When Bill says "f**k this whole scene - everybody dies!" - he means the whole pretentious art scene, the pseudo-Manhattan lifestyle, the second-rate living. The main point here is the filmmakers believed the mid-2000s gentrification of Brooklyn was/is destructive. It's not just about their bad amateurish art, it's also about their lack of imagination. For example, on costuming, Bill dresses out of The Warriors, Lexi out of Blade Runner, Paul out of Lestat, etc. In contrast, Chris uses his imagination and dresses as a knight made from an old box, from which he cheerfully throws away a perfectly good pre-fab Halloween costume. It's a sort of David-vs.-Goliath on a small scale.The entirety is unmasked under a "truth serum" extended scene, wherein we learn that everyone is pretty ordinary. Macon loves Lexi, Paul is confused of his identity by religion and sexuality, and Alexander is just another junkie from New Jersey, not Manhattan. Only Chris is exactly who he says he is, a ticketing agent for the NYPD who has pretty much no secrets, an everyman superman, if you will, a knight in "shining" armor.The plot is simple: an invite for a "murder party" placed to the wind reaches our lonesome hero by pure happenstance, and when he arrives he becomes a victim of would-be murderers who will do it for the "art" of it, and oh yes the money too. This plot is fleshed out with the above-mentioned hacking and slashing of pretentiousness, done so with panache, class, and style, a real triumph of the screenplay over anything desired by the so-called Brooklyn artists herein. This is a commentary/morality play which is part "save our neighborhoods" and "save our civilization"!Dialogue is well-done, and does not itself exceed into pretentious overreach. It sticks to its goals, to skewer its victims. Chris is literally and metaphorically gagged for most of the film, as if to say "we're going to let the pretentious do themselves in and not have Bruce Willis wise-cracking."Good gore, and plenty of it, although in the 1970's/1980'd retro vein, again not trying to be "arty" or "new wave." Just good old fashioned chainsaw to the eyeballs and so forth.All in all, this exceeds Troma for story and cultural commentary, and will be enjoyed by anyone with a sense of humor.

Accepting a strange party invitation, a middle-aged man finds that the event is really a ruse by a group of psychopaths intending to kill him only to continually thwart their attempts in the process and has to save himself from the remaining group finishing what they started.This could've been quite the fun and enjoyable effort. What really tends to give this one a lot to work with is the exceptionally silly and goofy premise at the forefront of this one. The general concept of their ruse makes for a fun twist that's given right at the beginning of the film and the utterly cheesy premise has a lot of time to really work itself out with plenty of crazy encounters featuring him at the mercy of the group. The initial scenes of him mingling about the group where he's unaware of what they're going to do to him as they begin getting really obscure and off-the-wall makes for an overall stellar start to the film. As well, the way this quickly delves into the bonkers territory with their games and torture tactics which has a sense of unease in what's going on as they go through their routines and games with him which is where this one does slip somewhat but still has enough overt weirdness about it to really generate some fun times with their treatment of him setting up the film's best aspects in the final half. Consisting of a series of chases around not only their captive warehouse but also the neighboring art installation which ramps up the gore nicely but also has some thrilling action overall. Given that there's a lot of stellar gore and bloodshed, this here really makes for quite a fun time while it does have a few minor problems. The film's main issue is that it tends to downplay its stellar premise from the get- go with the idea of basically strapping him down in a chair for the main part of the film. He doesn't have much to do for almost nearly an hour into this and then has just slightly more to do than that in the overall finale so he really could've been written out of the film and not changed it much. That really does lower this one significantly since he doesn't do anything and has nothing to do with the story overall, rendering him somewhat useless than what should've been the case. As well, most of that is due to the film's other big issue with the really banal and overlong round of interviewing they go through which takes up so much time to accomplish nothing but irritation as nothing happens during these countless sessions and manages to drag this out with it's meandering and utterly unnecessary moments which are unneeded in the end. As well as the somewhat obvious low-budget nature of the film, these here are what really lower this one.Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence and heavy drug use.

My quick rating 5,6/10. Fun yet very bizarre movie that follows a group that plans a murder party and drops a random invite on the street not really expecting anyone to show up to be killed, for real all in the name of "art" THe movie is basically humor, then drug induced inside jokes, then a complete full on blood bath. It is constant misfortune, turn of events, and strange coincidence that leads the whole story. Overall pretty damn funny and worth the watch. I personally had not sen this one before and glad I now did. Check it out if you get a chance. Just a small warning, the drug part of the movie drags on WAY too long. Beyond that, the gore makes up for it.

On Halloween Eve in Brooklyn, an average Joe loser named Chris finds an invitation to a costume party. Arriving at the "party", Chris discovers he's fallen prey to the lethal trap set by deranged artists. As the night wears on, rivalries within the group flare up. A body count accrues, and Chris must take advantage of the ensuing chaos if he's to survive the night.I'm always suspicious of films that get high grades from people who only review that film. Makes me think they worked on the movie. This movie has a bunch of those. It's an OK film, but not great. Large parts of it drag on with no direction. And much it makes no logical sense.It's hard to pull off a movie like this and the filmmaker doesn't succeed.About a third in it becomes tedious and predictable. Half way through you wish it would end. Was hoping for the best but can't recommend.