The Final Girls (2015)

[ArcLight]

Not to be confused with Final Girl, which also came out in 2015, The Final Girls is a surprisingly heartfelt love letter to 80's slasher movies (probably my second favorite genre behind werewolf flicks).

From IMDb:
"When Max (Taissa Farmiga) and her friends reluctantly attend a tribute screening of an infamous '80s slasher film that starred Max's late mother (Malin Akerman), they are accidentally sucked into the silver screen. They soon realize they are trapped inside the cult classic movie and must team up with the fictional and ill-fated "Camp Bloodbath" counselors, including Max's mom as the shy scream queen, to battle the film's machete-wielding, masked killer. With the body count rising in scene after iconic scene, who will be THE FINAL GIRLS left standing and live to escape this film?
- Written by Vertical Entertainment"

It maybe loses a point for being PG-13, but I'm not really sure if going full R like the movies it pays tribute to would've improved it that much.

Currently streaming free on Crackle: www.crackle.com/watch/5805



I really dug this one and bought the Blu-ray after catching it thru Netflix.

[someoldguy]

Mar 6, 2020 17:57:16 GMT -5 ArcLight said:

Not to be confused with Final Girl, which also came out in 2015, The Final Girls is a surprisingly heartfelt love letter to 80's slasher movies (probably my second favorite genre behind werewolf flicks).

From IMDb:
"When Max (Taissa Farmiga) and her friends reluctantly attend a tribute screening of an infamous '80s slasher film that starred Max's late mother (Malin Akerman), they are accidentally sucked into the silver screen. They soon realize they are trapped inside the cult classic movie and must team up with the fictional and ill-fated "Camp Bloodbath" counselors, including Max's mom as the shy scream queen, to battle the film's machete-wielding, masked killer. With the body count rising in scene after iconic scene, who will be THE FINAL GIRLS left standing and live to escape this film?
- Written by Vertical Entertainment"

It maybe loses a point for being PG-13, but I'm not really sure if going full R like the movies it pays tribute to would've improved it that much.

Currently streaming free on Crackle: www.crackle.com/watch/5805



I really dug this one and bought the Blu-ray after catching it thru Netflix.

I started watching and saw Taissa Farmiga sitting in the car. Definitely will continue watching.

[someoldguy]

I watched it. Very good!

The idea of falling into a movie is an old one. But in this one, the movie they fall into is still a movie, not a dream or an alternate reality or whatever. To make it they have to follow the rules of horror movies. I loved the crazy but also so right logic of being in a movie, like you cannot get out of it for one thing. And things like...

Flashback! Tell the story!

or

WWWHHHAAATTTSSS HHHAAAPPPEEENNNIIINNNGGG?

SSSLLLOOOWWW MMMOOOTTTIIIOOONNN

Great visuals and everyone delivers. Especially Taissa Farmiga who once again creates a real person, even if in rather unusual circumstances.

Not all fun and games of course. It is a legitimate slasher movie although short on gore. (PG-13 as you pointed out) It is also an effective and even moving portrait of the relationship between the girl and her mother.

And that is a great ending. Or beginning. Or whatever it was.



PS The flashback was supposedly to 1957 but that is a 1959 Chevy.