Among Friends (2012)

  Well, this has been a very Galentine's friendly weekend.  We've had movies by women, for women, and about women and this is no exception.  It is a slasher film written and directed by women.  Too bad it's just not very good.

A group of friends gather for a party.  They think they are playing an 80s themed murder mystery game but their hostess (Alyssa Lobit) has a different idea.  Drugged and tied up, the guests are forced to confront and be punished for their transgressions against one another which range from ludicrously commonplace if shitty (consensual sex but cheating) to kinda justified (actual rape) to uhhhh-whose-side-are-you-on (leaving the girl who got an abortion after her rape to bleed out in a bathtub).  

It's supposed to be vengeful-comeuppance fantasy but it doesn't go far enough to make the characters worth rooting against.  Like, they are objectively shitty people, but not (with one glaring exception) worth a murder plot this elaborate.  You don't have to have an extreme budget to do horror well, but you do have to be better than this.  Save yourself an hour and a half and don't watch this movie.  It's currently streaming on Tubi.