At a sleepover you might tell scary stories to spook your guests, but you wouldn’t want anything scary to crash your party — especially if that scary “something” was a crazy man with a power drill and no intentions of using it for home improvement projects. This violent party crasher is featured in Amy Holden Jones’ 1982 directorial debut, The Slumber Party Massacre.
Loyal fans of the cult classic are in for a treat: Brooklyn’s Nitehawk Cinema has announced an upcoming special screening of the 35mm print of The Slumber Party Massacre.
The next installment of their monthly film series, “The Deuce,” Nitehawk Cinema’s 35mm screening of The Slumber Party Massacre will take place at 9:30pm on Thursday, June 12th. Tickets are $15 apiece. You can pre-order tickets online at NitehawkCinema.com, or you can buy them at the theater.
“Join ‘The Deuce Jockeys’ on June 12 for Slumber Party Massacre...
Loyal fans of the cult classic are in for a treat: Brooklyn’s Nitehawk Cinema has announced an upcoming special screening of the 35mm print of The Slumber Party Massacre.
The next installment of their monthly film series, “The Deuce,” Nitehawk Cinema’s 35mm screening of The Slumber Party Massacre will take place at 9:30pm on Thursday, June 12th. Tickets are $15 apiece. You can pre-order tickets online at NitehawkCinema.com, or you can buy them at the theater.
“Join ‘The Deuce Jockeys’ on June 12 for Slumber Party Massacre...
- 5/29/2014
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
The iconic 80s slasher flick Slumber Party Massacre is coming out tomorrow March 18 for the first time on Blu-ray, and our good friends from Scream Factory is sponsoring yet another awesome contest.
Scream Factory is giving one Slumber Party Massacre Blu-ray And one blood-splattered pillow case to each contest winner. This time, there will be Two winners!
This is what the Slumber Party Massacre pillow case looks like. The pillow case is out of stock at Scream Factory but you can also search for the item on eBay to see how much it is worth!
Dread Central readers can to enter this contest by sending us an E-mail Here including your Full Name and Mailing Address. We’ll take care of the rest. If the link doesn't work for you (because your browser is not set up with your email program), email us directly at contests@dreadcentral.com with the...
Scream Factory is giving one Slumber Party Massacre Blu-ray And one blood-splattered pillow case to each contest winner. This time, there will be Two winners!
This is what the Slumber Party Massacre pillow case looks like. The pillow case is out of stock at Scream Factory but you can also search for the item on eBay to see how much it is worth!
Dread Central readers can to enter this contest by sending us an E-mail Here including your Full Name and Mailing Address. We’ll take care of the rest. If the link doesn't work for you (because your browser is not set up with your email program), email us directly at contests@dreadcentral.com with the...
- 3/17/2014
- by KW Low
- DreadCentral.com
As far as 80s slasher flicks go, their poster art doesn't get much more iconic than Slumber Party Massacre's, which is set to adorn a Blu-ray case for the very first time. Read on for all the details about Scream Factory's latest release!
From the Press Release
This March 2014, loyal fans and horror enthusiasts are invited to join Scream Factory™ for the ultimate sleepover when Amy Holden Jones’ The Slumber Party Massacre, starring Michele Michaels (Death Wish 4: The Crackdown), Robin Stille (Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-Rama), Michael Villela (Wild Orchid) and Andree Honore (Strange Reality), debuts on Blu-ray™ for the first time on March 18, 2014. This highly collectible Blu-ray edition features new high definition transfer and killer bonus content. A must-have for all slasher fans and movie collectors, this definitive Blu-ray release of The Slumber Party Massacre is priced to own at $24.97 Srp.
The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) helped...
From the Press Release
This March 2014, loyal fans and horror enthusiasts are invited to join Scream Factory™ for the ultimate sleepover when Amy Holden Jones’ The Slumber Party Massacre, starring Michele Michaels (Death Wish 4: The Crackdown), Robin Stille (Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-Rama), Michael Villela (Wild Orchid) and Andree Honore (Strange Reality), debuts on Blu-ray™ for the first time on March 18, 2014. This highly collectible Blu-ray edition features new high definition transfer and killer bonus content. A must-have for all slasher fans and movie collectors, this definitive Blu-ray release of The Slumber Party Massacre is priced to own at $24.97 Srp.
The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) helped...
