4 Creepy Movies About Dinner Parties
People are scary, and what better place to bring out the monsters in us than at a dinner party?
By 
Natalia Vela
This mouth-watering list of 4 horror movies serves up the best of nightmare dinner party cinema. Get your steak knives ready!
Coherence (2013)
This independent film is one of the most innovative movies from the 2010s and one of the most intriguing sci-fi thrillers to have been created in its era. The movie is as much horror and mystery as science fiction. It follows eight friends as they gather for a dinner party on the night when Miller’s Comet passes overhead. Due to exes, drama, and lingering secrets, things begin rather awkwardly. After the neighborhood experiences a blackout, strange phenomena begin to take place. As they realize that they can’t trust each other, everyone in the group devolves into the worst version of themselves. Coherence is a twisty mind bending movie that serves up some wild surprises for dinner.
Among Friends (2012)
Scream queen Danielle Harris steps behind the screen and directs this fun, twisted horror set in the 80s. A dinner takes a dark turn at a murder mystery party when one person in the group hijacks the evening. They’re determined for the others to be honest and come clean about secret betrayals against one another. This person is willing to spill blood to get the truth exposed, and they’ll stop at nothing. The cast includes AJ Bowen, Christopher Backus, Jennifer Blanc, Kamala Jones, Dana Daurey, Brianne Davis, Kane Hodder, Alyssa Lobit and Chris Meyer.
Monster Party (2018)
Monster Party serves up a hefty side of fun, providing great characters, good gore, and fun kills. Guised as catering staff, a teenage trio of thieves who pull off meticulously coordinated burglaries infiltrate a Malibu mansion that’s hosting a dinner party. Casper (Sam Strike), Iris (Virginia Gardner) and her boyfriend Dodge (Brandon Michael Hall) plan on short-circuiting the owner’s safe to get their hands on some desperately needed money. Casper has 24 hours to come up with the amount needed to bail his dad out of a gambling debt and save his life, so there’s no time for coordinated planning. Little do they know that the dinner they’re pretending to cater is being put on for a serial killer recovering group for the social elite.
The Menu (2022)
The Menu masterfully blends psychological horror, satire, and dark comedy, making it a standout in the sub-sub-genre of horror movies about dinner parties. an exclusive restaurant on a remote island, the renowned chef orchestrates a night of cryptic surprises that unravel class dynamics, privilege, and artistic obsession. Each dish becomes a sinister revelation, drawing the audience into an increasingly tense and personal nightmare.
