Bachelor Party Massacre (2006 Video) User Reviews

Bachelor Party Massacre

[Angelus-16 · 4/10 · 7 June 2007]

Make no mistake about it, any film called Bachelor Party Massacre is going be naff, but, surprisingly, it's not as crud as it probably should be. The title tells you all you need to know: four buddies gather in an abandoned bar to celebrate their friend Addison's last few days as single. They drink, order pizza, letch after some strippers and get stalked n' slashed by a poncho-clad schizo woman who is nothing more than your common-or-garden asylum escapee.

There's plenty of topless girls on show, fleshed out lapdancing sequences and watery blood-flowage. The effects budget obviously hindered some of the creativity and so a lot of the murders are off-screen or skewered by strange camera angles; one girl gets a stiletto in the head and a guy has a knife shoved in the worst possible place.

As a collector and general advocate of slasher films - this was the 416th I've seen by my count - I'll watch almost anything like this. Some suck, some are pretty good. I'd slot BPM towards the bottom of the stack, but it's not downright awful as, say, Carnage Road or The Slaughterhouse Massacre, which are almost entirely devoid of merit.

Mad Hag you go girl - you are awesome!

[co6779 · 3/10 · 20 March 2020]

My wife & I watched this half heartedly while she did her nails it was that slow of a story, as soon as it started my wife was hoping the "Mad Hag" as another viewer called her would END the 4 pathetic excuses for the male of the species, I must say I too was hoping the Killer aka Hag would terminate the guys, yeah they are that bad.

The wife insisted I give it a 1 but I argued the 4 chumps got killed is that not a happy ending all the girls are now saved LOL yes its that bad of a movie.

Very little breast shots - no nudity so to speak very little if any colorful metaphors are used, its a bottom feeder of a movie for sure.

The bathroom scene totally took off a point when the Hag kills the blonde stripper with her SHOE - come on the gal was wearing a Mary Jane style stiletto and she is killed with a standard style pump I was like what just happened to the red Mary Jane pump? totally unimpressed I am a guy & caught that.

The acting was ok for first time acting, if you like this type of movie I guess watch it and draw your own conclusion of it.

A Stag Don't.

[BA_Harrison · 4/10 · 24 September 2008]

A group of guys travel to a deserted bar in the mountains where they plan to spend a night of alcohol-fuelled debauchery to celebrate the impending nuptials of pal Addison. Their evening of excess booze and sexy strippers is ruined, however, when an escaped female psycho-killer interrupts the fun and gets busy with a selection of sharp implements.

Bachelor Party Massacre is a cheapie slasher that attempts to mix scares, laughs, and sexiness in equal measures: with its remote locale, a deranged escaped lunatic, a collection of horny idiots ripe for the slaughter, and a couple of tasty lap-dancers who'll do anything for money, it certainly has many of the elements necessary for an enjoyably brainless piece of trashy horror fun. Unfortunately, despite having most of the right ingredients and loads of enthusiasm from nearly all involved, the film fails to transcend its low-budget amateur origins: shoddy production values, the wafer thin plot, unconvincing performances (particularly from Bay Bruner as the killer) and a lack of decent gore all go to make this one a less than impressive addition to an already overcrowded sub-genre.

The film works best when it's going for laughs or cheap titillation rather than scares, and the first half features plenty of fairly witty dialogue (the delivery isn't always great, but I appreciate the effort) and several steamy scenes featuring loads of bare female flesh (once again, much appreciated). Once the killing moves to the fore, however, Bachelor Party Massacre loses nearly all of its sense of fun, and turns into a dreary, routine, by-the-numbers body-count flick.

Well, at least it's the director's name that is still more horrible than the overall movie.

[Boba_Fett1138 · 4/10 · 24 June 2008]

Seriously, Schumacker Halpern Overdrive? Now, that's not a name is it?

OK, so the movie is not as horrible as you would perhaps expect and the movie definitely has its entertainment value but it's also a quite bad, standard, low budget, cheap looking, B-horror movie.

The movie makes a couple of fatal mistakes. Such as the fact that the identity and motive of the killer are given away too fast. This of course completely ruins this movie its tension and mysterious elements. But obviously the film-makers aim was more towards its comedy and other less serious aspects. In a way the movie also does entertaining especially with its comedy and some of its characters but its simplicity and amateur like style of the movie prevent this from being a real good watchable one.

Of course the movie is also very predictable. You just know who is going to die and when. It's one of those real typical genre movies, that recently seem to have become popular again.

Even though the movie is only 85 minutes short, the movie still feels way too long and the movie becomes real tiresome to watch after a while, since it basically is constantly more of the same all the time, also since basically the entire movie is set at one locations, probably for budgeting reasons.

Everybody seems to can make good gore these days but very little directors know how to handle- and make it work out effectively in a movie. Yes, this movie has some good looking gore but it just never knows to shock or gross you out, due to the overall amateur like style of film-making and just plain overall atmosphere of the movie.

All of the actors in this movie never seem to have starred in anything else before but it needs to be said that for a genre movie such as this one. Too bad that Bay Bruner can't act though. too bad since she plays one of the most importantly crucial characters of the movie. It kind of ruins some of the movie its sequences and therefor also negatively effects the movie as a whole.

Not exactly anything too recommendable.

