I was unaware she was still with us, but it’s nice to see that Dame Joan Collins stars in this rainy-day-friendly, throwback-y murder mystery.
Six friends made up of three couples book a weekend holiday at a castle (in or around Prague, though this is vague in the film); on the first night we get some unsubtle exposition letting us know how they all know each other, and then they all head to bed. These clumsy scenes are the worst in the film, but things pick up when one member of the party witnesses a sexual encounter between two others; and, by the next morning, members of the party begin to go missing.
Luckily, the owner of the castle shows up: Joan Collins as Francesca Carlyle, a TV journalist famous for actually solving murders on her show, and begins to investigate. Little new ground is trodden here and elements of the mystery are far-fetched even for the standards of the genre, but A Murder Between Friends seems aware of the absurdity, with references made to Murder She Wrote, Agatha Christie, Mrs. Columbo, etc.; devotees of Dame Joan should get a kick out of it.
★★☆☆☆