Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

I remember seeing this movie years ago and I've still been hooked on it, since my rediscovery. Full of erotic girls, a** and t*ts, blood and enjoyment. Thought it helped me pass the time. The sequels suck, but has their fan base. They should almost make a prequel to this movie regarding the news report in the prologue revealing that Thorn killed five people back in 1969.

I do like watching slasher movies, and oddly enough then I never gotten around to watching the "Slumber Party Massacre" trilogy. So I thought I would get acquainted with the movies, and thus I sat down to start watching the trilogy.I just only made it through the first movie in the series. And after what I witnessed here in this 1982 movie was enough to deter me from not wanting to sit down and watching the sequels.The storyline in "Slumber Party Massacre" seemed to be little more than just random events filmed without a proper red line connecting them, and then the editor was just given all this raw footage and given the task to make a movie out of it. And that was not a successful way of constructing a movie.The writer Rita Mae Brown did not manage to come up with a proper storyline, and that was quite clear throughout the course of these random events shot on film.As for the characters, well let's just say that they were generic, even as slasher movie characters go. Some of the things that these characters did just made absolutely no sense, especially if faced with the mortal danger of a deranged slasher on the prowl.And while we are on the topic of the slasher, then it was a very non-threatening killer that made his rounds in this movie. And even so, the slasher wasn't particularly memorable, especially in comparison to slashers such as Jason, Freddy, Myers, etc.I will say that some of the kills were adequate, although the effects were shoddy and questionable at best. But then again, some of the kills were just downright laughable.All in all, "Slumber Party Massacre" turned out to be a less than mediocre slasher movie, and one that I will not return to watch again, and nor will I attempt at watching parts 2 and 3.

I'm not even going to bother writing down the plot summary for you. I love slashers so naturally I try to watch all the slashers that I can. I saw this one years ago and remembered enjoying it. That was the furthest thing from the case this time around. This moves as slow as molasses! I can't believe all the positive reviews for this movie! I respect opinions, but did we watch the same movie? To make things even worse, there isn't much gore in this movie either. Those are two of your main ingredients when it comes to making a slasher movie, fun & gore. The drill attacks aren't anything special...nor is the killer himself. The 80's are responsible for some of my favorite slashers, but it's also responsible for some awful stinkers. The acting isn't worth talking about very much because it's amateurish. Since I am masochist I'll probably check out the two sequels. I hope they are at least somewhat better than this one was. 2/10

When Trish's (Michaels) parents leave town for the weekend, she invites three High school friends over for a slumber party. She also invites her new neighbor Valerie (Stille) who lives across the street. Valerie declines because she overhears Diane (Gina Mari) talking bad about her. Meanwhile, mad killer Russ Thorn (Villela) has killed a phone repair woman with a giant power drill at the girl's school and stalks the girls to their house. While the girls get high and order pizza Russ waits in the shadow with his huge drill and begins picking them off. This routine slasher film garnered some attention on its release due to its female Director Amy Jones and Female writer Rita Mae Brown. With slasher films getting clobbered by critics due to their violence towards women at the time, Jones and Brown use every cliché in the book with gratuitous nudity and gore! They would say this was a parody and there are some flashes of that, but this is a straight ahead slasher film. An early scene has Linda (Brinke Stevens) locked in the school gym and dodging the killer. This scene draws out some real suspense and the scene is visually engaging. Everything is very predictable but the massive power drill provides a lot of gore and the killer himself meets his match with neighbor Valerie in the conclusion. If you can get pass the mindless script, this film can be fun especially for stalk and slash fans.