The Last Slumber Party (1988 Video) User Reviews

Absolute "So Bad It's Good" Nonsense

[Blazehgehg · 2/10 · 29 October 2015]

I can barely even form a coherent sentence to describe to you what this movie actually is after having seen it, but I'll try.

The premise is your typical cliché: A killer comes to slice up some teens. Here, it's an escaped mental patient in a doctor's outfit wielding a scalpel. Against all odds and even logic itself, he goes on a rather successful murder-spree.

This movie is like something a bunch of friends knocked out in a weekend. They probably had no idea what they were doing, I doubt a script was written, they clearly had no budget to work with, and very little experience in making movies. But they still did it, and that's kind of amazing.

The writing is abysmal, the dialog is even worse. The editing is a train wreck, where it's clear they dubbed music over individual shots rather than entire scenes, leading to incredibly disjointed moments where cutting to different camera angle will remove the background music until they go back to the first camera. Acting ranges from wooden to supremely over-the-top. The killer in particular has lots of (great?) scenes where he's staring directly in to the camera with his eyes bugging out, waving a scalpel around for no reason, like he's trying to dissect the lens.

I had the pleasure of watching this movie with a group of friends, and we all had a blast. There's a lot of amazing stupidity worth laughing at, and the movie actually does a pretty good job of ratcheting up its own absurdity. The last 10-15 minutes are as close to a literal fever dream as any movie can come.

Would I recommend? It's a STUNNINGLY bad movie, but it's also thoroughly ridiculous and I bet everyone involved had a lot of fun producing it. If that sounds right up your alley, then by all means, check this out.

What the hell's going on?

[Sandcooler · 3/10 · 4 December 2016]

Was this movie edited by Salvador Dali on drugs? When I'm trying to get invested in a movie, it's important to have a vague idea of what's going on. When your killer teleports as often as this guy does, you have two options: learn basic editing or, if you don't have the talent for that, write in a line about how he knows teleportation. Writer/Director/Star Stephen Tyler (not to be confused with the much scarier Steven Tyler) never made another horror movie after this one, and neither did any of his actors. I'd be grateful for that, but then again: "The Last Slumber Party" is also intensely fascinating. How bad can a movie get before you stop calling it a movie? You just stare in awe because you have no idea what the next scene will bring. When you look at it that way, this is much more entertaining than a halfway competent project. My favorite parts: every time our mad psychopath (Tyler himself) opens his eyes real wide because he can't come up with any other way to act crazy. That's some great stuff.

The faults in this movie are too many to count.

[ofpsmith · 2/10 · 7 September 2017]

But we might as well start somewhere in any case. The story is pretty basic. A group of girls at a slumber party are targeted by an escaped lobotomy patient. A story this basic can go one way or the other and it this case it's poorly done. What are the other problems? First of all we have the characters. They're terrible. There's no reason to care about any of these people. None of the girls are in any way likable. One of them has no personality, another is really whiny, and the third just spews homophobic slurs. The boys that arrive aren't any better. They're all just bland carbon copies. The acting is also horrendous, but to be fair I didn't expect anything that great to begin with. Oddly enough, the biggest part of the movie is the continuity. The narrative structure itself is flawed beyond belief. The story (as mentioned above) is pretty basic, just a slumber party horror movie. It shouldn't be that hard to follow. And I'm not saying that it's purposely unconventional like a Christopher Nolan movie, I'm saying it's flawed. I think the main character dies at least twice, other random characters appear and disappear, another character goes to buy orange juice after having already gone to bed. The worst case of this is when there's one shot of the movie that appears out of nowhere. It has no relation to the plot, it's never mentioned again, and it even looks like it belongs in a completely different movie. I'm serious. This film has no rules.

