Pool Party Massacre

While it may suffer a bit from intentionally unlikable characters, a micro-budget, referential humor, odd performances and annoying parts that drag too long. Pool Party Massacre actually delivers a pretty good experience of gory deaths, an interesting twist and an all around fun 80's slasher film vibe.

Even when 80's inspired slasher movies are sort of overdone, I can still reccomend the film for those who like the genre as it does enough to pull off some of the beats quite well. A good one, just not one of the best.

There's nothing groundbreaking here-- girl throws a pool party, uninvited guys show up, and people start dying. The kills are fun and the movie is cheesy in that special camp sort of way you want it to be.

My biggest problem with the movie is after people start dying, you expect someone to eventually notice and the remaining people have to react. That doesn't really happen until the last 10 minutes with the final girl in this movie. One-by-one each character finds a reason to go off alone and the killer picks them off. It's fun at first, but by about the half way point it's just killing characters you already don't care about.

When it gets to the last few remaining characters, you really just want it to be over. The kills are cheap and fun but it begins to wear thin by the end and the characters aren't nearly enough to carry the movie all the way through.

As an Independent filmmaker, I thought the lighting, sound, cinematography and sound mix was well. I rated down because I was too fawn of the performances, story, or script. I am not your typical person who enjoys this genre. I watched it because for the resources they had, I was curious on how it looked overall. I didn't like it and I most won't watch it again but I did recommend it to people I know that love this kind of material, and they loved it! I would watch this director's material again to see how he feeds his niche audience. Overall, well done.

"Worst pool party ever!" When her wealthy parents go away redhead Blair invites her equally spoilt socialite girlfriends around to her nice house for afternoon drinks by the pool but a couple of uninvited guys turn up, as does a maniac intent on spoiling the fun. Very low budget horror comedy that is also an homage to 1980's slasher movies, for example the opening credits feature some very 80's looking computer graphics and the soundtrack has synth music that was commonly used back then. When I bought this on DVD I was hardly expecting to see a great film and the reality is that it isn't good, but likewise it isn't terrible either. By far the best thing are the kills, the unknown killer uses different tools (axe, saw, claw hammer, electrical drill, etc) for each victim. They are gory, plentiful and inventive (and thankfully not CGI). Much of the acting is terrible though I did like Kristin Noel McKusik as Blair. One of the uninvited guys is a bloke with a receding hairline, moustache and looks like he's 30 odd, he is present for "comedy" value but his constant talk of sex and masturbation soon becomes tiresome. The identity of both the killer and the obligatory Final Girl are very obvious though there is a twist. The film is set during the summer but was actually shot during apparently freezing winter weather in Nevada, credit to the them as I'd have never have know this had I not watched the extras (which are more entertaining than the movie itself!). The cover promises hot girls (check) and nudity, there is some of the latter but I had hoped for more. The party in the title isn't exactly what I'd call a party, just a few drinks by the pool, corpses can be seen blinking and breathing, and the film crew are reflected in glass at least once. Drew Marvick, who wrote and directed the movie, has an obvious passion for the horror genre and as a fellow horror fan I can only commend him for making this film. The movie could have been better but I expect that I will watch it again in the future and am happy with my purchase.

This is not a film written by someone who has ever heard real people speak naturally. This is not a film acted in by anyone who has ever seen someone act naturally. This is not a film directed by someone who has ever seen real people do ANYTHING naturally. Lousy dialogue, lazy plotting, indistinguishable characters, tedious pacing, boring murders. I can't think of a single redeeming feature about this film.

It doesn't even have enough sense to make the potential victims likable so the badly filmed murders are for most part a relief as each one kills off another annoying character we no longer have to put up with.

Avoid.