All of you are very pretty, I love you. 

The final screening for this year's festival takes us back to a time of endangered teenagers,  sloppy gore and nudity: the 80's.  The Slumber Party Massacre really lives up to its name and the expectations it suggests.  Spoilers ahead. The first half of the movie tries to find that sweet spot of comedic horror while the second half is more of a survival game.  It's interesting that a woman wrote the script and another woman directed this movie, pretty rare even today.  There are a couple of gratuitous and unnecessary nudity shots in the beginning to probably draw in teenage boys and perverts.  There's a shower scene in the girls locker room where the camera very slowly tilts down to a girl's butt, for no reason, the shower scene didn't need to be as long as it was but... you know.  I wonder how the writer and director felt about having such a blatantly exploitative scene in the movie, (I haven't listened to the commentary).
The plot deals with high school girls throwing a slumber party one of the girls' parents go out of town.  That same week, a killer named Rusty Thorne has escaped and is on the loose killing pretty women and some men.  Overall, the movie is well paced and has too many fake scares for my liking but the scares work. It was not clear why the killer is keeps massacring. He also uses the stupidest tool in horror cinema history to kill his victims, a power drill. Other than the obvious symbolic phallic imagery, it is such a stupid, ineffective weapon and I have to think it was chosen because it's so stupid it's funny. When the killer is revealed, he is creepy AF and implies he kills pretty women but that doesn't explain why he killed the guys other than they were in his way.  The women in this film  must have tried out to be storm troopers because their aim is terrible.  They try to throw things at the killer and consistently miss.  In the end, a girl uses a large knife or sword that somehow cuts the power drill like butter.  OK. She then cuts his hand off and slices him until he falls in the pool, presumably to die. 
If there's one thing I've learned this year while watching these horror movies, it' is the following:  while being chased by a killer clown, alien, weird killer, beast or monster and you get a chance to incapacitate them, finish the job.  Personally, if someone tries to kill me ONE TIME that's reason enough to beat their ass and end them.  What I won't do is hit them and as soon as they hit the floor, run away and hope they will leave me alone forever.  They always come back, so when there is an opening, kill them.

P.S. As a werewolf aficionado, I did notice that Rusty Thorne is the name of the principal in  Teen Wolf .   As far as I know there is no relation but it would be an interesting story if somehow the killer Thorne was not dead and later went on to be a principal to look at all the pretty teenage girls.  Maybe he would kill a couple of them now and then with his prosthetic hand and starts to blame Scoot Howard (Teen Wolf) and he gets caught in the end and dies holding a power drill at Mr. Howard's hardware store.  Don't get me started, that's it for this year's Images of Fright Film festival, Happy Halloween!