SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE II (1987)

Does SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE II feature a character from the first SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE?

Yes.

Does SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE II feature a slumber party?

Yes.

Does SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE II feature the Driller Killer?

Yes.

There you go. It has all of the hallmarks of a slasher sequel. Except…

SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE II’s Courtney is played by WINGS’s Crystal Bernard instead of Jennifer Meyers.

The slumber party isn’t as much a suburban high school slumber party but an all-women band and their boyfriends squatting in an under-construction housing lot.

…and the Driller Killer isn’t some brutish escaped mass murderer but a maniacal doo-wop singer who brandishes an outlandish guitar fused with the first film’s comically large drill. He’s what you might get if you took MAD MAX: FURY ROAD’s Doof Warrior and dropped him into GREASE.

The end result is a dream-logic slasher/musical that does not take itself seriously. It’s vibrant and inventive and a lot of fun, especially if you simply let it wash over you.