Absolutely unwatchable without Rifftrax

[irishm · 1/10 · 5 September 2017]

I love a good bad cheap movie ("The Giant Claw" remains one of my all-time favorites) but this one is just trash. It's the cheapest, most poorly-written, poorly-acted, poorly-edited piece of crap I've seen in many, many years. On top of all that, it's just plain BORING... and you really can't get around that obstacle, which is what makes watching it just plain no fun, even for those who enjoy watching terrible movies. While ALL the acting is atrocious, the guy who plays the doctor deserves special mention for being considerably beneath the skill level of his co-stars. (I note that this is his one and only film credit... hardly surprising.) The only thing that made it survivable to the end was the Rifftrax commentary. Please, please, please avoid, unless you have Mike, Kevin and Bill holding your hand the whole way.

Crappy but funny.

[bfan83 · 18 December 2003]

I remember seeing this when I was like 11. I thought it was good then. But I got older and starting watching more b-movies and it turns out this one is pretty crappy. But it had a likability factor to it though. I think it's the cheesy dialogue and the really crappy 80's music. I was really disappointed that there was hardly any gore! To all you SPM fans out there. THIS IS NOT A SEQUEL TO THE SPM SERIES!!! Stay far away!!

The Last Slumber Party: A harsh, but truthful, review.

[Idiot-Deluxe · 1/10 · 3 May 2017]

Dismal, just dismal......... when it comes to slasher flicks I really do hope there aren't any worse than this, but if there are, well than that's quite a shame.

Reviewing The Last Slumber Party...... what a pleasure, here goes. After seeing this flick not a single positive thought comes to mind, however if you ever have the urge to see the worst example of the slasher film genre - this is it: The Last Slumber Party. It's a pathetically lame movie, the worst of it's kind and a failure on all levels, however, at the same time it's also an excellent example of not just shoddy film-making, but rather a tour-de-force of all things bad in movies. Which in it's case only intensifies the longer it goes and by the movies end you should have by then, developed a healthy amount of hatred for it and the reasons for that are many. Let me cite some of those reasons.

Right from the very start the movie opens up with an utterly tasteless opening credits sequence, in which every other word is displayed in hot pink, in addition to that you'll hear some lame 80's glam-rock band blaring away. So factually speaking before you're even through the movies open credits you're -already- up to your ears in a sea of tasteless dreck, but the worst is yet to come. And what of the actors, you say? Well I think you'll quickly deduce the fact that the films cast is comprised, almost entirely, of a small gaggle of dumb horny teens (do I have you cringing yet?), yet another clue as to what level of film-making one can expect to see from The Last Slumber Party - oh but the movie has just begun. The films "teen cast" is just plain terrible and the adult actors are just as bad; especially the guy who plays the doctor, I've never seen anyone less charismatic than him. The dialog of this movie (just listen to it!) could not sound any more amateurish or juvenile (though it can get pretty colorful, I won't lie), even illogical at times. The films script is simply littered with copious amounts of generic slang and over-used clichés and before long their lingo (i.e. drivel) becomes incredibly redundant and tiresome.

From a purely visual perspective the films cinematography and editing tends to get worse and worse as the movie goes, several scenes near the end for instance are definitely under-lit, not to mention the camera that they used was obviously having focus issues, which is a problem on and off throughout the whole movie. But if there's one aspect of The Last Slumber Party that's worse than all others, it would have to be in how it was edited. This movie is simply one of the worst examples of film-editing you're likely ever to see and as a result this movie has little in the way of logical flow and it gets unbelievably repetitive before long. The movie looks as if it were edited by someone who no longer had a functioning long-term memory (as if their mind was fried due to years of drug-abuse), because there are all kinds of issues with the plotting and continuity; so much so that for the most part the movie is nothing more than a jumble of lame, poorly-shot scenes that contain little in the way of logic and even less coherency. Especially near the end where several scenes are either blatantly out of sequence and/or repeated multiple times, however the editing is highly questionable throughout the entire movie.

Oh yeah and not to forget this gripping foot-note, which involves orange juice! That's right, if there's one thing that stands out in this pathetic movie, more so than anything else, it would have to be the abnormal and inordinate amount of importance that's placed on WHETHER OR NOT the doctor (at his wives request) will remember to buy: Orange Juice! Seriously, I'm not making that up and do try to keep in mind that this is supposed to be a slasher film or a "horror" film. Come to think of it, this movie IS a thing of horror - but not for any of the reasons it's makers intended it to be. The suspense runs thick, oh so thick, will the doctor buy orange juice or will he not. Well, you'll just have to wait and see.

