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school and horror movies go together like... well, they just go together.
The horrors of adolescence and its accompanying trauma has always been
the perfect backdrop for any number of murderous monsters and maniacs.
In general, though, the typical coupling of horror and high school
means a set number of things: attractive but stupid youngsters who
partake in drink and sex and are invariably dismembered or dispatched
in gruesome ways. However, the truly horrifying part of this union is
not the results but the staggeringly predictability that these events
happen.
That makes it quite refreshing, then, when something different comes along."The Final"
"The Final," the first-time effort by director Joey Stewart, is a tale
that, like most tales, has been told before: the downtrodden outcast
students of Hohn High School have been tormented for years by the
beautiful and popular students and they are now about to get their
revenge. Truly, under most circumstances, this would fall into "Stop me
if you've heard this one before" territory, but writer Jason Kabolati
takes one of the most standard of horror staples and turns it into
something quite different and quite good. Instead of hitting tired
clichéd notes, Kabolati gives us a tale that has no good guys and no
bad guys, only victims. Instead of focusing on blood and gore and cheap
scares, we get a movie that is what I like to call the spiritual child
to the "Saw" series. In "Saw", the focus (at least early in the series)
was to make people gain appreciation for their lives. "The Final" takes
a group of people having to deal with the consequences for their
actions - not simply consequences for drinking or smoking dope or
having sex, but for the myriads of little crimes we commit against each
other because we see someone as different or odd.
"The Final" also differs from its brethren in that the movie is
virtually bloodless. In some ways, it reminded me more of a European
horror movie than your standard American film. It was thought provoking
and not just in the "whodunit" way. More movies should seek to
challenge us this way — in spite of the fact that most genre fans would
much rather have their scares safe with a minimum amount of soul
searching.
Though for all this praise, it is not a perfect movie. There are points
early on where it would be easy to dismiss this as derivative or as
"just another teen horror movie," a few times where the dialogue makes
you groan a little and some fairly predictable plot points that get us
to the meat of the story. However, Stewart, Kabolati and a fine group
of young actors - particularly Marc Donato (as the leader of the
outcasts) and Lindsay Seidel (who makes a deliciously wicked turn as
the outcast, Emily) all help to make this better than average January
fare and even better than average anytime horror fare.
Gorehound will probably hate it for its lack of blood, and the hormonal
male segment of horror fans will hate it for the distinct lack of
nudity of any kind. For the rest of us, however, you get a movie that
asks one question: what did I do to get here? For the local Dallas
filmmakers who put together "The Final," they took something very
ordinary and made it something very different and very good. That's how
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