20 SXSW Films You Need To Know About
19. The Final Girls
If there's one film that's got people's lips a-flappin' more than any other at this year's SXSW, it's Todd Strauss-Schulson's The Final Girls. Max (Taissa Farmiga) finds herself drawn into the world of slasher films her mother (Malin Akerman) used to star in during the eighties.
Literally, as her and her friends enter the film during a anniversary marathon. It's scary, sure, but mostly it's a sharp and witty deconstruction of the summer camp slasher flick, and all the sexism and awfulness found within. Genius.