The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) on Netflix
Trish Deveraux invites her basketball teammates to a party at her house. Valerie, the team's new girl, stays next door with her sister Courtney. Russ Thorn, an escaped killer, is nearby.
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Plot summary
Trish Deveraux, a high school senior, invites teammates Kim, Jackie and Diane to a party at the house she has to herself for the weekend. The neighbor, Mr. Contant, is asked to look in on the girls. Across the street, Valerie Bates, new to the team, minds her younger sister Courtney. A news report says Russ Thorn, held since 1969 for five killings in Venice, has escaped from a state insane asylum. Classmates Jeff and Neil turn up outside as the party starts.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)
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- Author and feminist activist Rita Mae Brown wrote the screenplay as a slasher parody titled Sleepless Nights, but producers repurposed her script into a serious horror film against her wishes.
- Amy Holden Jones had to turn down a job editing Steven Spielberg's E.T. (1982) because Roger Corman agreed to finance The Slumber Party Massacre.
- In the United Kingdom the British Board of Film Classification re-titled the film The Slumber Party Murders, because the word "massacre" was felt to be too suggestive.
