All Girls Weekend (2016)
Starring Jamie Bernadette, Katie Carpenter, Gema Calero
Directed by Lou Simon
Old friends, reunions, and camping trips just don’t quite measure up the way they used to, and in director Lou Simon’s angry chicks in the woods thriller, All Girls Weekend, the notion of “female bonding” goes horribly awry. If it’s thrills-a-minute you’re hunting for, this might not be your preferred destination.
Jamie Bernadette holds the lead role down as Nancy, a less than enthusiastic participant in this get-together that promises to not only go south in a hurry but create a heap load of uncomfortable situations all along the way. She meets up with a quartet of old pals to reminisce about days gone by while taking a relaxing (somewhat) nature walk that one of the ladies (Carpenter) swears she knows like the back of her hand… yeah, if I had a buck for every time I heard THAT one!
After the inevitable turning around by the group, one of the girls (Sharron Calvin) suffers a serious leg injury, rendering the rest of them to seek shelter inside an abandoned cabin to regroup. What follows is a slower than slow trek where the audience decides if they truly want to invest in the time to see if these malcontented ladies can survive this nightmarish get-together – whatever happened to spa weekends for these former friends?
The real downer about this film is that there could have been so much more accomplished with the scenario besides a mysterious force causing all of this wooded chaos, coupled with the notion that for a gathering of old friends, it truly didn’t look as if any of them gave a rat’s ass about each other – so much for solidarity.
Bare minimum gore, almost no real scares, and some of the most comatose acting that you’ll see in quite a while are further reasons to bypass this little jaunt in the woods and opt for a stay at the Four Seasons the next time some of your old school buds decide to plan a weekend away.
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