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Final Stab (2001)

   
Produced & Directed by: David DeCoteau

Written by: Matthew Jason Walsh

Story by: David DeCoteau & Matthew Jason Walsh

Starring:

Jamie Gannon .... Charlie
Melissa Reneé Martin .... Angela
Erinn Hayes .... Kristin
Laila Reece Landon .... Julie
Bradley Stryker .... Patrick
Chris Boyd .... Doug
Forrest Cochran .... Brett
Michael Lutz .... Steve
Brannon Gould .... Cosmo

Release Date: Direct-to-DVD: May 5, 2001

 

Rating:

 

A disturbed young man named Charlie (Jamie Gannon) is being tormented in his nightmares about being murdered at a mystery farm he's going to with his girlfriend Angela (Melissa Renee Martin) that was claimed to be cursed by a killer that was never caught.
However, Angela's sister sets up a game of pretend murder with her friends which she has fake blood and knives, a killer mask and other stuff to make it look real in order to fool Charlie and Angela.
However, what starts out as a friendly game really does turn out as murder as there really is a killer wearing a mask that was brought at the farm making it easier for the killer to stab his victims as they all think it's part of the game.

 

This flick was a ripoff of the Scream trilogies and Halloween: Resurrection without a doubt (On some bootleg copies of this flick it was titled Scream 4: The Final Chapter).
It does have some intersting moments for a typical slasher film but the rest of it is a real bore as the story really goes nowhere.
The killer does look a bit like Michael Myers from Halloween with the mask and uniform however.

The actors try their best with this film in the beginning but the energy is low. However, it does pick up when the suspenseful moments occur.

Some bloody stabbings and throats slit.

David DeCoteau seems to make this slasher film the best as possible and succeeds with the killer coming in on its prey and the victims reacting when they realise it isn't a game is good too as he seemed to coach that well but the rest of his direction lacked a bit especially when the cast playing the three jocks when they were waiting outside for an event and the killer kills them first which was a total bore and a waste of time on his end.

Jason Massari's music was the films drawing card as he tries to make the film better than what it was with his music which he does really well.
He was great with the screeching high pitched music when the killer is coming in for the slashings.
He has composed a number of other films like DeCoteau's other work in Retro Puppet Master, Leeches and his most successful film to date Skeletons.
Plus he composed music for 80's TV shows like Disneyland, Hart to Hart, T.J. Hooker, The Ray Bradbury Theater and Monsters.