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Denise Allen (April Martucci) heads up the tech firm behind Tutor, an app which connects tutors and students remotely. In the final stages of an app relaunch, Denise has entrusted her best friend[=/=]business partner[=/=]sister-in-law Ashley (Veronika Issa) to plan the launch party, which she hopes will impress her main investor, billionaire Peter Mason (Creator/EricRoberts). Through a crazy coincidence she Denise meets Molly Cole (Jackie Moore), a professional party planner, who offers to help with the party. Denise brings Molly onboard, unaware that Molly has a vendetta against her and some sinister plans for Denise her and Ashley, plus Denise's husband Josh (Matt Pohlkamp) and daughter Grace (Nicolette Langley).
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* XanatosSpeedChess: Realizing that there's a good chance that Grace will recognize her at the party and squeal to Denise, Molly [[spoiler:plans to murder Grace]].
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* XanatosSpeedChess: Realizing that there's a good chance that Grace will recognize her at the party and squeal to Denise, Molly [[spoiler:plans to suddenly decides [[spoiler:to murder Grace]].
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Denise Allen (April Martucci) heads up a the tech firm which has launched behind Tutor, an app called Tutor, which connects tutors and students remotely. In the final stages of an app relaunch, Denise has entrusted her best friend[=/=]business partner[=/=]sister-in-law Ashley (Veronika Issa) to plan the the launch party, which she hopes will impress her main investor, billionaire Peter Mason (Creator/EricRoberts). Through a crazy coincidence she meets Molly Cole (Jackie Moore), a professional party planner, who offers to help with the party. Denise brings Molly onboard, unaware that Molly has some sinister plans for Denise and Ashley, plus Denise's husband Josh (Matt Pohlkamp) and daughter Grace (Nicolette Langley).
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* MotiveRant: At the climax Molly helpfully explains everything to a bound-and-gagged Grace, along with some EvilGloating and a side of oddball roleplaying.
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* MotiveRant: At the climax Molly helpfully explains everything to a bound-and-gagged BoundAndGagged Grace, along with some EvilGloating and a side of oddball roleplaying.
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* {{Fanservice}}: Molly, played by Jackie Moore, who's also a model, dials it way up for the bar scene (wearing a crop top and tight black pants) and the finale (wearing a sleeveless red dress with a huge CleavageWindow).
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* {{Fanservice}}: Molly, played by Jackie Moore, who's also a model, dials it way up for the bar scene (wearing a crop top and tight black pants) and the finale climax (wearing a sleeveless red dress with a huge CleavageWindow).
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* AGoodNameForABand: Corey wears a denim jacket with the phrase "Boring People" inexplicably scrawled in one corner in marker, presumably meant to be some band that he's into.
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* AGoodNameForABand: AGoodNameForARockBand: Corey wears a denim jacket with the phrase "Boring People" inexplicably scrawled in one corner in marker, presumably meant to be some band that he's into.
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* PlayedForDrama: Molly posing as one of her old clients on the phone to trick Denise using a BriefAccentImitation is a prime example of a scene with a comical concept used in a completely straight way in a drama, to show what extremes Molly will go to to trap Denise (though NarmCharm still makes it funny).
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* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Molly just has a creepy overall demeanor, complete with crazy eyes, but Denise trusts her almost to the very end, even as she ponders why her family has been torn apart and her sister-in-law has disappeared.
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* ComedyHorror: While the movie is technically a {{Thriller}}, Molly's antics are more in this territory, with all the wacky, and often deadly, schemes she executes.
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* HotterAndSexier: In-universe, Denise uses the word "sexy" more than once to describe the redesign of the Tutor app, which, since it's an app to help students find tutors, is a questionable word choice (though her daughter Grace ''did'' meet her boyfriend Corey on the app).
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* TeacherStudentRomance: Variation, with Grace being Corey's ex-tutor, who she met on her mother's app.
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* SacrificialLamb:
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* SacrificialLamb:
**SacrificialLamb: Amber (the bride at the wedding in the prologue) and Anna (the recruiter from Rutledge) both only appear onscreen for a few seconds, so Molly can murder them.
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** At the very beginning, Molly strangles Amber with one of the streamers at the her wedding.
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* DeadPersonImpersonation: Molly kills Rutledge College recruiter Anna Carr, then poses as her to interview Grace.
