This movie has one of my favorite old-timey movie clichés in it: the important news bulletin that the characters don't hear. Two or three times near the beginning of the movie, we're shown characters who are listening to the radio when a news bulletin comes on warning of an escaped mental patient/serial killer/whatever. But without fail, every time this potentially vital piece of information is broadcast, the characters get distracted or they turn off the radio. I don't think this particular cliché gets used too much anymore, but it shows up all the time in older horror movies. On a completely different note: The Slumber Party Massacre is supposedly a feminist horror movie because it was written and directed by women and features a killer who uses an over-sized drill to kill his victims, but it's pretty much a standard, by-the-numbers, exploitation flick. Heck, the biggest gag in the movie is a woman in a refrigerator.Rating: 61%
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This movie is bad, but you know what's worse? Slumber Party Massacre 2.
According to Wikipedia, Rita Mae Brown, a prominent feminist activist, wrote the script. Like, what? I've seen this movie, and it is totally not different from any other typical early 80s slasher movie.
I bought the Slumber Party Massacre DVD set that came out recently. The set comes with all three SPM flicks and a bunch of extras. After watching the first movie, I watched the trailers for the other two. Yikes. The poster art for Part 2 always had me convinced that it was a dark, sleazy, brutal horror flick, but it looks like fucking clown shoes.
I had to put the bit about feminism in my review because the director and the actors took themselves way too seriously in the documentary on the DVD.
That picture certainly makes me think it is a feminist movie!
Interesting point about the news report that characters don't listen to. I never thought about that, and it is pretty awesome that you pointed it out.
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