Killer Party (1986)

Perfectly adorable

not as good as all the hype

How sad is this?

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Attempting to pledge a sorority, a group of friends decides to join the other sorority members in transforming a nearby deserted house into an April Fools gag house, and when a mysterious killer shows up the dwindling survivors fight back against the deadly intruder.This here was one of the best examples of the cheesy slasher. What makes this one so much fun is the fact that this one absolutely revels in that atmosphere as there's a real abundance of it that just permeates the whole film. This one does it from the very beginning, hardly making its intentions subtle with the film-within-the-film opening and the ensuing dance number over the opening credits, although the fraternity members are also responsible for some more of this, as they continue to prank out the sorority throughout the beginning to some really funny moments. The sequence at the staff meeting starts out hilarious and soon becomes even more so, and from the boys' opening prank to their hazing ritual and then onto the house pranks themselves all the way to the general atmosphere and tone this is barely a dent in the film's cheesiness. When it's not being funny, there are some good slasher moments as well including the early stalking in the sorority, the professor's shocking encounter in the basement and the way that just about all the deaths occur during the party allows it to just be over-the-top fun. There's just a ton of action in that scene, as the killer gets going and seems to kill someone every five minutes and that just makes it seem all the more fast-paced as just about the entire cast is knocked off in rapid fashion and the great stalking and supernatural destruction throughout make it really exciting. The killer's costume itself is quite imposing, with the whole body hidden behind an ancient diving suit that is big and bulky, giving it the perfect creepy appearance. The best plus, though, is it's undeniably cheesy charm since there are a few problems with this one that comes up. The most glaring flaw here is the aforementioned cheesiness. While this is one of the film's best virtue, the fact that so much of it is quite silly does present it with some problems. The first is that the film jumps around in tone quite often and becomes a little disorienting at times. Another thing is that it stops the film cold to include these inserts and disrupt the flow of the film even more so. Though it produces one of the funniest gags, the staff meeting didn't need to be there, nor did the fraternity's adventures with the sorority. These just stop the film to include them and don't really contribute anything beyond some laughs, and could easily have been snipped. As well, the film features practically zero blood or gore and all of the kills are just bland and bloodless or carried out off-screen only to stumble upon them later which does take a lot of the sting out of the situation. The other big problem is that the ending is a little confusing. There's way too much happening and it becomes a little disorienting when it switches over to something else quite rapidly. Those are the film's real problems.Rated R: Language, Violence, Nudity and drug use.

This 1986 horror film stars Joanna Johnson, Elaine Wilkes and Sherry Willis-Burch. This focuses on 3 college girls, Jennifer (Johnson), Phoebe (Wilkes) and Vivia (Burch) who pledge a sorority and get in enduring pranks and humility. Soon, a mysterious killer starts wiping out some of the campus residents and when the girls attend a costume party, the killer decides to make their presence known. This is a strange film that pays homage to recent horror films, "The House on Sorority Row," "The Evil Dead" and "The Exorcist." The acting is kind of weak, but there's good make-up effects and I'd probably view this at least once if you're a horror/slasher fan.

Wanna movie that rips-off the Porky's rip-offs of the mid '80's? How about a Friday The 13th rip-off that rips-off those rip-offs, and then let's throw in that '70's possession thingy where the woman crawls on walls and talks like the singer from Cannibal Corpse sings. Ya like all that? Then here's your movie. This movie took all those clichés and wrapped them all into one. I don't think that was intentional. It was filmed in '84 and released in '86. Somewhere, things went bad for this movie, and to get it released, obviously, other scenes were shot, the story was changed, and now nothing adds up. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe this is how they filmed it. But still, there are three (oh yeah, three)false starts to the movie, each one dumber than the last one (the third being a glam rock music video). Then the movie is a tame Animal House rip-off, then we get completely bloodless slasher killings, then the demonic showdown. The bloodless slasher killings and demonic showdown are in the last 17 minutes. This movie just leaves you bewildered. If your a slasher fan, you are let down, if your a monster fan, your let down. There is no blood in this film, even though the body count goes down at a steady clip for about eight minutes near the end. People die quick, but it's all off-screen. If there wasn't the gratuitous nudity in the beginning, this would easily be rated PG-13, even by todays tame standards. I remember seeing this on TBS over a decade ago on Saturday afternoons. Watching it uncut the other night, I realized TBS didn't cut any of the violence out. Just them boobies. A tame affair that should be over-looked by the '80's horror fan. One and a half stars.

I made the huge mistake of going to see this movie when it came out in the mid-80's. It's a teen slasher flick, but a really bad one. The plot and characters were nothing but a bunch of clichés that any ten year old kid with cable has seen dozens of times already. How bad is it? A bunch of kids have a party at a house, but there's a killer in the house knocking them off, one by one. Ooooh, original. There was no suspense, gratuitous sex, or decent gore to offset the boredom either. By the middle of the movie people started walking out of the theater. Those of use who stayed just spent the rest of the movie mocking it. After about the third, bloodless killing, I remember someone wondering if this thing was rated G.