10 Best Slasher Movies Since 2010
9. The Final Girls
With tongue firmly in cheek, The Final Girls is a slasher movie within a slasher movie.
In an opening act that sees Taissa Farmiga's Max suffer the death of her actress mother in a car accident, we skip forward a few years to Max being coerced by her pals to go and watch a double-feature of the two Camp Blood slasher pictures her mother once starred in.
After a fire breaks out during the showing of that first Camp Blood offering, the only escape route is for Max and her friends to cut through the cinema screen. The catch here, though, is that this magically transports the group of teens into Camp Blood.
Given how Camp Blood was pegged as a 1986 movie, that means that slasher clichés aplenty are running wild here. It's camp, it's cheesy, it plays by the ever-familiar rules of slashers of that period, and there's a good amount of blood 'n' guts for gore hounds.
However, The Final Girls differs from so many of its cohorts in that the film is brimming with heart and emotion at its core. Peel back the fun kills and shrieking stereotypes, and you'll find the tale of a young girl being afforded the chance to reconnect with her deceased mother - or at least a character played by her mother.