Slumber Party Massacre

Slumber Party Massacre (2021)

You know the drill!

Dana, daughter of the only survivor of a massacre in 1993, is going on a weekend trip with her friends. After their car breaks down in the very same town where her mother once fought the Driller Killer, Dana and her friends must come face-to-face with the man who has haunted her mother’s life for the past 30 years.

Date of release
2021-09-27
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (121)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Horror, Comedy
Director
Danishka Esterhazy

Casting

Interesting facts

Slumber Party Massacre is a 2021 slasher film directed by Danishka Esterhazy and written by Suzanne Keilly. It is described as a "modern reimagining" of and stand-alone sequel to the original 1982 film The Slumber Party Massacre, and the fourth film released in the overall Massacre franchise. It stars Hannah Gonera, Frances Sholto-Douglas, Alex McGregor, Mila Rayne, Reze-Tiana Wessels with Schelaine Bennett, Rob van Vuuren and Jennifer Steyn. It follows a girls' slumber party which becomes a bloodbath when an escaped mental patient arrives with a power drill.

Production

Shout! Factory obtained the rights to 270 of Roger Corman's Concorde-New Horizons library titles and opted to remake The Slumber Party Massacre, hiring Danishka Esterhazy to direct the film with Suzanne Keilly hired to write the script. The cast was announced in April 2021 with Hannah Gonera, Frances Sholto-Douglas, Alex McGregor, Mila Rayne, and Reze-Tiana Wessels as the would-be victims.

Production began in Stellenbosch, South Africa in March and only took eighteen days to shoot. Director Danishka Esterhazy and writer Suzanne Keilly intended to make the remake true to the original intention of Rita Mae Brown's 1982 script, but "flip the script" on classic horror movie tropes.

Originally, co-star Rob van Vuuren auditioned for the mechanic Dave before being asked to read for the role of the "Driller Killer" Russ Thorn. As van Vuuren comes from a physical theater background, he prepared for the role by watching clips of Michael Villella in the original 1982 film as well as watch an interview with Villella about how he played Thorn.

On July 5, at the Cannes Film Festival, Raven Banner unveiled the sales art, which reveals comedian Rob Van Vuuren as the killer Russ Thorn alongside Gonera, Sholto-Douglas, McGregor, Rayne, and Wessels.

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