 Thanks for checking out this no spoilers movie review surprise surprise It's for slumber party massacre to a 1987 film that is currently streaming when I'm recording this on the shutter streaming service So you could check it out there As you'll notice there's no the at the beginning of the title on this one only in the first one So slumber party massacre to I'm gonna go ahead and tell you right off the bat I didn't really like this film. I if you go back and watch my review for the first one, which you should Especially if you want to watch this one I Enjoyed that one. I thought that one was a lot of fun. It wasn't anything like crazy new like I said It was very much like Halloween They just changed a few things they use that same story and formula basically but This one was a very big departure and actually in this one they rift a lot on a nightmare on Elm Street So they went from Halloween to a nightmare on Elm Street a lot of aspects of it We're kind of taken out of there and there was even a very heavy nod at 1.2 a nightmare on Elm Street Where there's a police officer whose name is officer Krueger. So there you go But you'll see what I mean if you've already seen this movie or if you're gonna see this movie You'll see what I'm talking about So yeah, not not a big fan of this one cuz well, I'll get into it like I said in 1987 film So this is what five years after the first one I believe This was written and directed again by a female The first one was written by a female and directed by a different female This one written and directed by the same female and this individual did rock and roll high school forever that was another film that she wrote and directed and It's kind of funny because in this movie in slumber party massacre 2 there's a point point where some of the characters are watching television and Rock and roll high schools on so the fact that she went on to do rock and roll high school forever. It's kind of funny This is definitely tied into the first movie They make that apparent immediately because there are all these flashbacks to scenes from the first one So it really lets you know. Hey, this isn't gonna be basically like a standalone like some of these sequels are It's directly tied into it and I mean I'm fine with that but how they chose to do it There's some very heavy foreshadowing in this Which I don't think was at all necessary. It's totally unnecessary because People who have seen the first film usually people are gonna see the first film and then see the sequel You know what you're gonna get like you have a very good idea of what will happen You know the events of the first one so you don't need the heavy foreshadowing Like they have in this like you know things are gonna go bad. It's a horror film It's a sequel nonetheless. You can do that with an original film But with this one when it sequels you don't need the heavy foreshadowing in the beginning You don't need any foreshadowing in the beginning to be honest So one of the interesting things the first film was very focused on women who are kind of like bimbos as I as I said in There not that intelligent But then this one actually kind of flips that around and it focuses more on the women being any more power position It focuses a lot and has a lot of themes about women taking control of relationships that they're in so much stronger female characters and the guys in this actually are Kind of portrayed as like pretty much idiots including one of the guys who actually Tries his hardest to do his Sean Penn from Fast Times of Ridgemont High if people haven't seen it He's Spicoli a stoner surfer guy. So there's a character who's trying to rip that character off in this not doing a very good job though There's a great quote from this that I wrote down That I just love the quote quote was Sunday's my birthday and I don't want to go to a mental hospital That's a a funny quote and be so true who wants to go to a mental hospital on their birthday Nobody Anyway, I just really like that quote so I had to put it in there the nightmare and flashback scenes in this end up getting crazy Excessive and become very very very annoying. That is one of my biggest problems with this film It's over and over and over with the nightmare and flashback scenes and you're just like okay. We got it We get it you can lay off this for now get to the killing and that's the other thing is the killing doesn't happen until like I Don't know 45 minutes 50 minutes into it or something and it's a film. That's only like an hour and 20 minutes So it takes forever whereas the first film did a good job and they got pretty much right into it I think I had said on that review that they That there was a kill within the first 10 minutes. I think it was like it at minute number eight or something So they should have followed that and done the same thing, but they didn't Um Sexuality and nudity in this is way toned down way way way toned down It's still there and there's actually a big theme around sex and actually it's mainly a theme around The pressures of sex the pressures of especially high school aged people to have sex and the kind of conflicting feelings of like well I want to but at the same time I kind of don't want to it's scary What happens if um, you know, something goes wrong because I do think that the killer in this is actually kind of a metaphor for sexually transmitted diseases, believe it or not If you have watched this or if you do watch this, let me know what you think about that Do you think that's that makes sense or am I just totally making that up put a comment down there? but Yeah, so