sweet sixteen ( 1983 ) or 86 minute director jim sotos cast bo hopkins and susan strasberg and aleisa shirley and patrick macnee and dana kimmellfifteen year old bad girl melissa be new in a desert town and it isn not long before folk around her start die off . the detective have to put together the clue with the help of his nancy draw good girl daughter play by friday the 13th alumnus dana kimmell . the local native american be prime suspect since they seem to upset the prejudiced townsfolk . these event all lead up to the revealing of the killer at melissa sixteenth birthday party . this below average slasher isn not too memorable . it have a make for tv feel and without much score besides the title character own corny theme song which play a couple time throughout . line like the killer will turn u into coleslaw . fit into standard eighty slasher screenplay . marci call melissa a bad name then somehow immediately they develop a friendship . apparently marci see how hard it be to fit in because melissa know how to wear make up . this movie would be hard press to be make today with the main character be fifteen and the director insert multiple gratuitous close ups of her . the social commentary on indian wasn not develop enough to be take seriously . i be too surprise at the fairly high rating this movie get . both sweet sixteen and ed hunt bloody birthday have the potential to capitalize on that time honor tradition of the birthday party to create an intense sequence of carnage but i feel fail to deliver . but on the bright side release obscure movie like this on dvd give hope that others will follow .