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The Final Exam must be a rectal exam because you'd have to be a big ass to like it!! Talk about a total waste of 90 minutes, what is there to like about this film? A couple of the characters are quirky and likable, but it's more of a mixture of Revenge of the Nerds, Halloween, and any other college comedy you can think of. The film has zero action for the first hour after a post credits slaying, then the killer gets busy and you start wondering who this could be. Just when you think this stinker could just possibly redeem itself, noooooo the killer has no motive or identity. One of the basic fundamentals of a mystery story is that a new character cannot be introduced as the killer if he has not been introduced earlier in the story in some way. That's what totally destroys this film.

After watching the film, it really seems as if there was some type of breakdown in the filming or editing of it. The lame professor never returns to be seen after his introduction earlier in the film. If I had to make an assumption as to who the killer should be, I'd say the policeman. He was going after the pranksters, which made sense. I'll give the benefit of the doubt and assume there was footage lost after filming and this mess had to be culled together and released to recoup some money. Bend over... your Final Exam is ready.

Another of the endless Mad Max ripoffs, and this one ranks with the stinkinest of all time. I don't mind a few stinkers, and I love the campiness of these late 70's/early 80's post-nuke films, but this is probably the worst film I've seen since Blair Witch 2. After a WWIII holocaust, we look in on the lives of a few survivors who are about to cross paths. We have the scum biker gang, the all-American dad and child with a foreign sounding wife and daughter (who have an old man as a mock grandpa),we have the last 2 remaining horses on planet earth, a convent of nuns, and finally a loner stud lookin' for action any way he can get it.

All I can say is, all of the horrible clichés are in affect. Absolutely nothing happens for about the first 50-55 minutes except a lot of garbage talk about the way things were and how retarded man is for destroying everything. The rest of the film cannot be considered action, horror, or science fiction in my opinion. You just have to make a whole new genre for films like this and call it the Sh*t genre. You could fit this 90 min. film into a 25 min. TV show package.

The editing is horrible also, and you have the feel that some scenes (including the ending) needed more extensions onto them to help tell the story, but I have a feeling this would just prolong the pain of viewing it even more. Please be warned, there's a good reason why less than 30 people have rated this film.

My 1 out of 10 rating is for the Substance (Music Video Distribution) DVD version of the film. Very disappointing release of this obscure slasher movie. This DVD has all nudity and extended violence cut from the print. If you want this uncut, get the old Paragon VHS version. I figured this would be a VHS quality picture put onto DVD, but I didn't think it would come out chopped to bits. If you can't get these films out uncut, then just don't release them. This DVD makes the film look horribly dull, and pointless. In actuality, the uncut film is not bad if you like this genre. Boooooooooo to Substance. Makes me wonder if their other DVD releases are cut also including "Pranks" and "Tanya's Island"?