The Last Slumber Party isn't just the worst slasher film, but also one of the worst movies period. But I suppose if you were to completely shut-off your brain you might be able to enjoy this movie, but really this truly is movie-making at it's most dire.

This is a bad movie by even Rifftrax standards, it's that bad.

About As Bad As Movies Get

[kayrannells · 2/10 · 20 October 2020]

Three teenage girlfriends celebrate their last day of high school by having a slumber party, not knowing that an escaped scrub and mask-wearing killer has set his sights on them.

The Last Slumber Party is about as far as you can get in the barrel without scraping the bottom. At under 80 minutes, it'd padded to high heaven with nonsensical dream sequences. The acting is awful with terrible line readings and women well over high school age pretending that they're still 17 or 18. The kills are all uninspired with the same blood squirting scalpel dragged across yet another hapless victim's throat. The movie also looks as if it was shot on several different formats and cut together. Some scenes look like they were shot on film and crudely transfered to video later on while most of the film resembles late 80's family camcorder videos.

One laugh only

[Jagger1966 · 1/10 · 9 July 2005]

I'm not even going to comment on what piece of trash this film is since that has already been established. However, watching this with my friends we all laughed out loud when the lead girl made a Shelley Hack reference while on the phone. We sat there trying to figure out why the writer would throw her into the mix. We can only assume he had a Charlie's Angels fixation at one time. Based on that reference, we assumed this film must have been made around her Charlie's Angels run in 1979 or 1980, but from what I've read here it was made around 1987. You sure couldn't tell that from the poor production values. It seems as though it was made by a college student for a film class. And while by no means would I expect a low-budget trash fest like this to be politically correct, the rednecks in this film sure did like to direct derogatory gay remarks to each other. Even so I'd still only rank this as the 2nd worst horror film ever made, second only to "Nail Gun Massacre."

The worst!

[BandSAboutMovies · 1/10 · 3 October 2020]

If you're going to watch a slumber party, why not one that promises to be the final one?

I mean, just listen to this sell copy: "The plot is twisted inside out, leaving you stunned and clinging to your chair as you witness shock after horrifying shock. The ending will leave you breathless. And now, the blood flows like wine."

Six popular teens and a science nerd plan on spending three months of partying when a parent goes away, but said parent is also a doctor who was planning on lobotomizing a mental patient who has stolen a scalpal and headed to get some pre-emptive payback. Steve Tyler wrote, directed and stars in this and it's the only movie where not one, but two maniacs in scrubs wipe out teenagers.

It's also among the worst movies I've ever seen, which seems like an astounding effort after the double digit Jess Franco movies that I've put myself through.

Also the killer's name is Mr. Randles, which does not randle off the tongue quite like Jason Vorhees or Michael Myers.

This is a movie that has three endings while also being shot on video and film at the very same time. No, it's not going for a mixed media effect. It's just inept, which makes me kind of love it in the way you fall for the biggest charity case in the dog pound. But man, it does have a nice poster.

You may be astounded by the sheer volume of anti-homosexual slurs in this movie. And guess what - the ones saying it are supposed to be the heroes! And then there's the dream sequence which has nothing to do with anything else before or after that seems like it could be one of the many endings to this movie.

This movie makes Terror at Tenkiller look like Tenebre. And that, my friends, is a real feat.

Bring all the alcohol and drugs you have to survive this last slumber event or perhaps just watch Slumber Party Massacre II.

A generally decent slasher that's got a few extreme limitations

[kannibalcorpsegrinder · 5/10 · 21 August 2022]

Heading off to Spring Vacation, a teen and her friends prepare for the special slumber party they've been waiting all year for, only to discover that the event has been crashed by a psychotic killer killing everyone one by one, and must try to stay alive to stop him.

