{"id":29058,"date":"2018-10-31T03:10:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T07:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=29058"},"modified":"2018-09-23T00:13:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T04:13:14","slug":"murder-party-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/31\/murder-party-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder Party (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Jeremy Saulnier has managed to become one of the most original voices in indie cinema for the last eleven years, and \u201cMurder Party\u201d is an off beat debut that twists conventions left and right. Knowing Jeremy Saulnier as we do now, \u201cMurder Party\u201d is typical Saulnier, as he\u2019s prone to trying to make a statement with every film he makes. Every time you think \u201cMurder Party\u201d is heading one way, Saulnier is a lot more content with delivering the unexpected, and I quite enjoyed what he had to offer here. Like most debuts, \u201cMurder Party\u201d is rough around the edges but it\u2019s offbeat horror fun.<\/p>\n

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Christopher is a lonely man who decides to spend Halloween night alone with a few horror rentals and his favorite candy. When he accidentally finds an invitation for a top secret \u201cmurder party,\u201d he decides to take the initiative. Expecting a Halloween costume party, he constructs a makeshift costume of cardboard knight armor, but is horrified when he learns the party is an actual murder party. Thrown by a group of bohemians, they plan to murder Christopher for the sake of their art. A mix of \u201cWaiting for Guffman,\u201d \u201cAfter Hours,\u201d and \u201cSaw,\u201d Christopher has to figure a way out, all the while the bohemians await their financier, and begin plotting a grisly murder.<\/p>\n

\u201cMurder Party\u201d is much more a satire on modern art more than it is a horror comedy. Saulnier has a lot to say about modern and experimental art, as he depicts many of its patrons as blowhards, morons, and amoral losers. When we view the slime that plan to murder Christopher, suddenly he\u2019s not such a loser anymore. Christopher\u2019s journey also becomes one of self realization where he also figures out that his life isn\u2019t so bad when compared to the endless nightmare of being in these people\u2019s company. So anxious are they for artistic gratification that they reduce themselves to hideous lows. Along the way Christopher does his best to figure a way out of his jam, and Saulnier has a great time undercutting our expectations. One scene in particular involves Christopher stuck in a supply closet filled with resources, only for it go nowhere.<\/p>\n

I laughed a lot with the absurdist, often off the wall comedy. Saulnier has a twisted and demented sense of humor, and a lot of the gags range from cringe inducing, to downright hysterical. The entire cast is top notch, including Chris Sharp, as a man who is pushed in to such a weird, extraordinary situation and has no idea how to exactly approach it. The psychos introduced are very much maniacal, but also prone to incredible stupidity, allowing for Saulnier to have a great time with typical horror gags, including chainsaws, axes, and the general sub-genre of survival horror. \u201cMurder Party\u201d is a weird, insane, but great horror comedy, and one that will definitely fill the appetites of someone in the mood for something completely different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeremy Saulnier has managed to become one of the most original voices in indie cinema for the last eleven years, and \u201cMurder Party\u201d is an off beat debut that twists conventions left and right. Knowing Jeremy Saulnier as we do now, \u201cMurder Party\u201d is typical Saulnier, as he\u2019s prone to trying to make a statement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[219,441,477,950,1012,1087],"class_list":["post-29058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-halloween","tag-horror","tag-slasher","tag-survival","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29060,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29058\/revisions\/29060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}