Slumber Party Massacre(2021)
2021 · Danishka Esterhazy · 86 min
Dana, daughter of the only survivor of a massacre in 1993, is going on a weekend trip with her friends. After their car breaks down in the very same town where her mother once fought the Driller Killer, Dana and her friends must come face-to-face with the man who has haunted her mother’s life for the past 30 years.
Horror · Comedy
5.1113 votes
TMDB score
2/5
Intensity
2/5
Gore
1/5
Stays with you
How Slumber Party Massacre scares
Slumber Party Massacre (2021) leans hard into self-aware comedy, poking fun at slasher tropes while still delivering a killer with a drill chasing people around a cabin. The scares are mostly quick jumps and gag-driven kills rather than any real sense of dread, so it plays more like a horror-comedy hangout movie than something genuinely frightening. Expect winking humor, gender-flipped jokes on the genre's history, and blood used for laughs more than shock. It's a good pick if you want a silly, low-stakes slasher to watch with friends rather than something that will actually unsettle you.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Slumber Party Massacre rates psychological 1/5, visceral 3/5, gore 2/5, lingering effect 1/5, and overall intensity 2/5.
- Psychological: 1 of 5
- Visceral: 3 of 5
- Gore: 2 of 5
- Lingering: 1 of 5
- Intensity: 2 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 55 of 100 — balanced
Supernatural vs Real-world: 90 of 100 — leans Real-world
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 15 of 100 — leans Fun-scary
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
A playful, joke-filled setup that gradually adds scares before building to a chaotic, blood-soaked final stretch.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 4.
How scary is Slumber Party Massacre?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, Slumber Party Massacre rates 2/5 — moderately scary, balancing creeping dread with well-placed shocks. It attacks the body more than the mind — physical, in-your-face horror. Expect it to be moderately gory and fun-first. The dread fades once the credits roll.
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