This one was a decent enough slasher effort. That this one provides the strong starting point here for the rampage featuring the dueling storylines involving the hospital staff preparing for the patients' surgery while the girls are getting ready for the boyfriends to arrive. With the killer loose from this point and shown to be stalking the party unaware of everything, this comes off quite fun as the guys' showing up one at a time allows them to be knocked off which the girls can misinterpret as leaving early while not suspecting anything. As a setup for these first half ambush-style stalking scenes and confrontations, this all sets a mood and a low-budget charm that gives this a likable enough energy. However, beyond this setup, the film is entirely undone by one of the lamest and least intimidating killers in the genre. Dressed in hospital scrubs with a paltry surgical mask and the constant use of a scalpel as his weapon of choice, there's very little fear to be generated here as the unimposing stature requires him to sneak up and ambush victims who stand around and do nothing. The pathetic choice of weaponry means that everything is generally relegated to slit throats that grow old after a while, and although the gore effects aren't terrible the repetition is a factor here. Combined with a lackluster story explaining how he chose them as targets as well as the obvious source limitations on display, these are the film's drawbacks.

Rated R: Extreme Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, and Brief Nudity.

Lots of slumbering, no partying; boring, poorly shot Slumber Party Massacre wannabe

[FieCrier · 1/10 · 9 December 2004]

O boy, was this really bad.

I saw this on videotape.

In scenes that had soundtrack music, it was hard to hear the dialog. When people were on the telephone, it was hard to hear the person on the other end. It appeared that at least two different kinds of film or video stock were used, because the colors and focus sometimes shifted drastically between edits. And there were a lot of out of focus shots that didn't seem intentional.

One indicator of the budget (one of many) was when a news report comes on TV. There is just a "news flash" title card badly superimposed with a video effect onto a TV screen, and a voice-over by a newscaster. They couldn't shoot footage of a newscaster, and then actually show it on the TV?

The movie starts off with a killer wearing surgical scrubs and mask, wielding a scalpel. Supposedly he's a paranoid schizophrenic who escapes from the hospital to avoid having a lobotomy performed on him.

Students are let out of school for a break, and three young women decide to have a slumber party. Three guys decide to crash the party, and a geek named Science decides to crash it too. The slumber party is pretty boring, and the guys just keep showing up randomly wearing masks, taking the masks off, and then disappearing. The mother and father (the surgeon who was to do the lobotomy) of one of the girls keep showing up too. The killer knocks slices people's throats without anyone really noticing. The apparent lead of the movie more or less sleepwalks through the movie. Perhaps that was bad acting, or maybe it was intentional, since much of the movie is a nightmare, and some of it a nightmare within a nightmare.

The ending is really horrible too.

The best thing about the movie is the cheesy United Home Video VHS box art, which was revived for the DVD release (a double feature with Terror at Tenkiller). I honestly can't tell if it is a photo, or a painting, or a combination of both. The women pictured on the cover are not in the movie, and the clothing they're wearing is way more revealing than anything the women in the movie wore. The throat slicing on the cover is scarier than the ones in the movie - where people tend to affect a goofy pop-eyed look. For that matter, that's what the killer has most of the time: head cocked, and eyes bugging out, mugging for the camera. Frequently the scalpel was held up close to the camera in focus, while the killer's mask-covered face was in close-up but out of focus in the background.

The best comedy ever!

[Watermark · 10/10 · 19 August 2003]

I was laughing SO hard when i watched this movie. It's Hilarious! It was even funnier than scary movie 1 & 2. My family and i laughed ourselves sick watching this movie. i can't believe it has a 1.3 rating, i loved it. It's undoubtedly the best comedy i've ever seen.

You Think You've Seen the Worst of the Worst? Not Until You See This One!

