Episode notes
Grab your daiquiris and power drills! the Owls are back for a night of synth-soaked screams and feminist subtext. Stephen and McKenzie turn their gaze (and talons) toward Amy Holden Jones’s The Slumber Party Massacre, the Roger Corman–produced cult classic that manages to be both sleazy and strangely self-aware.
They dissect the world’s least convincing basketball scene, two hapless Peeping Toms who get exactly what they deserve, and a killer who wields his drill like a Freudian thesis statement. McKenzie highlights how the film’s female characters, from Trish and Valerie to Coach Jana, emerge surprisingly competent, kind, and capable in a genre that usually punishes them for existing.
Come for the feminist analysis, stay for the snail-smashing neighbor, and the longest shower scene this side of Psycho..
Theme music: “City of Neon Lights” by Turtle Beats
Produced by: Mordecai Myles for Owls of Pallas Productions