Asking for a Friend (2019) User Reviews

Chopping For A Friend.

[morrison-dylan-fan · 8/10 · 24 July 2021]

Enjoying the eerie path Lake Forest Road (2021-also reviewed) went down,I decided to continue to view the shorts in the line-up of the Soho Horror Film Festival focus on LGBT film makers,by asking a friend to join.

View on the film:

Whilst clearly made on a low budget, co-star/writer/director Kelsey Bollig & cinematographer Luke Hanlein display an impressive amount of ambition from the long opening tracking shot, which Bollig folds out into elegant fluid camera moves spinning on Blake (played with a great urgency by Jacqueline Bell) checking on the party as Q (played with a killer nervousness by Victoria Lacoste) tries to get rid of the body.)

Cutting with an Industrial hum from composer Nikko DeTranquilli and splattering the room with blood from the chopped up body, the screenplay by Bollig drills a wicked comedic macabre bite into the attempt by Q and Blake to remain pals whilst dumping a body,after Q asks for help from a friend.

fantastic film, great practical effects, technically superb, great story and perfect directing.

[edward-bukowski · 10/10 · 22 January 2020]

Great film. Cinematically beautiful. I watched it with a group of reviewers from my film festival and we all agreed on giving it the highest ratings in our rate/review options on my Filmfreeway festival submissions page, I had recommend it to our other teams of reviewers and our judges, They too agreed it was a flawless film, we all loved it. It is a Great story, The characters are very well portrayed and keep the audience wanting more, The pace was perfect. The dramatic structure, (exposition) was very well executed, from composition to conflict, climax and denouement it kept us entertained, we all loved the end too, brought it full circle and kept us engaged and wanting more! Technically everything was spot on, the Directing is top notch, great audio, score, visuals, amazing practical effects and editing too, we screened it at prime time to a full house at Regal Cinemas at LA LIVE Saturday night November 9th, 2019 in our 300 seat theater, the same theater that has premieres of top Hollywood films, with full surround sound, this film was amazing on the big screen, This film is a very strong proof of concept for a feature length version, This 25 minute film could be the opening act for the feature as the story is very cleverly written for this to be developed into a feature length film, It won many awards and all the attendees agreed this filmmaker will be one to watch in the future. we hope to see this filmmaker come back to us at my film festival with the feature length version of this later..

LA Live Film Festival 2019 at Regal Cinemas at LA LIVE Winner Best Horror Film Kelsey Bollig Victoria Lacoste Tienlyn Jacobson Best Dark Comedy Kelsey Bollig Victoria Lacoste Tienlyn Jacobson Best Female Filmmakers Kelsey Bollig Victoria Lacoste Tienlyn Jacobson

friends in tough moments

[Kirpianuscus · 20 October 2023]

A story about friendship in crisis moments . Two friends. A corpse. Her murderer. A party of neighbours, drugs and a lot of blood and the enigma of motivation of crime - sure, the suggestion is present more as allusion-. And the hard efforts to fix ...the problem in reasonable way.

A smart crafted film and the realism of the cutting of body is one of virtues.

Beautiful acting, inspired dialogue and the high care to details. Well used drops of dark humor and flawless craft, imposing to viewer be part of story.

All seems simple and...natural, and, more than a horror, it is good portrait of connection between two young woman , their complicity and unlucks.