 Thanks for checking out this no spoilers movie review. So let's talk about the 1982 film the slumber party massacre This is currently streaming on shut the shutter streaming service for horror films and TV series When I'm recording this so you can check it out there Actually, the damn recording this it just went up. Although. I know I'm not gonna put this video out video out immediately And then you may be asking yourself though. Well shutter put on slumber party massacre, too Might carlin review that maybe I Might Anyway, let's go ahead and talk about the slumber party massacre, which by the way, this is the very first time I've ever seen it I know when I say these types of things a lot of people are just like what you've never seen that That's crazy, and I get that about a lot of films But it I just have to reiterate the fact that when I was growing up my parents were very controlling With what movies I really could and could not see Once I got to college is when I started really getting into watching films in general And it took me a while to then decide that horror was my main genre. I loved so Ever since then I've been trying to catch up and watching slumber party massacre was part of catching up So let's talk about this the director Her name is Amy Holden Jones, and she wrote she wrote such films as Mystic Pizza The relic and Beethoven yes Beethoven about that lovable st. Bernard This is not too uncommon there I mean people when they are working in films sometimes they're doing horror films sometime They're doing family films. It's kind of all over the place people kind of take whatever jobs they can get and you can't really fault them So yeah, it's just one of those things so I guess one of the best examples I can think of is individuals involved in reanimator Herschel Gordon Lewis and There's one other guy I'm blanking at the moment were involved in doing reanimator, but then they also did honey. I shrunk the kids So you're like reanimator honey. I shrunk the kids. Oh Man, oh, I'm sorry. It wasn't what did I say Herschel Gordon Lewis? I meant Stuart Gordon Gordon in the name just got me Stuart Gordon. Sorry about that So this film I will say right off the bat It feels very 80s which makes sense because it was done in 1982 it feels very slasher Formulaic which makes sense because it was shot in the 80s and it is a slasher But one of the things that really hit me after I finished the film was It borrowed slash stole a lot from the original Halloween film by John Carpenter and Really, I thought about it more and I was just like I feel like literally what happened is that they they were like Let's make it a film We want to do a slasher. Let's use Halloween as our template So they took Halloween and then they just changed a few things about it and it's still Halloween basically I mean if you watch this film and you think Halloween like watch the original Halloween then watch the slumber slumber party Massacre back-to-back. It's the same film There are a lot of things that are exactly the same and in common and they actually it seems they borrowed some shots from Halloween as well like a lot of the outside camera work looks very much like Halloween So it basically this is Halloween, but with some things changed for that reason actually quite like this film It's not like a phenomenal film or anything, but considering 80s slasher It's a good time one of the things that really stood out to me though Is that they had no mystery to it whereas some slashers were seeking to be more Covert about what's going on and then eventually you find out what's really happening This one's just like here's the killer and he's gonna try and kill people and it's very very straightforward, which You know, honestly, I was at first. I was like, oh man. I don't know about this, but they keep it engaging I mean they keep the tension up. They keep the pacing really good. The story's just fun It's not like a great film, but it's a fun film I had a lot of good time a lot of good time a very good time watching this film. Sorry. I'm tired today So it starts with the tip with a typical horror trope It's like I said, it's it's Halloween. Basically, you'll pick up on what that is. There's no spoilers. So The first the first death I will say I did not see coming and I don't think you will if you're new to this film And but at the same time when the first death happens You're like is nobody seeing this right now because it's like right there like there are other people there You'll see what I mean It's very much out in the open and there's other other people there and you're like people would see slash hear this going on So it's not very realistic for that matter But hey, it's a horror film and us horror fans are very forgiving With horror films and whether they're realistic or not The acting overall in this by the way is Serviceable. It's not great. It's not terrible. It's very in the middle. It fits for 80s horror It really does fit. So it's fine They waste no time getting to the nudity and the sex appeal in this There's even a shower scene within the first ten minutes I think it's about like the eight minute mark or so There are a bunch of women in high school taking showers together this film like a lot of slashers plays heavily on nudity and sex appeal which you know It doesn't hold up nowadays as far as standards for horror films go But that was that time like they there was a time Believe it or not where they believe that they had to have nudity and sex appeal in films Particularly horror to get people in the theater seats There are still films that go by that formula But there are a lot that don't that see it as antiquated and I mean it is because we figured out we don't need it But these films these films still exist and there's still a lot of people who really dig it I don't really care that much about the nudity and the sex appeal and stuff like that Either way to be honest. I think when it's in newer films It bothers me because you don't have to do that now in older films It doesn't bother me because it was a different time then and I understand that so I'm just like yeah, whatever So this movie The girls love to get naked around each other It's this whole thing where it's just like guess what people when Women are alone. They love to get naked in front of each other, which is very much not realistic But it fits into the whole 80s horror trope Which I think was playing obviously a lot towards a male audience where they were kind of saying hey, guess what guys Ladies they love the nudity. They love to be naked and around each other too. So it kind of creates this voyeuristic Like look into a secret life for for male horror fans back then So it's an appeal We've come along. Yeah, I was just talking about how we basically come a long way. We don't need nudity The cast is set up as a bunch of bimbos pretty much immediately But they do get smarter as the film goes on which I do like is there's a little bit of development Not a lot with the characters, but a little bit of development in intelligence and they're not as you know, straightforward stupid The other thing to say about this the victims in this much like a lot of slashers They're bad teenagers who need to pay, you know much like we we all referenced in Friday the 13th The the camp counselors are out having sex doing drugs drinking So they got to pay the slashers gonna kill them and that's what's at play in the slumber party massacre It does