I do like watching slasher movies, and oddly enough then I never gotten around to watching the "Slumber Party Massacre" trilogy. So I thought I would get acquainted with the movies, and thus I sat down to start watching the trilogy.I just only made it through the first movie in the series. And after what I witnessed here in this 1982 movie was enough to deter me from not wanting to sit down and watching the sequels.The storyline in "Slumber Party Massacre" seemed to be little more than just random events filmed without a proper red line connecting them, and then the editor was just given all this raw footage and given the task to make a movie out of it. And that was not a successful way of constructing a movie.The writer Rita Mae Brown did not manage to come up with a proper storyline, and that was quite clear throughout the course of these random events shot on film.As for the characters, well let's just say that they were generic, even as slasher movie characters go. Some of the things that these characters did just made absolutely no sense, especially if faced with the mortal danger of a deranged slasher on the prowl.And while we are on the topic of the slasher, then it was a very non-threatening killer that made his rounds in this movie. And even so, the slasher wasn't particularly memorable, especially in comparison to slashers such as Jason, Freddy, Myers, etc.I will say that some of the kills were adequate, although the effects were shoddy and questionable at best. But then again, some of the kills were just downright laughable.All in all, "Slumber Party Massacre" turned out to be a less than mediocre slasher movie, and one that I will not return to watch again, and nor will I attempt at watching parts 2 and 3.

"The Slumber Party Massacre" focuses on a group of teenagers in suburban Los Angeles who are having a get-together over the weekend while their parents are away. Lo and behold, a maniac with an electric drill of all things has been lurking around the high school, and has followed them home to join the party.This fast and easy slasher flick was originally written as a feminist satire of slasher movies by Rita Mae Brown, but was directed by Amy Holden Jones as a more or less straightforward horror film, and it certainly reads that way. Though it's dotted with bits of slight humor, "The Slumber Party Massacre" actually feels fairly dark for a slasher movie. Cribbing "Halloween" in set-up and "Texas Chainsaw" in title, the film manages to achieve a somber and weirdly unsettling tone from early on. Part of it has to do with the dampened, shadowy cinematography that manages to make even sunny Southern California a dark place, and part of it is the sheer arbitrariness of it all. The killer's arrival is given no context or back story, not dissimilar from 1980's "Final Exam."At 77 minutes, the film is brisk, but it manages to deliver on just about all accounts. There is ample gore that is surprisingly well done, and there are some unique, extremely eerie shots in which the camera follows behind the killer as he approaches his unknowing victims; there are also classic shots that are the inverse of this, in which he's entered the frame from behind the girls. This dichotomy illustrates the tension between the more playful elements of the film and the more sinister ones. The killer, as much as he is shown on screen from the get-go, is considerably creepy, and the sense of threat is consistent throughout. The performances are a mixed bag, but by and large are perfectly fine.Overall, "The Slumber Party Massacre" was a surprise success for me. Given the derivative and somewhat hokey title, I had many preconceptions about this film that were blown away once I finally had a chance to watch it. It's not a flawless film, but it is certainly well done for what it is. Memorable and moody cinematography lends the film a gritty edge, and there are more than enough playful and menacing moments to be had. Despite its slight ventures into humor, it's a far darker and more serious slasher film than you may expect. 8/10.

An eighteen-year-old high school girl is left at home by her parents and she decides to have a slumber party. There is friction between some of the guests and the new girl, who is better at basketball than they, so the new girl decides to stay at home. Meanwhile, a murderer with a propensity for power tools has escaped and is at large, and eventually makes his way to the party, where the guests begin experiencing an attrition problem, with only the new girl to help them.......So when the slasher genre was at its high during the early eighties, there were some rife ones released to earn a few bucks, and this was one of the biggest stinkers.It just consists of a man walking around and just happening to be in the right place and the right time to murder a high school student.The film makers must have been having a whale of a time, because the first act consists of the camera focusing on parts of a woman, and nothing else.The second act is none existent, and the third act really just consists of actors running out of select doors screaming and stabbing the killer with various objects.The film is awful, with really bad acting and a silly ending.

I have seen "The Slumber Party Massacre" 3 times now. And to be honest I love it but I still stand by my rating above. It's an OK slasher but it definitely has a lot of clichés' going for it and a lot of 'fake' boo scares which should'nt have been there. It will never rank up with "Halloween (1978)" or "Black Christmas (1974)" but it sure is one of the most underrated slashers of the 1980's.First off, let's talk about the plot: The plot was great. Definitely not what you get from most modern slashers these days. This girl is left alone while her parents goes away. While they're gone, she decides to invited friends over, to have a SLUMBER PARTY. A killer called Russ Thorn though is on the loose and happens to make his way to the party. AND KILL THEM! Yes really a good plot which never suffered from gap holes.I loved the musical score. Quite chilling and undeniably scary. They say this is a spoof but I believe that this music really rang a door bell for me because it was that scary. It was like 8 bit music mixed in with stalkerish, piano-ish music. It was that darn creepy! The actors are all fine. They were all very convincing and the actress who played as Courtney was my favorite. She was really beautiful bringing innocence and naughtiness to her roll. The other girls were good. Just not as good as her.The guy who played as Russ Thorn was good. He's not a really memorable killer and he just runs around with a power drill, killing all these girls in weird, and bizarre ways. I thought that it was done OK, but he is definitely not a Billy Lenz or Michael Myers. He wouldn't rank up with them because sometimes he was a little off edge. But he did a pretty creepy job.I also liked the overall tone of this film.The cliché'd 'fake' boo scare did not work for me at all. It was just a little unnecessary and it didn't make me laugh nor get scared. If they wouldn't have used them, the film would've been 100% more scary in atmosphere and tension.Overall I can't really complain about this film that much. It's not up with many of the other greats, but it certainly beats a fair amount of cheesy, unworthy modern-like ones I've been seeing. Ones such as Uwe Boll's undeniably terrible "Seed" or the "Sorority Row" Remake from 2009. Those film were badly made for all the wrong reasons.But on another note, "Slumber" is definitely a good dose of slasher. Watch this at night time and I tell you, you will not regret it.It's 7 bloody power drills out of 10 for me. This film doesn't even come close to a 5.2/10.