Party Monster (2003)

Directed by

Randy Barbato, Fenton Bailey

Genre

drama film, comedy film, biographical film, docudrama, crime film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

R

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 199 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film follows Michael Alig the New York City party promoter who became known as the king of the Club Kids. It shows his rise to fame in the nightclub scene and his fall after his drug addiction leads him to commit a murder.

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What happens

Party Monster is a 2003 American biographical crime drama film written and directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, and produced by Bailey and Barbato with Jon Marcus and Christine Vachon. It stars Macaulay Culkin as the drug-addled "king of the Club Kids". The film tells the story of the rise and fall of the infamous New York City party promoter Michael Alig. It was Culkin's first film in nearly nine years since his starring role in Richie Rich. The film is based on Disco Bloodbath, the memoir of James St. James, which details his friendship with Alig and its collapse as Alig's drug addiction worsened, and its end after he murdered Andre "Angel" Melendez and went to prison. Bailey and Barbato had previously directed a 1998 documentary on the murder, also called Party Monster: The Shockumentary, from which certain elements were used for this film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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