All My Friends Are Dead
By Brian Costello,
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Graphic sex, violence, drug use, language in horror-comedy.

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What's the Story?
In ALL MY FRIENDS ARE DEAD, two detectives arrive at a home on New Year's morning to find it filled with dead bodies. On the night before, Marek throws a blowout party with his friends while his parents are on holiday in the mountains. Marek's friends include a young man dating an older woman who just wants to have fun, a lapsed Mormon, dude-bros who just want to have sex with as many women as possible, women trying to have sex with as many men as possible over the course of the night, a nice guy who wants to propose to his nice girlfriend, and a photographer named Filip who is obsessed with Anastazja, a young woman who is wise to astrology and the mysterious forces of the universe that guide destiny. When Anastaszja lures the photographer to smoke a joint with her in an office, she finds a gun, and while they have sex, she shoots the gun and accidentally kills Marek as he enters the room to see what all the noise is about. This shooting precipitates calamities, as sexual exploits lead to fistfights with spurned lovers, misunderstandings lead to more misunderstandings, leading to more gunshots, more violence, and more death as each of the partygoers meets an untimely end in the early hours of the New Year.
Is It Any Good?
This subpar movie aims to shock, and it succeeds in that goal. How much violence, sex, profanity, and drug and alcohol abuse can get into a dark comedy-horror movie? Quite a lot, actually, and All My Friends Are Dead has absolutely no reservations about being as graphic and gratuitous as possible in every scene. The title sums up what happens, but before the untimely passings of these characters who get killed in a variety of ways, the movie is as much a sex farce as anything else. It's not especially funny or even very interesting, but it's impressive that the movie maintains such a frantic pace as it tells so many side stories of what's going on with this ensemble cast of characters. Casual sex, love, commitment, growing old, living for the moment, thinking of the future -- somehow all of these themes are addressed amidst scenes of kinky sex, a large death count, and a scene in which a lapsed Mormon talks with Jesus as he's losing his virginity.
The problem with the movie is that the characters aren't especially likable, and that's assuming there's even enough depth to the characters to make them likable or not. The movie is bursting with stale, stereotyped characters that have been passé since the randy teen sex comedies of the 1980s went out of style -- female characters who seem to exist solely to show their breasts to the camera, jerky guys who attract the ladies, dorky guys who don't attract the ladies, etc. Before most of them are killed in a scene that, admittedly, makes great use of the Mötley Crüe song "Kick Start My Heart," the characters and their stories are fueled by a tedious nihilistic hedonism that lost its shock value sometime in the 1990s. And all the gratuitous debauchery can't hide these shortcomings.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about how All My Friends Are Dead has a lot of graphic content. Is the sex, violence, drug and alcohol use, and profanity necessary? Why or why not?
How are female characters portrayed in this movie? How are the characters in general portrayed? What would be the challenges in having a movie with so many characters and so many side stories?
What's the appeal of dark comedies? What are some of your favorites?
Movie Details
- On DVD or streaming: February 3, 2021
- Cast: Adam Woronowicz , Julia Wieniawa-Narkiewicz , Adam Turczyk
- Director: Jan Belci
- Inclusion Information: Female actors
- Studio: Netflix
- Genre: Horror
- Run time: 96 minutes
- MPAA rating: NR
- Last updated: February 27, 2023
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