{"id":30331,"date":"2019-02-04T04:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=30331"},"modified":"2019-02-04T04:03:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T09:03:00","slug":"friendsgiving-2018-final-girls-berlin-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/04\/friendsgiving-2018-final-girls-berlin-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendsgiving (2018) [Final Girls Berlin Film Festival]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FriendsgivingStill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FriendsgivingStill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FriendsgivingStill.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FriendsgivingStill-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/FriendsgivingStill-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><strong><em>\u201cMidnight Movies\u201d Shorts Block<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t completely won over by Samantha Kolesnick and writer Sean Richard Buddle\u2019s short horror comedy, I\u2019ll admit. It\u2019s probably because the premise has been done to death, and I mean I\u2019ve seen this premise done so many times on film that there\u2019s really nowhere to go with this idea.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>New neighbor Rita interrupts her next door neighbors asking for ingredients for her thanksgiving dinner. They happen to also be preparing their Thanksgiving feast that they\u2019ve branded \u201cFriendsgiving.\u201d Despite her hesitation, they invite their new lonely neighbor to the dinner. When she arrives, she\u2019s horrified to see that the deliriously nice friends gathered for their dinner have more than wholesome intentions for their new friend. Again, you can see where this is all going and I also figured out the whole hook to the short film immediately.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the direction is very good, and the performances are top notch. I especially enjoyed Kaylor Otwell, the hostess who delights in bringing over some new friends to celebrate the occasion with her inner circle of pals, and chew the fat. There\u2019s also some very strong gore that will please the gore hounds in the audience. That said, the plot was much too old hat to really savor. Nevertheless, I hope we see more from Kolesnick very soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The Final Girls Berlin Film Festival runs every year from January 31<sup>st<\/sup> to February 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMidnight Movies\u201d Shorts Block I wasn\u2019t completely won over by Samantha Kolesnick and writer Sean Richard Buddle\u2019s short horror comedy, I\u2019ll admit. It\u2019s probably because the premise has been done to death, and I mean I\u2019ve seen this premise done so many times on film that there\u2019s really nowhere to go with this idea.<\/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":[259,477,501,703,938],"class_list":["post-30331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-dark-comedy","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-mystery","tag-short-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30331","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=30331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30333,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30331\/revisions\/30333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}