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* SerialKiller: Molly already killed three women prior to the start of the movie, offs another one in the prologue, and [[spoiler:kills Ashley halfway through]], besides targeting Denise.
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* SerialKiller: Molly already killed three women prior to the start of the movie, offs another one in the prologue, and [[spoiler:kills Ashley halfway through]], besides targeting Denise.
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* SinisterSuffocation: Molly's favorite killing method.
** At the very beginning, Molly strangles Amber with one of the streamers at the her wedding.
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* BlackComedy: A few moments of this, most memorably [[spoiler:Molly getting access Ashley's phone by scanning the fingerprint from Ashley's cold dead hand]].
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* AndStarring: In the opening credits, "with Creator/EricRoberts" (who only [[BillingDisplacement appears in three scenes]]).
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Molly is more genuinely evil than the usual Lifetime villainess. It feels more like Creator/TheAsylum than Lifetime, which makes sense because it's directed by Asylum vet Jared Cohn.
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Denise Allen (April Martucci) heads up a tech firm which has launched an app called Tutor, which, which connects tutors and students remotely. In the final stages of an app relaunch, Denise has entrusted her best friend[=/=]business partner[=/=]sister-in-law Ashley (Veronika Issa) to plan the the launch party, which she hopes will impress her main investor, billionaire Peter Mason (Creator/EricRoberts). Through a crazy coincidence she meets Molly Cole (Jackie Moore), a professional party planner, who offers to help with the party. Denise brings Molly onboard, unaware that Molly has some sinister plans for Denise and Ashley, plus Denise's husband Josh (Matt Pohlkamp) and daughter Grace (Nicolette Langley).
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Denise Allen (April Martucci) heads up a tech firm which has launched an app called Tutor, which, connects tutors and students remotely. In the final stages of an app relaunch, Denise has entrusted her best friend[=/=]business partner[=/=]sister-in-law Ashley (Veronika Issa) to plan the the launch party, which she hopes will impress her main investor, billionaire Peter Mason (Creator/EricRoberts). Through pure chance she meets Molly Cole (Jackie Moore), a professional party planner, who offers to help with the party. Denise brings Molly onboard, unaware that Molly has some sinister plans for Denise and Ashley, plus Denise's husband Josh (Matt Pohlkamp) and daughter Grace (Nicolette Langley).
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Denise Allen (April Martucci) heads up a tech firm which has launched an app called Tutor, which, connects tutors and students remotely. In the final stages of an app relaunch, Denise has entrusted her best friend[=/=]business partner[=/=]sister-in-law Ashley (Veronika Issa) to plan the the launch party, which she hopes will impress her main investor, billionaire Peter Mason (Creator/EricRoberts). Through pure chance a crazy coincidence she meets Molly Cole (Jackie Moore), a professional party planner, who offers to help with the party. Denise brings Molly onboard, unaware that Molly has some sinister plans for Denise and Ashley, plus Denise's husband Josh (Matt Pohlkamp) and daughter Grace (Nicolette Langley).
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[[caption-width-right:350:Molly, learning that Lifetime already had a movie called ''Psycho Party Planner'' and brainstorming ways to one-up it.]]
''Party from Hell'' is a 2021 Creator/{{Lifetime}} [[LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek Movie of the Week]] {{Thriller}}, directed by Jared Cohn and written by John Burd.
Denise Allen (April Martucci) heads up a tech firm which has launched an app called Tutor, which, connects tutors and students remotely. In the final stages of an app relaunch, Denise has entrusted her best friend[=/=]business partner[=/=]sister-in-law Ashley (Veronika Issa) to plan the the launch party, which she hopes will impress her main investor, billionaire Peter Mason (Creator/EricRoberts). Through pure chance she meets Molly Cole (Jackie Moore), a professional party planner, who offers to help with the party. Denise brings Molly onboard, unaware that Molly has some sinister plans for Denise and Ashley, plus Denise's husband Josh (Matt Pohlkamp) and daughter Grace (Nicolette Langley).
!!''Party from Hell'' contains examples of:
* BeautyIsBad: Only on Lifetime would we have a maniacal revenge-driven SerialKiller who's also a stunning, buxom, leggy blonde.
* BlackComedy: A few moments of this, most memorably [[spoiler:Molly getting access Ashley's phone by scanning the fingerprint from Ashley's cold dead hand]].
