The Last Slumber Party should not be confused with The Slumber Party Massacre.
| The Last Slumber Party | |
| Director: | Stephen Tyler |
| Starring: |
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| Cinematography: | Georges Cardona |
| Distributor: | United Home Video |
| Runtime: | 72 minutes[1] |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
The Last Slumber Party is a 1988 American slasher film directed by Stephen Tyler and starring Jan Jensen, Nancy Meyer, and Joann Whitley.
It follows three teenage girls whose slumber party is infiltrated by a psychopath who recently escaped from a local hospital.[2]
The Last Slumber Party, made in 1984 on a two-week shooting schedule in suburban New Orleans,[3] was released directly-to-video in 1988 by United Home Video. VCI Entertainment released the film on DVD in 2004 as part of a double feature with Terror at Tenkiller (1986).[4] In 2024, the American Genre Film Archive (AFGA) released the film for the first time on Blu-ray.[1] [5]
In his 2015 book The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1980s, writer Scott Aaron Stine compared the film negatively to The Slumber Party Massacre (1982), deeming it an ineffective "rehash".[2] In the same year, journalist Erik Piepenburg of The New York Times noted similarities between both films as well, but profiled the film in an article on underrated "final girls" in slasher films.[6]
The film was spoofed by RiffTrax, consisting of Mystery Science Theater 3000 alumni Bill Corbett, Michael J. Nelson and Kevin Murphy, on July 18, 2014.[7]