[Zanatos · 1/10 · 6 September 1999]

Now I've seen it all. Just when I thought it couldn't get any more pathetic and cheesy than "Woodchipper Massacre," just when I thought dialogue and acting couldn't get worse than "Nail Gun Massacre," just when I thought "Don't Go In The Woods" would retain its title as Lousiest Slasher Film Ever, along comes "THE LAST SLUMBER PARTY!" Somehow, this cheap, wretched manure manages to avoid lewdness, but it remains terrible! I couldn't believe my eyes--for once I can't complain about excessive (or in this case, any) nudity in a slasher film, but it still managed to make me crimson with embarrassment for renting it. Never before have I seen such horrible acting, dialect, direction, writing,....I could go on forever with this list! Here's a quick run-down:

A mental patient somehow escapes from the loony bin, dresses up like a surgeon, somehow finds out where his doctor lives, and breaks in while the doctor's daughter is having friends over for the night. Then begins the most stupid killing spree (ripped off from other movies such as "Slumber Party Massacre" and Halloween") this side of the universe. The characters have negative IQs, which suggests they are not human. Then again, I guess they are not, since they have the tendency to bleed Kool-Aid when they get cut, as the slasher likes to show use when he holds up his scapel to the camera in WAY too many scenes. It is only 80 minutes...how many times must we look at that scapel like that before it consumes the whole movie?...which I suppose wouldn't be all that bad of an idea in this case! There is one moment where I thought maybe, just maybe, the director would make it interesting (a second killer was added), but alas! It was not to be! And then to insult even further, there is a stupid super cop-out sub-ending and an even stupider final conclusion. That probably doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but I would hate to give away the dumbest few scenes in movie history to those two or three fools (like me) dumb enough to rent this sewage.

I sure hope that, by writing this, I have saved 80 minutes of someone's life. I get on my hands and knees to beg anyone still thinking about renting this: PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE DON'T! This is a fan of the slasher genre talking; I know what is good for you! The only real victims in this rattlebrained, asinine nonsense are the poor morons that have sat through the whole toilet tank! Zanatos's score...since there is no negative point scale, I have to give it a 1, but a below-average 1 at that. Avoid it at all costs....please!!!!

the lowest of the lowest of the low.

[t3mul3nt · 18 February 2001]

wow, there's just so much so very wrong with this piece of crap i'm not sure where to start.

normally i have a soft spot for even the dirge that united home video brings to market, i mean, how can you not love blood cult, a similarly awful movie yet shot on betacams? (at least the cheap synthesizer used for the score in blood cult was used in conjunction with a sequencer and/or quasi-literate musician)

i rented "last slumber party" mostly due to seeing the "united home video" emblem, thinking i might get a good beer-infused laugh out of it. hardly.

there are home movies of you getting you learning to ride your first bike that have both better quality and lighting. the acting seems to imply that everyone was either on a heavy diet of painkillers or just plain outright awful. the story is a deliberate attempt to borrow from virtually every other movie in the "girls at slumber party get drunk and then slashed up by escaped maniac" subgenre yet somehow manages to come off as completely retarded.

only good note, the heavy metal music provided by "FIRSTRYKE"... the best/worst hairmetal in a horror flick since the prom scene in prom night 3.

avoid this at any and all costs.

t3mul3nt

So bad it's bad!

[TokyoGyaru · 1/10 · 14 March 2021]

The real horror of this movie is watching these awful people who clearly dislike each other pursue what will be a toxic relationship (the red-headed couple). They make the couple at the beginning of Freddy vs Jason look like Jack and Rose from Titanic. The guy keeps calling the girl words like "b****" and "wh***" to her face and when she leaves the room, clearly full of loathing for her, and she either giggles or does nothing. I was distracted by imagining their future and the inevitable abuse and murder-suicide. I couldn't care less about the murderer outside of hoping they died ASAP. The guy is every woman-hating forum poster come to life, and the woman is the personification of what such posters think all women are like. The toxicity, the rampant homophobia, the peer pressure and obsession with whether other people are having sex or not...It's like the internet wrote the film before the internet even existed.

