Wordiezett So much average

ScoobyWell Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

denis888 It is not that easy to make a movie which is a decent comedy, even more demanding to make a slashe comedy. The Final Girls did that surpsingly well, veery merrily and wth a certain baravado and gusto. Great casting adds a certain flavor, with Taissa Farniga being the spellbinding lead role, fully growing from a timid girl to a valiant fighter. What makes the movie really strong is that healthy dose of irony, self-mockery, obvious pun, and a great sense of humor. Laura Kern of Film Comment called the film a "sharp, wickedly funny, and unexpectedly heartfelt homage" to slasher films, adding, "It's a gimmicky premise, perhaps, but a highly effective one. No mere meta-exercise, the film innovatively blends the worlds of the 1986 teens of Camp Bloodbath with the modern-day ones." Not much can be added here.

Bodo Max and her friends are pulled into a an 80's camp horror movie. Stuck inside the movie, Max befriends the character played by her lost mother, fighting off the evil Billy to find the loop out of this slasher flick.This is a charming homage to 80's camp horror in gleaming colors. It features stylish music, lots of one-liners, and characters that are just clichéd enough to be both funny and believable. Despite not taking itself too seriously, THE FINAL GIRLS also manages to convey some genuine emotions and a heartfelt story about the loss of a mother. The movie has general appeal to a wide audience but you're more likely going to enjoy this one having seen a few slasher flicks before. In particular, there's numerous references to the original Friday THE 13TH. In being so meta about horror, THE FINAL GIRLS is quite comparable to CABIN IN THE WOODS—but it isn't nearly as gory.All in all, I can highly recommend this one.

GL84 Trying to get over her mothers' death, a teen and her friends agree to attend a screening of her old horror film at a local retrospective only to become trapped within the film itself and must put their knowledge of the film and the genre to get them through the movie and leave alive.For the most part this here was a highly enjoyable and engaging throwback to the slasher films of the past. The fact that this one really manages to nail the genre theme and feel of the camp-set slasher film of the time-period is it's greatest plus here, effectively capturing that atmosphere to it's fullest. The few early parts of the film before their entrance set this in motion rather well by maintaining that tone and feel so that when it turns into the slasher film angle with them involved there's quite a lot more fun to come here. The scenes of them finding the different participants in the camp out in the forest where they witness the first killer ambush and begin interacting with the results gives this a pretty enjoyable expectation for what's to come, and with them being inducted into the group gives this the greatest set-up here for the film's great battles with the killer. Those are far more enjoyable action-packed moments here with the big trap set against him with the different traps set up in the main hall and how he gets past them leading to a set of battles against the killer throughout the cabin as the remaining survivors begin fighting back against the killer in the backroom as well as the upper floors as they bring their traps into full use letting the action go throughout into the last big confrontation at the house that really plays into the emotional trauma storyline that's been building throughout here and especially in the last section. That as well is another big deal in the fact that there's a great deal of work done here to detail that part of story and it comes off far better than expected here without it being detrimental to the pacing which really had the potential to be an issue and really adds a nice depth to this one. With all these added together to the rather nice comedy throughout here, there's quite a lot to like here though there's still a few flaws which does hold this back. The main issue with this one is the fact that it really holds itself back from what it really could've been if only it would've been more willing devote to the comedy potential of it's central premise. The idea of being aware of a movie and then being forced to guide the cast through like what's happening here could've provided this one with a spectacular storyline, but far too much of this one is spent on the mother/daughter relationship, which even though it's great stuff there's a stumbling with the slasher antics as there's very little gore and absolutely no nudity which these usually provide. As well, there's a rather simplistic and ludicrous manner of entering the movie-within-the-movie as the theater accident is way too contrived and comes off without any real explanation for what's going on, leaving it with very little to like about it. Otherwise, this one really had a lot to like.Rated PG-13: Violence, Language, drug use and sexual references.

Nicholas Koss First off, I actually enjoyed the film quite a bit, but there were rarely moments that I thought were that clever. The premise was interesting enough. I thought they could've done so much more with the film. There were tons of opportunities for intriguing scenes, but the writing and direction didn't really deliver in any of the concepts. The story is fun for a quick watch if you're bored, but don't go into it expecting much else than a few laughs.As for the production, everything was done well enough. The CGI isn't very good, but it's not a movie where that really matters honestly. The cinematography can go from really good to uninspired within each scene. I didn't think the acting was horrible. It was supposed to be cheesy and bad like classic horror movies, I just thought that they went a little too far in some places with how poor the dialogue was. None of the characters were that interesting which was disappointing because I thought the film was supposed to be a spin on the usually cliché horror films.The comedy in the film wasn't that strong unfortunately. I think most of the times I laughed were from jokes that were already in the trailers. I do have to admit that the outtake reel at the end of the film is pretty funnier. A lot of those moments during the credits are much funnier than the rest of the film.There are also supposed to be some heartfelt moments in the film, and to be fair some of those attempts are pulled off well, but a lot of the time it fell a flat because they didn't develop the characters enough for me to really care about them.Overall, I just wished they would have explored the ideas they presented in better detail. I think if they were aiming to create a fun movie that pokes fun at horror films and tries to be something new, they didn't do a great job. The idea is much better than the execution.