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.

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

Directed by Amy Holden Jones and written by Writer/Activist/Feminist Rita Mae Brown (as a parody of the genre, but filmed as a straightforward horror flick) 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, 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.

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)

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 🍌

So cheesy, yet so classic.

Those peeping toms were so loud, like I mean they weren’t even whispering...psh!

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

“O__O” -the killer

As far as 80s slashers go, this one still holds strong today. Cheesy acting and dialogue, coupled with the incessant phallic symbology and nudity throughout make this a seminal entry into the genre. I enjoyed how this film really doesn’t waste time and goes right into the killing. There’s almost no backstory, save for a couple of radio newsflashes, but it really doesn’t need it. It was a refreshing contrast to a lot of these films that drag on forever in the beginning. I will say that the ending was a little too hokey, even for this genre. But still a strong film overall.

the extreme sexualization of female bodys almost ruined the experience for me. it's just like any other slasher film but in a bad form. it's not original, it's not convincent and it's boring..

Has the composition of a by-the-numbers eighties slasher but there are so many wonderfully weird little bits and pieces, (the product of a script written, unbeknownst to the producers, with the intention of being a parody of its genre), which led to it growing on me after a while. The ending is especially another level of balls to the walls insanity.

It’s your average slasher movie.

This wasn't great. I imagine that the original script was more interesting than the final product. The feminist commentary and what might have been more explicitly queer elements to the story are KINDA there but obscured/very under-developed and the whole thing feels underbaked