Episode 007 — Slumber Party Massacre

The 1980’s were filled with iconic slasher movies but writer Rita Mae Brown decided to take a stab at the genre with her script called “Sleepless Nights” that served as a parody to the killer chases teenagers until a final girl survives trope that filled so many horror films . Producers had another idea and repurposed her script into something a little more straight forward with Amy Holden Jones taking on directorial duties. The end result was “Slumber Party Massacre” — a slasher film where the killer isn’t supernatural but rather an escaped mass murderer picking right up where he left off by killing anybody and everybody he meets. One critic called the movie “an entertaining terror thriller” and despite a budget of just $220,000, the film went onto gross more than $3.6 million at the box office. This week on “Rewind of the Living Dead,” we’re going to order some pizza and sharpen our drills as we discuss the 1982 classic “The Slumber Party Massacre”… Music courtesy of Andrew Scott Bell and Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio For more Rewind of the Living Dead, visit our website or follow on social media:https://www.rewindofthelivingdead.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/rewindofdeadFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/rewindoflivingdeadInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rewindoflivingdead/