(Shudder Original/streaming film. Director: Dominik Hartl. Screenwriters: Robert Buschwenter and Karin Lomot.)
Storyline
Julia and her friends travel to Croatia from Germany to have the “party of their lives”─a celebration that is interrupted by a clever killer who has targeted them.
Review
PARTY, a Shudder Original streaming film, is a generic, sometimes entertaining Eurostylish version of I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER crossed with a rape story. (At one point, one character sarcastically namechecks KNOW.) While PARTY is visually interesting, has pretty, young people (for those who care about that), and far from the worst thriller I’ve seen, its bland, mostly suspense-less (aside from the rooftop stalk-and-slay scene) film is more of a drama with mostly one-note characters. The filmmakers clearly have the chops to deliver a visually interesting work─it’s Robert Buchschwenter and Karin Lomot’s screenplay that makes PARTY a forgettable, flashy exercise that shows off modern-day technology and attractive youth partying. The end-shot is darkly humorous, so kudos to the filmmakers for that. Worth watching, if you need something occasionally-fun-in-parts flick that you can fall asleep to midway through, without missing anything important.
PARTY is rated R for mild gore, a flash of female nudity, violence, drug use and foul language.
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