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The Slumber Party Massacre is a 1982 slasher film directed by Amy Holden Jones and written by feminist activist Rita Mae Brown.

Like many of its contemporaries, this film used female nudity and gore to reach its teenage male target audience. The first sequel featured very little nudity, relying on humor instead.

Trish Devereaux, a eighteen-year-old high school girl, is left at home by her parents and she decides to have a slumber party. She invites her friends: Kimberly, Jackie and Diane. There is friction between the girls and the new girl, Valerie Bates (who just moved to town with her younger sister and her newly divorced Mother.), who is better at basketball than they, so the new girl decides to stay at home (which is conveniently across the street from the host's house). Meanwhile, Russ Thorn, a murderer of five people with a propensity for power tools has escaped and is at large, and eventually makes his way to wreck the party to continue his bloody rampage.