Friday, March 12, 2010

Murder Party (2007)

On Halloween night, Chris finds an invitation to a murder party on the street. Rather than spend the night alone watching movies, he decides to go to the party.

The party is in a seedy warehouse on the bad side of town. When Chris arrives with his pumpkin bread, he finds that the party is really an art project where pretentious artists are going to kill him and compete for a grant from a rich benefactor.

The premise of the film is interesting and the set up goes well. But once Chris is tied to a chair, the film degenerates into a tediously long conversation between the annoying, pretentious artists. There are a few more interesting spots along the way, but it never reaches the potential of the plot.

There were three things that made me laugh.
  1. The line about how anyone stupid enough to come to a murder party deserves to be murdered.
  2. After eating the pumpkin bread, Sky falls to the ground because she's allergic to non-organic raisins, and ends up with a huge bloody gushing hole in her head.
  3. Chris's pathetic attempt to escape from the closet in which he dumps a pile of junk in front of the murderous group, dodges left, dodges right, and then runs away.

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