[31 Days of Halloween 2015: THE FINAL GIRLS is in limited theatrical release and available On
Demand.]
Review by Bob Ignizio
*Note: As with last year’s 31 Days of Halloween marathon of
horror movie reviews, we’ll be diving deep into the new release section looking
for modern horror fare, hoping for the best, but frankly expecting the worst.*
2015 has proven to be a fantastic year for fans of eighties
genre films. Not only did we get Mad Max back in the blockbuster hit MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, but a number of (much)
lower budget films have been released that show a real love and understanding
of the films of the Reagan era. And as anyone who was a teenager in the
eighties can tell you, one of the most ubiquitous genres of the time was the
slasher movie. We’ve already had one good retro slasher this year in LOST AFTER DARK, which took a fairly
straight forward approach in creating a film that could believably pass for a
lost 80s relic. Now we get a more meta, and surprisingly emotional, take on the
genre with Todd Strauss-Schulson’s THE
FINAL GIRLS.
