The Final Terror (1983)
Genre: Horror
Duration: 82 minuten
Alternative titles: Campsite Massacre / Bump in the Night / The Forest Primeval
Country:
United States
Directed by: Andrew Davis
Stars: John Friedrich, Ernest Harden Jr. and Adrian Zmed
IMDb score:
5,2 (4.580)
Releasedate: 1 May 1983
The Final Terror plot
"Without knowing they have awakened an unknown force. Can anyone survive?"
A group of adventurers sets out for the woods. When they arrive on the land of a deranged killer, it is the beginning of much misery. It doesn't take long for blood to start flowing.
Reviews & comments
perceived
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- 1792 messages
- 5611 votes
Pierced right through..!
I saw this film a long time ago and all I remember was that, somewhat irritatingly, I had to shine a flashlight through about half of the film just to be able to see anything at all 
Watched it on TV back then, yesterday on my laptop. Probably about the same picture quality as back then, but it was much easier to follow on the laptop. The nighttime footage remains a major drawback, while I actually quite liked the camerawork. As long as it doesn't get too dark, it's actually quite atmospheric. I didn't find the soundtrack particularly noteworthy, but it's well-balanced and ultimately quite cool.
The plot unfolds excruciatingly slowly but flows along nicely. It takes its time for some character development, which is another plus. This is often lacking in "gerne" movies (though it's not always important). 7.5/10*
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klara
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- 814 messages
- 20367 votes
It's surprisingly common in lesser horror films that you sit there in a lot of scenes, completely speechless.
staring at actions in the dark, like this one. The daytime images were fine here,
but that was of little use, because this was simply a bad film with no special
moments, although it started off promisingly with the intro and the first kills. The dialogues at the
The beginning was still reasonable, but the film soon gets bogged down with a lot of (campfire) dialogue, but
mediocre actors are allowed to play completely uninteresting characters, and the film drags on
reluctantly and bloodlessly towards a disappointing ending. From a director with
several successful and well-known titles to his name. But this was only his second film that we
but should be regarded as an exercise for his later, better work.
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wendyvortex
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- 5196 messages
- 7278 votes
This now somewhat restored version still has some cult following; the night scenes are now clearly visible. I'm not entirely enthusiastic about it. The first half is simply terribly dull, with a lot of horrible slaughter and the usual practical jokes.
Body count is also low in this slasher, but the survival-like scenes in the second half are still somewhat captivating. A weak first half, a B-movie Deliverance in the second. Only for 80s slasher completists. The film was shelved in 1980, but then Daryl Hannah suddenly became known as an actress, and she plays one of the girls here. It was finally released in 1983, but it promptly went down in infamy.
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