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Final Girl (2015)

Thriller | 90 minutes
2,25 213 votes

Genre: Thriller

Duration: 90 minuten

Country: Canada / United States

Directed by: Tyler Shields

Stars: Abigail Breslin, Wes Bentley and Alexander Ludwig

IMDb score: 4,7 (18.055)

Releasedate: 14 April 2015

Final Girl plot

"She didn't start it, but she'll finish it."

Veronica is targeted by a group of teens who lure girls into the woods to hunt them. But when she manages to escape, the situation is reversed. The girl turns out to be less innocent than initially thought.

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Onderhond

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Best apart.

A film that mixes two influences. On the one hand there is a kind of Nikita-esque intro where a young girl is being trained to be a murderess. Then a forest hunt where the division of roles is turned upside down.

What I think makes this film a bit more difficult is the combination of a rather chilly undertone with a rather theatrical performance. Shields is not interested in character motives and backgrounds, but sticks to what is strictly necessary. On the other hand, characters and settings are very stylized and extroverted. It is of course no coincidence that those lamps in the forest are a bit brighter than you would expect.

It does ensure that the film is slightly more original than the average genre film that works with these elements. Stylish from start to finish, not scary or gory but fairly methodical. You rarely, if ever, see that chill in this kind of film and that's why it's refreshing.

Acting also nice, visually worth the effort, only in terms of soundtrack it could have been just a little stronger. I have to do my best to remember half an hour later. But all in all a great movie. The low score was also to be expected. These kinds of genre films have been scoring very low for a while, on top of that it is all slightly less accessible and bite-sized.

3.5*

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Barely bad and apparently sponsored by the local Gamma.... what's up with all those construction lights in the woods? So cheap.

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Shadowed

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Very weak.

If you can still manage to screw up a film with actors such as Bentley, Breslin and Ludwig, then you know that you are not really in the right place as a director. Read somewhere that this must take place in the 50s, not noticed anywhere.

You can already feel it hanging in the air after the opening, this will be nothing again. It's not horror either, if you think so, it remains a thriller. It lacks the blood, because Shields seems to focus more on the design of the film.

Admittedly, it was very successful. Nice lighting here and there with bright colors, but that's about it. You might as well poop out the dialogues, they are that broken. Sometimes so easy that you have to laugh out of the blue.

The actors and actresses have no charm and just make a fool of themselves. The film is too slow for a story that could have been told in 15 minutes. A 'stranglehold' looks like a hug, anyway the actions of the characters are sometimes too stupid for words. Breslin has 'trained for a long time' but any development is hard for her. It's a shame, because she definitely has the looks.

Amateurish gang, with only nice lighting and colors. Shields may do it again, but hopefully he will get a much better result than this mess.

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