Title: Murder PartyDirector: Jeremy Saulnier
Starring: Chris Sharp, Alex Barnett, Macon Blair
Runtime: 79 minutes
Year: 2007
Imagine being lonesome single boy with nothing to do on Halloween night but then finding a random invitation to cure the boredom. The invitation being to a Murder Party, leaving you instructed to come dressed in costume and alone. Would you go? I'm sure I would, but I'm kinda silly like that.
Our main hermit, Chris, is just looking for a good time but ends up being helt captive as the main source of entertainment. A bunch of geeked out college kids decide they are going to murder a random person all in the name of art. Oh la la!
This may be low budget, but it rules hard and is easily one of my favourite comedies to come out in 2007. Both the leading and supporting characters are a ton of laughs and play their roles to the max. The slight tributes to awesome movies of the past [Blade Runner!] is a nice touch, too.
Perfect in lenght, wit, and adorable costumes [let's hear it for the cardboard knight!] this exceeds any and all expectations I had for it.
Recommended.
j.
5 comments:
I thought overall the film was pretty good, but I was a tad underwhelmed when all was said and done. I think the bad acting, which a lot of independent features unfortunately suffer from, gets in the way, especially in the middle section where very little happens.
Better actors could have cut out some of the over-indulgent arty nature that these guys annoyling bring out in their characters. I assume it's supposed to be over the top, but sometimes "less is more" is for the better.
This is a film that I actually wouldn't mind a remake of a couple years from now with a slightly bigger budget and maybe have some credible people like Lukas Haas casted (The crazy guy in the baseball get-up looks just like him anyways.).
I would totally go to a murder party too!! Ha.
A friend of mine recommended this one to me not too long ago. I've been meaning to give it a go. It just jumped up on my list of priorities after reading what you had to say about it. Sounds like a pretty original flick, which seems harder and harder to come by these days (when it comes to horror anyways).
Jonathan- I totally back the idea of a remake in a few years. Better actors would of really made this a show stopper. Some of the character got to annoying, too fast, and I kinda wanted to kill them off myself.
CG - Pick this up! And then... wanna go to a Murder Party? ;)
Just got this in the mail from netflix today--- you better be right!
Review later...
Loved it! Thanks for the reccomendation!
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