The Final Girls (2015)
Directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson
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.
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Ever since they achieved sentience in 1996, slasher movies have been trying to find new ways to be self-aware without just rehashing Wes Craven's Scream.
Though not quite as inspired or consistent as the similarly self-mocking likes of “The Cabin in the Woods,” “Tucker & Dale vs. Evil,” or the first two “Scream” pics, this is good fun that should delight genre fans.
Screenwriters Joshua John Miller & M.A. Fortin have come up with a twist on the meta-horror movie that gave us films like "Scream" and "The Cabin in the Woods."
Similar to the approach of 1996's " Scream " while going in an entirely new direction, the film's meta-savvy approach blurs the line between fiction and reality while nonetheless confronting the truths of the characters with heartfelt affection.
This is Scream at a lower decibel.
"Scream" meets "Pleasantville" in the new movie "The Final Girls," a playful deconstruction of the slasher film that ultimately packs a surprisingly affecting punch.
And this might be unintentional, but she gives off heavy Jennifer Love Hewitt vibes, circa “I Know What You Did Last Summer.”
His sophomore feature is a sharp, wickedly funny, and unexpectedly heartfelt homage (co-written by Joshua John Miller, that amazingly creepy child actor so memorable in Near Dark and River’s Edge).
As a meta work nestled in horror trappings, the film has already earned comparisons to Drew Goddard’s 2012 meta masterpiece The Cabin in the Woods, though frankly, The Final Girls feels closer to Joseph Kahn’s Detention in terms of its winking cheekiness.
It takes the "meta" approach of Scream and The Cabin in the Woods to the next level by placing the characters in the film inside another film populated by familiar tropes and stereotypes -- sort of like Pleasantville meets Friday the 13th.
Though not quite as inspired or consistent as the similarly self-mocking likes of “The Cabin in the Woods,” “Tucker & Dale vs. Evil,” or the first two “Scream” pics, this is good fun that should delight genre fans.
Screenwriters Joshua John Miller & M.A. Fortin have come up with a twist on the meta-horror movie that gave us films like "Scream" and "The Cabin in the Woods."
An antidote to the smugly clever The Cabin in the Woods , Todd Strauss-Schulson's film is built on personal trauma: Max's (Taissa Farmiga) loss of her mother, Amanda (Malin Akerman), who we see just before she's killed in a car accident, lamenting how her scream-queen stardom, cemented by the cheesy 1980s film Camp Bloodbath, has left her frustrated as a result of typecasting.