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Monster party directed by Chris Von Hoffman is a very watchable and competently made horror/ splatter movie. Yes movies like this have been done before, yes there is lots of obvious blood and gore, yes it is filled with psychos doing there typical psycho killer thing. But ya know it was actually kind of fun and filmed pretty well to boot. It is very violent and sadistic. The movie revolves around a girl and two guys who rob houses and are led into the house that is the setting for the movie and the so called "Monster party". No need to get into details about the plot, that is the jist of it. If you are a horror movie lover, I would say give this one a shot. Though ya know I am still not too sure about the ending. I would have probably went somewhere different with it. The movie also stars Robin Tunney and Lance Reddick which undoubtedly made the movie a little better because of it. I'll give this one a 6.5. It had some pretty crazy kills in it.

A breath of fresh air to see something a little different from the usual horror flicks. You're not really sure for the first 30 minutes, who these rich people are. It's obvious that something's off about them, but you'll have to wait and see. I won't bother going into the plot, as it's basic without adding spoilers. Not really sure why this only got 5 stars. Compared to some of the mainstream blockbusters I've recently watched, this was probably better than 90% of the garbage I've watched this year. It's bloody, messy, crazy, original, and great fun for those who love the gore genre.

A lot of people gave this really harsh reviews. The film isn't the best by any means but it is a fun watch. It's campy and gory and has its own style. The gore effects in it are really good and the acting for some of the characters is sublime. Definitely worth the watch if your in the mood for a fun slasher. Definitely has its faults but it was an enjoyable watch.

Well first of all ignore all the 10 ratings. Fake reviews. I'd also ignore all the 1 ratings since they are people who don't like the 10 ratings.

My review is my honest opinion. I started watching this and thought it was sort of dumb. But then literally just as I was about to shut it off, it started getting good.

Turns out it's a really weird ride. In a decent way. There's a lot of violence that keeps your attention and it's sort of a little bit campy too. Just enough to make you wonder if it's a satire.

So here's the honest deal -- all the super positive and super negative reviews cancel each other out and you're left with a 5, which is just about right for this flick. Maybe a 6 on a good day.

If you like gore and strange movies this one is not too bad. Great acting, and for a movie shot in 17 days it's kind of incredible.

6.1

A decent slasher film that is just missing more. ... more deaths, more character development, and more of a story. There are some pretty stupid moments, but its an ok watch.

The story starts off a little sinister, then goes full blown horror. It is so gory that it is funny at times.

This is one of those predator-becomes-the-prey horror movies, which now seem to be popping up as frequently as the omg-someone's-living-in-my-walls horror movies. I really liked this premise when I first saw it fully addressed in The Collector (2009), which for better or worse explored it super seriously. Monster Party develops this premise super flippantly- so much so that pretty much everyone in the movie is a psychopathic murderer.

You may now be thinking that Monster Party is perhaps a clever dark comedy. No, that would be the similarly titled Murder Party (2007), which smartly explores the dark comic potential of the predator-becomes-the-prey premise by having its predators ineptly destroy themselves and each other. All while simultaneously lampooning the desperate confluence of art and hipsterism. Meanwhile, Monster Party is not funny and not serious. A generous appraisal would call it absurdist. I'd call it eventful, but vacant.

In terms of production values, the movie is visually impressive. It looks crisp and garish, an aesthetic that the character of the mother indirectly references when she describes the intense lucidity she feels when she murders. The actress who plays this role (Robin Tunney) is compelling! She stands out among the rest of the casts' competent, but ordinary performances (even Lance Reddick kinda phones it in).

The sound in this movie! The score is wildly overbearing. It prominently features lots of clamorous noise and booming bass, I guess partly cuz it's a supposed to be a party, but I think mostly to cover the lameness of the kills. Every time the weapons come out, the noise and the score get way, way loud, as if to mask the fact that the film edits its kills into a million short, hard-to-see close-ups or, even worse, stages them just offscreen.

I did watch this movie to its end, so I suppose there's that. The last five minutes made me regret it. Maybe the screenwriter thought that the audience would not anticipate what happens. I did . . . at the outset . . . and the film mind-numbingly delivered.

