Review #310: Slumber Party Massacre (2021)
October 2024 Horror Origins Review #27- Slumber Party Massacre (2021) [So, this is frustrating. When I started the month, this movie was available for free on Roku. It seems to have been taken down in the past couple weeks, and although Google says Sling TV still has it available for free streaming, whenever I try to watch it on there, it just plays the original Slumber Party Massacre instead. This movie appears to be available on Hulu as well as for rent on Amazon Prime and a few others, but it's frustrating that a free option seems to have been taken away and/or mixed up with the original.] A remake/reboot of the 1982 film, Slumber Party Massacre is really kind of a marvel: it puts a big new twist on the original story while taking it in a completely new direction, but along the way pays homage to all of the previous entries without taking itself too seriously. I can't quite call it perfect (there's some issues I have with the story and the film as a whole has a different...