Review: Slaughter Party
Reviewed by: Justin Channell

Slaughter Party, one of those films that everyone was questioning, "Is Troma really releasing this or is IMDb lying?", is finally out on DVD.  From Chris Watson (who goes under the psuedonym Buck Jones Jr. for this shot-on-video film), the director of the b-movie name-dropper Zombiegeddon shot, comes this microbudget video production that Troma executive produced.  After seeing the final outcome, I think there never was a more appropriate time for a Tales From The Crapper-esque re-edit.  In other words: this movie stinks.

The threadbare plot of Slaughter Party is a mad scientist, who apparently has the ability to kill people and revive them as invincible killers, kills a group of men searching for a haunted area and revives one of the three for his own bidding.  However, the man he revived is a two foot tall midget (Mighty Mike Murga) who then continues the mad scientist's murder spree.  Among the completely random women that are slain is the sister of Tara (Felissa Rose), who is being dragged to a party out in the middle of the desert by her friend.  Sooner or later, the midget shows up and more murders take place.

I have to commend Slaughter Party for being the slowest 80 minutes of life.  I felt like I was watching this film for at least three hours, probably considering the fact that every scene in the film seems like you've seen it before, but in this exact film.  The cast, which features a slew of b-movie personalities, is completely wasted by the one-take cinematic ethic, obvious forced adlib, and poor quality audio.  Lloyd Kaufman pops up for a completely pointless cameo as well.  The only parts that I found myself enjoying were scenes involving Ford Austin as the mad scientist with Felissa Rose.

Of the films Troma has executive produced lately, I'd say Slaughter Party is by far the worst.  If Lloyd and Michael are reading this: I beg of you, please start financing some good films.  You were on a roll up until recently.  To Troma fans, I do not recommend this piece of video trash.  Save your cash... Troma has much better offerings and the only real extra of any merit is the Troma System informerical from 1993 (which is also on the Ragin' Cajun DVD).

Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars

Rating Scale:

  • 5 - This is a Troma classic! Why haven't you seen it yet!?
  • 4 - A hell of a Troma flick!
  • 3 - Good Troma movie, but may not please all.
  • 2 - Poor Troma movie, but there are worse.
  • 1 - DEAR GOD, AVOID AT ALL COSTS!