Rich Guests Are Hungry in “Monster Party” Trailer

As much as I love heist movies, I also love heist-gone-wrong movies. And I'm a sucker for movies about strangers with secrets meeting at a mysterious location. So I'm absolutely the target audience for Monster Party, which finds three thieves losing control of a robbery at a mansion. They've posed as caterers, but it turns out the guests they're serving have sinister intentions of their own.

Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck) gets a chance to chew the scenery once more as the leader of the elite, literal monsters, who won't let the trio of thieves leave now that they know the guests' dark secrets.

The supporting cast includes Robin Tunney (The Craft), Brandon Micheal Hall (CBS' God Friended Me), Lance Reddick (John Wick) and, uh, Bill Engvall (Blue Collar Comedy Tour).

RJLE, which has become one of the most talked about distributors this year with Mandy, will release the film in theaters, on VOD and on Digital HD on Friday, November 2.

About Kip Mooney

Like many film critics born during and after the 1980s, my hero is Roger Ebert. The man was already the best critic in the nation when he won the Pulitzer in 1975, but his indomitable spirit during and after his recent battle with cancer keeps me coming back to read not only his reviews but his insightful commentary on the everyday. But enough about a guy you know a lot about. I knew I was going to be a film critic—some would say a snob—in middle school, when I had to voraciously defend my position that The Royal Tenenbaums was only a million times better than Adam Sandler’s remake of Mr. Deeds. From then on, I would seek out Wes Anderson’s films and avoid Sandler’s like the plague. Still, I like to think of myself as a populist, and I’ll be just as likely to see the next superhero movie as the next Sundance sensation. The thing I most deplore in a movie is laziness. I’d much rather see movies with big ambitions try and fail than movies with no ambitions succeed at simply existing. I’m also a big advocate of fun-bad movies like The Room and most of Nicolas Cage’s work. In the past, I’ve written for The Dallas Morning News and the North Texas Daily, which I edited for a semester. I also contributed to Dallas-based Pegasus News, which in the circle of life, is now part of The Dallas Morning News, where I got my big break in 2007. Eventually, I’d love to write and talk about film full-time, but until that’s a viable career option, I work as an auditor for Wells Fargo. I hope to one day meet my hero, go to the Toronto International Film Festival, and compete on Jeopardy. Until then, I’m excited to share my love of film with you.