As the original Scream made readily apparent years ago, there are rules to horror movies, especially '80s slasher films.
While Scream brought a movie-like slasher to the (then) present, The Final Girls takes a somewhat different tack, sending its characters back into an '80s slasher movie. That may sound like a recipe for disaster, but director Todd Strauss-Schulson pulls it off.
Taissa Farmiga stars as Max Cartwright, a high schooler whose mother, Amanda (Malin Akerman), was once a famous scream queen but has never managed to get past those projects, particularly one called Camp Bloodbath. Before Final Girls truly gets started, Max loses her mother in a car accident and is still coping with the loss three years later.
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While Scream brought a movie-like slasher to the (then) present, The Final Girls takes a somewhat different tack, sending its characters back into an '80s slasher movie. That may sound like a recipe for disaster, but director Todd Strauss-Schulson pulls it off.
Taissa Farmiga stars as Max Cartwright, a high schooler whose mother, Amanda (Malin Akerman), was once a famous scream queen but has never managed to get past those projects, particularly one called Camp Bloodbath. Before Final Girls truly gets started, Max loses her mother in a car accident and is still coping with the loss three years later.
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