{"id":30343,"date":"2019-02-05T03:42:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T08:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=30343"},"modified":"2019-02-05T03:42:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T08:42:56","slug":"all-men-must-die-2018-final-girls-berlin-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/05\/all-men-must-die-2018-final-girls-berlin-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"All Men Must Die! (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\/ammd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ammd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ammd.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ammd-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ammd-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><strong><em>\u201cA Real Scream\u201d Shorts Block<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At nine minutes Kate Beacom\u2019s \u201cAll Men Must Die!\u201d is a complete swing and miss. I get what she\u2019s going for, here, but all sense of the horror element is lost in favor of this odd indie flourish, and a climax that makes no actual point. While director Beacom does enter in to a turn of events that universal to the intended audience, \u201cAll Men Must Die\u201d takes forever to get to the literal splash in the climax, and I was left thinking &#8220;That&#8217;s it?&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Prudence and Kyle are best friends and stoners who spend a lot of their time in one another\u2019s company. Prudence throws Kyle a birthday party, and one night as Kyle is partying and celebrating, she\u2019s approached by the aggressive friend of one of the male admirers at her party. When he gets hands on with her, things spiral out of control. \u201cAll Men Must Die!\u201d doesn\u2019t seem to have too much of a point to it, and I felt genuinely like I\u2019d invested nine minutes in a short that was basically memorable for its neat animated shifts in to new scenes and or settings.<\/p>\n<p>The performances leave a lot to be desired, and the animated shifts eventually just felt like a crutch. The final scene would have had a lot more impact, but Beacom spends way too much time on the sequence and with the sub-par reaction shots, none of it makes a real impact. It\u2019s a shame, because when all was said and done, I at least liked the soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p><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>\u201cA Real Scream\u201d Shorts Block At nine minutes Kate Beacom\u2019s \u201cAll Men Must Die!\u201d is a complete swing and miss. I get what she\u2019s going for, here, but all sense of the horror element is lost in favor of this odd indie flourish, and a climax that makes no actual point. While director Beacom does [&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":[240,259,501,938,1087],"class_list":["post-30343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-crime","tag-dark-comedy","tag-indie-film","tag-short-film","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30343","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=30343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30345,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30343\/revisions\/30345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}