4/10

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Mad Hag ends the Stag

[cold_lazarou · 5/10 · 19 November 2010]

I went into this title with expectations suitably lowered: i mean, the title itself doesn't exactly lead one to expect the next "Citizen Kane" does it? But as an aficionado of low-rent z-grade slasher flicks i thought i'd give it a go.

A group of pals rent their uncle's run-down looking bar in the middle of nowhere to celebrate the last night of freedom of their pal Addison (Michael Capes), who as the old song goes is getting married in the morning. The requisite booze and strippers have been laid on at this shindig, organised by Addison's brother Carl (Josh Breeding, who sadly harbours under the delusion that he is some kind of comedian, and believes himself hilarious). However, a psycho killer chick with a grudge against lapdancers is on the loose, having already slaughtered the pizza delivery guy and now wanting to get this party stopped.

A wooden performance or two (Bay Bruner, the unnamed killer chick herself), some annoying characterisation from two of the guys (the aforementioned Breeding, and a typical frat boy joker) and possibly the most annoying character i have witnessed in a movie (Carl's loathsome girlfriend - who i wished dead from around 30 seconds after her first appearance) are balanced out by likable performances from Capes and Kate Huffman as his bride to be, and some quality stalk 'n' slash scenes: the "stiletto in the head" scene even managed to make me wince. But then, i've seen chicks really attempt that outside nightclubs.

Recommended to anyone who loves low budget horror with a sense of humour, and because the two stripper chicks (Zoe Taylor, and gorgeous porn starlet Jamie Marie) are almost worth the price of admission alone.

Awful, a party to avoid.

[Stevieboy666 · 2/10 · 27 January 2024]

Four male friends stage a bachelor party in a mountain bar that they have to themselves, they hire some strippers but a crazed killer gatecrashes and she's a real party pooper! This was my second time watching this film, I wasn't impressed with it first time around and watching it again my opinion has not changed. Right from the off we are subjected to a camera that is shaking and zooming all over the place. The acting is abysmal, the picture quality is very poor and the sound often muffled. The identity of the killer is revealed early on, there aren't a great deal of slasher movies that have female killers but that's not a recommendation. She comes out with some "witty" one-liners, for example when she stabs a man in the groin who had been puffing on a cigarette she says "Smoking kills", however much of what she said I couldn't hear properly. None of the kills are very gory or memorable (apart from the guy with his head smashed in a toilet!). The party guys are incredibly annoying and unlikable, they couldn't die soon enough for my liking. As for the strippers we get a little bit of topless female nudity but their strip routines are about as exciting as watching paint dry or grass grow. To make things even worse for those of us who watch movies in their entirety the running time includes seven minutes of end credits that features unfunny bloopers and pointless unused footage. I have seen even worse slasher movies than this trash but this is right down near the bottom of the barrel and my advice is that this is one party that you will want to miss.

Fun horror film, worth a free on Tubi

[NEWYORK75 · 10/10 · 17 November 2021]

Saw this pop on Tubi suggestions so figured I'd give it a try, and glad I did. Really enjoyed it, fun horror thriller. It didn't take itself too seriously, cast was great.

By the numbers but not too bad

[Bezenby · 6/10 · 27 November 2012]

The very cover of this film is enough to put you off, but against all odds Bachelor Party Massacre wasn't too bad at all. It wasn't too good either, but it didn't quite descend into suicide inducing drudgery like a lot of slasher films.

You know the plot even if you haven't seen the film. Four guys head off for a stag-do at an empty bar, and hire some strippers. Wife to be and sister-in-law also head off to spoil the fun, and there's an escaped lunatic killing folks. That's the plot.

Rather than have trendy, know-it-all dialogue, the victims here are rather portrayed as pathetic losers from the get go, so that helps the film, as does the banter, which is a bit better than usual. The killer however is crap, and spouts one liners almost as bad as those in Psycho Cop.

It all moves along fairly quickly though, and I like the stripper who's only defence is to strip for the killer.

You're not missing much by this film.

Cheap and (fairly) cheerful

[BobforTrish · 7/10 · 1 December 2012]

A video bought in a pound shop (about a dollar fifty) should always be judged along the lines of "you get what you pay for" and so it proved with Bachelor Party Massacre. The title, along with the tag line "Pray You Are Not Invited!" were fair indications of the slasher genre within. The pre-credit sequence continued in this vein with the first of many victims meeting a predictably gory end at the hands of 'The Killer'. The setting, standing in for the old haunted house, is a large recently vacated roadside drinking establishment with multiple bars, floors and, as befits such filmic scenery, plenty of dark corridors and mysterious rooms. Our heroes and heroines consist of four young men on a bachelor party, the two 'exotic dancers' they have hired and, in a later development, the partners of two of the men. Whilst the plot is perfunctorily familiar, tension is dissipated by the overuse of humorous dialogue. There is a very thin line between injecting moments of humour into a horror film in order to break the tension and actually turning the film into a parody of itself. This film comes dangerously close to crossing that line. Special effects, presumably constrained by budget, are quite acceptable whilst not being exceptional and credit must go to the editor for keeping the whole project down to a Hitchcockian hour and a half. The overall impression was of a flawed but certainly professional offering which punches slightly above its weight. The questioning of Bay Bruner's acting ability in other reviews may be fair although it would be difficult to come to such a conclusion based on one film . In her defence, I would say that the risible dialogue would probably have hindered her. There were certainly moments when the camera caught her in such a way as to make her by far the most interesting character.