jamesbuc
OK! Quick plot synopsis! Hero guy has odd dreams. Heroine (his Girlfriend) is invited to a party that is being hosted by her sister. Sister is planning up to fake a murder mystery party. Real murders happen. Thats the plot. :) Paper thin ain't it? Anyway onto the characters. We have Charlie the hero who spends most of the movie hiding around the house. We have Angela the whiny Heroine who I couldn't give two shits about because of her total dullness. Then we have Kristen (The only good credible person in this movie) who trys to make the film good and spits out some wicked one liners. Then there is Julie, the supposed slut/bitch character but in the end she just comes off as plain, boring and quite useless. We have Patrick the Jock who (to be honest) looks nice but is also plain and boring. There are also many other different characters who do this same 'Plain, boring and annoying' routine.Think I've finished slagging it off? Nope! Then there is the awful camera work and lighting which manages to make everything that was supposed to be exciting (Such as the killer running after Angela) boring and dull with everything shrouded in thick blackness.Then we have the awful script. The basis (as I have said) is paper thin. The characters seem to constantly spit out extremely poor attempts at making jokes about other horror films that are much much better. The various stalk scenes seem to last an eternity (The starting scene is very long and very boring with our hero character going 'whos there?' at every camera flick) Various characters (Such as the three thugs) turn up for little or no reason other to add to the body-count.Talking about body-count though even though its supposedly quite high there is very little blood in the film. Most of the deaths are seen for a second and then the awkward camera pans away. even when blood is used it seems to defy gravity and splatter everywhere in a stupid way (since when did getting stabbed in the back with a small knife make a blood spray on the face??) Basically in short leave this movie alone!Good Points - Umm. Can be used as a novelty coasterBad points - Everything
Maciste_Brother
I know David DeCoteau films will never be mistaken as great art. But if they were at least entertaining then their lack of artistic merit wouldn't be so bad but alas, his films are rarely entertaining, which makes these producers products even more tedious to watch. And FINAL STAB is one tedious film: a bland film with a bland title with bland actors in a bland one-setting story. A game of Pong is more compelling than this so-called horror film.The funny thing about this film is that it was shot in widescreen and yet the film was never released theatrically. So why bother shooting this direct-to-home video film in widescreen?Anyway, there's almost nothing else worth mentioning about FINAL STAB. It's pretty difficult to write a concise critique for such a bland film.
callanvass
dumb horror movie has awful acting and lack of gore and some fake looking stabbings has a couple of effective moments but we have seen this before a 1000 times and done better at that !!!!!!!! this is not recommended *1/2 out of 5
gridoon
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)
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