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6	[[quoteright:272:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/LastSlumberParty_5435.jpg]]
7	[[caption-width-right:272:Dead Man's Party.]]
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9	->''"If Creator/EdWood was still alive and making slasher flicks in the late 80s, he might have made something like ''The Last Slumber Party'' (but maybe I’m being unfair to old Ed) - a film so mind-bendingly awful that it transcends normal bad-movieness and takes off into uncharted realms of almost cosmic shittiness."''
10	-->-- [[http://www.hysteria-lives.co.uk/hysterialives/Hysteria/last_slumber_party.htm Hysteria Lives]]
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12	''The Last Slumber Party'' is a 1988 SlasherMovie directed and co-written by Stephen Tyler. No, [[Music/{{Aerosmith}} not]] ''[[Music/{{Aerosmith}} that]]'' [[Music/{{Aerosmith}} one]].
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14	After learning he's scheduled for lobotomy at Oak Ridge Memorial Hospital, an extremely volatile mental patient named Mr. Randles (a name only used near the end of the film) disguises himself as a surgeon and escapes. Seeking revenge on his keeper, Dr. Sickler, Randles begins making his way to the good doctor's house, bloody scalpel in hand.
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16	As the escaped maniac stalks around town, three girlfriends, one of whom is Sickler's daughter, plan to celebrate the start of summer vacation by holding a slumber party, intended to be a host for sex and debauchery.
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18	Of course, Randles happens to crash the party when it gets into full swing, sneaking into the house via a ladder left by the boys. Deciding to vent on Sickler's family and everyone else under his roof, Randles sets about making sure this is a slumber party no one will forget... because it'll be ''[[TitleDrop The Last Slumber Party]]''!
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20	An obvious cash-in on the success(?) of ''Film/TheSlumberPartyMassacre'' series, one of those responsible for this film's creation, executive producer Bill F. Blair, has gone on record stating that he considers it "the worst film ever made". And this comes from someone responsible for such schlock as ''Blood Cult'', ''Film/ForeverEvil1987'' and ''Terror at Tenkiller'', the latter being available on a DVD double feature with ''Last Slumber Party'' released in 2004.
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22	Taken to task by Podcast/RiffTrax in 2014.
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25	!!The last trope party:
26	* AccidentalMurder: Sensing someone behind her, Chris whips around and juts her knife out, stabbing Scott.
27	* AllJustADream: [[spoiler: In the end, it's revealed that the entire plot is, in fact, Linda having a nightmare. However, it goes into MaybeMagicMaybeMundane when it's possible she had a premonition about the murder of her friends and family, as the movie's ending seems to imply they still end up dead anyway.]]
28	* AllMenArePerverts: Not counting the father, Scott, and the killer, every other guy in the film is obsessed with sex.
29	* AxCrazy: Randles. It's a slasher movie. What do you expect?
30	* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Tracy, Chris, and Linda all have these respective hair colors.
31	* BloodFromTheMouth: Billy, and Chris (in her DreamWithinADream).
32	* BloodIsSquickerInWater: Chris gets her throat slit in the Sickler's pool.
33	* ButLiquorIsQuicker: "Oh come on, Linda, we didn't fill you full of Jack Daniels so you could fall asleep."
34	* CarpetOfVirility: Tommy is perpetually horny and has a hairy chest.
35	* CatapultNightmare: [[spoiler: It turns out the ''entire film'' is just a DreamSequence by one of the girls, but the problem is the ending implies that she and her friends and family still end up dead by not heeding her warning about the dream.]]
36	* CoincidentalBroadcast: A news report about Randles' escape comes on as Randles enters the house.
37	* CreatorCameo: The teacher is played by co-writer Jim Taylor.
38	%%* CutPhoneLines
39	* DaddysGirl: Chris, according to Tracy.
40	* DeathByMocking: Billy and Tommy both notice something unusual might be going on, but decide to act immature rather than cautious. [[spoiler: And it definitely bites them in the ass.]]
41	* DecoyProtagonist: Linda. It's revealed to be [[spoiler: Chris.]]
42	* DopeSlap: Billy to Scott, after he lets out that they've had beers while talking to Doctor Sickler.
43	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: After it's revealed the events of the film were a prophetic dream had by Chris, it's shown that Randles really did escape, and he attacks Linda in her home, just as Tracy and Chris arrive.]]
44	* DreamingOfThingsToCome: [[spoiler: It turns out '''the entire film''' was Chris having a nightmare, but then it turns out Randles actually ''has'' escaped, and the film ends with him breaking into the Sickler home just as Chris and Tracy stop by.]]
45	* DreamWithinADream: "I even had a nightmare within the nightmare! God, I must be fucking crazy!"
46	* DrivenToSuicide: An asylum patient attempts it, causing Sickler to work late.
47	* DullSurprise: The cast suffers from it, especially Dr. Sickler.
48	* TheEighties: Quite apparent from the fashion, the use of a house phone, and the girls' general attitudes.
49	%%* EnemyRisingBehind
50	* EnterStageWindow: How most characters gain access to the Sickler house.
51	* EverybodyLives: [[spoiler: Well, up until the real ending. It's shown to be just a dream, but it's possible it was also a premonition.]]
52	* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: Linda and Tracy in Chris's DreamWithinADream.
53	* EvilOverlooker: [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IvNLXcM-CUA/TK-qgxVfwOI/AAAAAAAABZU/AHSK73aH9ng/s1600/lastslumberparty_span.jpg This]] foreign cover.