- 1/17/2014
- by John Squires
- DreadCentral.com
Scream Factory is giving 1982′s The Slumber Party Massacre a high-def upgrade in March and they’ve provided us with the official release details:
“This March 2014, loyal fans and horror enthusiasts are invited to join Scream Factory™ for the ultimate sleepover when Amy Holden Jones’ The Slumber Party Massacre, starring Michele Michaels (Death Wish 4: The Crackdown), Robin Stille (Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-Rama), Michael Villela (Wild Orchid) and Andree Honore (Strange Reality), debuts on Blu-ray™ for the first time on March 18, 2014. This highly collectible Blu-ray edition features new high definition transfer and killer bonus content. A must-have for all slasher fans and movie collectors, this definitive Blu-ray release of The Slumber Party Massacre is priced to own at $24.97 Srp.
The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) helped define the slasher film ethos of the 1980s. Put together by first-time director Amy Holden from a script, titled “Don’t Open the Door,...
“This March 2014, loyal fans and horror enthusiasts are invited to join Scream Factory™ for the ultimate sleepover when Amy Holden Jones’ The Slumber Party Massacre, starring Michele Michaels (Death Wish 4: The Crackdown), Robin Stille (Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-Rama), Michael Villela (Wild Orchid) and Andree Honore (Strange Reality), debuts on Blu-ray™ for the first time on March 18, 2014. This highly collectible Blu-ray edition features new high definition transfer and killer bonus content. A must-have for all slasher fans and movie collectors, this definitive Blu-ray release of The Slumber Party Massacre is priced to own at $24.97 Srp.
The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) helped define the slasher film ethos of the 1980s. Put together by first-time director Amy Holden from a script, titled “Don’t Open the Door,...
- 1/17/2014
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Let’s go back to the 1980′s. Ronald Reagan was president. Our economy was in the shitter. AIDS was making news as a real threat to society. And the slasher film was making tons of money in the box office and at home with a new fangled contraption called a VHS player. Halloween. Friday the 13th. Nightmare on Elm Street. Those are but a few names that get thrown around when people speak about the slasher genre. But one series that tends to get forgotten or mixed up in the mess is The Slumber Party Massacre Trilogy. And that’s a sad fact, considering these films are loved by many horror fans and thanks to Shout! Factory, they are newly remastered and available for the world to buy now. But do they still match up to their brethren in the genre?
In 1982, Roger Corman wanted to cash in on the slasher craze,...
In 1982, Roger Corman wanted to cash in on the slasher craze,...
- 10/6/2010
- by James McCormick
- CriterionCast
Next Tuesday Shout! Factory unleashes yet another winning package that we never thought we'd see. That's right, kids. The Slumber Party Massacre collection is heading our way, and we have a look at it for you!
From the Press Release:
Stay up all night with the films that put a new twist on the slasher genre. Along with Halloween (1978), Friday the 13th (1980) and Prom Night (1980), Slumber Party Massacre (1982) helped define the slasher film ethos of the 1980s. Put together by first-time director Amy Holden from a script, titled “Don’t Open the Door," by feminist author Rita Mae Brown (Rubyfruit Jungle), the film was an immediate hit for Roger Corman's New World Pictures, eventually spawning two sequels.
Here, for the first time, all three Slumber Party Massacres are brought together in one DVD set, due to drill its way into your heart on October 5, 2010 from Shout! Factory, in association with New Horizons Picture Corporation.
From the Press Release:
Stay up all night with the films that put a new twist on the slasher genre. Along with Halloween (1978), Friday the 13th (1980) and Prom Night (1980), Slumber Party Massacre (1982) helped define the slasher film ethos of the 1980s. Put together by first-time director Amy Holden from a script, titled “Don’t Open the Door," by feminist author Rita Mae Brown (Rubyfruit Jungle), the film was an immediate hit for Roger Corman's New World Pictures, eventually spawning two sequels.
Here, for the first time, all three Slumber Party Massacres are brought together in one DVD set, due to drill its way into your heart on October 5, 2010 from Shout! Factory, in association with New Horizons Picture Corporation.
- 9/30/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
The Slumber Party Massacre films, all three directed by women, will now finally be available on re-release with killer bonus features. You can also get a cool Spm pillow case, too!
Don’t Open the Door was a script written by feminist author Rita Mae Brown (she wrote Rubyfruit Jungle, which appears in Tish's bedroom in the first film) as a response to the recent slasher films that created modern slasher stereotypes like Halloween (1978), and parodied the obvious cliches by setting a slumber party in the path of a deranged lunatic killer wielding a phallic electric drill. Roger Corman, who gave many women horror directors their first shot, allowed first-time director Amy Holden to have a go at it. The film was an immediate hit for Roger Corman's New World Pictures, eventually spawning two sequels that were subsequently more ridiculous. It also spawned the career of actress Brinke Stevens,...
