Really did enjoy this film, it was fun , imaginative and the acting was not bad. If you enjoy B-Movies you will really dig this feature.

In swanky suburban Las Vegas, a group of girls have a pool party and a couple of dudes show up. Unfortunately a mysterious slayer, who uses various yard tools to do his gruesome work, puts the kibosh on the proceedings.

"Pool Party Massacre" (2017) is a micro-budget Indie that only cost around $7000 and it's amazing that a fairly entertaining slasher can be made for that low amount. To keep the costs down, the writer/director shot it at his impressive abode in the suburbs of Las Vegas.

The acting of the no-name actors isn't bad considering what they got paid, as long as you don't mind campiness and the fact that their characters are all unlikable, except one. Their lines are delivered in a rat-a-tat-tat manner, as if they were reading from a teleprompter, yet I was impressed with the work that was put into the wordy script even though the characters are disagreeable which, let's face it, was intentional.

Speaking of which, the writer/director satirizes the slasher formula and includes all the main staples. In the female department curvy Alexis Adams as blonde Tiffany is the most attractive, but Margaux Némé as Latino Nancy wins the day in all-around beauty. The movie scores pretty well on this front.

While the one-dimensional setting, low-budget vibe and distasteful characters/antics limit the flick and lower my grade, it moves right along and has quality kills/gore if that's your thang. I was also pleased with the proverbial final girl.

The movie runs 1 hour, 21 minutes, and was shot in Las Vegas.

GRADE: C- (but compared to other spare change slashers that cost around the same amount, it rates much higher)

Left alone for the weekend, a woman and her best friend decide to invite their friends over for a pool party at her house, but when a strange killer crashes their get together and begin to kill them one-by-one they have to discover the secret of his rampage to get away alive.

This was a pretty decent if flawed slasher. When this one works, it's due to the rather fun and simplistic storyline that's a fantastic setting for a one-note slasher. Getting the group together alone at the house and featuring reasonable enough excuses to get them all alone, there's a lot to like here in that regard as the idea of everyone getting away for a random period to commit the murders. This setup gives the scenes of the killer standing in the shed looking over the next tool to use or watching the group in the distance with some suspense. As well, there's some fun to be had with those tools being put to use which has some enjoyable moments here. The use of the tools and the aftermath they leave is quite fun with the brutal and graphic kills throughout here, especially some of the more obscure tools being utilized in these scenarios. That gives off some great kills with the solid splatter on display while giving us enough to like until it gets to the third act where it switches into a more enjoyable traditional slasher with decent stalking scenes and a series of decent twists in regards to the killer and motivation for everything, making this have some likable elements. This one has some issues. The most obvious flaw is the completely unlikable and unsympathetic main group who are absolutely not worth following around. Beyond one character who's somewhat humanistic, the rest of the cast is unlikely to engender anything other than swift and immediate death. They're vapid, shallow, moronic, unrelatable and offer nothing of any importance while the men are sexist, even dumber and really try the viewer's patience waiting for them to stop with their pointless banter to go off and get killed. The last issue is the somewhat contrived and unbelievable scenario that comes into play here. That the number of deaths that take place at the location, not even just the initial kills but the later scenes of the rampage against the partygoers comes off as quite improbable. That this could be carried out and not discovered as noticed here, especially due to the gory mess left behind which no one seems to notice despite entering the area moments later, is highly illogical although could be seen as an individual preference. These are what hold this one down overall.

Rated Unrated/R: Extreme Graphic Language, Graphic Violence and Nudity.