The Final Terror Movie Review
A group of campers and rangers head deep into the forest for a getaway, but find themselves stalked by a vicious killer. This 1983 film can fittingly be deemed a combination of Deliverance and Friday the 13th...only not as good as either. The movie does come out of the gate hot, as we see a couple on a motorcycle offed in unusual manners--the girl especially meets a wicked fate. From there, we meet the would-be victims for the rest of the film, and there are a lot of them--sadly, most live, making one wonder why they went with so many throwaway characters but didn't kill them off?
"Don't ask me. I wanted to kill them all!"
Speaking of the campers, there are surprisingly some familiar faces here. Daryl Hannah (Blade Runner, Splash) is probably the biggest name to come out of the film--in fact, this movie was shot in 1981 and shelved until 1983, being released as Hannah's star began to shine. Joe Pantoliano (Risky Business, Memento) kind of steals the show (as he tends to do) as the insane Eggar, and fans of The Jeffersons will recognize Ernest Harden Jr. Rounding it out is Mark Metcalf, and if you ever saw him in the Twisted Sister videos and wished somebody would kill him, this movie has what you've been craving.
"What do you wanna do with your life?!"
The main drawback of this The Final Terror is the lack of anything of any substance happening--specifically, it is a slasher film with few kills and practically no scary moments. There is little character development to compensate for this, resulting in the campers being rather interchangeable. There are some nice shots of the woods and a river, and one scene involving a raft that is cool, so that will help get you through the movie. The few death scenes we see present decent effects. The final scene is anti-climatic, but it does offer a shot that is both unique for its time and well done. Watch it to see some stars early in their careers, and for the interesting directing, but there's not much more to see here.
On A Scale Of One To Ten: 5
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