Slumber Party Massacre II

Slumber Party Massacre II is a 1987 American black comedy slasher film written and directed by Deborah Brock, and produced by Roger Corman. A loosely-based sequel to The Slumber Party Massacre, it stars Crystal Bernard, and Atanas Ilitch. The film follows Courtney, from the first film, as she and her friends are attacked by a supernatural killer with a power-drilled guitar. It has developed a small cult following since its release. A sequel, Slumber Party Massacre III, was released in 1990.

Plot
Courtney Bates, who survived the events of the first film, is now a senior in high school. She invites her crush, Matt, to stay at a condominium for her birthday weekend with her and her friends, Amy, Sheila, and Sally. Upon arriving, two of the girls' boyfriends, Jeff and T.J., show up at the house. That night, Courtney has a dream of the killer from the first film, who is now reincarnated as a greaser and armed with a drill bit guitar, and awakens on the kitchen floor. That day, Her visions grow violent but she is comforted when Matt arrives. Sally disappears and the group is unable to find her. Sally then returns to the house, having left to go to the store.

Courtney and Matt are left alone. Matt surprises Courtney with a birthday cake and the two begin to have sex. The killer impales Matt through the chest and chases Courtney downstairs, where he confronts the group, who have just returned. The killer impales Sally with the drill. Sheila and T.J. flee, while Courtney, Amy, and Jeff leave in Jeff's car. Jeff is impaled by the killer, and Courtney and Amy flee back to the house. Sheila and T.J. run to a nearby house for help, but the killer catches up and T.J. is killed. Sheila manages to return to the condominium but the killer murders her as well. Courtney and Amy escape but the killer pursues them through a construction site, where Amy falls to her death. Courtney uses a propane tank to light the killer on fire, killing him.

Police arrive in the morning. Courtney awakens next to Matt, but he morphs into the killer. She, again, awakens inside a psychiatric ward. As she screams frantically, a drill bursts through the floor and the credits roll.

Cast

 * Crystal Bernard as Courtney Bates
 * Kimberly McArthur as Amy
 * Juliette Cummins as Sheila Barrington
 * Patrick Lowe as Matt Arbicost
 * Heidi Kozak as Sally Burns
 * Joel Hoffman as T.J.
 * Scott Westmoreland as Jeff
 * Jennifer Rhodes as Mrs. Bates
 * Cindy Eilbacher as Valerie Bates
 * Michael Delano as Officer Kreuger
 * Hamilton Mitchell as Officer Voorhies
 * Atanas Ilitch as The Driller Killer

Production
Filming of Slumber Party Massacre II took place in Los Angeles, California in June 1987 under the working title Don’t Let Go. The budget was approximately $500,000.

Release
The film was given a limited release theatrically in the United States by Concorde Pictures in October 1987. It was subsequently released on VHS by Nelson Entertainment.

The film has been released on DVD three times. The first release came from New Concorde Home Entertainment in September 2000. Extras included actor bios along with trailers for Slumber Party Massacre, Slumber Party Massacre II and Sorority House Massacre II. The company re-released the film on a double feature DVD alongside the original The Slumber Party Massacre in July 2003. These versions are both currently out of print. On October 5, 2010 Shout! Factory released Slumber Party Massacre, Slumber Party Massacre II and Slumber Party Massacre III on a two-disc special edition DVD set. It has since been released on Blu-ray in a double feature with its successor.

The Shout! Factory release includes an extended, unrated version of the film, never before seen on home video. It was pieced together using three different sources by Editor/Director Dustin Ferguson.

Reception
Leonard Klady of the Los Angeles Times compared the film's supernatural elements to A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), adding: "Writer-director Deborah Brock simply fails to give her film style or wit. The grisly shenanigans are as inane and illogical as the rationale behind making this effort." TV Guide awarded the film two out of four stars, noting that it follows in the "vaguely feminist tradition" of the first film, adding: "The rockabilly killer is probably the most entertaining slasher ever to grace the screen--sort of like Elvis Presley playing Norman Bates, complete with musical numbers."

In The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1980s, Scott Aaron Stine writes: "You can't get much more an insufferable viewing experience than this slasher flick-cum-musical."

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