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The Slumber Party Massacre (also known as The Slumber Party Murders in the United Kingdom) is a 1982 American slasher film produced and directed by Amy Jones and written by Rita Mae Brown. It is the first installment in the Slumber Party Massacre series, and stars Michelle Michaels, Robin Stille, and Michael Villella.
The Slumber Party Massacre: Directed by Amy Holden Jones. With Michele Michaels, Robin Stille, Michael Villella, Debra De Liso. A female high school student's slumber party turns into a bloodbath, as a newly escaped psychotic serial killer wielding a power drill prowls her neighborhood.
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- Horror
- Amy Holden Jones
- 1982-11-12
The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Amy Holden Jones. Writer. Rita Mae Brown. Writer. Trish invites her high school basketball teammates over for a night they'll never forget -- or survive -- when an unexpected guest crashes the party: an escaped psychopath with a portable power drill.
- Jones Agreed to Direct The Film Before She Had Read The Entire script.
- It Was Produced Under A Different Title to Help Secure Locations.
- The Director Was Disturbed by The Test Audience’S Reactions.
When Corman saw Jones’s test reel and learned she had made it for about $1000, he immediately hired her to make the entire film. But Jones’s elation at landing her first feature directing gig was quickly tempered when she read the rest of the script, which she has described as “a complete mess.” The 27-year-old Jones was so intimidatedby the prospe...
When it was time to assemble a cast and secure filming locations, Corman suggested that Jones slap “a classy title” on her film to avoid any stigma that might be attached to a slasher movie—so Don’t Open the Door became Sleepless Nights during production. Once it was finished, Corman changed the title once more, to The Slumber Party Massacre.
Moviegoers got their first look at The Slumber Party Massacre during a test screening at what Jones has describedas “the tackiest theater on Hollywood Boulevard.” The packed auditorium of “half-drunk teenagers and homeless people who walked in off the street” quickly warmed to the film and got rowdier as the bodies piled up onscreen. As the audienc...
Sep 10, 1982 · The Slumber Party Massacre (also known as The Slumber Party Murders in the United Kingdom) is a 1982 American slasher film directed by Amy Holden Jones and written by Rita Mae Brown. It is the first installment in the Slumber Party Massacre trilogy, and stars Michelle Michaels, Robin Stille, and...
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Trish invites her high school basketball teammates over for a night they'll never forget -- or survive -- when an unexpected guest crashes the party: an escaped psychopath with a portable power drill. Amy Holden Jones. Director, Writer. Rita Mae Brown.
