Slaughterhouse Slumber Party

Dustin Mills provides us here with his newest title, everything an independent horror fan would want. The top mid-western girls of independent cinema are featured in this film and you get to see every inch of them all. The CGI effects are fun and different from the normal practical gore effects we are used to see in these films. The story-line is fun, as it pokes at 80's genre films and the Ohio independent horror circuit. It never takes itself too seriously and provides a surprisingly large amount of entertainment, which these days after all the trash coming out of mainstream theaters, it's good to just get entertained sometimes. If this is Dustin's best work to date, I cannot wait to see him outdo himself on the next one.

This film is relatively a lower budget independent film where it doesn't have boundaries. Described as a horror film, the horror aspect really which comes into play about half way into the film featuring special effects with green ghosts and a bizarre demon type creature coming back from the dead.

The plot is straightforward. Featuring an all women cast who get together to have a slumber party then one character gets spiritual and demon possessed and becomes the villain (we notice from the beginning that girl would somehow turn).

Featuring a lot of skin, essentially all the actresses do undress (which is purposely a distraction for the audience to swaying them into liking the film more, considering it isn't exactly good).

Overall the film isn't meant to be serious and the characters are self aware of the type of film this was meant to be.

Filmed in a documentary style way, where the characters speak to the camera (fourth wall breaking?) several times. Did not find anything particularly funny. Although the theme song used in the beginning intro and outro is relatively catchy and the type of simple song to get stuck in someone's head.

The dialogue is bland and most the characters aren't memorable and are simply just there. Haley Madison (Courtney) and Alyss Winkler (Stoya) are the clear standouts. The end finale was quite nicely done.

Predictable, cheesy acting, low special effects but there is a certain enough charm to watch for what it's intended in being. Certainly for a specific audience.

This movie is very fun. It's greater than the sum of all it's parts. I'm gonna break this down into a few categories/touchpoints:

Cast - Several longtime Crumpleshack favorites return as well as some newcomers. They vibe together well. It's obvious that they had a lot of fun being a part of this film.

FX - The fx were spot on for what they were going for. There are Evil Dead and Ghostbusters vibes throughout and some of it was goofy, but it was supposed to be goofy.

Story - It's pretty much what you would expect from the type of films that it pays tribute to.

Quality - This is low budget but the skills are evident. It looked and sounded good when I watched it on my home set up.

Nudity - There is a ton here, it does get a category of it's own.

Overall - A fun film to watch, it pays homage to the error of films I grew up watching on VHS every weekend, getting the latest horror I hadn't seen from Hollywood Video. It was a good time, and that's something that "better" movies don't always provide.

Good movie to watch for especially it is a fun h movie some blood and some naked people are there the movie is not bad but a low budget movie.

I rented this movie thinking "Oh, fun, so bad it's good!" and was prepared to bail after the pre-title sequence. I'm glad I stuck with it, though, because this movie is a ton of fun. It's gleefully smutty, of course, but it delivers on all its promises. It feels like a bunch of Asbury Park NJ roller-derby girls got together and decided to make a horror movie--and I mean that in the nicest way possible.

Horror comedies always walk a fine line: one step too far and they become too self-aware or outright unfunny and dull. Here, the actors look like they're having such a blast, and they deliver their lines with such gusto, that it's hard not to belly-laugh. Some of the running gags are great: I especially liked Stoya, the stern-faced Russian girl who is always subtitled despite speaking clear English.

Yes, the movie does become blatantly self-aware at one point and maybe goes a bit too far in justifying its own existence, but as a fan of bad movies, I can appreciate its earnestness.