54	%%* EvilPhone
55	* EvilVsEvil: School whipping boy Science decides to take revenge on his tormentors, killing Billy, and coming close to murdering Linda, only to have Randles slit his throat.
56	* {{Expy}}: Randles, and Harold from ''Film/HospitalMassacre''.
57	* TheFaceless: Mr. Randles. He wears a surgical mask for the entire duration of the movie and never takes it off.
58	* FacialHorror: Characters who do not have their throat slit are cut across the face, somehow killing them.
59	%%* FadeToBlack
60	* {{Fainting}}: After stabbing Mr. Randles, Chris faints.
61	* FinalGirl: Linda screams this, but dies, leaving the position to be taken up by the decidedly unpure Chris.
62	* {{Flashback}}: We're shown Mr. Randles attacking Doctor Sickler, after the former finds out he is scheduled for a lobotomy.
63	%%* FollowTheLeader: [[Film/TheSlumberPartyMassacre Guess]].
64	* GenderBlenderName: Chris is female.
65	* HappilyMarried: Doctor and Mrs. Sickler, though there are rumors...
66	* HeavySleeper: An orderly dozes off at the bus stop, and sleeps through a nurse being slashed to death right next to him.
67	* HighPressureBlood: The only worthwhile gore scene is when Mr. Randles gets stabbed in the chest, causing some jets of blood.
68	* HospitalHottie: A couple of hot nurses have a brief scene towards the middle of the film.
69	* IcyBlueEyes: The bug-eyed Mr. Randles.
70	* JerkJock: Tommy. He's extremely immature and horny all the time, so no one really misses him [[spoiler: once he gets bumped off.]]
71	* KubrickStare: Randles does this '''all the time''', to the point that one might assume his head is just stuck like that.
72	%%* LingerieScene: The cover.
73	* MalevolentMaskedMen: Randles ties a surgical mask over his face during the opening credits and it stays on for the remainder of the movie.
74	* MenacingStroll: The killer has one and does this ad nauseum in the third act.
75	* MurdererPOV: As expected of the genre, there are constant shots from the killer's [=POV=].
76	* NerdGlasses: The character whose nickname for some reason is Science has them, naturally.
77	* NightmareSequence: Chris randomly dreams about being terrorized by her friends (including undead Linda and Tracy) before being stabbed to death by Mrs. Sickler and waking up.
78	* NoodleIncident: References to catastrophes that occurred at previous parties, like a Bohemian football player throwing up all over the place, or a car being driven into a pool.
79	* NotQuiteDead: Linda seemingly drops dead after letting Chris back in the house, only to show up later ("Chris, get help...") and drop dead again. And after being stabbed, Randles seems to die, but nope, he was just knocked out.
80	* OffscreenTeleportation: To ludicrous extremes. The killer is not supernatural, but he appears to just appear and disappear soundlessly at will.
81	* OminousWalk: It ends with Randles being stabbed by Chris.
82	%%* OnceIsNotEnough
83	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Science. No other name is given.
84	* PeekABooCorpse: Most of the dead bodies are discovered in the final act of the film.
85	* PoolScene: Seeing Sickler's body floating in a pool, Chris wades out to it, and has her throat slit by Randles.
86	%%* PornStache: Various characters.
87	* PosterGalleryBedroom: Linda's room is the stereotypical girly room...except for a Sesame Street poster that is ''bizarrely'' out of place in a teen girl's room.
88	%%* ReactionShot
89	* RedheadedHero: Chris has red hair.
90	* RedShirt: The nurse and orderly at the bus stop.
91	* ScreamDiscretionShot: The real ending. It's unclear as to if everyone ends up dead all over again, but it sure sounds like it ended up that way.
92	* SexySilhouette: Chris, behind a shower curtain.
93	* ShirtlessScene: Both Tommy and Billy get one each.
94	* ShowerScene: Chris has a rather long, fanservice-y one during the film.
95	* SlapSlapKiss: Chris and Tommy seem to hate each other as much as they enjoy sleeping with each other.
96	* SlashedThroat: Every non-FacialHorror death in the film is the villain slicing their throat with his scalpel.
97	* SlumberParty: One girl's friends decide to have a sleepover, which unfortunately also [[spoiler: leads to everyone being murdered, including their useless boyfriends too.]]
98	%%* SpitTake: Billy, due to laughter.
99	* ThoseTwoGuys: Billy and Tommy, with third wheel Scott aka nicknamed Science.
100	* TokenWholesome: Linda is basically the only nice person in the group.
101	* TooDumbToLive: Instead of running away and getting help after realizing a killer is in the house, Chris instead grabs a knife and begins wandering around, a course of action that merely results in her accidentally killing Scott, and briefly knocking out Randles.
102	* TotallyRadical: "Yeah, man, like wow, mellow out."
103	* VaderBreath: The audience hears the killer's breathing during some of his [=POV=] shots.
104	* VillainOpeningScene: Randles suiting up in surgical attire and acquiring a scalpel.
105	* TheVoiceless: Mr. Randles never speaks throughout the entire film.
106	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Linda's cat is featured early on, then disappears from the movie.
107	* WhosLaughingNow: Science, up until he is anticlimactically killed by Randles.
108	* WildTeenParty: The teens attempt to have one of these after the host's mother has gone to bed, but it's not a real one; it's just them drinking and complaining about their shitty boyfriends trying to prank them.
109	* WithFriendsLikeThese: Almost everyone in the film acts like a complete jackass, making you wonder what on Earth made them friends in the first place. Especially the girls and their respective boyfriends, who trade flat insults like they're in an arranged marriage.

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