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Scream Factory has announced that they will be giving the 1982 slasher classic The Slumber Party Massacre (watch it Here) and its bonkers 1987 sequel Slumber Party Massacre II (watch that one Here) – which I enjoy even more than the first movie – a double feature 4K Uhd release on February 21st. And copies are already available for pre-order at This Link!

Directed by Amy Holden Jones from a screenplay by Rita Mae Brown, The Slumber Party Massacre has the following synopsis: When Trish decides to invite her high school girls’ basketball teammates over for a slumber party, she has no idea the night is going to end with an unexpected guest – an escaped mental patient and his portable power drill – crashing the party.

The film stars Michele Michaels, Robin Stille, Michael Villella, Debra Deliso, Andree Honore, Gina Mari, Jennifer Meyers, Pamela Roylance, and Brinke Stevens.

Written and directed by Deborah Brock, Slumber...

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Live Cinema and Its Techniques by Francis Ford Coppola (Liveright)

The legendary Francis Ford Coppola has spoken of “live cinema” with regularity over the years, specifically with respect to 1981’s One From the Heart. That film, a box office flop now held in some regard, is an essential part of Live Cinema and Its Techniques, a fascinating new book authored by Coppola himself. The lessons from that experience, Coppola says,...

Nearly three years after releasing the original Slumber Party Massacre as a special edition Blu-ray, Scream Factory has finally put a double feature disc of its two sequels: 1987’s Slumber Party Massacre II and 1990’s Slumber Party Massacre III. It’s something of a good news/bad news situation.

The good news is that Slumber Party Massacre II is really crazy and really fun. The bad news is that part 3 is not. Picking up the subversive campiness of where Amy Holden Jones’ original left off, Slumber Party Massacre II writer/director Deborah Brock dials up the weirdness and adds an abstract, hallucinatory bent to the first sequel. It’s bigger and stranger, more colorful and experimental; I’m reminded of the leap from Prom Night to Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II, except that the original Slumber Party Massacre is a better movie than Prom Night.

Crystal Bernard (TV’s Wings) plays Courtney,...

Scream Factory invites horror fans to ominous overnights with their new double feature Blu-ray release of Slumber Party Massacre II and Slumber Party Massacre III, and we've been provided with three Blu-ray copies to give away to lucky Daily Dead readers.

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Prize Details: (3) Winners will receive (1) Blu-ray copy of the Slumber Party Massacre II / Slumber Party Massacre III double feature.

How to Enter: For a chance to win, email contest@dailydead.com with the subject “Slumber Party Massacre Double Feature Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.

Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on January 23rd. This contest is only open to those who are eighteen years of age or older that live in the United States. Only one entry per household will be accepted.

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Slumber Party Massacre II and Slumber Party Massacre III Double Feature Blu-ray: "Get ready for a killer,...

Heat up a bowl of popcorn, fluff up some pillows, and grab a comfy seat for clips and trailers from Scream Factory's double feature Blu-ray of the Slumber Party sequels, drilling into shelves on January 17th.

Slumber Party Massacre II and Slumber Party Massacre III Double Feature Blu-ray: "Get ready for a killer, driller double thriller!

Slumber Party Massacre II

The only sane survivor of Slumber Party Massacre, Courtney (Crystal Bernard) dreams of the drill murderer returning. She can't shake the horrible feeling that she and her friends will be viciously tormented and brutally butchered. Again and again the nightmare returns. Dazed, Courtney loses control. And her nightmare crosses into reality. No one believes her, until it's too late. The driller killer returns, reincarnated as an evil rocker. He methodically stalks them; then violently gores them to death...one by one.

Slumber Party Massacre III

Seven California co-eds are dresses to kill.

Heat up a bowl of popcorn, fluff up some pillows, and find a spot on the floor with a good view of the TV screen, because Scream Factory has revealed the full list of bonus features for their anticipated double feature Blu-ray release of Slumber Party Massacre II and III.

From Scream Factory: "Terror drills its way January 17th on our double feature Blu-ray release! Read on for the final list of extras:

Slumber Party Massacre II

• Original 76 minute R-Rated Version (HD) and Extended 85 minute Unrated Cut (Standard Definition)

• Audio Commentary with writer/director/producer Deborah Brock, producer Don Daniel and story editor Beverly Gray

• Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres – a three-part documentary

• Theatrical Trailer and Video Trailer

• Still Gallery

Slumber Party Massacre III

• Original 75 minute R-Rated Version (HD) and Extended 87 minute Unrated Cut (HD with standard definition inserts)

• Audio Commentary with director Sally Mattison, actress Hope Marie Carlton,...

Producer/director/schlockmeister Roger Corman famously made over a hundred movies in Hollywood and never lost a dime, in part because he never financed stuff like "Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel." That's not to say this documentary about the maverick drive-in movie maven's life is bad; on the contrary, it's a breezy, informative ninety minutes with great archival footage and superb new interviews with Corman, his collaborators, and protégés. But c'mon: 90 minutes of people talking about some old guy who made a bunch of movies? That's not the Corman way. Where's the sex? Where's the violence? Where're the crazy, LSD-dropping hippie biker gangs?

Actually, all that stuff's in there too, thanks to a heap of clips from Corman's lengthy career. In a sneakily savvy way, director Alex Stapleton has structured "Corman's World" to work like Corman movie: you come to satisfy your baser urges, and inadvertently learn a...