{"id":620,"date":"2023-04-28T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/?p=620"},"modified":"2025-04-24T16:29:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T16:29:00","slug":"slumber-party-massacre-1982-vs-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/04\/28\/slumber-party-massacre-1982-vs-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Slumber Party Massacre 1982 vs 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WARNING: <\/mark><\/strong>This Review May Contain Spoilers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I first discussed Slumber Party Massacre <\/em>in my \u2018Death at the Party\u2019 article, I honestly didn\u2019t think I would be discussing it again. Low and behold, in 2022 it was decided that for some reason a remake was required \u2013 but at the moment what 70s or 80s film hasn\u2019t been at least hinted at having a remake made? Sorry, they\u2019re called \u2018re-imaginings\u2019 now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dead is Dead<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                In a weird way, the body counts in both of these films are exactly the same. In both films, at least 11 characters die but that would depend on if you include the death of the villain. For the sake of this article let\u2019s say we do include them, which would mean that the remake beats the original by one as it actually has two villains. Strangely, I always think the original feels like more die but this is because at least 3 deaths are of ancillary characters that we aren\u2019t properly introduced to \u2013 the phone technician at the beginning, the pizza boy and an additional student. In the remake however, we are introduced to all the characters that die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Homages to the Original<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                This is going to sound very odd but the biggest one of these is actually the opening scene. Because the remake doesn\u2019t follow the same plot line as the original \u2013 hence reimagining I guess instead of remake \u2013 the scene set in the 1993 is a homage to the deaths of Kim, Diane and Jackie in the original film, which made me think we were going to have a new Sydney Prescott on our hands in Trish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Along with this, but it may just be the way I\u2019m viewing it, the way Alex comes running out of the house when they have already killed Russ Taylor \u2013 reminded me of the way Trish runs out during the fight between Russ and Valerie in the original film. I don\u2019t want to say that giving Russ the same lines in both films is a homage because they are the only lines he speaks in either film so it makes sense for them to be the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Girl Power Reimagining<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

             Now don\u2019t get me wrong, the original film is definitely a shout-out for strong females, given that the 3 of them take down Russ Thorn but they clearly wanted to make the remake a much stronger representation of the strong female character. However, in my opinion they go about it in such a cheesy way that it slightly falls flat. Especially as, for me, belittling men doesn\u2019t exactly make you a strong woman. For example, when Russ is unable to get the drill started in front of Dana, she makes comments about impotence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Modern Sexism<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Here I want to specifically talk about the remake and I think it  is maybe a symptom of the above. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I think the concept of the remake is a great \u2018reimagining\u2019 of the story but I actually find it a little sexist towards men. I think they\u2019re trying to flip the usual tropes on their head \u2013 like the girl tripping over while escaping or the typical nudity from 80s films (like the shower scene or the opening clips of Trish in the original film) \u2013 by making them male-led. However, I find it really awkward and completely unnecessary \u2013 especially as I feel like 4 women having a topless pillow fight would be considered as sexist in today\u2019s society and there would be huge complaints following the film\u2019s release\u2026so why does it being all men suddenly make it OK?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Conclusion<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Now, I\u2019m going to say that the remake\/reimagining is bad because I really did buy into the concept of the updated storyline. However, you would naturally expect the original \u2013 having been made in the 1980s \u2013 to be the cheesy one and for me that isn\u2019t the case and it really detracts from the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WARNING: This Review May Contain Spoilers When I first discussed Slumber Party Massacre in my \u2018Death at the Party\u2019 article, I honestly didn\u2019t think I would be discussing it again. Low and behold, in 2022 it was decided that for some reason a remake was required \u2013 but at the moment what 70s or 80s … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-to-remake-or-not-to-remake","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}