That's before even getting to things like the ridiculous amount of flubs (I guess the director couldn't be bothered with multiple takes), the awful sound, the incompetent editing, the threadbare "plot," the atrocious acting, the garbage synth score, the ridiculous killer, the inconsistent accents, the weird, the cheap-looking makeup, etc. Add in people insisting on going to sleep with the lights on, the entire house staying lit the whole time, the vapid, detestable female lead wandering around cursing and talking to herself, complete with several homophobic slurs for some reason (like, seriously, there's nothing to establish why she does it so much, but her character must have spied on her dad and his male lover in bed like in Sleepaway Camp or something), looking like a junkie (punctuated by purple bags under her red-rimmed eyes) searching for more time to waste, and more! This movie is an insult to the genre and to filmmaking in general. The fact that this got a Blu-ray release is mystifying.

audio not video

[pancoast · 1/10 · 22 April 2005]

In my opinion of this movie the entire video portion of this movie was absolute trash!!!! However the soundtrack that was used contained the music of a great heavy metal rock band, I recognized the music as being a band called Firstryke and the album was "Just a Nightmare" and it was very well written!! and I am curious to see what the rest of you movie buffs out there think of it, if can remember back that far I would appreciate the feed back, I collect old movie, and obscure movie sound tracks. It is a very time consuming hobby but is very rewarding. I have seen this bands music being sold in Germany on the net for around fifty dollars per album. Not to bad Hugh?

What is this?!

[chica-17 · 1/10 · 5 June 2000]

I would most definitely have to say that this is the most terrible movie I have ever seen. It's not just the actors that are bad, but also the fact that the camera person taped the wall and the clocks for about 5 minutes at a time. Anyone that likes this must be crazy! THIS MOVIE IS A WASTE OF TIME

Worst . . . Movie . . . EVER!

[biff39093 · 1/10 · 15 December 2000]

I thought Godzilla 2000 was the worst movie ever until I saw this monstrosity. My friends and I went to our local blockbuster and spent about an hour and a half looking for a movie. We could not find one since we have seen almost every movie created. We decided to look in the low budget horror section. We looked for the most attractive cover featuring scantily clad women. We finally decided on Last Slumber Party, THE. Whoops, we made a mistake. It seems as though this movie was filmed with the cheapest camera that could be found in K-Mart. The actors were picked up at a Salvation Army, and as for Steven Tyler. We will just leave that to the imagination. The plot of this movie was ridiculous. SPOILER ALERT While watching the movie there is absolutely no closure at all. Then come to find out all the events were just a dream. This movie should also have been about 30 minutes. If all the camera zooms on still shots, and scans of walls were taken out, it would have been much shorter. All I can say is I'm glad there wasnt a sequel.

Snoozefest with random lols

[somenoone · 3/10 · 25 July 2018]

Although boring, poorly made, poor story, a Slumber Party Massacre ripoff, poor acting (the mother is slightly tolerable in acting), and terrible picture quality, this movie ISN'T the worst slasher. Go look up Houseboat Horror.

LOL/WTF moments (spoilers): I was laughing at the fact Tyler the killer gets startled by Science knocking off the blonde jock and pops up from behind the bed, as if to say "Hey that's my job". Linda seems to "disappear"- from sleeping right in front of the killer hunched over her - then reappears..later.. dying at the kitchen door in front of Chris (although the look in Linda's eyes is epic). Also the way Tyler "dies" is rather..stupid. Chris stabs him with a knife, which gets blood on it, but the scalpel instead is poking from Tyler's chest. Then Chris just..falls over and that's the end of the nightmare and (spoilers)

I don't think the movie is quite as boring as their "Slumber Party"..the mother tells them to go to bed rather early on. Twice the zombie-like Tracy says she is going to munch out, and eats nothing but half an apple. Their only entertainment (besides the two guys) is intermittently watching a movie on a little portable TV.

Russ Thorn has nothing to worry bout here.

the nadir of the slasher genre

[sore_throat · 2/10 · 13 October 2001]

So one day I was in the video store looking for a movie. I came across this and rented it because it was a film I hadn't seen or even heard of.

