 |
"Mac taught Marilyn Manson how to smoke because he didn't know how," director Randy Barbato told journalists at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.
The film, based on a fact-based book called Disco Bloodbath, is about as far from Home Alone as you could get. Which, of course, is the idea. Culkin plays real-life murderer and '80s New York club kid Michael Alig, who spiralled into a private, drug-soaked oblivion.
"Mac was terrific. We worked him to the bone," Barbato says. "He basically plays a crack-smoking gay killer."
Culkin's fellow-cast members Seth Green, Chloe Sevigny, Natasha Lyonne and Dylan McDermott all attended the film's raucous premiere. But will even high-profile actors make this bloody, hallucinatory tale palatable to the mainstream? "I don't know," Barbato muses. "Sex, rock 'n roll, crack, rock, crack, sex, gay killers -- I think we've got a blockbuster."