Well first of all ignore all the 10 ratings. Fake reviews. I'd also ignore all the 1 ratings since they are people who don't like the 10 ratings.

My review is my honest opinion. I started watching this and thought it was sort of dumb. But then literally just as I was about to shut it off, it started getting good.

Turns out it's a really weird ride. In a decent way. There's a lot of violence that keeps your attention and it's sort of a little bit campy too. Just enough to make you wonder if it's a satire.

So here's the honest deal -- all the super positive and super negative reviews cancel each other out and you're left with a 5, which is just about right for this flick. Maybe a 6 on a good day.

We've all seen movies that feel like they can't make up their mind what they want to be, that never find their tone, or have an off sense of pacing, where nothing seems to happen for a long time, and then too much happens in quick succession, and you're either not paying attention or have stopped caring.

"Monster Party" is guilty of all that, sure, but it's a bit different to the norm in the sense that it's final scenes seem like they were directed by a completely different person than everything that led up to it. We get a long, tedious introduction sequence, finally the violence we have all been waiting for at the half way point, some totally uninspired pseudo-thriller cat-and-mouse sequences, and irritatingly non-threatening villains.

Then the movie goes full horror in the last fifteen-or-so minutes, with some supernatural type events that I'm not sure it bothered to explain.

The only actor in the movie who could play scary is Lance Reddick, better known as Cedric Daniels on "The Wire". He is underserved here, as he is in every movie role I've seen him in. The decision to leave the real villainy up to some younger Bret Easton Ellis type characters is fatal to it ever becoming scary.

What is really egregious to the movie, however, is its totally out-of-whack pacing, its plot making no sense, and the mood seems going for a slow burn at the beginning and then turning into ridiculous hyper-kinetic carnage at the end. Or, the fact that the movie has too many characters with too many motivations, and you don't care about any of them and none make any impression, or, blah, blah, blah...

I could go on for a while listing everything wrong with this movie, but I'd rather just stop here.

A trio of small-time thieves infiltrate a fancy party being held at a posh Malibu mansion disguised as caterers. Things turn nasty after the trio find out much to their horror that the guests at said party are actually recovering serial killers.

Writer/director Chris von Hoffman relates the delightfully demented story at a zippy pace, adroitly crafts a creepy and unsettling tone, generates a good deal of tension, and further spices things up with wickedly amusing touches of inspired dark humor.

Moreover, it's acted with zest by an enthusiastic cast: Sam Strike as the desperate Casper, Virginia Gardner as the perky Iris, Brandon Michael Hall as the easygoing Dodge, Kian Lawley as smarmy jerk Elliot Dawson, Erin Moriarty as sassy rebellious teen daughter Alexis, Robin Tunney as the sweetly composed Roxanne, Julian McMahon as the sinister Patrick, and Lance Reddick as the suave Milo. The moments of brutal and gory violence pack a savage punch. A twisted treat.