10 Best PG-13 Horror Films
4. The Final Girls
Released in 2015, A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas director Todd Strauss-Schulson sees the helmer come to terms with the screenwriter's strange experience of seeing his dear dad die repeatedly onscreen (he's the son of The Exorcist star Jason Miller).
A triumphant horror comedy, this Taissa Farmiga-starring effort sees The Nun star play a bereaved college student who is sucked into the corny eighties slasher film her late mum starred in, only to meet said mum and bond with her whilst eighties horror hijinks surround the pair on all sides.
With a stellar cast including Pitch Perfect's Adam Devine, Arrested Development's Alia Shawkat, and The Hunger Games' Alexander Ludwig playing against type as a likeable love interest, this slasher send-up succeeds in the absence of any gore thanks to a surprisingly poignant script which lends the few deaths real emotional heft.
It's an unusual but impressive mash up of throwback slasher spoof, poignant family drama, and teen comedy, but one that works well and is well worth a watch for The Heartbreak Kid star Malin Akerman's career best turn as the non-final girl alone.