It's day 287 of the year and my project, therefore it's Day 13 of the 31 Days of Hallowe'en challenges. And once again, I'm starting with my own 31 Days of Hallowe'en challenge, which I talked about back in August. Today's mini theme is Must Have A Sleepover Scene. I picked Slumber Party Massacre 2.
When one of the survivors of a brutal serial killer begins to have nightmares because of the trauma years later, she and her friends find themselves once again at the mercy of a psycho killer.
Okay, this was not what I was expecting. It came out after the success of both 1986's heavy metal horror Trick or Treat and A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 Freddy's Revenge; which they clearly tried to blend together and looks like a music video. The songs even though are ridiculous are actually catchy numbers, and the mid-movie dance scene because it's a dream sequence actually works. But, the amount of dream sequences take up half the movie, and are done in a way that leaves you confused. As there is nothing to differentiate them from the rest of the movie. You never know what's suppose to be the dreams and what's suppose to be the reality. The actual connection to the first movie in the franchise is nothing but a throwaway line about the lead character having helped her babysitter escape a stalker years before. Sadly, the killer himself is never explained. He seems to have Freddy Kruger like powers of invading people's dreams, but midway is able to break out of the dream word. None of this is ever given any kind of explanation.
And the 31 Days of Horror being hosted by Nightmare on Film Street. Their mini challenge today is Underrated Dracula. I picked Wes Craven's Dracula 3 Legacy.
After a group of medical students fail to destroy Dracula, one of them follows him all the way to Romania to finish the job. Along the way, he ends up joining up with a former priest turned vampire hunter and a group of news reporters.
This is one of those movies that uses it's natural location to it's advantage making it a buddy road movie at it's core. It also does something no other vampire movie has done to that point, which is build upon the lore only found in films, stating that Dracula looks different to everyone because each time he's been killed so far, he's been reborn in a different form. I like how it ties back to the original Wes Craven's Dracula 2000 by having Dracula obsessed with television sets. As the first movie had Dracula learn about the modern world via television.
Don't forget to check out my daily Letterboxd lists, as I am doing a few movie challenges in October, such as the #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days challenge.
Come back tomorrow to see what it is I picked for the next round.
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