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Close, with light blonde Denise, dark blonde Molly and redhead Ashley (you perhaps might count Grace as the brunette).
* ColdHam: Jackie Moore's performance as Molly is a masterclass in how to pull off a HamAndCheese performance without ever resorting to raising your voice or appearing overtly unhinged (apart from one brief screaming fit when she's alone), which makes Molly that much more unnerving.
* ComedyHorror: While the movie is technically a {{Thriller}}, Molly's antics are more in this territory, with all the wacky, and often deadly, schemes she executes.
* ConversationCasualty: Molly kills [[spoiler:Ashley]] during a consultation at Molly's office.
* DeathGlare: Molly's default expression for much of the movie.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: After pulling her college recruiter trick on Grace, it strangely never occurred to Molly that Denise might invite her daughter to the launch party and she might get her cover blown.
* DiscreetDrinkDisposal: When Molly gets Josh drunk at the bar via double kamikazes, she quickly empties her glass on the floor to stay sober.
* {{Fanservice}}: Molly, played by Jackie Moore, who's also a model, dials it way up for the bar scene (wearing a crop top and tight black pants) and the finale (wearing a sleeveless red dress with a huge CleavageWindow).
* AFeteWorseThanDeath: Molly ultimately ruins the Tutor app relaunch party by [[spoiler:placing Ashley's corpse there to revealed at a crucial moment]].
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: After Molly executes a FrameUp to get them in trouble, Denise quickly fires her assistant Liam and takes away assignments from Ashley (who, remember, is her sister-in-law).
* HereWeGoAgain: The last scene shows [[spoiler:Molly successfully pulling off VillainExitStageLeft and back in her office, for a consultation with the next target on her list]].
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: Averted, since Grace is obsessed with getting into an elite fictional college called Rutledge (whether it's an archrival to fellow fictional blue-blooded Lifetime college Whittendale isn't known).
* KillTally: The photo of "the gang" that Molly uses to keep track of who she's already killed.
* LipstickMark: Molly makes it look like Josh is having an affair by putting lipstick on his collar, spraying perfume around him, and leaving flirty texts on his phone.
* LiveActionCartoon: There's really not much of a plot in the movie beyond Molly terrorizing Denise and her loved ones with gambits taken straight from the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny playbook, like posing as completely different people (including a fake accent at one point) just to humiliate them. Indeed, Ashley likening Molly to a "Creator/{{Disney}} villain" is completely correct.
* MamaBear: As this is Lifetime, Denise gets to save her family at the climax.
* MotiveRant: At the climax Molly helpfully explains everything to a bound-and-gagged Grace, along with some EvilGloating and a side of oddball roleplaying.
* PlotAllergy: Peter Mason has a peanut allergy. Molly then secretly changes the catering order that Ashley called in to include peanut oil, leading to the near-death of their top investor and Denise blaming it on Ashley.
* PlotHole: A whole bunch.
** In the above example, since the company has been working with Peter for a while and he's chummy with them, how did Ashley not already know about the peanut allergy?
** Denise has never been notified that four members of "the old gang" have been murdered.
** After Anna Carr got killed, it seems like someone at Rutledge would have needed to reschedule all of her interview appointments, including Grace, which would have immediately revealed that the woman she talked to wasn't the real Anna Carr.
** The murder of [[spoiler:Ashley]]. Any decent detective questioning the Tutor employees would name Molly as the prime suspect after about ten seconds.
* RackFocus: A very clever variation on this in the bar scene. Josh and his coworkers are shown celebrating in the foreground, while the background is out of focus. But eventually the camera pans to a point where we can see a woman with long blonde hair in the background who's clearly Molly (she moves around a bit to draw our attention), but she's still out of focus, and there's never a rack focus in her direction to confirm that it's her. It's a nice subtle signal to the audience that Molly's at the bar and about to pull some kind of nasty business on Josh, without being heavy-handed about it.
* {{Revenge}}: Early on we see a picture of six women on the wall in Molly's office, with four of them X'ed out with a marker and a younger Denise circled, signalling to us that Molly's getting revenge on a group of women of which Denise was a part. The MotiveRant explains it in detail: [[spoiler:Molly apparently used to be named Tabitha ("Tabby") and was Denise's childhood BFF, but then Denise dumped her for a more fashionable crowd, and Molly's pride was wounded so much that she vowed to kill all the members of the clique, and she's already gotten to four of them]].
