Behind the scenes, most horror movies are worked on by predominantly men, but not The 6th Friend that is playing in theaters now. Not only does the movie star six women including Scream Queen Jamie Bernadette, but it was also written by two women, Bernadette and Letia Miller, and directed by Miller. Therefore, you know it will tell the tale from a woman’s perspective. Something this horror movie fan has been waiting for since her dad introduced her to the genre when she was 4.
Six friends go to a remote cabin to celebrate their college graduation, and they party a little too much and too hard. Especially, when one of them invites her drug dealer over and he brings some acid with him. While the girls are tripping something goes wrong and not everyone will walk out of there alive.
Five years later, Joey (Bernadette) is kidnapped by her friend Melissa (Chantelle Albers) because she wants to get the girls, Heather (Dominique Swain), Heather (Jessica Morris), Sahara (Tania Nolan) and Becca (Monique Rosario), together again. Joey cannot move on from that night, so the last place she wants to be is back at that cabin where it all happened.
Melissa decided to have the reunion there because she has been seeing that man that they killed on that night and she wants to talk about it with her friends. She is not the only one who has been seeing the man in all black with a scary mask on. In fact, the only one who has not seen him is Joey.
That is all about to change because Joey is about to see him. Sadly for her and her friends, this time is back to finally get his revenge on them. One by one, they are slowly killed off by the mysterious stranger. What does he want? It is an ending with a twist no one will see coming.
Could be because this movie was worked on by predominately women and they know how to change things up and not give us the same old story.
The 6th Friend is a slow suspenseful movie that lets you get to know the characters before they are killed off. Once that murders start happening, the pace picks up and you get some original kills. Violent but not overly gross or CGIed like most recent slasher films.
If you have been craving a throwback horror movie with a different vibe, then become friends with The 6th Friend. Take five friends and see the feature at one of these theaters.
