A group of catty, entitled, spoiled brats (who admittedly, look great in bikinis) gather at the home of Queen Bee Blair (Kristin Noel McKusick) for a pool party. Little do they know a lumbering killer is lurking about the premises with an arsenal of garden tools at his disposal. Before long, he’s making mincemeat out of the stuck-up sorority sisters. Who will survive? Probably Blair’s bestie, Nancy (Margaux Neme), seeing as she’s the only one at the party who wasn’t born with a silver spoon in her mouth.
From the awesome 8-bit style opening credits sequence, you can tell Pool Party Massacre is going to be a lot of fun. Writer/director/star Drew Marvick delivers a solid amount of T & A (not to mention some S & M) and blood and guts. There’s throat slashing, a screwdriver to the eye, a hammer to the jaw, a pickaxe to the brain, an axe to the neck, an electric hedge clipper to the stomach, a power drill to the back, an axe to the head, and a machete to the chest. He also gives us what is possibly the screen’s first Psycho shower scene homage involving a weed whacker. That is to say Marvick is a talent to watch. (Porn star Alexis Adams is especially memorable in her nude/death scenes too.)
I have to hand it to Marvick, a lot of the girls’ bitchy dialogue is pretty funny, and they make a lot of pop culture references along the way too. The film is also laced with enough random bits of goofiness to make it memorable (like the crazy old biddy whose creepy tea party is ruined by the heavy metal music blaring from poolside). The twist ending is also extremely clever.
It's Neme, the Final Girl, who gets the best line of the movie during the climax after she hears the killer’s motive and asks, “You did all this to be famous? Why can’t you make a sex tape like everyone else?”
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