Slumber Party Massacre first image teases slasher classic remake - ashbeills81

Slumber Company Slaughter first image teases slasher classic remake

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Slashers are back! Not care they've really been gone, naturally, but following flaming on the heels of this weekend's Fear Street Part 1: 1994 comes the first image from eagerly-awaited horror remake The Slumber Party Massacre.

Ahead of its debut at Cannes this month, Bloody Disg u sting unveiled the pic, which errs less connected the slope of massacre and more on the face of slumber political party. That's pulverized, of course, as the photo gives a corking glimpse at the cast, putting the remake punt onto everyone's radio detection and ranging. And it couldn't come at a better time with Netflix's Fear Street trilogy reigniting widespread interest in the teenager slasher subgenre.

This new make over is described in the confirmed synopsis as: "A new contemporary twist-filled reimagining of the 1982 slasher furore classic impartial in fourth dimension for Halloween. A slumber company turns into a bloodbath, as a psychotic serial killer wielding a power drill disrupts the merriment."

It sounds look-alike the remake plans to hit the same beats Eastern Samoa the original. And, the like the 1982 standard oriented by Amy Holden Jones and written by Rita Mae Brown, this reimagined make over will be produced, written and directed away women.

Suzanne Keilly, World Health Organization antecedently penned episodes of Ash vs. Demonic Dead and Warrior Nun, is producing the picture and writing the screenplay, and Danishka Esterhazy, World Health Organization horror fans may accredit as the director of the Banana Splits Movie, is tail end the camera. With their credits in heed, the remake may hew close to Brown's original playscript. Intended as a send-up and parody of slashers – 1981 multiplexes were stuffed with 'em – producers, including Roger Corman, rewrote her screenplay to make the resultant film play more A a straight horror.

Successful for less than half a million dollars, the 1982 movie arrived at the height of the slasher craze and scooped up $3 million at the box office. It's since absent on to become a cult classic among repulsion hounds, along with its continuation which features the fan favorite killer WHO offs his victims with a power-driller guitar.

No official release date has been declared, yet it's expected The Sleep Company Massacre remake will debut in the US on SyFy later this class as part of its annual 30 Days of Halloween case. To keep you occupied until then with some terribly good viewing, check up on our picks of the best Netflix horror movies to stream right now.

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