Party Monster (2003)

• Year: 2003
• Released: 17 Oct 2003
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 4 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0320244/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/party_monster
• Metacritics:
• Available in: 480p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
• Runtime: 98 min
• Writer: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, James St. James
• Director: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
• Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Wilson Cruz, Seth Green
• Keywords: new york city, hotel, loss of loved one, based on novel or book, birthday, bath,

	6.2/10
	36/100
	29% – Critics
	75% – Audience

Party Monster Storyline

Set in the New York club scene of the late 1980’s thru the 1990’s, a tale which is based on the rise and fall of club-kid promoter Michael Alig, a party organizer, whose extravagant life was sent spiralling downward when he boasted on television that he had killed his friend, roommate, and drug dealer, Angel Melendez. Originally from Indiana, Alig moved to New York, and came to be an underground legend, known for his excessive drug use and outrageous behavior in the club world. At his peak, he had his own record label, and magazine, and hosted Disco 2000, one of the biggest club nights in New York in the ’90s. He was doing a lot of drugs, and as his addiction got worse, his party themes became darker and more twisted. Alig’s saga reached its tragic crescendo when he viciously murdered his drug dealer, Angel, by injecting him with Drano and throwing him in the East River. The power he wielded on the club scene made him feel untouchable, so he didn’t hesitate to boast of the murder. The press thought it was a publicity stunt–until Angel’s body washed ashore.—Sujit R. Varma

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Party Monster Movie Reviews

So bad, it’s good – a guilty pleasure, if not quite as hedonistic as the lives of the club kids themselves

Party Monster is based on the true story of 80s club kid and promoter, Michael Alig, infamous for his bizarre New York parties and, later, for the brutal murder of a drug dealer.

It’s adapted from Alig’s friend James St James’ book Disco Bloodbath by filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, whose earlier documentary about Alig actually inspired St James to write the book. After a nine-year absence, Macauley Culkin returns to film as cherubic bisexual Alig, who persuades James St James (a camp Seth Green) to teach him the art of infamy.

Famous for doing nothing long before reality TV, Alig becomes a manufacturer of celebrity and a promoter, serving up some wild parties, including a Halloween bloodbath, truck rave and kinky hospital party. The costumes, by Richie Rich and Michael Wilkinson, are spectacular and capture the excesses of the era. These kids affix fake spiders and cobwebs to their faces, wrap themselves in blood-soaked bandages,wear full body costumes and never look less than fabulous.

Considering the low budget and appalling production values, the high profile supporting cast is a surprise. Dylan McDermot plays Galien, club owner and Alig’s mentor, with Mia Kirshner as his wife, Chloe Sevigny as Alig’s girlfriend, plus Natasha Lyonne, Marilyn Manson and John Stamos. Wilson Cruz is enigmatic as wannabe and drug dealer Angel, and Wilmer Valderra is suitably objectified as Alig’s beloved beefcake, DJ Keoki.

Party Monster suffers from uneven performances and poor direction but despite this, it’s fascinating. It captures the disposability of party drug culture convincingly and will most likely become a cult classic. ***/***** stars.

Underrated (***)

In choosing “Party Monster” as his first film in 9 years, Macauley Culkin follows a traditional pattern. He quickly became America’s favorite cute little kid in the first 2 “Home Alone” movies, but then began to fade in popularity after starring in one mediocre kid flick after another. So he went into hibernation, grew up, and now returns, going for acting credibility in a tough indie movie this time rather than mainstream popularity. Sure, it’s calculated, but I’d rather see him as a narcissistic, gay killer in “Party Monster” than in another movie like “Getting Even With Dad”, so I’m not complaining.

Culkin plays the real-life character of Michael Alig, a gay kid from the Midwest who moved to New York in the 1980’s. He met James St. James (Seth Green), a ridiculously flamboyant socialite who is always dressed in bizarre costumes. There is a great scene in a doughnut shop early on where James demonstrates to Alig how to work a club, and this is Alig’s introduction to that culture.

Alig, shy at first but extremely ambitious, gets a job promoting parties at the Limelight and for a short time there, becomes a genuine subculture “celebrity”. Him and the “Club Kids” even appeared on talk shows because of their elaborate costumes and crazy lifestyle.

Eventually, his life spiraled out of control because of drug addiction and his own outrageous self-absorption, culminating in the murder of his drug dealer, Angel (Wilson Cruz), by hammer and injections of Drano. He let the body lay in his apartment for several days, before finally dismembering it and throwing it in the river.

Culkin is great as Michael Alig. It’s hard to imagine how he makes a character who is so shallow and self-involved likable, but Culkin does it. Even in the end, after Alig has committed murder, we still don’t completely hate him.

It’s Seth Green, though, who absolutely steals the movie. As James St. James, the only character present who seems to have a real life force and a human heart beating under all that glitter, his performance is funny, touching, and surprising. It’s also amazing how Green utterly transforms his voice and stature. He still LOOKS every bit like Seth Green, but he becomes almost unrecognizable because of his complete transformation into this larger-than-life character.

“Party Monster”, on such a low budget, is rather sloppily made and it goes on for too long, but on the whole it’s a good movie. One that shifts gears from entertaining to disturbing with comfort and ease. And in Seth Green’s performance, it has one of the most interesting characters of the year.

Want to take a strange trip?

The old saying is “truth is stranger than fiction,” and you know what, it’s true. In “Party Monster” we are taken on a very trippy and true little journey that allows us to see first-hand, the crazy club life of New York City in the 1980s. In particular, we get an up-close and personal biography of the “club kids.” The “club kids” were a group of young party monsters that were actually paid by club owners to show up at their clubs. Mind you, these kids did not do any kind of performing at all, they simply showed up. However, when you see their outrageous costumes and attire, you see why people had their eye out for them. These kids were bizarre and odd and stoned and well, weird. Livng lives that were so out of balance, tragedy was inevitable. Green and Culkin portray the two most prominent members of this group and they are both good. However, it is Culkin that really steals the movie, breaking away from his stereotypical characters of the past and playing somebody that very few actors would be brave enough to take on. The reason I gave this movie 10 stars, is the look and sound. This movie is like watching an acid flashback from the 1980s. I mean, you are there, in the room with them as they strut in and snort up. The music is 1980s, the attitude is 1980s, it is hard to describe. Much of the film is dream-like. Moreover, Culkin is mesmerizing as a character too odd for words. No, the story and acting are not Oscar-worthy, but the look of the film, the feel of the film, wow! I predict that this film will become more popular as the years go by. It has the qualities of all those great midnight movies of the 1980s. I really recommend it for people craving something different and historical (in a weird sense).