History YMMV / PartyMonster

* HilariousInHindsight: The book the movie is based on mentions Creator/MacaulayCulkin a few times and guess who's in the movie.
* JerkassWoobie: Michael.

* {{Narm}}: The character's ''extremely'' campy, grotesque sensibilities are rather jarring.

* {{Narm}}: The character's ''extremely'' campy, grotesque sensibilities are rather... jarring.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: To a tee -- more than a few viewers found being asked to follow along an entire film with such self-destructive, unlikable characters a tall order.

* MoralEventHorizon: James St. James tells Michael that their friend and very first protégé [[{{Transgender}} Christina]] has died... and Michael barely reacts, pushing him to come out and party regardless. It's not the worst thing he ever does, but it's the tipping point for the worst of his callousness to come. In another sense, his talk show antics are a breaking point for many of his friendships.

** Seeing Creator/MacaulayCulkin play an increasingly frail drug addict is a little grim considering he would develop drug addiction problems of his own.

* EarWorm: "Money, success, fame, glamour..."

** Out-of-universe, seeing Creator/MacaulayCulkin play an increasingly frail drug addict is a little grim.

** Out-of-universe, seeing Macaulay Culkin play an increasingly frail drug addict is a little grim.
* HilariousInHindsight: The book the movie is based on mentions Macaulay Culkin a few times and guess who's in the movie.

* NauseaFuel: Anything involving rats or urine. Or [[NightmareFuel Drano.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: James St. James tells Michael that their friend and very first protégé [[{{Transsexual}} Christina]] has died... and Michael barely reacts, pushing him to come out and party regardless. It's not the worst thing he ever does, but it's the tipping point for the worst of his callousness to come. In another sense, his talk show antics are a breaking point for many of his friendships.

** Out-of-universe, seeing Macaulay Culkin play an increasingly frail drug addict is a little grim.

* HarsherInHindsight: The example listed in Foreshadowing above, as well as early on in the film's events, Michael affectedly declining to carve a turkey because you know he couldn't ''bear'' it and James snarking that carving up meat's the best part.
** Out-of-universe, seeing Macaulay Culkin play an increasibly frail drug addict is a little grim.
* JerkassWoobie: Michael again.
* MoralEventHorizon: At one point, James St. James comes to tell Michael that their friend and very first protege [[{{Transsexual}} Christina]], has died, likely not well... and Michael barely reacts, pushing him to come out and party regardless. It's not the worst thing he ever does, but it's the tipping point for the worst of his callousness to come. (In another sense, his talk show antics are a breaking point for many of his friendships.)