Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #85989 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-02-10
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English, Spanish
• Running time: 98 minutes

QX
"Oozes fabulousness"

The Times
"A real hip trip"

Customer Reviews

watch it twice it's better the 2nd time around
i have been waiting to see this film for ages and when i finally did it wasn't what i was expecting but i wasn't really sure what i was expecting so it worked. . Macaulay Culkin couldn't of picked a character further away from his 'Home Alone' days but scarily he still looks like that same little boy just taller. He was good but not a patch on Seth Greens camp cross dressing james st james which for me made the film he was amazing and i feel it was more his movie even though macaulay was the headlining star. marilyn mansons cameo was funny in an 'oh my god' kind of way, chloe sevigny isn't really in it that much and natasha lyonne even less and even though the whole story is leading up to the murder off his drug dealer angel, you don't see much of his story either. The 1st half is a happy intro into the lives of the clubs kids and it makes you smile and laugh and want to be there. the 2nd half is darker and kind of makes you shut up and watch especially the scene with james and the rat watching the murder. maybe thats why the critics hated it because it was too happy one second and so screwed up the next I haven't read the book so i can't compare and i didn't really know anything about the club kids or scene but i want to now, it is all so amazing and colourful and made me want to dress up and go mad i even bought the soundtrack and i hate techno music but i love this.
it was a fabulous look at club life back then and i wish i was part of it. This should become a cult favourite and i am sure will bring back memories to anyone who was there to experience the real thing if you weren't this is a good taster.
Don't hate the film cause its trashy and in your face, love it cause it's trashy and in your face, like the song says "everything BAD is GOOD" .

i love it
great acting from macaulay culkin and seth green! really believable - i also find it hilarious that marilyn manson played christina - the whole cast looks great in drag! highly enjoyable, if a little unnerving!

The Party Ends Before It Starts
The real-life story behind PARTY MONSTER the appeal of a three-car pile up on the highway of life: distasteful, grotesque, and you can't quite manage to look away. Michael Alig hit 1980s New York from nowhere and promptly managed to parlay himself into the party promoter to end all party promoters, earning big bucks for over-the-top "event" concepts that drew New York youth by the thousands. But Alig also developed a drug habit, a nasty arrogance, and a sociopathic disposition, and his story ends with the sort of grotesque murder you might find on the front page of a super market tabloid.

In other hands, PARTY MONSTER might have been a fascinating film, a commentary on the too-much-too-soon syndrome by way of the 1980s ultra-plastic "Me" generation. But while directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato start well, they immediately run into a major problem: for all the excitement he may have generated on the New York 1980s club scene, Michael Alig was a deliberately abrasive person--and ultimately PARTY MONSTER manages to contain all the abrasion without enough of the excitement.

The cast is generally quite good, with Marilyn Manson, Diana Scarwid, Dylan McDermott, and a host of others scoring memorable turns; Seth Green is also truly remarkable as "Club Kid" James St. James (on whose book the film is based.) But ultimately it is with Macaulay Culkin, former child superstar of HOME ALONE, with which the film sinks or swims. Culkin does indeed look the part of Alig, and heaven knows he nails Alig's grating quality--but the script and directors let him down: they never manage to provide him with an opportunity to show the excitement that Alig was said to generate, and consequently his performance feels singularly one note.

It's all very well to say what every one's intentions were, but ultimately what counts is what shows on the screen. And while it has moments of interest, when all is said and done the party's over before it really starts. The DVD includes several bonuses, including several interviews with Alig himself, and presents the film in your choice of widescreen or pan-and-scan.

GFT, Amazon Reviewer