* SacrificialLamb: Anna Carr, the recruiter from Rutledge, literally only appears onscreen for a few seconds, so Molly can murder her and steal her identity.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:The suffocation of Ashley]] shows that Molly means business.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Corey has little to do besides be Grace's boyfriend.
* SerialKiller: Molly already killed three women prior to the start of the movie, offs another one in the prologue, and [[spoiler:kills Ashley halfway through]], besides targeting Denise.
* SinisterSuffocation:
** [[spoiler:Ashley]] gets murdered by Molly placing a plastic bag over her head.
** Molly also tries to get rid of [[spoiler:Grace]] by strangling her with a shawl, but gets interrupted.
* SockPuppet: Molly gives Denise the phone number of her last client as a reference. Denise calls it, and it's answered by Molly, who puts on a [[IAmVeryBritish hilariously phony posh British accent]], yet Denise completely buys it.
* TeacherStudentRomance: Variation, with Grace being Corey's ex-tutor, who she met on her mother's app.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Realizing that there's a good chance that Grace will recognize her at the party and squeal to Denise, Molly [[spoiler:plans to murder Grace]].
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Turns out to be the case [[spoiler:with Molly and Denise, but Denise doesn't learn it until the end]].
* WouldHurtAChild: Molly totally crushes 17-year-old Grace's dreams to go to Rutledge, then ties her up and gags her at the climax.
[[caption-width-right:350:Molly, learning that Lifetime already had a movie called ''Psycho Party Planner'' and brainstorming ways to one-up it.]]
''Party from Hell'' is a 2021 Creator/{{Lifetime}} [[LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek Movie of the Week]] {{Thriller}}, directed by Jared Cohn and written by John Burd.
Denise Allen (April Martucci) heads up a tech firm which has launched an app called Tutor, which, connects tutors and students remotely. In the final stages of an app relaunch, Denise has entrusted her best friend[=/=]business partner[=/=]sister-in-law Ashley (Veronika Issa) to plan the the launch party, which she hopes will impress her main investor, billionaire Peter Mason (Creator/EricRoberts). Through pure chance she meets Molly Cole (Jackie Moore), a professional party planner, who offers to help with the party. Denise brings Molly onboard, unaware that Molly has some sinister plans for Denise and Ashley, plus Denise's husband Josh (Matt Pohlkamp) and daughter Grace (Nicolette Langley).
!!''Party from Hell'' contains examples of:
* BeautyIsBad: Only on Lifetime would we have a maniacal revenge-driven SerialKiller who's also a stunning, buxom, leggy blonde.
* BlackComedy: A few moments of this, most memorably [[spoiler:Molly getting access Ashley's phone by scanning the fingerprint from Ashley's cold dead hand]].
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Close, with light blonde Denise, dark blonde Molly and redhead Ashley (you perhaps might count Grace as the brunette).
* ColdHam: Jackie Moore's performance as Molly is a masterclass in how to pull off a HamAndCheese performance without ever resorting to raising your voice or appearing overtly unhinged (apart from one brief screaming fit when she's alone), which makes Molly that much more unnerving.
* ComedyHorror: While the movie is technically a {{Thriller}}, Molly's antics are more in this territory, with all the wacky, and often deadly, schemes she executes.
* ConversationCasualty: Molly kills [[spoiler:Ashley]] during a consultation at Molly's office.
* DeathGlare: Molly's default expression for much of the movie.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: After pulling her college recruiter trick on Grace, it strangely never occurred to Molly that Denise might invite her daughter to the launch party and she might get her cover blown.
* DiscreetDrinkDisposal: When Molly gets Josh drunk at the bar via double kamikazes, she quickly empties her glass on the floor to stay sober.
* {{Fanservice}}: Molly, played by Jackie Moore, who's also a model, dials it way up for the bar scene (wearing a crop top and tight black pants) and the finale (wearing a sleeveless red dress with a huge CleavageWindow).
* AFeteWorseThanDeath: Molly ultimately ruins the Tutor app relaunch party by [[spoiler:placing Ashley's corpse there to revealed at a crucial moment]].
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: After Molly executes a FrameUp to get them in trouble, Denise quickly fires her assistant Liam and takes away assignments from Ashley (who, remember, is her sister-in-law).
