{"id":69528,"date":"2021-02-15T16:49:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T23:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=69528"},"modified":"2021-02-15T19:53:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T02:53:41","slug":"slumber-party-massacre-the-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=69528","title":{"rendered":"Slumber Party Massacre, The (1982)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;You know how girls love to scream.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Slumber-Party-Massacre-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Slumber-Party-Massacre-Poster-201x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-69529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Slumber-Party-Massacre-Poster-201x300.png 201w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Slumber-Party-Massacre-Poster-685x1024.png 685w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Slumber-Party-Massacre-Poster-86x128.png 86w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Slumber-Party-Massacre-Poster-181x270.png 181w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Slumber-Party-Massacre-Poster.png 749w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA teenager (Michele Michaels) whose parents have gone away for the weekend and asked their next-door neighbor (Ryan Kennedy) to keep an eye on her invites a group of friends (Debra Deliso, Andree Honore, and Gina Mari) over for a party, and they&#8217;re soon joined by two male onlookers (Joe Johnson and David Millbern). Meanwhile, Michaels&#8217; beautiful new classmate (Robin Stille) stays home babysitting her annoying little sister (Jennifer Meyers). Can the teens all stay safe from a power-drill-wielding serial killer (Michael Villela) on the loose in their neighborhood?\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Horror Films<\/li>\n<li>Serial Killers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary\u2019s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nAs Peary notes, this &#8220;slice-and-dice&#8221; slasher flick &#8220;has received attention because it was produced and directed by a woman, Amy Jones, and scripted by radical feminist Rita Mae Brown&#8221; &#8212; but &#8220;as hard as one looks, it&#8217;s impossible to find a satirical-political-feminist theme that would explain why Jones or Brown would be associated with this entry&#8221; in the genre. Indeed, Jones and Brown &#8220;follow all conventions relating to female nudity, horny teens, too many false alarms, painful death, [and] buckets of blood,&#8221; leading Peary to wonder, &#8220;Were they just trying to prove that they could make as tough and obscenely violent a film as young male directors, or that they could make a bloody, sexy exploitation film that would rack in the same amounts of money as the male-directed <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=38015\"><em>Halloween<\/em><\/a> rip-offs have?&#8221; (If so, they succeeded; this film earned quite a bit at the box office and spawned several sequels.) However, as Peary points out (rather harshly):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230; this film is trash. Every character is stupid beyond belief. There are numerous ways in which the girls could get out of their predicament, but they haven&#8217;t even the intelligence to lean out a window of the two-story house to yell for help. Instead, the dense girls wait around to be murdered one by one. It is infuriating and frustrating how they are set up for slaughter.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I&#8217;m not at all a fan of slasher flicks, I think Peary is missing the boat a bit: viewers of this type of movie don&#8217;t tend to spend much energy worrying about logic or characters&#8217; intelligence (and Brown originally wrote it as a parody, which makes sense). <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Atmospheric cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Slumber-Party-Massacre-Cinematography.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Slumber-Party-Massacre-Cinematography.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"336\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Slumber-Party-Massacre-Cinematography.png 592w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Slumber-Party-Massacre-Cinematography-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Slumber-Party-Massacre-Cinematography-128x73.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Slumber-Party-Massacre-Cinematography-476x270.png 476w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Slumber-Party-Massacre-Cinematography2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Slumber-Party-Massacre-Cinematography2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"336\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Slumber-Party-Massacre-Cinematography2.png 592w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Slumber-Party-Massacre-Cinematography2-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Slumber-Party-Massacre-Cinematography2-128x73.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Slumber-Party-Massacre-Cinematography2-476x270.png 476w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo; this one is only for horror fanatics. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0084695\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=507\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moriareviews.com\/horror\/slumber-party-massacre-1982.htm\">Moria Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You know how girls love to scream.&#8221; Synopsis: A teenager (Michele Michaels) whose parents have gone away for the weekend and asked their next-door neighbor (Ryan Kennedy) to keep an eye on her invites a group of friends (Debra Deliso, Andree Honore, and Gina Mari) over for a party, and they&#8217;re soon joined by two male onlookers (Joe Johnson and David Millbern). Meanwhile, Michaels&#8217; beautiful new classmate (Robin Stille) stays home babysitting her annoying little sister (Jennifer Meyers). Can the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=69528\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69528"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69540,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69528\/revisions\/69540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}