10 Party Animal Horror Movies

"Party time!" There are few other sentiments than this which we hear repeated quite so frequently in horror movies (well, those made from about 1978 onwards at least). As do we all from time to time, horror movie characters are anxious to cut loose, get wild, let their hair down, and more often than not indulge in the things they know they're not really supposed to.

Of course, there's nothing more guaranteed to get you killed in a horror movie than acting on such sinful impulses.

That said, it's sometimes surprising how understated horror movie parties prove to be. After the protagonists enthuse early on about how hard they're going to party, more often than not we wind up with nothing more than five or six people sitting around a cabin sipping a few beers, with maybe one or two of them getting a bit flirty, and another being a bit of a prankster. None of this is exactly worthy of the last days of Rome, or Andrew WK for that matter.

Still, there are some horror movies which up the ante, and present us with wild, large scales sequences of excess and jubilation which, dependent on the viewer's proclivities, look like parties which you might actually want to go to. Although most of us would probably want to leave before the bodies start hitting the floor.

Expect booze, nudity and illicit substances galore; but don't anticipate much in the way of political correctness or good taste.

Though the Ghoulies franchise is synonymous with the image of a little green monster sticking its head ominously out of a toilet, the first two movies in the series were played surprisingly straight for the most part. Not so for 1991's third instalment, which significantly ups the trashiness by taking the Ghoulies into a format that positively oozes low brow humour: the frat house comedy.

It's prank week on a typically rowdy college campus, with two rival fraternities bitterly battling it out to be named supreme pranksters of the year (although they tend to refer to such activity as 'yanking'... which sounds dirtier than it usually is). Naturally this proves a great environment for the mischievous little Ghoulies, who wreak havoc on the sly in a very Three Stooges-esque fashion, leaving the frat-boys to take the blame.

The set-up also lends itself to a great deal of partying. The frat boys (among them Jason Scott Lee and Matthew Lillard in early, not to mention unflattering roles) have fridges filled with literally nothing but beer.

And when they're not throwing packed out house parties full of noise, pizza and random topless women, they're going out on pantie raids at sorority houses - which see them overpowered by random topless women. You get the point: basically, there's a lot of random female nudity in this film.