Real friends will help you dismember and hide the body.
With 15 wins and countless nominations, Edelweiss Film Productions is proud to announce that the award-winning dark comedy Asking For A Friend will be premiering online on June 10th on Gunpowder & Sky’s horror platform, ALTER. A simple question sparks the plot: If your friend asked you to help get rid of a dead body, would you do it? And even more importantly, how would you do it?
Check out the trailer and synopsis for Asking for a Friend and read more about the film below.
Synopsis:
Blake and Q are childhood best friends, roommates, and well – soulmates. After a long day trying to maintain her #girlboss status at work, Blake’s one-track mind is solely set on the nachos Q has promised to make for dinner. In addition to the nachos, however, Q has also unexpectedly managed to kill someone in their apartment. Through a series of heavily graphic and hilarious situations, the girls tap into their inner serial killers and decide to handle the body themselves. Their naïveté and inexperience leads to a weekend full of accidental drugs, Saran Wrap, and body that, for whatever reason, will not stop bleeding. So hypothetically speaking – how do you get rid of a body? Asking for a friend…
Asking for a Friend is written and directed by Kelsey Bollig and stars Victoria Lacoste and Jacqueline Bell.
“I didn’t enter horror or filmmaking to prove a point or pave the way for women in a male dominated industry,” Bollig tells us, “but it’s a plus. Horror is a powerful tool to point out the flaws of our society while poking fun at them at the same time, which is why I think it’s so important to add the female perspective. While there are countless strong female characters – and even heroines within the horror genre, most female characters are still either killing out of revenge or using their sexuality. I want my characters to have deeper motives – or even no motive at all. Women can be unemotional psychopaths too. I think it’s time we make that clear.”
Trivia:
“Since the whole idea came from wondering what it would be like to get rid of a dead body, I thought it would be funny to direct a movie where the body actually looked like me.” — Kelsey Bollig
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