not deviate from that. These kids are bad. They got to pay. It's that whole thing Excuse me Yeah, like I was saying it's very straightforward, you know who the killer is you see his face very very early on probably within the first 15 minutes or so. Yeah, it's like immediately. So I was I was pretty surprised by that I was like, oh, okay, but it ended up working as a film. That's all good so the main instrument of death in this film is a very different one and I like that especially when you're doing a slasher film With the formula, there's usually one weapon that the killer ends up using So when you make it something interesting that other people aren't really doing in their films I find that fun and I feel like in this instance they pick something It's particularly brutal. The other thing is I mean, you know, people know what it is. It's a drill If you've seen, you know, the cover art for it, you know, what it is it's a drill and so it kind of has this whole tie-in to like penetration and It's the same thing with Friday the 13th with like knives and stuff like that Through horror, it's a male killer Penetrating female victims for the most part and that's a whole theme. It's a whole thing and Do-do-do-do so it follows the typical Formula yep with the transgressions of the main characters You can tell the filmmakers borrowed heavily from Halloween. Yeah, I already went over that. It's so true And seriously like I said like watch this movie and think Halloween Halloween Halloween It's like almost the same. The only thing is babysitting versus slumber party pretty much and a few other little changes But I will say that it's very effective though when you have a babysitting situation or a slumber party situation It's very effective for a slasher film, which is probably why it's been that those things have been mined very much over the years And I think part of that is that it's a Confinement thing and this is something that I actually really really like in horror films I talked about it in my review of Prince of Darkness by John Carpenter I really like it when the setting of a horror film is very small It's very confined and you feel like the characters are trapped and they're trapped there with the evil whether that means the Evil is on the outside like it is in this instance outside of a house because the person's babysitting or they're having a slumber party So they can't go outside of it, but there's a possibility that he could get in but then there's also The ones where they do it where they're trapped inside and the evils been inside the whole time like in Prince of Darkness I really like those. I feel like it's very effective for keeping tension up for making it more scary and creepy I just like it. It's just it's just a thing for me Put a comment down there and let me know your thoughts on those types of horror When they use that as a mechanism for keeping the tension up keeping the horror going But I really like that It's set up very well So you don't know what the killer's doing in my opinion versus if people are messing with them So they kind of throw out enough red herrings where it's kind of like how much of this at least early on is the killer How much of this is people messing with the main characters and they do keep it very ambiguous for for a bit But then they also will have like the reveals of oh, this was the killer Oh, this was some dude just messing with them because Teenagers, you know This movie plays to what? Oh, yeah, I was just talking about the confined areas. Sorry for repeating myself I'm reading through my notes. So it's kind of I don't know what I'm gonna read next because I forget Watching movies like this remind me of how different times are currently Now it's not just the film evolution aspect Which you know, I'm always thinking about that when I'm watching older films like how film has changed so much Whether it's the directing style or the content or the acting, you know, whatever, but also Information availability was a big thing that that popped into my mind because there's a I wouldn't say like a long portion But a decent sized portion of some of these characters trying to figure out what happened in the ball game yesterday Or last night like what who how did people score the runs in this ball game? And so they're calling people trying to get this information and that just made me think man It's so crazy to think that like if you missed a sporting event back then when it was aired That was it. You you literally had to find a person in person or through your telephone to ask Hey, what happened if they saw it nowadays? You just be like, oh, I'll just you know look it up on my phone Or on my computer. I can easily get that information. It's available everywhere. Plus there will be clips on YouTube You know, I can go on-demand through my cable provider and rewatch the game if I want to so it just kind of popped into my mind I was just like it's really nuts to think about that availability difference how Literally if you didn't see the sporting event, you're gonna have a harder time Getting that information unless you know someone who was watching that sporting event It's crazy. Just think about that people. It's crazy technology. It's it's always progressing Yeah So that I think they did a good job of capturing the uncertainty of what Situation ends up being safe in in here and what situation is not safe for the characters They kind of they do a really good job of showing how the characters are feeling and what the inner workings of their thought processes with Okay, there's a noise outside. Is that a person who needs help or is that the killer or? Do we even know that it's just one killer or is someone else in on it? So there's a lot of second-guessing that goes on in these situations that are kind of like these you need to act fast and It's interesting to see then what the characters end up deciding and it does a really good job of kind of conveying their fear They're paranoia. They're second-guessing and just that struggle that I believe you would have in that situation of Is this safe? Is this not safe? Do I act like a hero in this instance? What if I act like a hero and it ends up being the killer and then I'm dead? It's like the being a hero versus self-preservation and I think they did a really good job in the script of having that play out so That was cool. That was really cool. I was pretty impressed by that Because you know, this isn't a very fancy Film it doesn't do a whole lot of original stuff So, you know when you get those little nuggets of cool, it's nice So anyway, that's kind of all I have to say about the slumber party massacre Like I said streaming currently on shutter when I recorded this check it out. It should probably still be up I'm pretty sure so Yeah, I liked it. I enjoyed it like I said, it's not a phenomenal film But if you like slashers especially 80 slashers, it's a good time And I would definitely recommend it for you folks out there So in my five-star scale with half-stars in play, I'm gonna give this a good three and a half stars It doesn't make it to the four because it's not like a really good movie But I don't think it deserves just a three because it's better than half a star from You know in the middle so three and a half stars Check this out like it. I'm glad I saw this film. Thank you shutter Anyway, thanks everyone for checking out this video. 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