Bezenby The very cover of this film is enough to put you off, but against all odds Bachelor Party Massacre wasn't too bad at all. It wasn't too good either, but it didn't quite descend into suicide inducing drudgery like a lot of slasher films.You know the plot even if you haven't seen the film. Four guys head off for a stag-do at an empty bar, and hire some strippers. Wife to be and sister-in-law also head off to spoil the fun, and there's an escaped lunatic killing folks. That's the plot. Rather than have trendy, know-it-all dialogue, the victims here are rather portrayed as pathetic losers from the get go, so that helps the film, as does the banter, which is a bit better than usual. The killer however is crap, and spouts one liners almost as bad as those in Psycho Cop. It all moves along fairly quickly though, and I like the stripper who's only defence is to strip for the killer. You're not missing much by this film.

Glen McCulla I went into this title with expectations suitably lowered: i mean, the title itself doesn't exactly lead one to expect the next "Citizen Kane" does it? But as an aficionado of low-rent z-grade slasher flicks i thought i'd give it a go.A group of pals rent their uncle's run-down looking bar in the middle of nowhere to celebrate the last night of freedom of their pal Addison (Michael Capes), who as the old song goes is getting married in the morning. The requisite booze and strippers have been laid on at this shindig, organised by Addison's brother Carl (Josh Breeding, who sadly harbours under the delusion that he is some kind of comedian, and believes himself hilarious). However, a psycho killer chick with a grudge against lapdancers is on the loose, having already slaughtered the pizza delivery guy and now wanting to get this party stopped.A wooden performance or two (Bay Bruner, the unnamed killer chick herself), some annoying characterisation from two of the guys (the aforementioned Breeding, and a typical frat boy joker) and possibly the most annoying character i have witnessed in a movie (Carl's loathsome girlfriend - who i wished dead from around 30 seconds after her first appearance) are balanced out by likable performances from Capes and Kate Huffman as his bride to be, and some quality stalk 'n' slash scenes: the "stiletto in the head" scene even managed to make me wince. But then, i've seen chicks really attempt that outside nightclubs.Recommended to anyone who loves low budget horror with a sense of humour, and because the two stripper chicks (Zoe Taylor, and gorgeous porn starlet Jamie Marie) are almost worth the price of admission alone.

BA_Harrison A group of guys travel to a deserted bar in the mountains where they plan to spend a night of alcohol-fuelled debauchery to celebrate the impending nuptials of pal Addison. Their evening of excess booze and sexy strippers is ruined, however, when an escaped female psycho-killer interrupts the fun and gets busy with a selection of sharp implements.Bachelor Party Massacre is a cheapie slasher that attempts to mix scares, laughs, and sexiness in equal measures: with its remote locale, a deranged escaped lunatic, a collection of horny idiots ripe for the slaughter, and a couple of tasty lap-dancers who'll do anything for money, it certainly has many of the elements necessary for an enjoyably brainless piece of trashy horror fun. Unfortunately, despite having most of the right ingredients and loads of enthusiasm from nearly all involved, the film fails to transcend its low-budget amateur origins: shoddy production values, the wafer thin plot, unconvincing performances (particularly from Bay Bruner as the killer) and a lack of decent gore all go to make this one a less than impressive addition to an already overcrowded sub-genre.The film works best when it's going for laughs or cheap titillation rather than scares, and the first half features plenty of fairly witty dialogue (the delivery isn't always great, but I appreciate the effort) and several steamy scenes featuring loads of bare female flesh (once again, much appreciated). Once the killing moves to the fore, however, Bachelor Party Massacre loses nearly all of its sense of fun, and turns into a dreary, routine, by-the-numbers body-count flick.

Angelus-16 Make no mistake about it, any film called Bachelor Party Massacre is going be naff, but, surprisingly, it's not as crud as it probably should be. The title tells you all you need to know: four buddies gather in an abandoned bar to celebrate their friend Addison's last few days as single. They drink, order pizza, letch after some strippers and get stalked n' slashed by a poncho-clad schizo woman who is nothing more than your common-or-garden asylum escapee.There's plenty of topless girls on show, fleshed out lapdancing sequences and watery blood-flowage. The effects budget obviously hindered some of the creativity and so a lot of the murders are off-screen or skewered by strange camera angles; one girl gets a stiletto in the head and a guy has a knife shoved in the worst possible place.As a collector and general advocate of slasher films - this was the 416th I've seen by my count - I'll watch almost anything like this. Some suck, some are pretty good. I'd slot BPM towards the bottom of the stack, but it's not downright awful as, say, Carnage Road or The Slaughterhouse Massacre, which are almost entirely devoid of merit.