2015 · comedy · horror · slasher
The Final Girls
Directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson1h 31m2015
A young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom's most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film's maniacal killer.
Our read: The Final Girls (2015) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · horror · slasher entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / horror, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- kinetic
- inventive
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