The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)

A high school student's slumber party turns terrifying as an escaped mental patient with a drill decides to crash the evening.

Director:

Amy Holden Jones (as Amy Jones)

Writer:

Rita Mae Brown

Stars:

Michelle Michaels, Robin Stille, Michael Villella

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Michelle Michaels	...	Trish (as Michele Michaels)
Robin Stille	...	Valerie
Michael Villella	...	Russ Thorn (as Michael Villela)
Debra De Liso	...	Kim (as Debra Deliso)
Andree Honore	...	Jackie
Gina Smika Hunter	...	Diane (as Gina Mari)
Jennifer Meyers	...	Courtney
Joseph Alan Johnson	...	Neil (as Joe Johnson)
David Millbern	...	Jeff
Jim Boyce	...	John Minor
Pamela Roylance	...	Coach Jana
Brinke Stevens	...	Linda
Rigg Kennedy	...	David Contant (as Ryan Kennedy)
Jean Vargas	...	Telephone Repairwoman
Anna Patton	...	Mrs. Devereaux

Storyline

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 invited guests and the new girl, who is better at basketball than they, so the new girl decides to stay at home (which is conveniently across the street from the host's house). Meanwhile, a murderer of five people 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.

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Plot Keywords:

stuffed animal | girl in bra and panties | female rear nudity | drill in the head | cult film | 

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Taglines:

Close your eyes for a second... and sleep forever.

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Genres:

Horror

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 November 1982 (USA)

Also Known As:

Don't Open the Door

Filming Locations:

3662 Mountain View Avenue, Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$250,000 (estimated)

Gross USA:

$3,589,000, 31 December 1982

Company Credits

Production Co:

Santa Fe Productions (I)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

77 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The handy-woman actor, who drills in Coach Jana's peephole, was actually one of the set designers for the film.

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Goofs

When Trish is speaking on the phone to Diane, she winds up a pair of toy wind-up shoes. In the first shot the toy shoes walk as far as the center of the desk, then run down. In the next shot, they are now right at the edge of the desk.

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Quotes

[talking about the slumber party]
Linda: I don't know if I can go. My mom's on my case about my grades.
Jeff: Mine too, but I'll be there!

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Connections

Edited into Scream Queen Hot Tub Party (1991)

User Reviews

California Girls & a Psycho Meet

One gets exactly what one is promised in this somewhat low-budget slasher film that would go on to spawn at least a couple sequels. The film's premise is about a group of girls & company(voyeuristic boys, a neighbor, a basketball coach, etc...)spending an evening together for a slumber party only to have things go awry when an escaped serial killer with a penchant for drilling people to death comes onto the scene. This film has two points to make primarily: one, kill as many people as possible in the most unnatural ways possible and two, mix as much senseless nudity, sexual innuendo, and sophomoric humour into the film without turning it to a comedy rather than a slasher flick. Well, Slumber Party Massacre is fairly successful on both counts. There are a lot of murders, particularly with characters that are not characters(pizza guy?). The film is fairly gory but not hyperbolic by any means. I was more disturbed by the screenwriter's lack of humanity and the director's lack of good taste and sense more than what I saw on screen. One can make a film like this and create characters we care about and place some value on life. When one character dies after another in some weird way, the audience becomes removed from what is going on in the film and what is going on in the film becomes something distant. OK, enough of my sermonizing on the need of directors, writers, and audiences putting a little more value into human existence. As for the film, it is not a good one ,but it is not real bad either. I have seen far worse. The actors and actresses, despite the ridiculous lines that must utter, are efficient. The girls too are lovely to look at. The killer is, well, a type that has been unfortunately seen in far too many films despite his lack of dimension and purpose.