Slumber Party Massacre image gives a first look at the upcoming horror remake. The original cult classic horror film came out in 1982 amid the slasher movie craze of the era and was a success with $3.6 million grossed at the box office against a budget of just $220,000. The sequels Slumber Party Massacre II and Slumber Party Massacre III came out in 1987 and 1990 respectively.
Now almost forty years after the original movie terrified slasher movie fans, Slumber Party Massacre is getting a remake with The Banana Splits Movie director Danishka Esterhazy at the helm. Shout! Studios has released a first look image from the film, which definitely cries out “slumber party” though not so much “massacre.” One of the characters does have a baseball bat though, so obviously things have already started going down in the scene in question. See the image in the space below:
Syfy will be premiering the Slumber Party Massacre remake but has yet to announce a date when that will happen. The original movie was of course noteworthy for being a rare early ‘80s horror film written and directed by women (Amy Holden Jones helmed the film, working from a script by Rita Mae Brown). Remake director Esterhazy and writer Suzanne Keilly are keeping that particular tradition alive and will no doubt deliver an even more feminist spin on the horror genre than the original film did.
The synopsis for Slumber Party Massacre reads as follows: “A new contemporary twist-filled reimagining of the 1982 slasher cult classic just in time for Halloween. A slumber party turns into a bloodbath, as a psychotic serial killer wielding a power drill disrupts the fun.”
Source: Shout! Studios