Party Monster

It has got to be hard to write, or act in a movie where the characters are so annoying it makes you want to stab your self in the face, over and over again.

This is the mostly true story of a young man named Michael Alig who in the late 80's and early 90's was the king of an under ground night club culture. He ended up murdering a drug dealer friend of his named Angel in cold blood and the hacked his body up, put it in a box and threw it into the river. The story is told from two peoples points of view, Michael's and James St. James. Both of these "people" are total and utter useless wastes of space. The story gives us some back ground on how at least Michael become the "monster" that he was by the end of his little 15 minutes of fame. If you are interested in that story, how he was molested and mistreated as a child then watch "Party Monster: The Shockumentary" a Documentary about it, not to be confused with this movies that is simply titled "Party Monster"

The documentary isn't a bad film, but its hard to care at all about these people because they are such.....tools. Their lives consist of being paid large sums of money to come to a night club and party, that's all. Hey if someone wants to pay them to do this, then whatever, what do I care. They get dressed up in insane and stupid costumes at these parties and do enough drugs to kill a horse, they even had to tone down the drug use in this for fear that audiences wouldn't believe the amount of drugs they did.

Now I cant stress this enough, there is nothing worth liking or admiring in these people, they really are useless to us and themselves. Instead of trying to do something useful for society they are completely self serving and so into themselves that its no wonder they ended up killing someone. Now did Angel deserve to die, I couldn't say, I'm sure he did some terrible things, but enough to be killed, and simply because he wanted to be paid for the drugs that Alig had consumed? After beating him with a hammer they put hypodermic needles full of Draino into his veins, smothered him and left his body there for days. They eventually cut it up and threw it away. Truly disgusting.

The way its shot isn't great, its decent digital video, but nothing great. There are a few interesting shots, and some lighting that didn't look completely staged, but not much. Its hard to enjoy the movie when I hate the people in it, and even worse when I know they are real people. The way they shot it didn't redeem itself. The acting was okay, but again, the characters are so over the top its hard to mess that up, its like how anyone can do a Christopher Walken impression, but to do a good one you have to pull it back.

Overall as interesting as it is to see his decline and ultimate failure as a person, they don't devote enough time to showing why he did what he did, or how his decline transferred to the point of murder. It was faulty as a story, the script needed work, and its hard for me to stand watching a movie where the people are so so so incredibly annoying. 4/10 stars.

Director: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato

Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green, Wilmer Valderrama, Wilson Cruz