All Girls Weekend (2016)

Hello readers,

So as you guys know, Halloween is on the way and all of you must be in the mood to watch movies that can creep you out and send a chill down your spine. I was browsing Netflix and IMDb lists for new horror movie suggestions. I was dismayed to find out that I had already watched the best ones. I came across a few good ones that I had not yet watched. I decided to save those movies for later, cause those were the last few good movies I had left to watch before any fresh entries. So I went through the list of unexpected, less watched and poorly rated movies. In the list, I found All Girls Weekend. The movie had an IMDb rating of 1/5. The Rotten Tomatoes review was also damn poor. The budget and box office of the movie was low and the actors were fresh stock. As my recommendations tread the acclaimed as well as the unexpected movies in the lot, I decided to give this movie a try. My conclusion regarding the movie is pretty surprising indeed.

I turned the movie on not knowing what I would get from it. The introduction was captivating: A woman lost in a ghost forest, being forced by the forest voices to kill the girl with her. I was interested by the novice concept of a ghost forest with voices that make the people lost in the forest kill the people accompanying them. I found it similar to Amityville Horror, where the house was evil and the voices of the house made a person kill their family. Anyways, the intro of the main characters follows. The movie is mainly based on the reunion of 4 high school friends who are now in college. The girls decide to have a weekend out in the woods and the countryside trekking, zip lining and doing other nature-based activities. The go for trekking in the woods and get lost. Come on, anyone could see that coming! Anyways, the girls face a never-ending nightmare while they are lost in the woods and one by one, all the girls start to face death. The climax is the last 20 minutes of the movie. I liked the fact that the twist/suspense is not easily predictable.

There are a few horrid scenes in the movie which I don't think any of you would like to be hearing. The scenes though utterly horrid have been fitted aptly within the movie making it more unpredictable and spontaneous. Overall, I thought that the movie was a good watch and good material for horror movie fans. This shows that one cannot blindly follow IMDb or rotten tomato reviews. You gotta take some chances in the movies you pick to watch. Though disgraced or ignored completely by movie review sites and people, I have decided to give this movie a thumbs up, proving once again that my blog is for the recommendation and recognition of both the unexpected and the acclaimed.

***Disclaimer: I do not discourage or dissuade the use of IMDb or Rotten Tomatoes in any way. The sites are pretty awesome in their own ways as long as you don't blindly rely on them.***