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Producer Roger Corman gave director Amy Holden Jones free reign to craft a self-aware, feminist-tilting slasher movie.

Combustible Celluloid Review - The Slumber Party Massacre (1982), written by Rita Mae Brown, directed by Amy Jones, and with Michelle Michaels, Robin Stille, Michael Villella, Debra Deliso, Andree Honore, Gina Mari, Jennifer Meyers, Joseph Alan Johnson, David Millbern, Jim Reid Boyce, Pamela Roylance, Brinke Stevens, Rigg Kennedy, Jean Vargas, Howard Purgason, Anna Patton

The Slumber Party Massacre is something of a 1980s slasher film anomaly: written by lesbian erotica novelist Rita Mae Brown and directed by Amy Holden Jones, this gory story about a drill-wielding serial killer terrorizing scantily-clad high school girls during...

Order a driller killer pizza and gather all of your (lesbian?) besties because Jenn, Gena, and Joe are hosting The Slumber Party Massacre (1982).Up for discuss

Only in America. People who might never otherwise have heard of Rita Mae Brown went to see this, which she wrote; and people who’d never be caught dead seeing a film with this title read her acclaimed novels and mysteries. Many critics have wondered why Brown and director Amy Jones (who later made Love Letters) did a movie like this. Answers: (A) Because they felt like it; (B) it’s a goof, though it plays by slasher-flick rules pretty effectively. The extremely economical plot finds a mass murderer escaping from prison and picking off several members of a girls’ basketball team