The Slumber Party Massacre • The Next Reel

The Next Reel Film Podcast · Feb 16, 2023 · 59m

“Maybe we should split up.”

Time to Tackle Some 80s Slumber Party Slashers

Amy Holden Jones had been working as an editor but wanted to direct. She found her chance with Roger Corman doing one of his slasher films. The script, however, was a parody of slashers written by Rita Mae Brown, and even though it was reworked by Corman’s team, it still has some traces of that parody. What resulted is an interesting slasher film that feels like it’s doing something a bit more than others of its time. Join us – Pete Wright and Andy Nelson – as we kick off our Slumber Party Massacre series with Jones’…