Boring

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Attempting to pledge a sorority, a group of friends decides to join the other sorority members in transforming a nearby deserted house into an April Fools gag house, and when a mysterious killer shows up the dwindling survivors fight back against the deadly intruder.This here was one of the best examples of the cheesy slasher. What makes this one so much fun is the fact that this one absolutely revels in that atmosphere as there's a real abundance of it that just permeates the whole film. This one does it from the very beginning, hardly making its intentions subtle with the film-within-the-film opening and the ensuing dance number over the opening credits, although the fraternity members are also responsible for some more of this, as they continue to prank out the sorority throughout the beginning to some really funny moments. The sequence at the staff meeting starts out hilarious and soon becomes even more so, and from the boys' opening prank to their hazing ritual and then onto the house pranks themselves all the way to the general atmosphere and tone this is barely a dent in the film's cheesiness. When it's not being funny, there are some good slasher moments as well including the early stalking in the sorority, the professor's shocking encounter in the basement and the way that just about all the deaths occur during the party allows it to just be over-the-top fun. There's just a ton of action in that scene, as the killer gets going and seems to kill someone every five minutes and that just makes it seem all the more fast-paced as just about the entire cast is knocked off in rapid fashion and the great stalking and supernatural destruction throughout make it really exciting. The killer's costume itself is quite imposing, with the whole body hidden behind an ancient diving suit that is big and bulky, giving it the perfect creepy appearance. The best plus, though, is it's undeniably cheesy charm since there are a few problems with this one that comes up. The most glaring flaw here is the aforementioned cheesiness. While this is one of the film's best virtue, the fact that so much of it is quite silly does present it with some problems. The first is that the film jumps around in tone quite often and becomes a little disorienting at times. Another thing is that it stops the film cold to include these inserts and disrupt the flow of the film even more so. Though it produces one of the funniest gags, the staff meeting didn't need to be there, nor did the fraternity's adventures with the sorority. These just stop the film to include them and don't really contribute anything beyond some laughs, and could easily have been snipped. As well, the film features practically zero blood or gore and all of the kills are just bland and bloodless or carried out off-screen only to stumble upon them later which does take a lot of the sting out of the situation. The other big problem is that the ending is a little confusing. There's way too much happening and it becomes a little disorienting when it switches over to something else quite rapidly. Those are the film's real problems.Rated R: Language, Violence, Nudity and drug use.

Metro Goldwyn Mayer didn't do much with "Killer Party", only giving it a small theatrical release before dumping it on home video, where it apparently managed to gain a small cult audience. But I personally can't figure out why the movie has fans. I admit it's not completely bad. The opening of the movie, which pulls the rug out from under the audience twice, is clever and memorable. And for a low budget Canadian movie, the production values aren't that bad.But when it comes to delivering the goods, the movie pretty much fails. There is nudity, but it's pretty fleeting. It's even worse when it comes to gore and violence. Believe it or not, in the first hour of the movie, there is only a body count of TWO people. Most of the movie is in fact devoted to college pranks and other boring nonsense. It's all very obvious padding, so much so that one has to wonder why time wasn't instead devoted to explaining some murky plot details, like the fraternity pledge who was (I think) killed in the past.The movie starts to get going during the last twenty minutes, quickly adding to its body count and containing some energy. But it's ultimately too little and too late - there's hardly any blood and gore, for one thing. And most of the murders happen offscreen. (Possibly the movie was cut down in the editing room in order to get an "R" rating.) In the end, the movie is for the most part a tired and passionless exercise. 80s slasher film fans will be unsatisfied, and even more squeamish viewers who don't want to see graphic violence will be bored stiff.

What a piece of fluff. The rating may say R, but this is barely a PG-13 film. In fact, if the meager glimpses of boobies were cut out from the opening hot tub scene, there'd be no doubt this wasn't actually an R-rated film. It's really kind of a cheat, too, to set up the plot like there's a real-world psycho killer on the loose, and then conveniently decide right at the climax to make it a supernatural entity, even more especially a silly Exorcist-type ripoff demon, too.As it is, this is a film that only 14-year-old girls could really enjoy, and be scared by.But if you happen to be one of those deluded souls who like crappy 80s music, there's plenty of that on the soundtrack here.

I made the huge mistake of going to see this movie when it came out in the mid-80's. It's a teen slasher flick, but a really bad one. The plot and characters were nothing but a bunch of clichés that any ten year old kid with cable has seen dozens of times already. How bad is it? A bunch of kids have a party at a house, but there's a killer in the house knocking them off, one by one. Ooooh, original. There was no suspense, gratuitous sex, or decent gore to offset the boredom either. By the middle of the movie people started walking out of the theater. Those of use who stayed just spent the rest of the movie mocking it. After about the third, bloodless killing, I remember someone wondering if this thing was rated G.