. It takes the predictable elements of the "splatter" film and with a complete lack of seriousness has a ton of fun with…
great and quotable feminist slasher that i highly recommend for spooky season. it’s better to watch this in a group. every male character in here is just the worst lmao
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Every so often online and elsewhere i see people attempting to assert the objective aesthetic power of films as if some films are simply better or more l33t than others and i have always resisted that framing of movies because i argue that each movie's value comes from how the individual experiences it affectively in that viewing and in subsequent viewings the power and relationship of that movie to the viewer and its involvement within the viewer's life takes hold and starts to build into an ongoing organic interchange so it doesn't make sense to evaluate films according to some kind of objective criteria outside of specific instances of viewing except this movie. this is the best movie ever made. i am sorry. i don't make the rules, i am just, like, their helpless interpreter or something!?! <3
Everyday Is Halloween (1978)
