Women running away screaming from a brutal serial killer – that’s how we know and love the slasher genre. But Slumber Party Massacre has a lot more to offer. The bloody shocker will soon be released in an extremely limited edition
The slasher film had its golden age in the 80s and director Amy Holden Jones’ Slumber Party Massacre, which was released in 1982, falls into this period. It offers everything you would expect from a real slasher: unsuspecting victims, lots of screaming, a dash of humor and plenty of blood and horror.
The Slumber Party Massacre Edition, limited to 777 copies, will be released on January 28 and can already be pre-ordered on Amazon.
The bonus material of Slumber Party Massacre
Audio commentary with director Amy Holden Jones, and actors Michael Villella and Debra DeLiso
Documentary “Sleepless Nights” about the making and filming of the movie
Interview with Rigg Kennedy
US trailer
International Artwork Gallery
Slumber Party Massacre: A feminist slasher
Slumber Party Massacre, like Scream, is to be enjoyed with a wink, because the movie contains parodistic elements that are often exaggerated. Like an exuberant shower scene in the communal shower with lots of naked skin or the girlfriends who spend their girls’ night out dressed only in their underwear. Who hasn’t seen this before?
(Slumber Party Massacre in the limited edition.)
On the film poster, the half-naked women also look up fearfully at the murderer, who holds the bizarre murder weapon, an oversized drill, between his legs like a phallus. Feminist author and activist Rita Mae Brown wrote the screenplay and skillfully takes aim at the slasher genre. Despite the criticism, Brown and Jones manage to retain the popular slasher elements and provide plenty of entertainment, as Peyton Brock describes in her film review in Collider:
Slumber Party Massacre manages a difficult balancing act, giving viewers all the sleazy, gory fun that makes slasher films entertaining, but with thematic intent and smart direction […]. The movie is never too preachy or too modest – it’s a clever synthesis of entertainment and social commentary.
