Slumber Party Massacre III

MOVIE #1,195 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 10.15.23 50 MOVIES IN 32 DAYS! I did it! I watched all three of the Slumber Party Massacre movies! And all I have to show for it are these stupid blog posts. There are some similarities in each entry, like how they all feature a “peeping tom” scene + gratuitous nudity, and also the fact that they are bad movies. But it’s interesting (some might say “LAZY AS HELL”) that the killer has been handled differently in every flick: in the first, we see the dude right from the get-go and there’s no question as to who he is; then of course we have Mr. Rockabilly Nightmare Guitar-Drill Killer Ghost in part 2; and here they do present a mystery to the murderer's identity but he's still using a drill except for when he kills a guy with a “For Sale” house sign one time.

There are two red herrings (a creepy Scandanavian young man and a creepy neighbor older man) and the killer ends up being just one of the dudes at the party who is sexually impotent (there is the most undercooked backstory about how is uncle, who was a cop that committed suicide (??), sexually molested him or something). I will say that, at least this one feels most like a slasher film in terms of the over-the-top violence in the 20+ minute climax, even if it is sloppy and looks pretty bad. It also features the most overt satirical moment in the entire trilogy, even if it feels out of place in context…


So, if you’re keeping score at home: Part 1 was originally written as a parody but features almost no humor whatsoever, and Parts 2 and 3, while clearly aiming for some comedic notes, seem to only garner any laffz unintentionally. And I will close by stating: while I don’t really recommend this series, it’s by far the worst slew of cheaply made horror pictures from the decade.

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Slumber Party Massacre III (also known as Captive Women in the Philippines) is a 1990 American slasher film directed by Sally Mattison and written by Catherine Cyran. It is the third and final installment in the original Slumber Party Massacre trilogy, and stars Keely Christian, Brittain Frye, M.K. Harris, David Greenlee, Hope Marie Carlton and Maria Ford. The film follows a group of teenage girls in California, whose slumber party is crashed by a masked killer. It was released on September 7, 1990.