10 Most Disappointing Horror Movies Of 2015 - Ranked

4. Final Girl

Final Girl €“ which is not to be confused with The Final Girls, starring Taissa Farmiga €“ should€™ve been great. The main idea is that blonde, butter-wouldn€™t-melt-in-her-mouth Abigail Breslin is trained to become the ultimate weapon against slasher movie villains, but the filmmakers play all their cards too soon. Wes Bentley plays a creepy guy (doesn€™t he always?) who tells Breslin how to turn the tables and go from victim to victor before sending her out into the field. Lured into a remote spot by some boys with murder on their mind, she easily defeats them, which was never in doubt €“ having watched her being trained for such an event, we know what she€™s capable of, so where€™s the suspense? The lack of surprises mean that Final Girl plays more like a pilot for a failed TV series than a movie, and the lack of tongue-in-cheek humour leads you to expect more than the film delivers. If ever a movie could€™ve used a bunch of narrative complications, it's this one.
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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'