Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 02/10/2004
Dubbed: English/Espanol
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 99 min
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
After profiling
Monica Lewinsky,
Billy Haynes, and
Tammy Faye Bakker, documentarians
Fenton Bailey and
Randy Barbato make their feature debut with this true-life tale of the rapid climb and lurid demise of a flamboyant young club promoter in late-'80s/early-'90s Manhattan. Based on
James St. James' nonfiction account
Disco Bloodbath as well as on the writer/directors' own 1998
documentary,
Party Monster features former child star
Macaulay Culkin as
Michael Alig, a Midwestern teen determined to forget his past amidst the bright lights and throbbing house music of New York City's nightlife. Introduced to the club scene by
St. James (
Seth Green),
Alig quickly becomes an event promoter himself, dreaming up bizarrely themed dance parties in such unlikely venues as fast-food restaurants and subway cars. But this archetypical "club kid" orchestrates his own downfall when, stoned on designer drugs, he and accomplice
Freez (
Justin Hagan) brutally murder their small-time dealer friend
Angel Menendez (
Wilson Cruz).
Party Monster had its world premiere in the Dramatic Competition at the
2003 Sundance Film Festival.
~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide