I came across this on Netflix, it sounded silly, and I was sold. The director, Jeremy Saulnier, would later go on to make Green Room, which is another film I will be writing about soon.
The story is a simple one. Christopher Hawley finds this invitation to this Halloween party, but it’s a ……murder party. Yup, that just happened. This group of friends/colleagues never expected anybody to be stupid enough to show up, but Christopher is a guy who works for the NYPD putting tickets on vehicles. He has a cat named Sir Lancelot and he made this cardboard knight costume. You can’t expect much from this dude. He shows up, gets tied up and they wish to kill him. It appears though that they want to kill him as part of an art piece to impress Alexander, who promises to give one of them a $300,000 grant.
The group consists of Macon who has the hots for Lexi, but was never going to get her because she gives it up to Alexander. He’s a bitter dude who just wants some of that sweet Lexi ass. Lexi, as you can tell, is the “sexy” girl in the film who probably has the least amount of talent, but Macon white knights for her and Alexander uses her as his cum dumpster. If my language is too lewd for you at this point, this film isn’t for you, just to let you know. Paul is also a little chubby dude who takes things a tad too seriously, he seems very tightly wound, but he is also Alexander’s bitch and is bi-sexual. Sky is the other chick, who I found more attractive and likable, but her role is smaller. She just wants to go party with Cicero, who is another artsy guy having his own Halloween party. Bill looks like the baseball gang in The Warriors and he is French, I think, and he spends most of the film grumpy and playing on his phone.
Of course, there’s Alexander, who is very bossy, the default leader, and everybody bends to his whims because of the grant money that he holds over their heads. He brings his drug dealer, Zycho, to the party. Zycho doesn’t like the family business of selling perogies, so he wanted to sell drugs instead. He don’t give a fuck. Finally, there is Hellhammer, who is Alexander’s dog.
The film is silly at times, but it doesn’t truly hit it’s stride until they each get injected with truth serum and reveal all of their darkest secrets. That whole thing is fantastic. Basically, this film has 3 parts. The opening where you get to know people, but not terribly funny or exciting. Then the middle where everybody reveals more about themselves. The final act is just batshit crazy and gory and super fun.
I admit, I wasn’t digging the movie. It just existed, and I thought, oh a bullshit horror film for hipsters. Then it got good and it really was enjoyable. I would recommend this film if you can allow yourself to have some patience. I would absolutely buy this film.
One final note. There is a scene on the subway with a black dude rapping at Christopher, and it is fucking hilarious.
Rating: 6.1 This actually resonated with me a day later, so that tells me that I had a good time.
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