so that it's this big theme of Sexual pressure like to give into sexual pressure pressure or to not from your peers from someone you're interested in Yeah, and yeah, I think that's one of the big themes in this But with that, you know, the sexuality and nudity is toned down from the first one There's not nearly as much nudity, but there is still a scene where it's like wait a minute when women are alone They still like to get naked together So kind of harkening way back to the first one. So It takes a while a while a while a while to get into things in this film. It takes its sweet time The first like I said the first one just jumps right into it and I hate the fact that it takes forever to get places The oh the other thing tied into the little sexual theme of this I think it's making a very good point about consent in the film because there are numerous times where to also go along with Women having the upper hand and relationships and taking control relationships. It shows numerous instances where women are Kind of telling the guys how it is like they're like, oh, do you want to do it now? And they're like, I don't think so. So it's kind of making a good point about sexual consent The oh also the the main weapon from the killer, which is the same as in the first one, but it's Heavily stylized in this one really updated and it looks really cool. It looks really really cool But I think that also can symbolize in this with all the sexual context can symbolize rape actually So once again, let me know what you think people I already went over that one The guys are being the guys are portrayed as idiots did that seems really slow This film is only about an hour and 20 minutes and it seems crazy slow That's not a good thing, especially when it's only about an hour and 20 minutes. So bad bad bad And it just kind of feels like there's not much of any actual pay off when they give you pay off I hate how they do it. It's terrible. It's it just doesn't work for me And I even wrote I wrote this down with how bad that film is It's crazy to think. Yes. There was a slumber party massacre three It's slumber party massacre three Get that through your head, especially after you've watched this watch this movie then get that through to your head They did a third one, which I guess I feel like I have to find that now. It's not on shutter at the moment I feel like I got to find it. There's a oh the very heavy nod to nightmare on Elm Street already went over that So there's a portion toward the end where the killer killer does something that's super super over the top and I was sitting there and I was like What really we're doing this we're doing this It is crazy over the top. It comes out of nowhere It makes the movie ridiculous and the problem is at that point You've gone too long trying to be serious that when you throw in that ridiculous twist and make it just over the top Ridiculous it doesn't work. You needed to introduce the ridiculousness of it from the beginning pretty much And that's one of the problems like it's about balance There are films that the whole thing's gonna be ridiculous or the whole thing's gonna be serious or it's gonna be a mixture and It's hard to get the mixture right, but if you're gonna do the other two they kind of need to be Just about fully about that about being either fully serious or being fully ridiculous You know, you can mix in a little bit, but the problem is it's this there's no mixing at all It's like the film's just like series series series series series and then it hits towards I don't know like the 50 minute marker an hour marker something and then it becomes Ridiculous and that does not work. It makes people turn around and just be like what What? Because you're in the mode of thinking that they're trying to do something that's actually scary That's very serious and then they throw out the ridiculousness Whereas something that like a you know chopping mall a movie like that. It's ridiculous from the get-go or What's another one basket case ridiculous from the get-go so you can enjoy it for that reason this one God the mixture. It's bad. It's just really bad Also, there's too much music in this and I'm not talking about the score to it. I'm talking about musical Scenes where people in the film are performing music Especially very much towards the end and if you've seen this, you know what I'm talking about if you watch it You will see what I'm talking about. Well here what I'm talking about and see Terrible just awful If you're gonna go in the end, then I just put if you're gonna go Ridiculous you got to do it immediately. So but that that's actually it like I said you can probably tell I was not a fan of This film. I did not like it if they would have made it ridiculous from the get-go I think I could have found a lot to enjoy in it Once this film is fully resolved. You're like No, thank you not a fan of that terrible Because they also employ something that a lot of people roll their eyes at nowadays especially so yeah, but This is gonna be hard my five-star scale for rating with half stars in play. I'm gonna give this a One and a half. I got to give it a one and a half. I could bump it up to a two if All the musical stuff wasn't thrown in there because that takes it even further into the ridiculous Yeah, but one and a half stars obviously not good Don't recommend it unless you're a completist and you're like well I saw the first one got to see the second one I can't even imagine what the third one's gonna be like But I kind of feel like I need to see it now. 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