Just watch it, its a brilliant movie about 3 burglars trying to rob a party, held by serial killers. it has a great cast and story it is well worth checking out.

ignore those fools who gave this 1 star!? these people should be banned from reviewing anything other than Disney movies...

It's not the greatest scary movie that has ever been made that's for sure, but it'll do in a pinch. I wouldn't waste my money to see this, but if you can catch it on NetFlix... This movie is overly done with blood and gore (in a cheesy way).

The problem with this type of movie is they forgot rule number one which is to make the main characters likeable. They didnt make them likeable at all and therefore I just didnt care. Though the premise was good it was just too warped for me and I couldn't get into it. Very poor.

The characters are all unlikable, and the storyline is disorganized. The one person you can get behind faces the most issues without any payoff. I see people saying it's different or out of the box, but all the "plot twists" are very expected and not great. I watched the whole movie hoping it would turn around, but I was left so disappointed.

For what it is ,it is great .A lot of tense moments a little bit of humor ,i recomend it for a slasher film before bed.its kind of overacted but i guess they meant it to be that way.

We've all seen movies that feel like they can't make up their mind what they want to be, that never find their tone, or have an off sense of pacing, where nothing seems to happen for a long time, and then too much happens in quick succession, and you're either not paying attention or have stopped caring.

"Monster Party" is guilty of all that, sure, but it's a bit different to the norm in the sense that it's final scenes seem like they were directed by a completely different person than everything that led up to it. We get a long, tedious introduction sequence, finally the violence we have all been waiting for at the half way point, some totally uninspired pseudo-thriller cat-and-mouse sequences, and irritatingly non-threatening villains.

Then the movie goes full horror in the last fifteen-or-so minutes, with some supernatural type events that I'm not sure it bothered to explain.

The only actor in the movie who could play scary is Lance Reddick, better known as Cedric Daniels on "The Wire". He is underserved here, as he is in every movie role I've seen him in. The decision to leave the real villainy up to some younger Bret Easton Ellis type characters is fatal to it ever becoming scary.

What is really egregious to the movie, however, is its totally out-of-whack pacing, its plot making no sense, and the mood seems going for a slow burn at the beginning and then turning into ridiculous hyper-kinetic carnage at the end. Or, the fact that the movie has too many characters with too many motivations, and you don't care about any of them and none make any impression, or, blah, blah, blah...

I could go on for a while listing everything wrong with this movie, but I'd rather just stop here.

If you can relax and see it for what it is, you'll have a good time. It was obvious to me that it was a comedy/horror right off the bat, so not to be analyzed for serious elements or realism. And some of the twists are surprising! Just when you think you got it pegged, nope!

It started slow w/the usual cheap opening scenes of overhead view of road then ground level view of our characters moving along said road. A creative script for a not-your-usual murder plot. The great over-the-top acting sold this unlikely get together, and it's outcomes. For the most part keeps you guessing as to who lives or dies. The near ending got a bit bogged down in cliches, but then it picked up a bit. Note: One interesting subtitling misspelling was using "come" for the more sexually explicit phoneme. Liked the ending credit of "Filmed in the rough & tumble state of California with zero incentives."

One of the worst movies I have ever seen. No plot, not scary, unbelievable an not professional effects, it is just a bag of torn body parts that has been cut off in a funny unrealistic way.

I don't understand the 5.2 stars for this great horror flick . It haw a great direction and the script is really good . Also the actors are all more than good so there is nothing to complain for it! Just watch it and make your own opinion for this very good movie!!

Film editing-and especially for horror-is vastly underrated. Really, no slasher-type horror should ever go past, say, 95 minutes...and this one goes on for a 1 hr 20 min, which caused it to lose momentum several times throughout the story. I would probably give this movie a 6, but when I saw that it was filmed in 17 days...dude-respect. That deserves at least an extra point.

Acting was okay, but how the story was told doesn't make it a comedy horror, it makes it just another bad movie. It's like he tried to remake the artificial moonlight and elite parties from the movie Eyes Wide Shut but didn't quite have the effect he wanted. And who the hell was that disfigured dude down the in the basement? The Babadook?

If your only exposure to horror movies are paranormal activity and the purge you'll probably think this is brilliant. Otherwise it's just plain bad, unimaginative and full of things stolen from much better movies.