Trivia / Party Monster

• Reality Subtext: It's a little grim to see Macaulay Culkin playing a drug addict these days. (Apparently he bought Marilyn Manson's first pack of cigarettes for him during the filming, amused by the irony of Kevin McCallister being the one to corrupt the performer pop culture was hailing as the Antichrist.)
• Reality Is Unrealistic: Casual reviewers of the film have derided it's schtick as a "lurid display of camp [that] soon turns tedious," and deride the characters as being played too over the top. The filmmakers insist that they actually toned those things down.

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