The Slumber Party Massacre
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| Directed by | Amy Holden Jones |
| Produced by | Amy Holden Jones |
| Written by | Rita Mae Brown |
| Starring | Michele Michaels Robin Stille Michael Villella Debra Deliso Andree Honore |
| Music by | Ralph Jones |
| Cinematography | Stephen L. Posey |
| Edited by | Wendy Greene Bricmont Sean Foley |
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Santa Fe Productions
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| Distributed by | New World Pictures |
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Running time
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77 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $250,000 (estimated) |
| Box office | $3,589,000 |
The Slumber Party Massacre is a 1982 American slasher film directed by Amy Holden Jones and written by Rita Mae Brown, starring Michelle Michaels and Robin Stille. The film follows a high school senior who, left alone by her parents for the weekend, gathers her friends for a slumber party, not knowing that a murderer using a power drill is on the loose in the neighborhood.
The film was originally written by Brown as a parody of the slasher genre; however, it was instead filmed as a straightforward horror film. As a result, the movie contains more humor, both intended and unintended, than usual for the genre. When originally released, the film received mixed reviews, but has since developed a cult following.
Two sequels, Slumber Party Massacre II and III, followed the film in 1987 and 1990, respectively. It is the first horror film series in history whose films were directed exclusively by women.
Trish Devereaux (Michelle Michaels), an 18-year-old high school senior, decides to throw a slumber party while her parents are away for the weekend, and their neighbor Mr. Contant (Rigg Kennedy) is given the job of checking in on the girls during the night. She awakes to the sound of her radio and gets dressed shortly before going to school. Meanwhile, Russ Thorn (Michael Villella), an escaped mass murderer with a preference for power drills, kills a telephone repair woman (Jean Vargas) and steals her van. Trish meets up with her friends Kim (Debra Deliso), Jackie (Andree Honore) and Diane (Gina Hunter) and the girls on her basketball team. A new girl named Valerie Bates (Robin Stille) is invited by Trish, but refuses after hearing Diane talking cruelly about her. Russ Thorn watches the girls leave school from the van and a girl named Linda (Brinke Stevens) goes back inside the school to retrieve a book for a test, only to be locked inside and attacked by Thorn who damages her left arm. She eventually hides in the shower room, but the killer finds out where she is due to her blood loss and shortly kills her before escaping to the van.
That evening, the party begins as the girls smoke marijuana and talk about boys. Valerie lives next door and is babysitting her younger sister Courtney (Jennifer Meyers) while their recently-divorced mother is away for the weekend with a new boyfriend. Diane's boyfriend John (Jim Boyce) and two boys from the school named Jeff (David Millbern) and Neil (Joe Johnson) arrive and spy on the girls undressing. Thorn attacks and kills Mr. Contant with his power drill; meanwhile Courtney is begging Valerie to go to the party, but Valerie protests. Diane begins to make out with John in the car and after she gets out to ask Trish permission to go with him, she comes back to find him decapitated. Diane tries to flee, but is murdered also.
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