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'Final Stab' also known as 'Final Scream' is a straight to DVD slasher flick from the early 00's and was one of the many attempts from this era for low budget filmmakers to cash in on the 'Scream' franchise. This is about as generic a slasher flick can get with its very 90's dated feel with all the tropes present with its predictable structure, convoluted writing, badly written stock characters and obvious plot twists that you can easily coming a mile off. This isn't a good slasher flick by any stretch of the imagination.

The plot = Angela (Melissa Renee Martin) along with her boyfriend Charlie (Jamie Gannon) gets invited to a party by Angela's sister Kristin (Erinn Hayes) at a secluded mansion along with some of her friends to take part in a murder mystery game, but soon enough the game becomes real, and the guests starts getting killed off one by one.

The movie's pacing is thankfully fairly fast even if nothing all that interesting is happening on screen, as there's almost no atmosphere and boring bloodless kills. The direction by David DeCoteau is passable at best, just the basic point and shoot without any flair or energy and the constant thunderstorms which are obviously flashing strobe lights. But given the time constraints and low budget it's fine. So yeah, everything is just basic and by the numbers without any creativity whatsoever.

The performances are lacking direction though, its basically TV movie acting and not the good ones, but the cast are trying at the very least, but they're all very thinly written and comes across as fake. Erinn Hayes as Kristin probably gives the best performance here giving a very melodramatic and hammy performance and really gets into her bitchy role quite nicely. But even that's just the best out of a bad bunch. The rest of the cast are just unmemorable and flat.

Overall 'Final Stab' lacks any joy or fun and only seek out if you wanna kill some time, but other than that it others nothing to the genre and there's far better examples of slasher flicks out there.

Final Stab was a delightfully pathetic movie. It reminded me of the videos made in my high school film class. That aside, it had potential. The slasher idea, while about as used a week old kitty litter, still has potential to produce "that movie"....another scream (the original). If this script was tossed to John Sayles for a couple weeks it could have been worked into a good piece of work. The potential lied mostly in the fact that it was a murder mystery party, so the victims walked right into there deaths, not expecting anything but a rubber knife and fake blood. The part that killed it was, by far, the writing. Even without changing a thing about story, good writing could have made it more bearable. My friend commented that he thought it was bad acting, but I felt the actors did quite well stumbling over all that awkward dialogue. The villianous sister, played by Erinn Carter is a quite talented actress. She movied onto the Sitcom/improv show "On the spot" with Tim Conway. There she does an excellent job in flexing her comedic muscles. One last comment on the film, while the ending was semi-predictable, I was pleased how it was incorporated. It was the ending that a good slasher filck should have had.

Kristin is a b*tch who likes to cause trouble. When she invites some 'friends' over to her a house she's just brought, she asks them to help her play a trick on her sister Angela and Angela's boyfriend Charlie. What will happen is, Kristin will get an actor to play a killer and this actor has to pretend to kill everyone, scaring Angela and Charlie. What people don't realise is, this is not a game, and there is a REAL killer on the loose.

Yes, Final Scream is another straight-to-video/TV B 'horror' movie, which of course like many others out there is completely rubbish. The whole cast here are nobodies and act absolutely awful. The little twist (Is it even a twist?!) at the end is pathetic and it's quite obvious from the beginning what the ending will turn out to be. This is pathetic and should not be watched by anyone. I can't believe I actually brought this movie.

Kristen is spoiled rich and always gets what she wants, even to see her very own sisters' psychotic boyfriend snap. So Kristen sets up the idea for a murder mystery party at an old house in the country. She invites people she went to college with and hires an actor to play a killer. She then has Angela (her sister) and Charlie (sisters boyfriend) come to the 'surprise' party. Kristen plans it out perfect, Charlie sees the first fake death right in the living room with everyone else and then he begins to panic and rushes out of the house. That's when Kristen's games begin. However, she thinks she has the perfect plot until the people really start dying. They really do have a killer among them. Sounds pretty good huh? Overall you could tell this movie was a "B" movie because of the poor directing and blood. The acting wasn't bad but as you can see plot is very good. Even though this was a predictable movie I'd rate this.. 6/10.

Not as bad as David DeCoteau's most recent efforts, but that isn't saying much. Wealthy woman invites some friends over to her place to play a pratical joke, which invloves faking the deaths of everybody, on an enemy of hers. However, someone shows up and actually starts killing everybody.

Not nowhere near as explotive as DeCoteau's previous efforts, and mildly entertaining, but awfully mechincal and by the numbers. The references to Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer throughout the whole film feel really out of place here.

Rated R; Graphic Violence and Sexual Situations.