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31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN 1980's edition — (08/31) ↳ The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)

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The Slumber Party Massacre

directed by Amy Holden Jones, 1982

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The Slumber Party Massacre and Slumber Party Massacre II will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on February 21 via Scream Factory. The 1982 slasher and its 1987 sequel are both produced by Roger Corman.

The Slumber Party Massacre is directed by Amy Holden Jones (writer of Mystic Pizza and Beethoven) and written by Rita Mae Brown. Michelle Michaels, Robin Stille, and Michael Villella star.

Slumber Party Massacre II is written and directed by Deborah Brock (Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever). Crystal Bernard, Kimberly McArthur, and Atanas Ilitch star.

Both films have been newly scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with 2.0 Mono DTS-HD Master Audio. Special features are listed below.

The Slumber Party Massacre special features:

Audio commentary by director Amy Holden and actors Michel Villella and Debra De Liso

Sleepless Nights: The Making of The Slumber Party Massacre

Interview with actor Riggs Kennedy

Alternate title sequence

Theatrical trailer

Teaser trailer

Still gallery

Trish (Michele Michaels) invites her high school basketball teammates over for a night they'll never forget — or survive — when an unexpected guest crashes the party: an escaped psychopath with a portable power drill.

Slumber Party Massacre II special features:

Audio commentary by writer-director Deborah Brock, producer Don Daniel, and story editor Beverly Gray

Slumber Party Massacre II unrated cut

Sleepless Nights: Revisiting Slumber Party Massacre II

Theatrical trailer

Video trailer

Still gallery

Courtney (Crystal Bernard) is tormented by dreams of the infamous Driller Killer returning to wreak havoc... only to find that (bad) dreams really do come true when the murderous monster is reincarnated as an evil rocker.

Pre-order The Slumber Party Massacre / Slumber Party Massacre II.

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Slumber Party Massacre (1982)

A high school student, Trish (Michelle Michaels)’s slumber party turns deadly when a power drill wielding serial killer, Russ Thorne (Michael Villella) prowls the neighbourhood searching for his next victim. Continue reading Untitled

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13 SLASHER FILMS THAT INSPIRED SCREAM and HORROR NEWS OF THE WEEK

This week on HNR, movie news of the week and the top 13 Slasher Films that influenced the SCREAM franchise . All this, and more, coming up next…Join your host Doc Rotten are the scariest, goriest, bloodiest co-hosts on the 'Net: Dave Dreher, the lead news writer at Gruesome Magazine, and Crystal Cleveland, the Livin6dead6irl.

HORROR MOVIE NEWS

Jamie Lee Curtis dedicates Oscar win for Best Supporting Actress in Everything Everywhere All At Once to "Hundreds" including Genre Fans! Source: Deadline

Alicia Witt and Blair Underwood join Nicolas Cage and Maika Monroe for Osgood Perkins' next feature, Longlegs.

Warner Bros. is courting Jenna Ortega for Beetlejuice 2. Source: Hollywood Reporter

TOP 13 SLASHERS THAT INFLUENCED SCREAM (Chronologically)

Norman Bates (1960, Psycho)

d. Alfred Hitchcock

a. Anthony Perkins

Billy (1974, Black Christmas)

d. Bob Clark

a. Albert J. Dunk (uncredited)

Leatherface (1974, Texas Chainsaw Massacre)

d. Tobe Hooper

a. Gunnar Hansen

Michael Myers (1978, Halloween)

d. John Carpenter

a. Nick Castle and Tommy Lee Wallace

Curt Duncan (1979, When a Stranger Calls)

d. Fred Walton

a. Tony Beckley

Mrs. Pamela Voorhees / Jason Voorhees (1980, Friday the 13th)

d. Sean S. Cunningham

a. Betsy Palmer and Ari Lehman

Frank Zito (1980, Maniac)

d. William Lustig

a. Joe Spinell

Cropsy (1981, The Burning)

d. Tony Maylam

a. Lou David

The Miner / Harry Warden (1981, My Bloody Valentine)

d. George Mihalka

a. Peter Cowper

Russ Thorn (1982, The Slumber Party Massacre)

d. Amy Holden Jones

a. Michael Villella

Angela Baker (1983, Sleepaway Camp)

d. Robert Hiltzik

a. Felissa Rose

Freddy Krueger (1984, A Nightmare on Elm Street)

d. Wes Craven

a. Robert Englund

Charles Lee Ray / Chucky (1988, Child's Play)

d. Tom Holland

a. Brad Douriff

Check out this episode!

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The Slumber Party Massacre (Amy Holden Jones, 1982)

Cast: Michelle Michaels, Robin Stine, Michael Villella, Debra De Liso, Andree Honore, Gina Smika Hunter, Jennifer Meyers, Joseph Alan Johnson, David Milbern, Jim Boyce, Pamela Roylance, Brinke Stevens, Rigg Kennedy. Screenplay: Rita Mae Brown. Cinematography: Stephen L. Posey. Art direction: Francesca Bartoccini. Film editing: Sean Foley. Music: Ralph Jones. 

A shabby little shocker with honorable origins, The Slumber Party Massacre was scripted by Rita Mae Brown as a queer feminist parody of the slasher genre. But even the Roger Corman quickie factory wasn't prepared to go that far, so director Amy Holden Jones played the parody with a straight face. Still, the wit of Brown's original shows through often enough for the horror elements to be tinged with mockery. The ditzy high school students (played by twentysomething actresses) are terrorized by a power-drill-bearing escaped mental patient (Michael Villella). Most of the victims are the mean girls who decided not to invite newcomer Valerie (Robin Stille) to the sleepover being thrown by Trish (Michelle Michaels) while her parents are away for the weekend, but they also include a hapless pizza delivery boy and the older neighbor who agreed to look after the girls if they need help. There's a lot of shrieking and running around in the dark, but the blood, considering the gruesomeness of the murder instrument, is kept in check. Yes, it's a cult classic that defied the initial bad reviews and went on to inspire sequels, none of which are quite up to the original.

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The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) dir. Amy Holden Jones

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The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)

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The Slumber Party Massacre (Amy Holden Jones, 1982)

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Michael Villella

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The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)

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