Sweet Sixteen is a 1983 American slasher film directed by Jim Sotos and starring Bo Hopkins, Susan Strasberg, Dana Kimmell, and Patrick Macnee.

The film follows a teenage girl who moves to a small Texas town, after which a series of brutal murders plague the young men there.

The film features Don Shanks, Steve Antin, Sharon Farrell, and Michael Pataki in supporting roles.

In a small town in Texas, Native American Jason Longshadow is harassed by racist patrons of a local bar, spurring a physical altercation.

Melissa arrives and is startled outside the bar by an elderly Native man, Greyfeather, causing her to knock over a stack of boxes, revealing Tommy's bloody corpse.

With the help of Kathy Hopkins, a local archivist, Dan spends the evening researching the county records of murders committed in the area.

While doing so, he learns that tests of the blood found on the knives is of animal origin, leading Dan to believe Jason is innocent.

The film was given a regional limited release theatrically in the United States by Century International, screening in Anniston, Alabama on January 28, 1983.

[4] The Sacramento Bee critic George Williams panned the film as a "blood-spattered mess of a movie" that "boasts a cast of competent actors who must have been quite desperate to have agreed to appear in [it].

"[5] Bill Cosford of the Miami Herald praised the film's cast, but noted the subplot involving anti-Native American prejudice as "wholly gratuitous.

It was the beautiful brunette's co-starring role in this horror film that became the catalyst for her being cast by director Steve Miner for the epic 3D installment of the Jason cut em ups, Friday the 13th Part III.

Now, all this being stated, I am not hinting that these above mentioned horror films are really anything more than pure drivel but damn, what a nice looking spot of drool it is."