* HereWeGoAgain: The last scene shows [[spoiler:Molly successfully pulling off VillainExitStageLeft and back in her office, for a consultation with the next target on her list]].
* IvyLeagueForEveryone: Averted, since Grace is obsessed with getting into an elite fictional college called Rutledge (whether it's an archrival to fellow fictional blue-blooded Lifetime college Whittendale isn't known).
* KillTally: The photo of "the gang" that Molly uses to keep track of who she's already killed.
* LipstickMark: Molly makes it look like Josh is having an affair by putting lipstick on his collar, spraying perfume around him, and leaving flirty texts on his phone.
* LiveActionCartoon: There's really not much of a plot in the movie beyond Molly terrorizing Denise and her loved ones with gambits taken straight from the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny playbook, like posing as completely different people (including a fake accent at one point) just to humiliate them. Indeed, Ashley likening Molly to a "Creator/{{Disney}} villain" is completely correct.
* MamaBear: As this is Lifetime, Denise gets to save her family at the climax.
* MotiveRant: At the climax Molly helpfully explains everything to a bound-and-gagged Grace, along with some EvilGloating and a side of oddball roleplaying.
* PlotAllergy: Peter Mason has a peanut allergy. Molly then secretly changes the catering order that Ashley called in to include peanut oil, leading to the near-death of their top investor and Denise blaming it on Ashley.
* PlotHole: A whole bunch.
** In the above example, since the company has been working with Peter for a while and he's chummy with them, how did Ashley not already know about the peanut allergy?
** Denise has never been notified that four members of "the old gang" have been murdered.
** After Anna Carr got killed, it seems like someone at Rutledge would have needed to reschedule all of her interview appointments, including Grace, which would have immediately revealed that the woman she talked to wasn't the real Anna Carr.
** The murder of [[spoiler:Ashley]]. Any decent detective questioning the Tutor employees would name Molly as the prime suspect after about ten seconds.
* RackFocus: A very clever variation on this in the bar scene. Josh and his coworkers are shown celebrating in the foreground, while the background is out of focus. But eventually the camera pans to a point where we can see a woman with long blonde hair in the background who's clearly Molly (she moves around a bit to draw our attention), but she's still out of focus, and there's never a rack focus in her direction to confirm that it's her. It's a nice subtle signal to the audience that Molly's at the bar and about to pull some kind of nasty business on Josh, without being heavy-handed about it.
* {{Revenge}}: Early on we see a picture of six women on the wall in Molly's office, with four of them X'ed out with a marker and a younger Denise circled, signalling to us that Molly's getting revenge on a group of women of which Denise was a part. The MotiveRant explains it in detail: [[spoiler:Molly apparently used to be named Tabitha ("Tabby") and was Denise's childhood BFF, but then Denise dumped her for a more fashionable crowd, and Molly's pride was wounded so much that she vowed to kill all the members of the clique, and she's already gotten to four of them]].
* SacrificialLamb: Anna Carr, the recruiter from Rutledge, literally only appears onscreen for a few seconds, so Molly can murder her and steal her identity.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:The suffocation of Ashley]] shows that Molly means business.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Corey has little to do besides be Grace's boyfriend.
* SerialKiller: Molly already killed three women prior to the start of the movie, offs another one in the prologue, and [[spoiler:kills Ashley halfway through]], besides targeting Denise.
* SinisterSuffocation:
** [[spoiler:Ashley]] gets murdered by Molly placing a plastic bag over her head.
** Molly also tries to get rid of [[spoiler:Grace]] by strangling her with a shawl, but gets interrupted.
* SockPuppet: Molly gives Denise the phone number of her last client as a reference. Denise calls it, and it's answered by Molly, who puts on a [[IAmVeryBritish hilariously phony posh British accent]], yet Denise completely buys it.
* TeacherStudentRomance: Variation, with Grace being Corey's ex-tutor, who she met on her mother's app.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Realizing that there's a good chance that Grace will recognize her at the party and squeal to Denise, Molly [[spoiler:plans to murder Grace]].
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Turns out to be the case [[spoiler:with Molly and Denise, but Denise doesn't learn it until the end]].
* WouldHurtAChild: Molly totally crushes 17-year-old Grace's dreams to go to Rutledge, then ties her up and gags her at the climax.
