What was party monster about

Even if you don't know them. Especially if you don't know them! Michael Alig : Hello! James : Hi! Oh I'm so glad you came. Michael Alig : I know you! James : Go once around the room in opposite directions. You go clockwise to my anti-clockwise. Tell all the people how you've lost your friend and how desperate you are to find them. Oh, where could my friend be? Now suddenly we bump into each other and scream with uncontained joy!

James : Good! Now link arms and around we go once more telling all our new found friends how we've found each other. We found each other! Michael Alig : We found each other! Don't worry, I've found him! James : Then leave. The whole thing should take an hour, 90 minutes tops.

Do that once a night for three months and you'll be the toast of the town. Sign In. Play trailer Biography Crime Drama. Directors Fenton Bailey Randy Barbato.

James book "Disco Bloodbath". See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Party Monster Photos Top cast Edit. Macaulay Culkin Michael as Michael. Wilson Cruz Angel as Angel. Seth Green James as James. The power he wielded on the club scene made him feel untouchable, so he didn't hesitate to boast of the murder. The press thought it was a publicity stunt--until Angel's body washed ashore.

It looks like we don't have a Synopsis for this title yet. Be the first to contribute! Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Synopsis submission guide. Sign In. Edit Party Monster To be fair, though, in , he insisted, per The Guardian , that his full comment, "You want me to say something shocking like he was a copycat, so we killed him," had been edited. While Michael Alig was busy boasting about a crime his club circles didn't quite believe he had done, the authorities were busy trying to figure out the identity of a dismembered body that had washed up on Staten Island in April , per The Advocate.

In October, dental records finally confirmed the deceased's identity as Andre "Angel" Melendez, and an autopsy revealed several interesting details that seemed to fit with a very particular rumor that was making the rounds in New York City's club circles.

The investigators who went after the suspected killers found, to their surprise, that the club community was very reluctant to help them, choosing instead to protect Michael Alig with their silence. However, Robert Riggs ultimately confessed and revealed Alig's role in the crime.

According to Deadline , both Alig and Riggs pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Riggs was paroled in , and Alig was released in after serving 17 years. In an interview with Rolling Stone upon his release, Alig stated that he still has no explanation for the crime. He also insisted that they didn't actually intend to kill Melendez. Per Vanity Fair , Michael Alig saw freedom in , after 17 years behind bars. However, as Variety tells us, he was still struggling with the dual prisons of drug addiction and his reputation.

His club-era friend James St. James had written the book Disco Bloodbath: A Fabulous but True Tale of Murder in Clubland , which served as the basis for Party Monster, and the dual pieces of fiction had become the "official" version of the events in the minds of the public. Alig has publicly stated that he didn't much care for the movie's portrayal of him and pointed out some inaccuracies. In the end, though, drugs proved to be a much greater enemy.

Alig had problems with drug use even after he was released from prison, and he was arrested for using crystal meth in The final chapter of a story full of tragic twists and turns came on December 25, , when Alig was found lifeless in his apartment in Manhattan.

It's believed that he died of a heroin overdose on December The blood- and glitter-filled story of Michael Alig and his cohorts seems like a movie already, so it's no surprise that it was made into one.

Unfortunately, it appears that Party Monster either failed to capture the story's kitsch-filled drama or perhaps embraced it too well.

As a look at the film's Rotten Tomatoes page readily tells us, the critics utterly lambasted Party Monster. While audience ratings have been rather more generous, people weren't actually rushing to see the movie. Striking a man with a hammer, suffocating him, and dumping the body in a bathtub with Drano before dismembering and dumping it is an extreme crime at the best of times — but in a interview with The Guardian , Michael Alig insisted that the way he and Robert Riggs killed Angel Melendez was actually rather more muted than its pop culture depiction.

When one pictures a hammer hitting a head, it tends to be a nasty, bloody affair. Alig said that Riggs actually went about it in a very different way than the classic method depicted in Party Monster. In reality, he argued, the whole thing was a fairly bloodless affair — they simply thought Melendez was unconscious, so they put him on a couch, where he asphyxiated. Later, when they realized he was dead, they put him in a bathtub with baking soda, ice, and Drano to cover the smell.

While Alig fully admitted that the pair eventually chopped off the body's legs before disposing of it, he blamed the dissociation that came with their heroin use and said that he had terrifying PTSD-induced flashbacks about it. Some might have found it strange to see Macaulay Culkin, most famous for his early work as Kevin McAllister in the Home Alone movies, playing Michael Alig, a glamor-obsessed clubber-turned-killer.

However, in a interview with ABC News , Culkin himself pointed out that the role of a club hell-raiser isn't quite as far-fetched for him as one might initially assume.

Culkin prepared for the role with a four-hour meeting with Alig in prison, listening to the man and studying his movements and mindset. In the process, he said he noticed that Alig appeared to be quite sorry for his actions but nevertheless seemed to be caught in his old club persona. Strand Releasing. The rise of the Club Kids Shutterstock.