The Slumber Party Massacre, Scream Queens Drilled

Back in the 80s when we were wandering into the video store, 1982's "The Slumber Party Massacre" always caught our attention. The box art for the VHS tape featured a trio of sultry babes, scared out of their panties, clad in naughty lingerie, looking helpless on the floor as a driller killer hovered above them. It was such a beautiful thing. In 1982 it was easy to dismiss this film as a rip-off of "Halloween," but in 2018, "The Slumber Party Massacre" stands as a slasher classic featuring a horde of beautiful scream queens. Ironically, a surviving damsel in this film, Robin Stille, would not be so fortunate in real life. This beauty would take her own life in 1996 after awful alcohol problems.

Russ (Michael Villella) escapes prison after 13 years. He murdered five people and now returns to the same California town. A beautiful telephone repair woman (Jean Vargas) is first to go. After giving us a gratuitous posterior shot, the blonde vixen is grabbed and drilled in her head by Russ. So sad...she was indeed a babe. Next is Brinke Stevens. She'll be chased through her high school after it closes for the night and also drilled. Meanwhile, the gratuitous scenes pile up. We'll see Trish (Michelle Michaels) in a gratuitous nude scene...a gratuitous girls basketball game...a gratuitous shower/locker room scene after the game...and then gratuitous changing into undies and lingerie scenes as Trish's slumber party commences.

With five sultry 18 year-olds converging for a slumber party, Russ heads over to Trish's house. Oh yeah, Valerie (Stille), the new girl at school, avoids the party as most of the other girls are jealous because she is better looking than them. Russ strikes fast, drilling a neighbor and then Diane (Gina Smika Hunter) will get it in the garage as she makes out with her beau. The girls will fall as their blood splatters and Russ' goal is obviously to kill them all. Trish seems to have fight in her, and when Valerie is lured over to the house, Russ may have met his match. Other 18 year olds and even a beautiful girls basketball coach (Pamela Roylance) will also be slain.

Will Trish and/or Valerie survive Russ' massacre? Will Trish and Valerie engage in a cat-fight over which one is better looking? Does anyone out there remember high school seniors looking like these girls at their high school? Directed by Amy Holden Jones, it is safe to say that the cast and corpses in "The Slumber Party Massacre" were a lot better looking than the cast of "Halloween."