MURDER PARTY 2 (2025) – The Art’s Still Deadly. And So Are the Guests.

Fifteen years later, the party’s back. And this time, it’s curated.

Murder Party 2 (2025) resurrects the blood-soaked satire of the cult 2007 original, cranking up the gore, the wit, and the absurdity. This time, the canvas is bigger, the egos are louder, and the stakes? Sharper than ever. Fifteen years after that fateful Halloween massacre, art and murder collide once again—this time at a remote, invite-only creative retreat in upstate New York.

Christopher, now a low-level city archivist with PTSD and an aversion to papier-mâché, receives a mysterious invitation to “Artocalypse”—an elite symposium for avant-garde artists, influencers, and critics. Promised a generous grant and “healing through creation,” he reluctantly attends. But soon, he realizes this is no ordinary retreat—it’s a twisted performance installation where the art is real, and the price of failure is fatal.

As the guests begin dying in grotesquely “thematic” ways (a sculptor turned into part of her own kinetic piece, a DJ electrocuted by their own light rig), Christopher must team up with Yaz, a cynical performance artist-turned-pyromaniac, to uncover the truth behind the event’s masked curator and the true purpose of this deadly “gallery.”

Directed once again by Jeremy Saulnier, Murder Party 2 doubles down on its mix of absurd horror, dark humor, and scathing satire of the art world’s pretentiousness. With practical effects, chaotic violence, and a sharper script, the sequel reminds us that sometimes the only thing more dangerous than a starving artist… is a funded one.