Final Stab (2001)

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Final Scream is a low budget inferior take on the modern day classic Scream. It takes all the ingredients that made Scream such a success and doesn't do the right things with them. For example a horror mad person who could be used for some comic relief has a straight face throughout the movie.The story is just a poor excuse to get enough people involved so the film can have a good bodycount, and this is the films only saviour because the acting is so bad and the characters are so annoying that you will smile gleefully as they are stabbed and strangled to death. This won't scare the biggest coward on Earth but i suppose this is good enough to kill 90 mins for any horror buff like myself.

I know David DeCoteau films will never be mistaken as great art. But if they were at least entertaining then their lack of artistic merit wouldn't be so bad but alas, his films are rarely entertaining, which makes these producers products even more tedious to watch. And FINAL STAB is one tedious film: a bland film with a bland title with bland actors in a bland one-setting story. A game of Pong is more compelling than this so-called horror film.The funny thing about this film is that it was shot in widescreen and yet the film was never released theatrically. So why bother shooting this direct-to-home video film in widescreen?Anyway, there's almost nothing else worth mentioning about FINAL STAB. It's pretty difficult to write a concise critique for such a bland film.

Was there a previous stab? Like in a past life, maybe? In the world of low budget horror, there is nothing more annoying than seeing a large sum of money go to a seriously crappy film. ****SPOILER****In this star-barren flick, six Ivy League grads are part of a 'devious' plot to drive a middle-class outsider crazy. Their leader, a self-styled super bitch, sets up a mock murder mystery where everyone really dies. Her plan is to blame the killings on our poor outsider. The bodies pile up, but the tables are turned and the outsider comes out on top. This movie was slightly disjointed and greatly lousy with bad acting and too-dark lighting. Two strong points–good title sequence and fairly decent musical score.

A rich bitch (Erinn Carter) throws a Halloween birthday party for her sister (Melissa Renee Martin) at a secluded house where a family was murdered years earlier. Unbeknownst to the innocent sister and her mentally unstable boyfriend (Jamie Gannon), they're actually being set up as guinea pigs for a plan to turn the house into a bed and breakfast where make-believe murder mystery games are to be played. Who better to show up than a real masked killer with a knife?Martin and (especially) Chris Boyd are better actors than usual for a David DeCoteau movie, but this is basically just a bunch of long, boring, talky sequences punctuated by kill scenes so tame John Ashcroft wouldn't even raise an eyebrow at them. A few ridiculous surprises pop up near the end, but they do not make up for the tediousness of the first hour.Score: 2 out of 10