Slumber Party Massacre 2
(Review by WhiteTrash2000)
Slumber Party Massacre 2 opens with one of the survivors of the first massacre, Courtney having a rather odd nightmare. She and her sister Valerie helped kill the driller killer from the previous slaughter. Her sister obviously couldn't handle the events because she has been hauled away to a mental hospital. Courtney is now seventeen years old and has escaped from the trauma with only the recurring nightmare involving events from the first movie and some new ones involving her would be boyfriend, Matt, and a punk rocker. Ironically, Courtney is in a band with her friends, Any, Sheila, and Sally. The four of them want to go to Sheila's father's condo so they can relax, practice, and cut-loose. After a bit of badgering to Courney's mother she finally agrees to let her go, and Courtney thinks everything will be ok. But we know better because this is an eighties horror movie right? The band arrives and they do cut loose, they dance, drink, and play music. However Courtney can't seem to shake the feeling that something is going to happen to her. It doesn't help things when Sheila's boyfriends JD and his friend arrive and begin to raise hell. The viewers will soon become aware that Courtney losing her virginity will cause something bad. Sure enough, Matt arrives and she and him end up having sex. As soon as she let's it go, the punk rocker she has been dreaming about is freed from her mind and becomes his own entity(complete with guitar drill). And it becomes just a matter of who and when the next person will die next.
The Movie doesn't take itself too seriously and the viewer shouldn't either. It doesn't seem to know what it is aiming for. Fantasy, Horror, Comedy, or Drama? Yet some people consider the movie to be original for most of the stalk and slash movies that came out in the eighties. "Original", that is an interesting word. Slumber Party Massacre 2 was original, for a while, however it seems to lose it's originality after the first hour or so. Then soon it drifs into the same old slash'o that we have all seen before. Writer/Director Deborah Brock does a good job developing characters and using some interesting camera angles. But even she couldn't same this movie from the slump it works itself into.
Slumber Party Massacre 2 could have been terrible, it also could have been great. Instead it seems to fall somewhere in between the two. It could have been a fun, wild, horror/fantasy. However it decides to be a fantasy and then a horror film at the last minute. Maybe if the fantasy unit were to have been used throughout the whole movie it would end up being more original. Unfortunately it takes the other route and becomes just your average run of the mill slasher. Too bad, because the concept is pretty good for a movie. If only the movie were done better. Then maybe it would have been greeted better by fans.
