Slumber Party Massacre II

MOVIE #1,194 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 10.15.23 50 MOVIES IN 32 DAYS! And we’re back! Gone is the “The” in the title and in are some very bizarre LOLz. This movie is worse in pretty much every way but it's so aggressively silly and stupid, that it's more enjoyable than the original. It's clearly trying to riff with some comedic elements but they're so muddled and strange that it is painfully unfunny, albeit in a totally fascinating way. This qualifies as a "so bad it's good film" though just barely. It's more bizarre and boring, and a perfect example of the sequel-crazy 80s going off the rails. This movie is about the youngest survivor of the first Slumber Party Massacre who is now a senior in high school and member of an all-chick rock n’ roll band.

She starts having strange visions and then the visions become real without any explanation and the killer is a magical rockabilly psycho with a power-drill guitar for a weapon. She gets attacked by an uncooked chicken...

LEFT: Eraserhead (1977, dir: D. Lynch) | RIGHT: Slumber Party Massacre II (1987, dir: D. Brock)

I really don’t know what to make of the fact that this entire series was helmed by female filmmakers. It feels like an afterthought and completely unimportant. For, what IS gender when we’re dealing with something like this…


I will say that if you only want to watch one of the Slumber Party Massacre movies, watch this one for the simple fact that almost no thought went into it at all. They never attempt to explain the origin of this supernatural enemy and his proclivity towards the most annoying music ever made, and that alone, as a testament to some kind of nihilism/laziness, is something I can get behind. Barely.

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Slumber Party Massacre II is a 1987 American black comedy slasher film written and directed by Deborah Brock, and produced by Roger Corman. It is the second installment in the original Slumber Party Massacre trilogy, and stars Crystal Bernard. The film follows Courtney, a character introduced in the previous film, as she and her friends are attacked by a supernatural killer with a power-drill guitar. It was released on October 16, 1987.