The Final Girls – Story
A young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom’s most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film’s maniacal killer.
Review
The Final Girls is a very unique movie in the horror sub-genre. As I never have seen a story like this before, so that’s triggered me personally a lot to view this movie. The Final Girls takes a group of characters and inserts them into a fictional 80s horror movie slasher, Camp Bloodbath. Once there they must try to not only return to the real world, but also survive the movie before being hacked to pieces by little Billy Murphy.
However, as ingenious as the script undoubtedly is, The Final Girls does miss the mark slightly by being a strictly PG-13 affair, director Todd Strauss-Schulson keeping the action free of the gore and nudity that is synonymous with ’80s slashers.
Once in the movie, the next half hour or so of the film is actually really clever. They are, quite literally, in the movie, which causes a few fun gags. The words that appear on screen actually have dimension and the characters have to hop over them. The flashbacks take place with dripping fluid that brings our characters into a black and white world. They can hear the voice-overs and sounds effects. Naturally, the characters from this movie within the movie take on the classic genre clichés. There is the idiot jock, the slut, the outcast guy, etc, who all fill their types to the maximum. For a good chunk of the run time, this movie is actually really clever and I found myself giggling more than once at in jokes and fun moments.
Although it’s not the masterpiece that The Cabin in the Woods is, this is still very much a worthy companion to it. It’s absurd in all the best possible ways.
Exclusive Blu-Ray Extras
- Alternate endings with commentary from the director
- Deleted and extended scenes with commentary from the director
- Cast and Crew commentary
- Story writer commentary
- Behind the scenes of the Visual Effects
- Bringing the scenes to life.
- Production notes of the director
