Anyone who was a teenager when Project X came out in 2012 were probably met with the same question.
Can the real-life party this is based on have possibly been that good?
The film came five years after Superbad and seemed to take the concept even further.
It follows three friends who set out to throw a birthday party in order to gain popularity, however, things get totally out of hand when over 500 people ended up showing up.
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A new documentary on Netflix Trainwreck: The Real Project X looks at a Dutch party that followed the hit film and was met with a very similar fate.
It saw a Facebook event accidentally left public on the platform, lead to 3,000 people showing up to a party, causing a riot.
Whilst the Netflix documentary is being billed as the ‘real Project X’, it took place some years after the film came out, and there is an actual party the film is based on.
Whilst director Todd Phillips has never confirmed the link, the movie’s party has extreme similarities to a viral 2008 rager thrown by an Australian 16-year-old called Corey Washington.
The teenager’s party had spilled into the streets and became violent when police decided to raid the house, leading teens to get into a rock throwing battle with cops.
Washington was invited onto a news show to apologise, which he did, however enraged the TV News host when he refused to take off his glasses to do so.
He ended by saying it was the ‘best party ever’, with the near exact-same interview being held in the film by the character Costa, played by Oliver Cooper.
Many will wonder whether this is actually true and whether a party so infamous it inspired a whole film was in actual fact any fun.
One attendant to the party posted on the Ask Me Anything subreddit, stating he had attended and inviting questions about the ‘real’ Project X.
When asked whether it was a good party, they said: “It was great, a lot of cops though. I fell on glass and got a cut on my side but it wasn't bad. I would definitely go to another, it was amazing.”
They also said when asked about the major differences between what happened in real life and the film that ‘basically everything’ was changed.
He added: “The only things the same I can think of is it was a huge high school party. 500 people showed up, not 2000.”
The party attendee also stated that he found it via a Facebook message which the organiser sent to 75 people, leading it to be circulated round the local community, leading him to get an invite.
Trainwreck: The Real Project X is available to watch now.
Topics: Netflix, TV and Film, Film
Michael Slavin