I love this movie so much

Simply Perfect

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

I stayed up to 1AM just to see this thing through. My tenacity and dogged determination was rewarded with 95 minutes of overwrought drivel. This is one of those "films" - and I use the term very lightly here - where it's tough to imagine 100+ fellow human beings got up every morning and thought to themselves, "I can't wait to work on this!". Low budget? Absolutely. Horror? Hardly. Paper mache characters, unconvincing acting delivering atrocious dialogue, high-school quality cinematography, and no one will be looking for the soundtrack...ever. Save yourself the time and the headache from gripping your forehead trying to navigate this utter disaster of a cine-mess. Reruns of Leave It To Beaver hold more horror than this...thing.

If this really is based on a true story, then I feel sorry for the parents of the victims that this film was ever made.So i'm ignoring the fact that it could be 'fact' and will review it as a film.The plot is basically this, a group of high-school outsiders get fed up of being bullied by your atypical bullies who throw milk at them, spit in their books, etc.They devise an elaborate plan from their joint love of horror films to teach all of their antagonists a lesson.So they all dress up as their favourite horror characters (none of which I can recall), and invite them all to a costume party.once the party starts, the outsiders party really gets started.....For a low budget horror film, it's really well made, with good performances from the initial victims, and with many nods to other horror films, Audition in particular, and hints of Rob Zombie in the third act.But the other victims are just so one dimensional, you couldn't really care what happens to them. At the beginning of the siege, the hostages are all arrogant toward the victims,and bearing in mind this is supposedly based on a true story, it just doesn't fit well if you put yourself in that situation.But there are plenty of red herrings to keep you guessing, and one remarkable element to the film, which makes it all the more sinister, is that it has an element of Van Sant's 'Elephant' to it.It's a solid enough horror movie, never outstaying it's welcome, but like I said at the top, if it really was based on a true story, it was done in bad taste.

The Final is a pretty low budget horror film, which could be described as 'post Hostel torture porn.' And, the first thing I have to say is that it appears not to be for everyone.I really liked it, but, if you read the numerous reviews, you'll find that just over fifty per cent seemed to really hate it. It's nothing that special, but I thought it was a nice enough idea to elevate it from the mounds of horror b-movies, infesting the DVD stores.It's about a group of bullied students who decide to take some - pretty deadly - revenge on their 'uber cool' tormentors, in the form of drugging them all at a party and then... let's just say they don't just tweet nasty messages about the bullies.However, don't go expecting piles and piles of blood and gore. The film is distinctly low budget and I'm guessing they couldn't afford to have too many realistic limbs flying in all directions. Therefore, what 'gore' there is, is implied and left to your imagination. However, despite the low budget, all the actors play their parts pretty well.I think you're enjoyment from the film will stem from whether you can identify with the psychotic 'killer' kids. It certainly makes a change to have some sympathy with the killers, rather than the victims.If you like the Hostel-type film and you're not bothered by a lack of gore in your horror films, then you might like The Final (if anything else, it's a stark warning not to bully!).

OK, some of you will be offended by my thoughts about this film, and frankly I couldn't care less. Lets get that straight. I was bullied relentlessly as a kid all the way through my high school years for everything from my race, religion the way I spoke the fact that I was a kind of sort of nerd/jock, everything. This movie speaks to a part of me that was born out of that turmoil, a sick, twisted, sadistic side that only my former bullies have seen. Granted I never took it to the extent that the film shows, but I have broken my fair share of bones to drive home the point, that I wanted to be left alone. But I would be lying through my teeth if I said I hadn't dreamed of taking it further, and most of you would be too. The down trodden will always dream of rising to give the wicked their just due.As a theater geek, and aspiring actor, writer, and all around movie connoisseur I was very impressed with the story they were able to tell on a shoestring budget. The lack of flashy special effects creates an aura of realism. As well as leaving the more disturbing bits for your own imagination to run wild. And yes the script could have used some reworking and some of the actors are robotic. Dean could have been much better portrayed but Emily was without a doubt the best performer of the "freaks". The redhead "hot chick" was the best of the victims, she was excellent. The "jock" was the worst, very one dimensional. And more could have been done with the class clown character, the one that got the cattle gun to the face. Really would've liked to see more character development with the "freaks" because this is the type of movie where you almost find yourself rooting for them. A not so stereotypical portrayal of the popular kids would've also been appreciated, but I understand that they had to go with archetypes of these characters. I'd love to see a remake with a larger budget and better actors.The main reason why I loved this movie is because it's a horror movie that can actually happen. Strange creatures and monsters don't scare us any more because we know them not to be real. The truth is now being revealed in this day and age, the only real monsters are monsters of our own creation. For the most part, monsters who bring guns to school to kill their classmates, are created by the bullies who torment them day in and day out. And the school administrators who do nothing to stop the abuse when they see it going on. It's a glimpse into the dark side of the "duality of man" as RL Stevenson(Dr. Jekel and Mr. Hyde) put it. The scariest monster to ever walk this earth is man. And this movie illustrates that quite well.