{"id":7007,"date":"2020-06-16T20:26:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T02:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=7007"},"modified":"2020-06-16T20:26:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T02:26:35","slug":"monster-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=7007","title":{"rendered":"Monster Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/MV5BMTNlODExNTMtNDI4MC00NGUyLTlmYzUtNWM0YzBlZWU3YjQxXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjUxNzMwMTE@._V1_SY1000_SX675_AL_-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/MV5BMTNlODExNTMtNDI4MC00NGUyLTlmYzUtNWM0YzBlZWU3YjQxXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjUxNzMwMTE@._V1_SY1000_SX675_AL_-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/MV5BMTNlODExNTMtNDI4MC00NGUyLTlmYzUtNWM0YzBlZWU3YjQxXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjUxNzMwMTE@._V1_SY1000_SX675_AL_-624x924.jpg 624w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/MV5BMTNlODExNTMtNDI4MC00NGUyLTlmYzUtNWM0YzBlZWU3YjQxXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjUxNzMwMTE@._V1_SY1000_SX675_AL_.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><a title=\"Reasonable title, all things considered, but it sure has got Oingo Boingo stuck in my head.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6556576\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Monster Party<\/a> is a pretty weird movie. Like, it starts off as a crime drama that suddenly takes a left turn into horror at about the halfway point. (And even knowing that it would, the turn is shocking in its suddenness.) But all of that would be fine and I could just call it riffing on the same themes as <a title=\"My review of Ready or Not (2019)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=6688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ready or Not<\/a>[1], just with a different set up.<\/p>\n<p>Except that every aspect of the movie is just deeply nihilistic and dark. Going into why would be way more spoiler-laden than the already inevitable spoilers I have provided, but in retrospect, geeze. Recommended for people who like their movies like they like their coffee: blacker than the blackest depths of their empty souls.<\/p>\n<p>[1] Which I briefly mistook for <a title=\"My review of Hide and Seek\" href=\"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=43\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hide and Seek<\/a>, a movie about which I had completely forgotten and even now remember almost nothing, but which via downstream links on my review have lead me down a rabbit hole of old creepy internet stories for the past half hour, and selected my next movie for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monster Party is a pretty weird movie. Like, it starts off as a crime drama that suddenly takes a left turn into horror at about the halfway point. (And even knowing that it would, the turn is shocking in its suddenness.) But all of that would be fine and I could just call it riffing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30,1315],"class_list":["post-7007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-horror","tag-shudder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7007"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7016,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7007\/revisions\/7016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}