The Final Girls (2015) (original) (raw)

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.

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. (less)

Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson
Writers: M.A. Fortin, Joshua John Miller
Starring: Taissa Farmiga, Malin Akerman, Alexander Ludwig, Nina Dobrev, Alia Shawkat, Thomas Middleditch
Producer: Michael London

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Review by Brian Orndorf, October 15, 2015

7 / 10

Hitting a fairly obvious target for satire, �The Final Girls� pokes fun at the wonderland of gore, sex, and peer pressure that defined slasher cinema of the 1980s. However, instead of mounting another rehash/celebration, screenwriters M.A. Fortin and Joshua John Miller dream up an inventive way to explore the subgenre, blending �Scream� with �The Purple Rose of Cairo� as they take on and take down the horror formula from a comedic perspective. Director Todd Strauss-Schulson smothers the effort in excessive style, but �The Final Girls� is an unexpectedly amusing picture that has genuine fun wit ...read more...

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