{"id":21651,"date":"2016-07-28T16:44:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T20:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=21651"},"modified":"2016-08-20T06:12:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T10:12:46","slug":"all-girls-weekend-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/28\/all-girls-weekend-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"All Girls Weekend (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/allgirlsweekend.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21652\" src=\"https:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/allgirlsweekend.jpg\" alt=\"allgirlsweekend\" width=\"510\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a>\u201cAll Girls Weekend\u201d isn&#8217;t anything that the cool poster promises. It\u2019s an ensemble, is set in winter, and is not really a slasher movie. Lou Simon\u2019s horror movie is actually a film in the vein of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/28\/celebrating-neil-marshalls-the-descent\/\">The Descent<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/10\/the-ruins-2008\/\">The Ruins<\/a>\u201d where a group of young female hikers going away together for a fun weekend end up getting lost in the middle of the woods. Before long their hike turns in to an endless trip in to insanity where the woods are seemingly sentient, and hell bent on driving them mad. What keeps \u201cAll Girls Weekend\u201d lackluster and the aforementioned movies white knuckled horror entries is simple: The characters.<\/p>\n<p>While the all female cast seem to do their damndest to pull in great turns (and many of them look like they can potentially dominate horror down the road), the concept of being lost in the woods and going hungry and thirsty never seems to dawn on them. At all. When another of their friends is stabbed in the leg with a branch and is seemingly so wounded she can barely breathe, the friends do nothing but apathetically mock one another. When she dies, it has no punch dramatically and adds nothing. After leaving her corpse behind one of the characters literally asks aloud \u201cAren&#8217;t we all upset?\u201d to which the other replies, \u201cOf course. God I&#8217;m thirsty. Anyone have any water?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Compare that with the devastating claustrophobia and the delirium of running around in a dark cave in \u201cThe Descent\u201d and the difference is apparent. What should have been a mind fuck about falling victim to a sentient natural landscape comes off as a mere nuisance to the characters most times. By the time they realize they\u2019re in deep dung, it\u2019s too little, too late. It\u2019s a shame since I really enjoyed Simon\u2019s previous horror outing \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/12\/hazmat-2013\/\">HazMat<\/a>,\u201d and I love her idea of filling these genre entries with more minority characters of great importance to the narrative. Sadly, \u201cAll Girls Weekend\u201d is filled with truly vapid and unlikable protagonists, feels stretched thin, and is under developed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Available on VOD.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAll Girls Weekend\u201d isn&#8217;t anything that the cool poster promises. It\u2019s an ensemble, is set in winter, and is not really a slasher movie. Lou Simon\u2019s horror movie is actually a film in the vein of \u201cThe Descent\u201d and \u201cThe Ruins\u201d where a group of young female hikers going away together for a fun weekend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[50,477,501,703,1008,1012,1087],"class_list":["post-21651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-a","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-mystery","tag-supernatural","tag-survival","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21655,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21651\/revisions\/21655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}