A video bought in a pound shop (about a dollar fifty) should always be judged along the lines of "you get what you pay for" and so it proved with Bachelor Party Massacre. The title, along with the tag line "Pray You Are Not Invited!" were fair indications of the slasher genre within. The pre-credit sequence continued in this vein with the first of many victims meeting a predictably gory end at the hands of 'The Killer'. The setting, standing in for the old haunted house, is a large recently vacated roadside drinking establishment with multiple bars, floors and, as befits such filmic scenery, plenty of dark corridors and mysterious rooms. Our heroes and heroines consist of four young men on a bachelor party, the two 'exotic dancers' they have hired and, in a later development, the partners of two of the men. Whilst the plot is perfunctorily familiar, tension is dissipated by the overuse of humorous dialogue. There is a very thin line between injecting moments of humour into a horror film in order to break the tension and actually turning the film into a parody of itself. This film comes dangerously close to crossing that line. Special effects, presumably constrained by budget, are quite acceptable whilst not being exceptional and credit must go to the editor for keeping the whole project down to a Hitchcockian hour and a half. The overall impression was of a flawed but certainly professional offering which punches slightly above its weight. The questioning of Bay Bruner's acting ability in other reviews may be fair although it would be difficult to come to such a conclusion based on one film . In her defence, I would say that the risible dialogue would probably have hindered her. There were certainly moments when the camera caught her in such a way as to make her by far the most interesting character.

The very cover of this film is enough to put you off, but against all odds Bachelor Party Massacre wasn't too bad at all. It wasn't too good either, but it didn't quite descend into suicide inducing drudgery like a lot of slasher films.You know the plot even if you haven't seen the film. Four guys head off for a stag-do at an empty bar, and hire some strippers. Wife to be and sister-in-law also head off to spoil the fun, and there's an escaped lunatic killing folks. That's the plot. Rather than have trendy, know-it-all dialogue, the victims here are rather portrayed as pathetic losers from the get go, so that helps the film, as does the banter, which is a bit better than usual. The killer however is crap, and spouts one liners almost as bad as those in Psycho Cop. It all moves along fairly quickly though, and I like the stripper who's only defence is to strip for the killer. You're not missing much by this film.

Seriously, Schumacker Halpern Overdrive? Now, that's not a name is it?OK, so the movie is not as horrible as you would perhaps expect and the movie definitely has its entertainment value but it's also a quite bad, standard, low budget, cheap looking, B-horror movie.The movie makes a couple of fatal mistakes. Such as the fact that the identity and motive of the killer are given away too fast. This of course completely ruins this movie its tension and mysterious elements. But obviously the film-makers aim was more towards its comedy and other less serious aspects. In a way the movie also does entertaining especially with its comedy and some of its characters but its simplicity and amateur like style of the movie prevent this from being a real good watchable one.Of course the movie is also very predictable. You just know who is going to die and when. It's one of those real typical genre movies, that recently seem to have become popular again. Even though the movie is only 85 minutes short, the movie still feels way too long and the movie becomes real tiresome to watch after a while, since it basically is constantly more of the same all the time, also since basically the entire movie is set at one locations, probably for budgeting reasons.Everybody seems to can make good gore these days but very little directors know how to handle- and make it work out effectively in a movie. Yes, this movie has some good looking gore but it just never knows to shock or gross you out, due to the overall amateur like style of film-making and just plain overall atmosphere of the movie.All of the actors in this movie never seem to have starred in anything else before but it needs to be said that for a genre movie such as this one. Too bad that Bay Bruner can't act though. too bad since she plays one of the most importantly crucial characters of the movie. It kind of ruins some of the movie its sequences and therefor also negatively effects the movie as a whole.Not exactly anything too recommendable.4/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

Make no mistake about it, any film called Bachelor Party Massacre is going be naff, but, surprisingly, it's not as crud as it probably should be. The title tells you all you need to know: four buddies gather in an abandoned bar to celebrate their friend Addison's last few days as single. They drink, order pizza, letch after some strippers and get stalked n' slashed by a poncho-clad schizo woman who is nothing more than your common-or-garden asylum escapee.There's plenty of topless girls on show, fleshed out lapdancing sequences and watery blood-flowage. The effects budget obviously hindered some of the creativity and so a lot of the murders are off-screen or skewered by strange camera angles; one girl gets a stiletto in the head and a guy has a knife shoved in the worst possible place.As a collector and general advocate of slasher films - this was the 416th I've seen by my count - I'll watch almost anything like this. Some suck, some are pretty good. I'd slot BPM towards the bottom of the stack, but it's not downright awful as, say, Carnage Road or The Slaughterhouse Massacre, which are almost entirely devoid of merit.