Slumber Party Massacre (1982) Friday Night Features

 I just love Trish and Valerie, and the coach. Trish, to me, when I was a teenager watching this, was just the coolest. I like that she put away the toys, rode home from high school with some older guy on a motorcycle, can play the piano, is chill enough despite her friends' reservations, to see that taller Valerie deserved to be asked over to her slumber party and is just a killer basketball player, and seemed very comfortable in her ongoing adulthood. She does give the really great guy who is their neighbor a nasty stare before the parents leave on vacation, but he turns out to not be a square...she assumed he might be some drag of a watchdog. Valerie and her sis getting some good time in the film as an alternate to the slumber party is probably a major reason I love this film. I just love their rapport. I have two sisters so this film makes me smile when I watch it. The teen guys are such idiots because teen guys are idiots, haha. I also dig that you see a woman carpenter and repair woman included not to mention how the director conveys entrapment where victims are on the other side of locked spaces or pushed into inescapable scenarios before the killer meets his match. And the director is like, what you can do I can do better, boys...and for me she does.

One of the main loves for this great interest in focusing on the women. Their own individual personalities. How they kid each other, their locker room banter, their reactions to the killer and situation, just the general approach to them. It's my June summer slasher, a cherished gem. I know it might be considered overrated by some, but this is one of my 🥰. The Blu has a gorgeous transfer. I'm glad I finally own it. That poster, right? Be careful where you put that drill, buddy! You might just lose it!