O Massacre Final

I love a good bad cheap movie ("The Giant Claw" remains one of my all-time favorites) but this one is just trash. It's the cheapest, most poorly-written, poorly-acted, poorly-edited piece of crap I've seen in many, many years. On top of all that, it's just plain BORING... and you really can't get around that obstacle, which is what makes watching it just plain no fun, even for those who enjoy watching terrible movies. While ALL the acting is atrocious, the guy who plays the doctor deserves special mention for being considerably beneath the skill level of his co-stars. (I note that this is his one and only film credit... hardly surprising.) The only thing that made it survivable to the end was the Rifftrax commentary. Please, please, please avoid, unless you have Mike, Kevin and Bill holding your hand the whole way.

I remember seeing this when I was like 11. I thought it was good then. But I got older and starting watching more b-movies and it turns out this one is pretty crappy. But it had a likability factor to it though. I think it's the cheesy dialogue and the really crappy 80's music. I was really disappointed that there was hardly any gore! To all you SPM fans out there. THIS IS NOT A SEQUEL TO THE SPM SERIES!!! Stay far away!!

Wow! You have every possible element in this movie. The year is 1987. 3 Teenage girls have a slumber party. Their immature boyfriends stop by to try and scare them. twists and turns! JOKES! but its really funny, the mom of the girl who is having the slumber party is at home as well. ORIGINALITY! the worst actor in the film by far is the Dad, who is a doctor. Oh the orange juice. The best acting however is done by the killer himself.

Far better than Sorority House Massacre! As if thats too difficult for you to believe. But of course we still should say thanks to Slumber Party Massacre for being the true creator of the slumber party slasher craze.

I can barely even form a coherent sentence to describe to you what this movie actually is after having seen it, but I'll try.

The premise is your typical cliché: A killer comes to slice up some teens. Here, it's an escaped mental patient in a doctor's outfit wielding a scalpel. Against all odds and even logic itself, he goes on a rather successful murder-spree.

This movie is like something a bunch of friends knocked out in a weekend. They probably had no idea what they were doing, I doubt a script was written, they clearly had no budget to work with, and very little experience in making movies. But they still did it, and that's kind of amazing.

The writing is abysmal, the dialog is even worse. The editing is a train wreck, where it's clear they dubbed music over individual shots rather than entire scenes, leading to incredibly disjointed moments where cutting to different camera angle will remove the background music until they go back to the first camera. Acting ranges from wooden to supremely over-the-top. The killer in particular has lots of (great?) scenes where he's staring directly in to the camera with his eyes bugging out, waving a scalpel around for no reason, like he's trying to dissect the lens.

I had the pleasure of watching this movie with a group of friends, and we all had a blast. There's a lot of amazing stupidity worth laughing at, and the movie actually does a pretty good job of ratcheting up its own absurdity. The last 10-15 minutes are as close to a literal fever dream as any movie can come.

Would I recommend? It's a STUNNINGLY bad movie, but it's also thoroughly ridiculous and I bet everyone involved had a lot of fun producing it. If that sounds right up your alley, then by all means, check this out.

The real horror of this movie is watching these awful people who clearly dislike each other pursue what will be a toxic relationship (the red-headed couple). They make the couple at the beginning of Freddy vs Jason look like Jack and Rose from Titanic. The guy keeps calling the girl words like "b****" and "wh***" to her face and when she leaves the room, clearly full of loathing for her, and she either giggles or does nothing. I was distracted by imagining their future and the inevitable abuse and murder-suicide. I couldn't care less about the murderer outside of hoping they died ASAP. The guy is every woman-hating forum poster come to life, and the woman is the personification of what such posters think all women are like. The toxicity, the rampant homophobia, the peer pressure and obsession with whether other people are having sex or not...It's like the internet wrote the film before the internet even existed.

That's before even getting to things like the ridiculous amount of flubs (I guess the director couldn't be bothered with multiple takes), the awful sound, the incompetent editing, the threadbare "plot," the atrocious acting, the garbage synth score, the ridiculous killer, the inconsistent accents, the weird, the cheap-looking makeup, etc. Add in people insisting on going to sleep with the lights on, the entire house staying lit the whole time, the vapid, detestable female lead wandering around cursing and talking to herself, complete with several homophobic slurs for some reason (like, seriously, there's nothing to establish why she does it so much, but her character must have spied on her dad and his male lover in bed like in Sleepaway Camp or something), looking like a junkie (punctuated by purple bags under her red-rimmed eyes) searching for more time to waste, and more! This movie is an insult to the genre and to filmmaking in general. The fact that this got a Blu-ray release is mystifying.