Murder Party
Directed by Jeremy Saulnier
Magnet


With an inventive plot, solid acting and enough gore to satisfy the gorehounds, Murder Party succeeds as an offbeat horror comedy that playfully pokes fun at the art community. Basically throw The Breakfast Club, Reservoir Dogs, and the slasher genre in a blender and you would have Murder Party.

The basic idea behind the film is a group of art students leave an invitation to a Murder Party in the street and wait to see who shows up and then kill them. A lonely man on his way home from renting movies finds the invitation and after failing to get his cat out of his chair decides to go to the party. The costume he makes is quite hilarious. Once he reaches the party and is tied to a chair hilarity ensues. Blood flows but not in ways you expect and the artists are not as up to the task as they may have first thought.

The movie moves at a rapid pace so you learn to know the characters quirks quickly. The bumbling victim is hilariously clueless yet likable, just a lonely guy who happens to be in the wrong place. The acting from the entire cast is quite good and much better then you would expect from a low budget movie. Every actor in the movie could definitely hold their own if they were to take a stab at something a bit more mainstream.

There are a few twists along the way and what seems like it will be a slasher movie at first turns into so much more. The dialog is well written and it's quite hilarious to watch the art students argue about what to get to eat while the man is tied to a chair in cardboard armor behind them. The movie is definitely a bit high on dialog for the first three quarters, but the gore and tension definitely ramps up in the final act.

I'm not even sure if this should be called a horror film, it is more like a comedy with some great gore scenes. Goremedy perhaps? If you go into the film expecting to be scared shitless you'll be let down. However, if you want to laugh, enjoy some chainsaw and axe driven mayhem, and chuckle at the art community, then Murder Party more then delivers.

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