 Hello and welcome to another edition of frightfully forgotten horror movies And we're gonna continue our Canadian horror movie theme, but before we get started. What are we drinking? Well after spending some time in the trauma ward finally got you to drink a moose head I guess it's not that bad, but it is fitting for a Canadian review. Yeah worth almost killing me for Today's episode is a patreon request and it's requested by Dave Vanderhoff You can follow him on Instagram as horror movie and a beer, which we will salute Anyone who likes horror movies and beer. We will be talking about 1986's killer party. This is directed by William fruit and he's directed another Canadian horror film Which we will be covering called the house by the lake or also death weekend Barney Cohen Wrote this actually and he did Friday the 13th the final chapter and he also created forever night shitty Canadian Vampires show about some vampire cop or something like that Remember being on and being kind of tacky Ralph Seymour is in this He was in ghoulies just to mention one movie amongst tons of stuff that he was in killer party starts off We see this family at a funeral home. They're gonna morning the casket Yeah, they're about to leave and one woman goes back in she wants to say her last goodbyes And she starts really giving it to this corpse. I hate you you bitch And then the casket kind of starts rumbling and opens and pulls this woman into the casket great shot We're like foot gets yanked in and just a shoe drops push through into the crematorium Those guys wearing the headphones. They can't hear anything and but they also the casket I Then shows a shot of a couple in a drive-in and this is just a movie. They're watching. I'm like, oh man I want to keep watching this. Yeah seems pretty cool. The girl goes to the concession stand. It's completely empty There's nobody in there goes back to the car. The boyfriend isn't there He comes from the outside and he's like a zombie chasing her back into the concession stand There's some band there and start playing the sick April Fool's song that keyboard guy Then this turns out to be a music video that somebody else is watching yeah, yeah It's like oh man. It just blew my mind now. We're into the real world of the movie We're introduced to three girls Vivia Jennifer and Phoebe who I want to join a sorority and they got to go through the whole pledging process All that hazing shit and to make things even worse This is all taking place in and around it on April Fool's Day and they want to do all the hazing and the pledging in this old Abandoned sorority house which has been boarded up for years because there was hazing that went horribly wrong years ago Where a kid died. He's actually buried like behind the sorority house. Did this kid have any other family? Yeah, he wanted to take the kid away. No family plot or anything Burying behind the sorority house the sorority mother kind of knows they're gonna be doing this hazing It's all talking to that to me. So she's talking to oh, you know They want to use the house and so she goes to go kind of fix up the sorority house a bit You see this hand come up with this hammer and it's just her You think it's gonna be someone killing her, but then someone else comes behind her with a hazing paddle So we get to know some of these characters and you see all these kids playing pranks on each other So it's time for these girls to do the sorority pledge and they go to the old abandoned house They got candles make them do all these stupid things breaking raw eggs going into their mouths They got to keep it there for a period of time and spit it in this brandy glass and eating those goats eyes Shit old paddling they start doing the paddling as the paddling starts all the lights start to flicker The furniture starts to move and rock and glasses falling over and smoke starts coming out of the basement door Vivias wants to go explore and they're all no don't so she goes down there She's down there for a long time and go down together to see what she's been up to and she's strapped into this guillotine Guillotine comes down her head comes right the fuck off Rolls down the stairs to the set of feet picks up the head. Well, it's her Yeah, she pulled the prank on everybody the head of the sorority house is like royally pissed off by this But intrigued to on top of it and they end up letting all three girls into the sorority They do let Vivia in solely because of this prank and they want Vivia to recreate the prank during the April Fool's party that they're gonna have at that abandoned house The teachers get kind of wise that a party is gonna be happening So there's this one professor professor Zito starts casing out the house a little bit goes into the basement And you see the blade for the guillotine come down and then go back up all of a sudden he turns around He's like hey, what are you doing here? And he gets all electrocuted So the big party's on at the sorority house everyone's got super 80s costumes Like a costume party. Yeah, you got the 80s music going everybody's kind of dancing having a good time bottles and the mantles start Exploding and all this stuff starts happening and all of a sudden Jennifer Gets dragged into the basement you see her face to her eyes roll into the back of her head And she starts getting all kind of creepy you looking meanwhile the guys start getting kind of pissed off Some of them want to go help Jennifer Others don't and they start fighting and one of them stabs the other April Fool it was all a great prank, right? That's a boner That's your boner so the party's starting to wind down But there's a few people lingering and one of the girls is just getting her coat getting ready to leave and she's Approached by somebody in one of those old diving suits. I like how it even has the weights on it It went all out. This person's got a trident. Please no more pranks. You know, I've had enough Boom right through the stomach with