“Pillow Party Massacre” (* out of four) was a suffocating horror suspenser about five girls (Laura Welsh, Savannah Raye Jones, Jax Kellington, and others) who are haunted by a past April Fools prank that went awry and reconcile in the woods for a weekend of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll but don’t count on an uninvited guest showing back up to teach them a lesson. Throwback to ’80’s trash-horror (“Sorority House Massacre”, “The Slumber Party Massacre”, “April Fools Day”) with a few retro touches (“I Know What You Did Last Summer”) thrown in to the mix but it’s all for nothing, since the script and story are all tiresome and stupid. It’s movies like this that make you regrettably glad that the ’80’s eventually came to an end.

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