Directed by Amy Holden Jones • 1982 • United States
Starring Michelle Michaels, Robin Stille, Michael Villella
Scripted by lesbian feminist author Rita Mae Brown, THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE puts a smart, subversive, and lightly satirical spin on the 1980s slasher formula. When Trish (Michelle Michaels) decides to invite her high-school basketball teammates over for a slumber party, she has no idea the night is going to end with an unexpected guest crashing the party: an escaped mental patient toting a portable power drill. Toying playfully with genre conventions, director Amy Holden Jones offers all the requisite shocks, thrills, and gore, along with a provocative commentary on female psychosexual anxiety.
Directed by Penelope Spheeris • 1983 • United States
Starring Chris Pedersen, Bill Coyne, Jennifer Clay
Aften plunging into the Los Angeles rock scene with her landmark documentary THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION, Penelope Spheeris made this dramatic feature animated by the same punk spir...
