Chances are you haven't heard of the film Murder Party. If you have, chances are you thought its title was indicative of some shoddy horror flick that wasn't worth a netflix subscription. If you're responsible for either of these faults, you are sorely mistaken. But perhaps you didn't get around to googling the cast photo to give you some easy incentive:
Observe: an undead cheerleader, a cardboard knight, Pris from Blade Runner, and one of the Baseball Furies from The Warriors. All in the same dingy warehouse room. In a horror movie. And almost all of them are hipster art students. What more do you need to eloquently equate horrific, black comedic madness?
Murder Party kicks off when the vanilla, Jon Arbuckle-esque protagonist discovers a mysterious invitation to a murder party on Halloween night. Alone and with nothing better to do, he arrives upon the scene only to find that he's walked into a collective of artists, impatiently waiting for 'some jackass' to artfully murder for grant money. With enough gleeful gore effects to satisfy the horror lover and a plentitude of ironic art jokes to tantalize the indie movie fanatic, Murder Party is just waiting for you to watch it.
So do it. Now. Oh, and here's the trailer:
great post, dear, i like the characters that are in the show,
Posted by: coupon | June 16, 2008 at 04:42 AM
This looks amazing.
Posted by: David | July 31, 2008 at 08:45 AM
I wondered why this was in my queue. Luckily Google found me your post again!
It's still down at #17 though.
Posted by: markpasc | September 29, 2009 at 02:41 PM
Wait, have you actually watched the movie yet? It was literally terrible. Over the top, poor filming, the actors all need to go back home...it was on my netflix queue a while ago, and i watched it because I'm a sucker for this kind of shitty scary movie, but it didn't have anything of value, not even laughs.
Posted by: Will | April 08, 2010 at 11:05 AM
Yeup, I bought it. I've shown this movie to a lot of people and 50% enjoy it a lot while the other 50% don't. I loved it, thought it was pretty clever and funny, and I've added it as a Halloween classic for me. To each his own, I guess :)
Posted by: .tiff | April 08, 2010 at 11:10 AM
I just realized I bought this randomly at a closing Blockbuster and am yet to watch. Will have to do. Also, you have 60 pages of blog. You write a lot.
Posted by: Shamous | April 25, 2010 at 06:08 PM
The "raisin incident" caught me by surprise, and hooked me forever. I <3 this movie.
Posted by: itemforty | August 13, 2010 at 09:22 AM
Yeah, basically the perfect kick-off to an indie horror film. I also love Lancelot the cat.
Posted by: .tiff | August 13, 2010 at 12:30 PM