The 2007 film Murder Party was made for around $190,000, and nearly every cent of that is visible on screen in the most charming way possible. It’s one of those movies that shouldn’t work and then absolutely does, which is exactly the kind of thing that makes it catnip for trivia. And then Jackbox Games took the concept of a murder party and turned it into one of the most ruthlessly fun party games ever made, giving the phrase a whole second life. The people who search for murder party trivia tend to know one of these worlds really well and have blind spots in the other. I’ve watched that play out in rooms. It’s beautiful.
1. In the 2007 film Murder Party, what holiday is being celebrated on the night the main character finds the mysterious invitation?
This is the question that tells me whether someone’s actually seen the film or just read about it. The whole movie is drenched in the atmosphere of one specific night.
2. What does Chris, the protagonist of Murder Party, dress up as using cardboard and duct tape?
He’s the kind of guy who has no plans, no party to go to, and still cobbles together a costume from whatever’s lying around. That detail tells you everything about him before a single line of dialogue.
3. Who directed Murder Party before going on to direct Blue Ruin and Green Room?
This is the question that makes indie horror fans sit up straight. The trajectory from Murder Party to Green Room is one of the wildest director arcs in recent genre cinema.
4. In Trivia Murder Party, the Jackbox party game, what happens to players who answer a trivia question incorrectly?
This is the mechanic that separates it from every other trivia game. Getting a question wrong doesn’t just cost you points. It costs you something much worse.
5. The group of artists in the 2007 film lure Chris to their warehouse with the invitation. What is their stated reason for wanting to kill someone?
I love this question because the answer is so perfectly absurd that people who haven’t seen the film refuse to believe it.
6. In Trivia Murder Party 2 (part of The Jackbox Party Pack 6), what is the name of the final round where dead players can come back to life?
Every group I’ve played with has a different emotional relationship with this round. It’s either the greatest comeback mechanic ever designed or a betrayal of everything that came before it.
7. What is Chris’s cat’s name in Murder Party?
Deep cut. The kind of question that rewards people who actually paid attention to the quiet domestic scenes at the beginning instead of fast-forwarding to the warehouse.
8. Trivia Murder Party first appeared in which numbered Jackbox Party Pack?
People who’ve played every pack tend to blur them together. I’ve seen confident answers ranging from 2 to 5 on this one.
9. In the 2007 film, one of the art collective members accidentally kills themselves in a spectacularly stupid way involving what substance?
The deaths in this movie escalate in absurdity. This particular one always gets a gasp followed by laughter, which is the exact tonal tightrope the whole film walks.
10. In Trivia Murder Party, which of these killing floor mini-games asks players to choose between identical-looking options, with death being completely random: Chalices, Dictation, or Locks?
This is the question that starts arguments about game design. Some people love the randomness. Some people think it’s an unforgivable sin in a trivia game.
11. Murder Party was produced by The Lab of Madness. In what New York City borough was the film primarily shot?
The warehouse setting feels like it could be anywhere, but the film is rooted in a very specific corner of New York’s creative underground.
12. In Trivia Murder Party 2, what new mechanic allows dead players to haunt the living during the main game?
The sequel added layers that made the original feel almost quaint. This mechanic in particular changed the social dynamics completely.
13. What food does Chris bring to the murder party in the 2007 film, having been told in the invitation to bring something?
The politeness of this man. He’s walking into a warehouse full of strangers who want to kill him, and he brought a dish. That’s the whole character in one prop.
14. The host of Trivia Murder Party in the Jackbox games speaks with a distinctly creepy tone. What is this unnamed host’s general visual design?
You’d think people would remember the thing staring at them for 20 minutes, but the host’s design is one of those details that sits in peripheral vision.
15. In Murder Party, what real-world art movement or scene is the film most directly satirizing?
This question separates people who watched it as a horror movie from people who watched it as a comedy. Both are right, but the satire has a very specific target.
16. How many players can participate in a single game of Trivia Murder Party in the Jackbox Party Packs?
People always lowball this. They think of it as a small-group game because that’s how they’ve played it. But Jackbox built these things for crowds.
17. In the 2007 film, which character is the self-appointed leader of the art collective who is orchestrating the murder?
Every group has one person who thinks they’re in charge. In Murder Party, that person is both the most dangerous and the most pathetic.
18. In Trivia Murder Party, the killing floor game “Body” requires players to do what?
This is one of those mini-games that sounds simple until you’re actually in it and the timer is running and you realize you’ve never thought about this before in your life.
19. Murder Party (2007) runs under 90 minutes. Within five minutes, how long is the film?
It’s lean. Almost shockingly lean for how much it accomplishes. People who love it tend to overestimate the runtime because so much happens.
20. In Trivia Murder Party 2, what happens if every player dies before the final round?
I’ve seen this happen exactly twice in live play. Both times the room went completely silent for about three seconds before erupting.
21. The actor who plays Chris in Murder Party, Chris Sharp, had this film as essentially his only major acting credit. True or false?
Sometimes the most interesting trivia is about what didn’t happen next.
22. In the Jackbox game, what is the in-fiction explanation for why players are answering trivia questions?
Most people just play the game without thinking about the framing. But Jackbox actually built a little narrative wrapper around the whole thing, and it’s darker than you’d expect from a party game.
23. In Murder Party (2007), how does Chris ultimately escape the warehouse?
The ending of this film is either perfect or anticlimactic, and which side you fall on says a lot about what you think movies owe you.
24. Trivia Murder Party was developed by Jackbox Games, headquartered in what U.S. city?
For a company that’s become synonymous with living room chaos worldwide, their home base surprises people.
25. Jeremy Saulnier has said that Murder Party was inspired by a real experience. What was it?
I save this one for last because it changes how you watch the entire film. The line between “I had a weird night once” and “I’m going to make a movie about it” is thinner than most people think. Saulnier took something small and real and turned it into something that launched a career. Every great thing starts somewhere uncomfortable, and sometimes that somewhere is a party you shouldn’t have gone to.
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