Tagline: It’s Driller Time… and This Bit’s For You!
Curiosity: It came bundled with the other Massacre movies.
Plot: Jackie (Keely Christian) has the house all to herself this weekend, so she decides to have a party. She invites all of her closest friends… and this fat douchebag named Duncan (David Greenlee). They enjoy pizza and beer and whatever.
Then a dude with a giant power drill shows up and murders them all.
Thoughts: While it starts off promisingly by introducing a weird sense of humor, mostly courtesy of awkward neighbor Morgan (Michael Harris) and NOT that fat fuck Duncan (He’s meant to be the comic relief, but he got-damn does that guy suck ass), Slumber Party Massacre 3 is in some way even worse than the first sequel. At least that movie was maintained the same consistent level of crappiness. 3 goes from promising to offensive.
Now, horror movies are meant to shock. I don’t mean to come off as a prude, but the tone the film takes made me uncomfortable. The original was a black comedy, so while it introduced some obvious symbolism with the Driller Killer’s drill being, ya know, a phallus penetrating young ladies, it was never treated too darkly. This movie, however, makes the symbolism even more obvious, to the point that the killer’s attacks double as rapes. Which means the film spends up to 30 minutes showing us, the audience, repeated rape scenes.
And these are sloppily assembled rape scenes at that. This film looks so cheap that the actors don’t bother using live power tools – it’s obvious that the drills and chainsaws aren’t even on, with live sounds dubbed in. It looks so cheap. And while I guess I can justify the filmmakers being too cheap to pay for fake drills, it’s not that hard to fake a real chainsaw. Just take the chain off. The formula behind the Slumber Party Massacre series petered out painfully here, but at least I’ll always have the original.
Reflection: Also, the first one at least justified the nudity. 3’s “let’s have a striptease contest” idea is just stupid.
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