Party Monster

A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland

Murder was never so much fun . . .

When 'Disco Bloodbath' was first published, it created a storm of controversy for its startlingly vivid, strikingly fresh, and outrageously funny depiction of the hedonistic world of the New York City club kids, for whom nothing was too outré - including murder.

'Disco Bloodbath' was James St James' powerful true-life portrait of charismatic and flamboyant Michael Alig - King of the Club Kids. Set in post Warhol '80s New York, the book opens its doors to a kitsch-carnival existence where people are stars for no reason in their own cartoon world of crazed hedonism, decadent drug taking, glittering parties and unimaginable debauchery.

Flirting with fetishism and androgyny, theirs is a reality where the beautiful, bizarre, sequinned and freakish revel with tea, scones and heroin. But the charm of their magical kingdom soon spiralled into something more sinister. In their surreality, a world without rules, would getting away with murder prove to be the ultimate thrill?

Nominated for the Edgar Award for best true-crime book of the year, 'Disco Bloodbath' also marked the debut of an audaciously talented writer, James St James, who himself had been a club kid and close friend and confidant of Michael Alig, the young man convicted of killing the drug dealer known as Angel.

Now 'Disco Bloodbath' has been brought to the screen as 'Party Monster', with Macaulay Culkin playing killer Michael Alig and Seth Green as author/celebutante James St James.