Don’t Open the Door was a script written by feminist author Rita Mae Brown (she wrote Rubyfruit Jungle, which appears in Tish's bedroom in the first film) as a response to the recent slasher films that created modern slasher stereotypes like Halloween (1978), and parodied the obvious cliches by setting a slumber party in the path of a deranged lunatic killer wielding a phallic electric drill. Roger Corman, who gave many women horror directors their first shot, allowed first-time director Amy Holden to have a go at it. The film was an immediate hit for Roger Corman's New World Pictures, eventually spawning two sequels that were subsequently more ridiculous. It also spawned the career of actress Brinke Stevens,...
- 8/28/2010
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
October 5th is looking so sweet! In what's going to be a banner day for Roger Corman fans, Shout! Factory (god bless its soul) is releasing several of Corman's craziest titles as part of its stellar Cult Classics Collection, and we've got all the details!
From the Press Release:
Stay up all night with the films that put a new twist on the slasher genre. Along with Halloween (1978), Friday the 13th(1980) and Prom Night (1980), Slumber Party Massacre (1982) helped define the slasher film ethos of the 1980s. Put together by first-time director Amy Holden from a script, titled “Don’t Open the Door," by feminist author Rita Mae Brown (Rubyfruit Jungle), the film was an immediate hit for Roger Corman's New World Pictures, eventually spawning two sequels.
Here, for the first time, all three Slumber Party Massacres are brought together in one DVD set, due to drill its way into...
From the Press Release:
Stay up all night with the films that put a new twist on the slasher genre. Along with Halloween (1978), Friday the 13th(1980) and Prom Night (1980), Slumber Party Massacre (1982) helped define the slasher film ethos of the 1980s. Put together by first-time director Amy Holden from a script, titled “Don’t Open the Door," by feminist author Rita Mae Brown (Rubyfruit Jungle), the film was an immediate hit for Roger Corman's New World Pictures, eventually spawning two sequels.
Here, for the first time, all three Slumber Party Massacres are brought together in one DVD set, due to drill its way into...
- 8/27/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Megan Boone has landed the central role in the CW's untitled Amy Holden James drama pilot, with Sarah Jones and Tasso Feldman also set for lead roles.
Additionally, Ben Lawson is in talks to star opposite Sarah Chalke in ABC comedy pilot "Freshmen"; Sarah Roemer and Scott Patterson have been added to NBC drama pilot "The Event"; "The Office" alum David Denman will co-star opposite Nelson Franklin in Fox comedy pilot "Traffic Light"; Kelly Hu has boarded CBS' drama pilot "The Odds"; and John Carroll Lynch, Windell Middlebrooks and Geoffrey Arend have been cast in ABC's drama pilot "Body of Evidence."
CW's untitled Holden James drama, co-exec produced by Hayden Panettiere, revolves around the freshmen class at Harvard Medical School and centers on Nell (Boone), a first-year Hms student intimidated by her new surroundings. Jones ("Sons of Anarchy"), repped by Greene & Associates and Luber/Rocklin, will play another freshman, a super-rich aspiring surgeon.
Additionally, Ben Lawson is in talks to star opposite Sarah Chalke in ABC comedy pilot "Freshmen"; Sarah Roemer and Scott Patterson have been added to NBC drama pilot "The Event"; "The Office" alum David Denman will co-star opposite Nelson Franklin in Fox comedy pilot "Traffic Light"; Kelly Hu has boarded CBS' drama pilot "The Odds"; and John Carroll Lynch, Windell Middlebrooks and Geoffrey Arend have been cast in ABC's drama pilot "Body of Evidence."
CW's untitled Holden James drama, co-exec produced by Hayden Panettiere, revolves around the freshmen class at Harvard Medical School and centers on Nell (Boone), a first-year Hms student intimidated by her new surroundings. Jones ("Sons of Anarchy"), repped by Greene & Associates and Luber/Rocklin, will play another freshman, a super-rich aspiring surgeon.
- 2/24/2010
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Roger Corman's films have proved to be a fertile training ground for many names on both sides of the camera, from Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper to Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Ron Howard.
But Odette Springer's documentary, "Some Nudity Required", isn't here to sing Corman's praises. Instead, Springer -- a classically trained musician and opera singer who spent four years working as her former boss' music supervisor -- has some very disturbing observations to make about the people, herself included, who would be drawn to such morsels of exploitation as "Sorority House Massacre" and "Midnight Tease".
