It was just a movie, but those of us who saw it and brought an adult persective to reviewing “Project X” back in 2012 picked up on the ante it was upping.

Decades of raucus youth party pictures, from “Animal House” to “Sixteen Candles, “Can’t Hardly Wait” and “Old School” to “Superbad” weren’t just mimicked, they were bested by the most over-the-top/out-of-control parents-are-out-of-town bacchanal ever put on screen.

It’s “the movie equivalent of that good-looking, well-off teenage boy your gut tells you to keep away from your teenage daughter,” I wrote way back when about this raunchy, no-rules romp that practically screamed “DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME” even as it invited teens to do just that.

Over the top, sexist, politically incorrect, occasionally hilarious but “wearying?” Sure. It’s from the producers of “The Hangover,” ferchrissake.

Alex Wood’s installment in Netflix’s “companies/phenomena/events gone wrong” series “Trainwreck” is an oral history of “The Real ‘Project X,'” an intimate teen girl’s party that turned into a town, region and nation-roiling event in The Netherlands back in 2012.

Oddly enough, based on the eyewitness accounts of those who witnessed it, plotted it and documented it, this documentary about that 2012 event is a testament to the enduring influence of the cinema.

Sure, social media was how it all came to be — a Facebook party invitation post by Dutch girl Merthe, about to turn 16, one that she carelessly rendered “public,” meaning it could be shared and spread by creeps like the 18 year old doofus Dutchboy Jorik and further exploited by aspiring Youtube moguls Giel and Thomas.

But a then-recent movie caused it. The canny Jorik Clarck knew a chance to recreate that epic, unforgettable and out of control teen party as depicted in “Project X” when he saw it. He made that hormonal, binge-drinking wish come true, right down to the riot, if not the actual burning down of the house depicted by Hollywood.

The Little Dutchboys and Dutchgirls satisfied themselves with just burning a few cars.

And almost every damned reference the victims, participants and cash-in goons who remember this event in this documentary make is cinematic — people were afraid to leave their homes, like “The Purge,” Dutch teens can buy booze at 16, unlike “McLovin in ‘Superbad,'” etc.

Yeah, a movie — the movies — did all that.

This documentary is short, snappy and suitably shambolic as we hear from council members, Merthe’s parents and those gonzo Stuk TV impressarios and sample their footage of the night’s unfolding disaster.

I laughed and laughed at this, slack-jawed at how it all happened and how outrageous and ridiculous the entire “trainwreck” was.

Wood, a veteran TV producer and director with “Secrets of the Zoo” and “Jared from Subway: Catching a Monster” credits, seems well-suited to be pointing the camera and listening without judgment to all these people talk about a slow-moving “trainwreck” that young Merthe, her parents and a few others saw coming, one that virtually no one in charge took seriously enough to intervene.

The then-mayor of Haren, Holland, declined to be interviewed for a reason. For all the kiddie fingers in this fiasco, he’s the dope who bristled at doing more than repeating on TV “There is no party. Don’t come,” in Dutch (with English subtitles).

Clarck also comes off as a villain, but even he picked up on how out of control things were getting, how young Holland’s hive-mind took hold of this and wouldn’t let Merthe or him cancel it in the eyes of those all wound up to get lit.

Facebook? Yea, this was partly their fault, too.

There’s even a would-be hero, a councilmember from a nearby Groningen titled “Night Mayor,” someone in charge of making nightlife events and making those planned by others safe. If Chris Garrit had had his way, one could imagine this entire calamity having a real “Hollywood ending.”

Picture hundreds of thousands of Dutch youth descending on tiny, tony Haren, directed to a park that could hold them, partying like it was 2012 and then joining in the biggest “Happy Birthday” sing-along ever to young Merthe to wrap things up, preferably without mass vandalism or a single Molotov cocktail.

Maybe when Hollywood makes a feature film version of “The Real Project X,” they’ll tidy it up in just that way. They should hire Nima Nourizadeh, director of the original “X” for it. His movie wasn’t anybody’s idea of a masterpiece. But it isn’t every film that connects with youth culture and then sets off a chain reaction “trainwreck” the way his did.

Rating: TV-MA, violence, binge drinking, profanity

Cast: Merthe Marije Weusthuis, Jorik Clarck, Giel de Winter, Thomas van der Vlugt and Chris Garrit

Credits: A Netflix release.

Running time: :41