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 shouldve been great. The main idea is that blonde, butter-wouldnt-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 (doesnt 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 shes capable of, so wheres 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 couldve used a bunch of narrative complications, it's this one.
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.'