As films with an agenda go, "Some Nudity Required" has its moments of enlightened clarity and some gloriously cheesy film clips and terrific bits of irony as Springer's subjects rationalize their choices in life with a "they're-not-using-me-I'm-using-them" earnestness.
But it tends to go overboard in the navel-gazing, self-therapy department as the filmmaker intensely analyzes her repulsion/attraction to the unabashedly sexist images surrounding her and comes to some eye-opening conclusions in the process.
Screened this year at Sundance, "Some Nudity Required" could do a little business with the art house set, not to mention some stragglers from the raincoat crowd who may be lured by the title.
When not turning her camera inward, Springer focuses on a colorful lineup of Corman personnel, including 6-foot-1-inch Julie Strain, reluctant scream queen Maria Ford, filmmakers Fred Olen Ray ("Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers") and Jim Wynorski ("Sorority House Massacre 2: Nighty Nightmare") and, briefly, a very uneasy-looking Corman.
Not surprisingly, there's a fairly strong whiff of chauvinism emanating from most of her male subjects. The pompous Wynorski is fond of saying things like "breasts are the cheapest special effects in our business."
One wishes Springer might have devoted some of the time spent taking her own pulse to talking to behavioral psychologists or even some of those who were given their proverbial big breaks from Corman. It's interesting to note (although the film doesn't) that the first "Slumber Party Massacre" in 1982 was directed by Amy Holden Jones ("Maid to Order"), with a screenplay credited to feminist author Rita Mae Brown.
Technical aspects are bargain-basement scrappy -- perfect for the genre at hand.
SOME NUDITY REQUIRED
Seventh Art Releasing
Director-producer: Odette Springer
Co-director: Johanna Demetrakas
Screenwriters: Odette Springer, Johanna Demetrakas
Editor: Kate Amend
Executive producer: Lionel Bissoon
Directors of cinematography: Alain Bertrancourt, Sandra Chandler Music: Odette Springer
Music supervisor: Paul di Franco
Color/stereo
Running time -- 85 minutes
No MPAA rating...
But Odette Springer's documentary, "Some Nudity Required", isn't here to sing Corman's praises. Instead, Springer -- a classically trained musician and opera singer who spent four years working as her former boss' music supervisor -- has some very disturbing observations to make about the people, herself included, who would be drawn to such morsels of exploitation as "Sorority House Massacre" and "Midnight Tease".
As films with an agenda go, "Some Nudity Required" has its moments of enlightened clarity and some gloriously cheesy film clips and terrific bits of irony as Springer's subjects rationalize their choices in life with a "they're-not-using-me-I'm-using-them" earnestness.
But it tends to go overboard in the navel-gazing, self-therapy department as the filmmaker intensely analyzes her repulsion/attraction to the unabashedly sexist images surrounding her and comes to some eye-opening conclusions in the process.
Screened this year at Sundance, "Some Nudity Required" could do a little business with the art house set, not to mention some stragglers from the raincoat crowd who may be lured by the title.
When not turning her camera inward, Springer focuses on a colorful lineup of Corman personnel, including 6-foot-1-inch Julie Strain, reluctant scream queen Maria Ford, filmmakers Fred Olen Ray ("Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers") and Jim Wynorski ("Sorority House Massacre 2: Nighty Nightmare") and, briefly, a very uneasy-looking Corman.
Not surprisingly, there's a fairly strong whiff of chauvinism emanating from most of her male subjects. The pompous Wynorski is fond of saying things like "breasts are the cheapest special effects in our business."
One wishes Springer might have devoted some of the time spent taking her own pulse to talking to behavioral psychologists or even some of those who were given their proverbial big breaks from Corman. It's interesting to note (although the film doesn't) that the first "Slumber Party Massacre" in 1982 was directed by Amy Holden Jones ("Maid to Order"), with a screenplay credited to feminist author Rita Mae Brown.
Technical aspects are bargain-basement scrappy -- perfect for the genre at hand.
SOME NUDITY REQUIRED
Seventh Art Releasing
Director-producer: Odette Springer
Co-director: Johanna Demetrakas
Screenwriters: Odette Springer, Johanna Demetrakas
Editor: Kate Amend
Executive producer: Lionel Bissoon
Directors of cinematography: Alain Bertrancourt, Sandra Chandler Music: Odette Springer
Music supervisor: Paul di Franco
Color/stereo
Running time -- 85 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 10/16/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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