hyped garbage

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

With such a generic title and uninspired packaging, David De Coteau's Final Scream (AKA Final Stab) is clearly intended to deceive gullible punters into thinking that this is the next instalment in the popular Scream franchise. But there's no fooling anyone once the film begins: the derivative story, lousy acting, over-dramatic score, boring kills, and mediocre direction give the game away immediately.This dreadfully bland film sees a bunch of attractive but obnoxious teens gathering at an old country house—the sight of a bloody massacre years before—to attend a surprise party held by rich bitch Angela (Melissa Reneé Martin), in honour of her sister Kristin (Erinn Hayes). The fun quickly comes to an end, however, when the party is crashed by a mask wearing, knife wielding maniac intent on killing all of the guests. However, all is not quite as it seems: the whole thing is a charade concocted by Angela, supposedly as a dry run for a murder/mystery weekend, but actually as a convoluted way of settling an old score with Kristin's boyfriend.With its asinine plot loaded with preposterous plot twists, dumb red herrings, disposable characters, a pointless gay subplot (presumably included to appease the more devoted De Coteau fans), but virtually no gore or decent scares (unless you include the ridiculously loud music cues designed to make viewers jump!), Final Scream really is one of the most dissatisfying slashers I've ever had the displeasure of sitting through.

A wealthy group of recent college grads are invited to participate in a "murder mystery" game. It begins as a fun evening of scary stunts featuring rubber knives, fake blood, and a "murderer" played by an actor in a creepy mask. But when the body count becomes real, the players soon realize that one of them is a real killer and the rest of them are playing an altogether different game...to stay alive.Final Stab is a pretty decent horror flick made in 2001. The acting by the main characters is pretty good for a B movie. There is a little bit of blood and no nudity. Overall I would recommend this to any slasher fan I guess. Don't expect this to be very scary cause it's not one of those "on the edge of your seat" horror movies. About half way through I was able to figure out who the killer was. It's a watchable thriller with minimum gore.5/10

Was there a previous stab? Like in a past life, maybe? In the world of low budget horror, there is nothing more annoying than seeing a large sum of money go to a seriously crappy film. ****SPOILER****In this star-barren flick, six Ivy League grads are part of a 'devious' plot to drive a middle-class outsider crazy. Their leader, a self-styled super bitch, sets up a mock murder mystery where everyone really dies. Her plan is to blame the killings on our poor outsider. The bodies pile up, but the tables are turned and the outsider comes out on top. This movie was slightly disjointed and greatly lousy with bad acting and too-dark lighting. Two strong points–good title sequence and fairly decent musical score.

Right from the stale opening stalking sequence (which turns out to be a dream to boot!), you know what you're in for: another derivative slasher flick that does what others ("April Fool's Day", "Return to Horror High") have done before, and better. Supposedly it also wants to satirize the old horror cliches, but it succumbs to almost each and every one of them. The script has no respect for the audience's intelligence; the killer violates the laws of logic (getting in the back seat of a car without being noticed by the driver?) and the victims always do the stupidest things (and they can't tell the difference between a real dead body and a "fake" one even when they're standing right beside it). Still, the direction (apart from the annoying "tilted" shots) is OK, and SOME of the actors (for example the one who plays Doug) aren't bad. (*1/2)