REVIEW: Murder Party 2007

So Murder Party starts out on Halloween with a civil servant named Christopher S. Hawley.  A lonely loser of a man that has resigned himself to renting a few horror flicks (on VHS no less , I mean really, who the hell doesn’t own a DVD player in this day and age?) and watching them at home with his rather mangy looking cat. Fortunately (For us, not him, you have to admit that would make for an incredibly boring movie, right?) he finds a rather ominous looking invitation to a “murder party” just fluttering down the sidewalk on his way home. Since his mangy feline refuses to remove its mangy hide from his chair, Christopher fashions himself a rather fetching suit of armor out of cardboard and duct tape and decides to crash the party.

Long story short, the party is being hosted by a ‘collective’ of artists who intend to use poor Christopher’s murder as the lynchpin in their individual art projects in order to secure their piece of a large grant being offered up by some asshole named Alexander, who turns out to be a con man who intends to murder everyone, steal their art and sell it at a premium after they’re dead.

Luckily for Christopher, who by the way spends most of the movie tied to a desk chair and never ever removes his retarded cardboard costume, artists aren’t very bright and they’re somewhat self destructive.  In fact one offs herself right off the bat by eating a raisin and falling down puncturing her head.

In case you’re artist, and had trouble figuring it out for yourself in the first 10 minutes of the film,  Yeah, it’s that predictable, everybody dies except for little ol’ Christopher.

All in all this film wasn’t bad.  Camerawork was excellent.  Gore effects were above average.  I especially liked the melted wolfman and the chainsaw to the head scenes.

mmm.. all warm and melty...

Acting was fairly well done and professional like.

Splitting headache?

Not a bad way to kill an hour and twenty minutes.  Especially if you want something a little different from the run of the mill ‘crazy guy’ slasher movie.

And what DVD wouldn’t be complete without a video short teaching you how to make your very own cardboard and duct tape knight costume?  AND! A recipe for pumpkin bread!  Yay! I gotta admit, a DVD with a recipe for pumpkin bread is a first for me.

Oh, yeah, and the best line from Murder Party?

“Lexi’s pussy screamed at me.”

“It what?”

“AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!”