Review of Killer Party (1986) by Jessica H — 26 Nov 2008
If you want an 80s time capsule in 91 minutes, this is it. Killer Party is one weird flick. It crosses so many genres and sub-genres that its really hard to tell what the makers were thinking of when they began production.
It starts off with zombie mayhem, then goes to a rock video, then to a bad 80s teen comedy, then to a sappy romance, finally, it comes to a slasher, then to a demon-possession flick! What the heck? In the 10 min.
of slasher mayhem, all the kills occur off-screen (unfortunately), and the one gory decapitation turns out to be fake. They most certainly did shoot the gore (I've seen stills of some of the missing footage),and I hope those beautiful scenes are cut back in when Warner Bros.
FINALLY releases this movie on DVD as part of their Warner Archives Collection (along with the equally sought after NIGHT SCHOOL). Anyway, the end is one of the best things about this film, where (*SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS*) it turns out Jennifer was the killer, only she was possessed by Allan, a fraternity member who died there because of an "accident.
" So, Jennifer begins climbing up the walls and the ceiling (imagine NIGHT OF THE DEMONS meets EVIL DEAD) and fooling the two survivors that she's alright by using her real voice instead of the creepy possessed one.
She growls, salivates all over the place, and her reasoning is...one of the girls rigged the house with fake haunted house scares, which doesn't make sense, because she killed two people before that incident.
It's a good party film (but not as good as Doom Asylum, Slaughter High, Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2, etc.) and recommended for its cool looking killer, out-of-left-field demon possession, and its transgressions into various genres.
This review of Killer Party (1986) was written by Jessica H on 26 Nov 2008.
Killer Party has generally received mixed reviews.
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