Slashlorette Party

I enjoy the "80s horror love letter" style. I have liked some of the actors in other films. I could not get into this one. Most of the characters are completely unlikeable from the start, and some even get worse from there. After the first kill took out the two normal seeming characters and the prettiest girl who am I supposed to be rooting for to survive here when they all seem so bad? And what even was that last scene? The viewer is left to fill in a lot of gaps that could have been filled by a good script and solid storytelling.

Not a bad movie considering the budget. You can tell it's low budget but it's an entertaining one for the most part. I watched it all the way through. Acting is hit or miss but not really distracting.

A bride-to-be who's having serious doubts about getting married to her rude fiance goes for a weekend party in the woods with her fiance and their friends and two psychotic men stalk and kill them one by one.

The quality of acting in this ranges from surprisingly solid to painfully awful, but the script has a sense of humor about everything and at least attempts to tell an actual story instead of a by-the-numbers body count flick. Adult film star, Ginger Lynn Allen, gets a great chance to show off some pretty entertaining acting chops at the lead character's psychiatrist. It's not the most memorable slasher film you'll see, but far from a complete waste of time either.

But certainly not the best. Brie is having second thought about marrying her horrible fiancé, Dolph; her therapist (Ginger Lynn!) helps her work through things. Brie, Dolph, and their friends head to a cabin at Lake Tahoe for a coed bachelor/bachelorette party - and things quickly go downhill for the attendees.

Slashlorette Party does have a few things going for it. Scantily clad women and naked strippers are at the party, so there's plenty of T&A for the fellas. Female viewers don't have as much eye candy, but the replacement male stripper amused me. There's also a decent amount of blood on display, and one of the naked strippers falls victim to a somewhat inventive twist on a typical machete kill. It's also only 79 minutes long, and I really appreciate the brevity.

Of course, there are many weaknesses too. The acting is weak and the story isn't great at all. Dolph is absolutely horrible, but no characters are all that likeable, so it's a tough sell to care about them. Some of the gore effects look a little cheesy, but at least there were on-camera kills instead of cutaways.

Is Slashlorette Party a good movie? No.

Are its limited strengths enough to recommend it? Not really.

Is it an adequate time killer if you're in the mood for a slasher flick and not in the mood to care about quality? Sure.

I don't hate budget films, but from the way this movie was shot from the start I had a bad feeling.

By far the worst movie I've ever seen in my life. It looked like a C- high school project.