The Last Slumber Party Explained

The Last Slumber Party should not be confused with The Slumber Party Massacre.

The Last Slumber Party
Director:Stephen Tyler
Starring:
  • Jan Jensen
  • Nancy Meyer
  • Joann Whitley
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 film was featured on RiffTrax in 2014.[3]

Release

The Last Slumber Party was release 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]

Critical response

In his book The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1980s (2015), writer Scott Aaron Stine compared the film negatively to The Slumber Party Massacre (1982), deeming it an ineffective "rehash".[2] In 2015, 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.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: American Genre Film Archive. The Last Slumber Party. live. https://archive.today/20240428200042/https://www.americangenrefilm.com/home-videos/the-last-slumber-party/. April 28, 2024.
  2. Book: Stine, Scott Aaron. The Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1980s. 176–177. McFarland. Jefferson, North Carolina. 978-1-476-61132-7. 2015.
  3. Web site: RiffTrax. The Last Slumber Party. 19 September 2014 . live. https://archive.today/20240428200547/https://www.rifftrax.com/the-last-slumber-party. April 28, 2024.
  4. Web site: The Last Slumber Party / Terror at Tenkiller DVD. Blu-ray.com. live. https://archive.today/20230705030627/https://www.blu-ray.com/dvd/The-Last-Slumber-Party-and-Terror-at-Tenkiller-DVD/121684/. July 5, 2023.
  5. News: The New York Times. Piepenburg. Erik. In Horror Films, the 'Final Girl' Is a Survivor to the Core. October 22, 2015. live. https://archive.today/20211107154325/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/movies/in-horror-films-the-final-girl-is-a-survivor-to-the-core.html#selection-425.0-446.0. November 7, 2021.