The disc carries over a commentary track with moderator Tony Brown, director/producer Amy Jones, actor Michael Villella, and actress Debra Deliso. Brown runs the Slumber Party Massacre fan site, The Hockstatter Place, and knows his stuff and as such is able to keep the discussion moving fairly well. Jones has more to say than the other participants and is keen on telling her side of the story, but all involved share some good stories. Jones seems intrigued by many of the sets and props, even pointing out a lamp that was used in the movie she made after this one and pointing out various crew members who pop up in the film in small roles. There are spots where they clam up a bit and seem more interested in watching the movie rather than talking about it but for the majority of the time they there's no shortage of things to talk about here and this commentary is a nice companion to the documentary.

The original trilogy release also contained an excellent feature length documentary on the making of all three films in the series entitled Sleepless Nights: Revisiting The Slumber Party Massacre (60:40). This Blu-ray release contains a scaled down version of that documentary (which runs 23:04) that cuts out the bits that relate to the sequels and which focuses on the first film. Affectionately done, this documentary contains interviews with Amy Holden-Jones, Kathleen Courtney (who was the Production Coordinator on the second movie), Jason Paul Collum (author of Attack Of The Killer B's: Interviews With20 Cult Film Actresses), actress Debra De Liso, actress Brinke Stevens, actor Michael Villella, and super fan/webmaster Tony Brown. We also get some interesting fan footage of some of the locations used in the movie. The documentary has a good sense of humor about it, never taking things too seriously but at the same time taking them just seriously enough and anyone with a passing interesting in the series will enjoy sitting down and watching this one. Ideally Shout! would have included the entire full length version but presumably if/when they hit Blu-ray we'll see that content ported over to those releases.

New to the disc (and not mentioned on the packaging for some reason) is an interview with Rigg Kennedy called The Man Next Door (13:22) that lets the actor who played David Contant (the next door neighbor) in the movie talk about how he got into acting, how it is a gamble in a sense, how in his younger days he did one man shows and how he wound up performing poetry. From there he talks about how he wound up getting the part in Slumber Party Massacre, why he didn't use his name in the credits and why that was a mistake, and what it was like on set. He tells some interesting stories about working on the picture, his appreciation for the beautiful actresses in the movie, and then about half way through he recites a poem and howls dramatically, breaks into Mariachi music and makes a lot of strange noises. Kennedy's a pretty animated and eccentric interviewee with a great sense of humor and a genuinely odd unpredictability to him. This interview goes way off topic but it's still a pretty great (and completely unexpected!) addition to the release.

The extras on the disc close out with a pretty massive still gallery of home video releases, poster art and promotional stills, trailers for all three films in the set, animated menus and chapter selection. All of the extras on the disc are presented in high definition.

Overall:

Slumber Party Massacre remains a fun eighties slasher. It's not deep and it's not all that original but it features a great killer, plenty of pretty ladies, some good gore effects and some twisted humor too. Shout! Factory's Blu-ray offers a nice upgrade in both the audio and video departments and carries over (mostly) all the supplements from the DVD release, even throwing in a completely bizarre bonus interview with Kennedy for good measure. Recommended… bring on the sequels.

Ian lives in NYC with his wife where he writes for DVD Talk, runs Rock! Shock! Pop!. He likes NYC a lot, even if it is expensive and loud.