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A prom's just a prom, it's the afterparty that really counts - and
thus, Nelson (Drew Shotwell) has invited his girlfriend Amy (Laurel
Toupal), their friends Molly (Tommie Vegas) and Olivia (Destinie Orndoff)
and their respective boyfriends Travis (Billy Brannigan) and Andrew (Ryan
Poole) to his uncle's house by the lake in the middle of nowhere, USA, to
really get it on for one last time before they all go to different
colleges and might not see each other anymore. Thing is, as good as the
plan sounds on paper, it's not that good anymore once the
"house" proves nothing but a rundown cabin in the middle of an
area where plenty of girls have just gone missing of late. Even a shitload
of beer can do little to lift the spirits, and before you know it Molly
and Andrew have a fall-out, Molly wanders off to never be seen again, and
... well, there's a masked killer roaming the premises, with a
predilection of slaughtering teens in various ways, and our heroes don't
even notice it before half of them are dead - and the other half don't
seem to do too good a job to stay alive either ... Now if
you're looking for anything terribly original here, you'll probably be
disappointed - but Party Night is pretty awesome as being what it
intends to be, and that's a slasher movie in the tradition of genre pics
from the 1980s: The formula is really down to the T, there's violence in
all the right places, the murders are gruesome, the masked killer looks
creepy, and while the teens do stupid things in this one, they are
intelligent enough to be respected as human beings (not always the case in
slashers), and likeable enough to be cared for. Basically, you ought to
not expect the wheel to be re-invented here, but for slasher night, you'll
be perfectly served!
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