Schlock-Wire: Full Details On Shout! Factory’s SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE Collection 2-DVD Set

Slasher movie fans will have a rea­son to rejoice this Halloween with the new Slumber Party Massacre Collection from Shout! Factory.  This series is par­tic­u­larly unique in slasher-flick his­tory because it’s the only where each film was writ­ten and directed by women.  This 2-disc set, another entry in the company’s ongo­ing “Roger Corman Cult Classics” reis­sue series, includes all three films in the series as well as an exclu­sive three-part doc­u­men­tary on the series.  Be sure to also note the spe­cial offer beneath the entry for those who order directly from Shout! Factory’s online store. Read on for all the femmes-vs.-drills details…

For Immediate Release

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THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE COLLECTION

2-DISC SPECIAL EDITION DVD

ALL THREE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE FILMS IN ONE COLLECTION,

WITH KILLER BONUS FEATURES

A triple fea­ture of night­mar­ish pro­por­tions with

THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE: Special Edition, SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE II,

SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE III

Drilling into stores October 5, 2010 from Shout! Factory

Stay up all night with the films that put a new twist on the slasher genre. Along with Halloween (1978), Friday the 13^th(1980) and Prom Night (1980), Slumber Party Massacre (1982) helped define the slasher film ethos of the 1980s.  Put together by first-time direc­tor Amy Holden from a script, titled “Don’t Open the Door,” by fem­i­nist author Rita Mae Brown (Rubyfruit Jungle), the film was an imme­di­ate hit for Roger Corman’s New World Pictures, even­tu­ally spawn­ing two sequels.

Here, for the first time, all three Slumber Party Massacres are brought together in one DVD set, due to drill its way into your heart on Oct. 5, 2010 from Shout! Factory, in asso­ci­a­tion with New Horizons Picture Corporation. The 2-DVD set includes The SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE: Special Edition, SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE II, and SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE III, as well as such killer all-new bonus fea­tures as a three-part doc­u­men­tary, “Sleepless Nights: Revisiting The Slumber Party Massacres,” a photo and poster still gallery, and an essay on the Slumber Party phe­nom­e­non, “Close Your Eyes For A Second  …  And Sleep Forever.” A must have col­lec­tion for all slasher fans and col­lec­tors of Roger Corman’s Cult Classics, own the com­plete set for $24.97 SRP.

Thanks in part to a bril­liant mar­ket­ing cam­paign push­ing a fem­i­nist angle because the film was writ­ten, pro­duced and directed by women, the story of a girls’ bas­ket­ball team drilled to death at their cel­e­bra­tory slum­ber party became a sta­ple in mom-and-pop cor­ner video stores of the 1980s. Bulked in with the “best” of the early slash­ers, The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) had a secret weapon: a wicked lit­tle brain and a dark sense of humor lay­ered between the three nude scenes and one very brief sex scene. The girls take on the mas­cu­line roles (play­ing sports, work­ing as tele­phone repair women, bas­ket­ball coaches, car­pen­ters and always will­ing to fight back against the “Driller Killer”), while the some­what effem­i­nate boys made the stu­pid deci­sions typ­i­cally played out by women in the sub­genre. Additionally, the boys died more vio­lently on screen than their counterparts.

In The Slumber Party Massacre, 18-year-old high schooler Trish (Michelle Michaels) decides to invite her high school girls’ bas­ket­ball team­mates over for a slum­ber party. What she doesn’t know is that the girls will get an unin­vited guest — Russ Thorn,  an escaped men­tal patient and mur­derer of five peo­ple who’s weapon of choice is a portable power drill.

The only sane sur­vivor of the first inci­dent, Courtney (Crystal Bernard of “Wings” fame), dreams of the driller killer return­ing in the first sequel, Slumber Party Massacre II (1987). She can’t help shake the feel­ing that she and her friends will be viciously tor­mented by the killer. Her night­mare becomes real­ity when the killer returns, rein­car­nated as an evil rocker with a deadly gui­tar, who goes about slay­ing more teens.

The final, install­ment, Slumber Party Massacre III (1990), is a reimag­in­ing of the first film, but with more gore and vio­lence. After a relax­ing day at the beach, a group of teens decide to have a slum­ber party. Their boyfriends pre­dictably show up to scare them, but there is some­thing much scarier lurk­ing in the shad­ows as the group starts get­ting attacked by an unknown killer with a fix­a­tion on drilling.

Disc 1

The SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE: Special Edition (1982)

Disc 2

SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE II (1987) and SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE III (1990)

Special Features:

- New anamor­phic widescreen trans­fer (1.78:1) of “The Slumber Party Massacre” and “Slumber Party Massacre II”

- All-new three-part doc­u­men­tary: “Sleepless Nights: Revisiting The Slumber Party Massacres”

- Photo and poster still gallery

- Theatrical trailers

THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE

Starring Michelle Michaels, Robin Stille, Michael Villella,  Debra Deliso,  Andree Honore

Produced and directed by Amy Jones

Screenplay by Rita Mae Brown

Director of Photography: Steve Posey

Edited by Sean Foley

Music by Ralph Jones

Co-produced by Aaron Lipstadt

Rated R

SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE II

Starring Crystal Bernard, Patrick Lowe, Kimberly McArthur, Juliette Cummins, Heidi Kozak, Joel Hoffman, Scott Westmoreland. Featuring Atanas Ilitch as the Driller Killer.

Written and directed by Deborah Brock

Director of Photography: Thomas L. Callaway

Edited by William Flicker

Music by Richard Cox

Production design by John Eng

Special makeup effects by James Cummins

Produced by Deborah Brock and Don Daniel

Executive pro­ducer: Roger Corman

Rated R

SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE III

Starring Keely Christian,  Brittain Frye,  M.K. Harris, David Greenlee,  Brandi Burkett,  Hope Marie Carlton,  Maria Claire,  Maria Ford

Directed by Sally Mattison

Written and pro­duced by Catherine Cyran

Director of pho­tog­ra­phy: Jurgen Baum

Edited by Tim Amyx

Music by Jamie Sheriff

Produced by Roger Corman and Catherine Cyran

Rated R

Total run­ning time: 241 minutes

Special fea­tures are not rated

Shout! Factory will con­tinue to present ROGER CORMAN’S CULT CLASSICS home enter­tain­ment releases on a monthly basis. Upcoming high­lights include The Evil, Twice Dead, The Warrior and The Sorceress, Barbarian Queen, Not of This Earth, Terror Within, Streets, Angel in Red, Lady in Red, Crazy Mama, Big Bad Mama, among others.

The Slumber Party Massacre Collection As a spe­cial thank you for order­ing from ShoutFactory.com, we’re giv­ing away this amaz­ing gift-with-purchase! It’s a 30″ x 20″ (queen-sized) lim­ited edi­tion Slumber Party Massacre pil­low­case! Perfect for when you invite your friends over for a triple-feature (because you know you won’t want to sleep alone after). Offer valid while sup­plies last.

A Totally NSFW Trailer: