YMMV / The Slumber Party Massacre

• Best Known for the Fanservice: The shower scene is the most remembered part of the film.
• Cliché Storm: It's a bit like a parody of Black Christmas (1974) except with more nudity, Cat Scare, and less political content.
• Complete Monster: Russ Thorn, the "Driller Killer", is a twisted maniac and mass murderer who emerges from captivity to slaughter his way across the sleepy town he finds himself in. Killing numerous people in agonizing ways and even disemboweling the heroine's coach, Thorn hunts the slumber party to kill everyone there until his death. Somehow reborn as a musically inclined, leather-clad greaser, Thorn hunts his old victim to slaughter a new slumber party and kill everyone in his path while happily using The Power of Rock to taunt his victims.
• Narm Charm: The score by Ralph Jones. In spite of its awkward instrumentation (as in, it's literally played on a cheap Casiotone) the music is often quite catchy, and the actual tunes are pretty solid. At times, it sounds a bit like a MIDI tune from a 1990s PC game.
• Older Than They Think: Much of the film's parody element of the slasher genre is due to the women being treated as adult, sex-obsessed, and rounded female characters rather than cliches. This had already been done in Black Christmas (1974) as an Unbuilt Trope and actually described the cast of the original Friday the 13th (1980).
• Shallow Parody: A lot of the elements intended to send up the slasher genre are elements that were Dead Unicorn Trope elements. The send-up included three-dimensional female characters obsessed with sex, drinking, and pot rather than shallow good girls. Which is actually more prevalent in slasher movies than not. The men are also treated as completely expendable as well as helpless in the face of the crisis, which is usually the norm. This is the genre that created the Final Girl trope after all.
• So Bad, It's Good: This film is what happens when a feminist writes a pisstake of cheesy, objectifying slasher flicks... and then the (female) director films it entirely seriously. The end result is an incredibly goofy movie.
• So Okay, It's Average: Taken as a straight example of the slasher movie, it's pretty typical of its genre, save (ironically) more nudity than usual.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?: Before killing Thorn, Valerie cuts his phallic drill in half.

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