Dir. Deborah Brock
1987, USA, 77 min
New Restoration
An all-female hard rock band rents a condo for a much-needed vacation. Their tranquility is cut short by a heavy metal dream-demon and his murder weapon of choice: the drill-tar.
Written and directed by Deborah Brock (Rock ’N’ Roll High School Forever), Slumber Party Massacre II combines the most successful elements of Satisfaction, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 and “Beverly Hills, 90210” to create one of the most outrageous trash-slashers. Although the sequel contains none of Slumber Party Massacre’s subversiveness, it *does* have a wise-cracking killer who materializes from a dream and takes time out for breakdancing. This is how life should be.
The ultimate horror-rock blasterpiece!
– American Genre Film Archive
Makes perfect sense that Roger Corman, of all people, would seize the opportunity to follow up the first film by capitalizing on the dream horror of A Nightmare On Elm St *and* the headbanger fan service of the prior year’s Trick or Treat — taken in pieces, you’ve seen this all before, but as a whole it is shockingly unique for what it is and, like its (better) predecessor, it does a lot with barely 75 minutes which is very welcome in a genre that typically doesn’t know when, or how, to wrap things up.
– Justin LaLiberty, Letterboxd