it. The party's going on. This killer is gonna be loose. He's still on the loose And that's where we're gonna end the plot because if you want to see what happens with the rest of killer party Man, I'm gonna tell you it gets crazy So why should you watch killer party? Well, first of all the amount of misdirection in this movie is insane It starts off with the movie within a music video within a movie All about playing pranks in April Fool's and the movie is playing pranks on you before you even get into the major Plot to the movie. Yeah, it's so rare Yeah, and it's done so well in the misdirection with like who the killer might be you always see these feet Yeah, scratching at the ankle shoes approaching. There's always these POV shots So what but who's POV that old woman gets killed? You see the hammer come up and like oh, she's gonna get killing it. No, it's her Yeah, like there's lots of misdirection like that It really helps the mystery of the movie some of the kills to like he thinks somebody's gonna die one way And they die a completely different way it's like oh fuck I didn't see that coming I expect that teacher to be put in the guillotine, but he just gets electrocuted. Yeah, I was thinking like oh man Like they don't show many kills they all cut before any gore really happens was not intentional They had to cut it to make the rating so they did film and stuff with good effects and good gore But they had to ditch it goes to open up the fridge and they see this and it cuts like right like oh man I want to see the hand come right up Yeah blood and everything you know and the characters for this movie are super great all memorable Individual and individuals. Yeah, like you remember each one and they all have their own little quirks about them And they're not cliches either. Yeah, they can easily be in 80s movie Maybe that Martin characters a little bit of a cliche awkward kind of guy. He gets the lady at the end You know yeah, he does get one of them You know he goes after one doesn't get her but he goes after the second one and get sir You think he'd be a nerd and kind of beat up or picked on he doesn't really get picked on that much in the movie No, he's just awkward. Yeah, he's just awkward and just sort of a normal dude. What do you want me to do? I didn't know I'd have a choice. Yeah That's great. You very rarely do kind of a low-budget Canadian movie the acting is really good There's not one phoned in bad performance and for a bunch of unknown actors like all the girls pretty much unknown Haven't done much before since they're solid Yeah, you could completely believe them with the production value does not feel low-budget or Canadian for that matter too, right? Has the same vibe as prom night to that same look that same kind of production value Which again doesn't look Canadian and this movie was supposed to actually be called April Fools But because it was done in 83 and then shelled for three years April Fools day took the name All right, so then they couldn't call it that so they had to call it killer party Which is actually a pretty good title anyways Yeah, good enough and it works for the movie April Fools day is a better title for April Fools day Yeah killer parties a good title for this exactly. I think it worked the writing in this movie is great The dialogue is not hokey. It's funny when it's supposed to be funny It's not funny because it's bad or horrible. It's believable. You believe that these kids are Interacting and having fun with each other the music for this movie is fucking great super 80s It's perfect and that the songs in there are kind of funny to this at one song. These are the best Movie ends all bleak and everything and then that happy song plays these are the best days So you can tell they're kind of taking the piss of it Yeah, they knew what they were doing and the twists in this movie especially at the end where you expect it to be like a Killer it goes completely left field It is a whoa the shit hits the fan at the end and it's quite the finale The whole sorority house is all falling apart and stairs are crumbling It's complete madness and it's pulled off very well like the production on that last act is great And then the last act is over and there's another twist at the end Exactly, which is great. You're always put on the edge of your seat with this movie, too You know it's like something happens and you're like, okay. Well, that's over. Oh, wait It's not over or something else like whoa, holy fuck and the characters keep developing. Yeah from that exactly, right? The movie keeps going Abandoned sorority house is a great setting for a movie they decorate it up for the party So it's still kind of run down, but now it's all colorful and lit up It's kind of neat how they use the same place, but it's got two different looks to it, right? Yeah, depending on what point the movie you're in they keep things fresh. Yeah, give me an 80s party any yeah That fridge that leopard print fridge Man, I'd love something like that. That'd be awesome. There were a couple of things about this movie We did have a little bit of issue with and mostly it was the pacing where they could have spent their time on better Things like it took a little bit too long to get to the big party at the end and they also could have spent more time explaining Why all this is happening? So they probably could have like ditched a couple of scenes and expanded the party I also wish they would have went more into the Possession and the occult side of things they only touch on it in like one sentence other than that It's a super fun movie it even though. There's not kills happening right away and plentiful until in the end You're still enjoying the movie. Yeah, the characters keep you going and you're always Wanting more. Yes, if you want a good 80s slasher that's kind of half horror half comedy and does both pretty damn good Yeah, check out 1986's killer party And until next time keep drinking moose head You