Party Monster

Wow. Like a train wreck, I couldn't keep my eyes off of this film. I was riveted. And this was the sixth time I've seen it! An amazing retelling of the death of an era, and the death of a club kid.

Fascinating look at gothic humans in this Marilyn Manson type documentary. The biographical story is about a young man who was arrested for the grisly murder of another 'club kid'. I hope this comes out on video because so many don't have the pleasure of having cable network CINEMAX like I do.

A very entertaining film from the always wry Fenton Baily and Randy Barbato. Too bad that while Angel Melendez was a very sweet man who suffered a horrible death, the film doesn't attempt to portray him with any complexity. If you can allow yourself to forget this fact, it's easy to be swept away by this thumping, flashy doc.

Initially , the only things I knew about Party Monster was that it was the flick with Seth Green and MacCauly Culkin.

I wasn't too interested in seeing either of them play two extremely gay men, so at first, I passed. But, there was still a curious part of me that had me wondering why these two well-known actors made this film. So when I got the chance to watch the documentary based on real-life personalities, I mumbled "What the hell." And I'm glad I did.

Party Monster focuses on the scene of the Club Kids, and it's proclaimed leader, Michael Alig. Michael among others was already some-what famous due to making NYC's nightlife explode, but he became even more famous when he was arrested for murder of another Club Kid.

The story briefly talks about Angel (the deceased Club Kid), then gives us a pretty informative look into the whacked out night-life culture of the Club Kids - where it seems almost everyone is bi-sexual or gay, (Not there's anything wrong with that.) and how drugs became the focal point for almost every single Club Kid.

It's not a truly eye-opening documentary because we've all seen crazy stuff before. But it is interesting. Michael Alig committed murder and is paying for it, and it's quite obvious that everything he's done, he's created for and by himself. An attribute a lot of confident and successful people share. Unfortunately his path to success involved hard drugs and the loss of conscious reasoning.

Check this flick out if you like docs or have an interest in this Party Monster story.

Ever since my mom and I saw the motion picture "Party Monster", we were curious to learn more about the club kids and Michael Alig and James St. James. In my opinion about the tragic death of Angel Mendaz, I felt it was a fight gone too far because I did find out that Michael is actually despite the drug addiction is a very decent and kind human being. Same with Angel, he was a good friend, again, get past the drug selling, he was another very good human being. But then again I wasn't there, so I can't say this 100% with truth.

But I felt that the documentary was more on getting sympathy for Michael Alig, despite from what I heard and read on websites that he was a very nice guy, he did kill someone. He had claimed it was self defense, but he could've come clean from the get go then. Still the documentary itself on the club kids is a good one, if you are curious about the lifestyle and what it was like to be a club kid, this is a documentary worth watching.

8/10