Now I like slasher movies in general, but this is just abysmal, not even good for laughs. Besides being ultra ultra cheap and containing all slasher film cliches and terrible acting it has the most incompetent and inept direction I have ever come across. Now sometimes the aforementioned traits can be present in a film and some enjoyment can still be had, but not here. Painful example of home-made horror.

Monumentally and epically horrible

[bensonmum2 · 1/10 · 8 August 2017]

I'm going to skip trying to write my own pithy little plot summary for the drivel known as The Last Slumber Party. It's so bad, a plot summary isn't worth my time. Instead, here's what's written on IMDb: "Linda, Tracy, and Chris are a trio of teenage girls who decide to celebrate the last day of high school by having a slumber party at Linda's house. A few guys also show up to further enhance the merry festivities. However, things take a turn for the worse when a homicidal maniac who has just escaped from a mental hospital crashes the bash."

I watch a whole lot of bad movies, so trust me when I say The Last Slumber Party is monumentally and epically horrible. Racking my brain, I can think of only a tiny handful of movies that I consider this bad. It reeks worse than a can of tuna left open in a dorm room over Christmas break (I actually did that many moons ago). It's another of those movies that's Gawd awful in every aspect. It's so bad I couldn't even find things to laugh at. Acting, casting, cinematography, special effects, music, every technical aspect you can think of, direction, editing, plotting - you name it, it's all pitiful. And though I could blame the lack of a real budget, instead, I think it's the poor writing that really does this movie in. It's just so stupid. None of it, especially character motivation, makes the first bit of sense. I've most likely already spent more time writing this little "review" than was spent writing the script for The Last Slumber Party. I normally avoid using this word when describing a movie, but it applies here - The Last Slumber Party SUCKS!

Wonderfully wretched slasher schlock

[Woodyanders · 8/10 · 30 June 2014]

A trio of attractive teenage girls decide to hold a slumber party in order to celebrate the last day of high school. A few guys show up to further enhance the merry festivities. However, things take a turn for the worse after a homicidal maniac (a hopelessly unscary and less than menacing portrayal by writer/director Stephen Tyler, who apparently thinks staring blankly into space is the stuff of true gut-churning horror) who has just escaped from a nearby mental hospital crashes the bash. Boy, does this exceptionally atrocious turkey possess all the right wrong stuff to qualify as a real four-star stinkeroonie: Slack (non)direction, a plodding pace, lousy community theater level acting by a lame no-name cast, rusty tin-eared dialogue (sample line: "My parents are such a drag!"), shockingly dumb and tasteless jokes about masturbation and homosexuality, tacky mild gore, a droning hum'n'shiver synthesizer score, a dopey protracted nightmare sequence, zero tension or creepy atmosphere, cruddy eye-straining cinematography, a hilariously dated head-bangin' 80's hair band rock soundtrack, and a groan-inducing "it was all just a bad dream" surprise twist ending. All that harsh criticism aside, redhead Jan Jensen, blonde Nancy Meyer, and brunette Joan Whitley all look mighty cute and sexy as our imperiled threesome of adolescent protagonists. An absolute cheesy hoot.

time you'll never get back

[jerk204 · 1/10 · 18 July 2003]

I love cheesy horror movies, I think dead alive and bad taste are great and I think slumber party massacre II (not even related to this movie) are hilarious. But this movie absolutely stank, I didn't laugh, I didn't even enjoy it.. you can see all kinds of mistakes that aren't even campy. The best take of the scene where the woman leans out the window is the one where she smacks her head on the sill? Give me a break.

Don't rent this thinking it's related to the slumber party massacre series. It's awful and I don't even have a clue how it got any distribution. Rent it with a fake name and burn it, do everyone else the favor.

Unless you go for homemade horror flicks, forget about it...

[dinkyrockdude · 4 April 2000]

This movie, besides terrible effects has the worst acting I've ever seen. This girl discovers her friend is dead, and she just walks away as if nothing happened. Then, when the killer is after her, she stands and waits for him to try to stab her. Lame, I only liked it cuz it was funny. Serious people, avoid this movie.