Meet the heroes you didn’t know you needed. The director of this year’s Slumber Party Massacre, Danishka Esterhazy was the Producing Director on “Astrid & Lilly Save the World,” a new original series coming to SYFY next month. The series premieres January 26 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on USA & SYFY (premiere simulcast only). “High […]
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[Fantastic Fest Review] ‘Slumber Party Massacre’ Updates a Feminist Classic for the Modern Era
Amy Holden Jones’ 1982 film The Slumber Party Massacre was a bit of a rarity in the ’80s slasher boom: it was written by a feminist writer (Rita Mae Brown) and told from a female perspective (Jones’). While they were beholden to certain non-feminist genre tropes (half-naked pillow fights and fully naked breasts, just to name a […]
Fresh Look at ‘Slumber Party Massacre’ Shows Off the Slasher Remake’s Cast
One of the films premiering at this month’s Fantastic Fest is Slumber Party Massacre, a remake of director Amy Holden Jones’s 1982 slasher. Danishka Esterhazy (The Banana Splits Movie) directed the film, with the script written by Suzanne Keilly (“Ash vs. Evil Dead”). Check out a brand new shot from the movie above, via Fantastic Fest. The […]