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The Final Girls
Scream Girl
USA / Canada 2015
produced by
Michael London, Janice Williams, Darren M. Demetre (executive), M.A. Fortin (executive), Joshua John Miller (executive) for Groundswell Productions, Ulterior Productions
directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson
starring Taissa Farmiga, Malin Akerman, Alexander Ludwig, Nina Dobrev, Alia Shawkat, Thomas Middleditch, Adam Devine, Angela Trimbur, Chloe Bridges, Tory N. Thompson, Reg Rob, Lauren Gros, Daniel Norris, Eric Michael Carney, Cory Hart, Jackie Tuttle, Dave Davis, Bryce Romero, Steve French (voice)
written by M.A. Fortin, Joshua John Miller, music by Gregory James Jenkins, Eddy Zak
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Three years after the death of her actress mum (Malin Akerman), Max
(Taissa Farmiga) is invited to a showing of her most famous film, the
1980s slasher Camp Bloodbath. During the showing of the movie, the
auditorium catches fire, but Max finds a way out right through the screen
for her and her friends, best friend Gertie (Alia Shawkat), Gertie's nerdy
brother Duncan (Thomas Middleditch), Max's love interest Chris (Alexander
Ludwig), and bitchy Vicki (Nina Dobrev). Thing is, the way through the
screen leads the quintet right into the movie, and suddenly they find
themselves camp counsellors alongside the film's characters, most
importantly the character Max's mum played, Nancy (also Malin Akerman),
hunky idiot Kurt (Adam Devine), always horny Tina (Angela Trimbur) and
nice guy Blake (Tory N. Thompson), and they pretty much go through the
motions of the movie, meaning they're forced to run from masked killer
Billy (Daniel Norris), who just hates camp counsellors due to a childhood
trauma. Our heroes' first instinct is to stick to the film's actual final
girl, tough-as-nails Paula (Chloe Bridges), but then she's killed in a car
accident. Also when Billy kills Duncan, Max and company find out how
vulnerable they are. So they set up an elaborate trap for Billy, but of
course as a killer in a 1980s slasher, he can't be killed by bow and arrow
or fire (or both), basically he survives whatever's thrown at him, and
eventually they figure he can only be killed by whoever the final girl
will be, as long as she's a virgin, with his own machete. And to nobody's
surprise, eventually everybody's killed but Max and Nancy, and Nancy, who
has since bonded with Max, sacrifices herself so Max can kill Billy - and
wake up in hospital with her friends - and in Camp Bloodbath's
sequel ... One of the meta-slashers in the wake of Scream
from almost 20 years earlier that does its best to constantly wink at its audience to obscure the fact
that behind its post-modern facade it's actually the thing it tries to
parody, a very straight-forward slasher that follows exactly all the
clichés it tries to mock. It's really as if the filmmakers weren't in on
the joke all way through - which is a bit of a shame, as some jokes are
genuinely funny and insightful even, but as a whole, this feels much more
routine than meta, more formula than subversion. That said, at least as a
run-of-the-mill slasher it works, but as little more than that.
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