Thursday, August 11, 2011

The Final

Released Year: 2010
Directed by Joey Stewart

Casted by:
Marc Donato as Dane
Jascha Washington as Kurtis
Whitney Hoy as Bridget
Julin as Heather
Lindsay Seidel as Emily
Justin S. Arnold as Bradley
Travis Tedford as Andy
Eric Isenhower as Jack
Vincent Silochan as Ravi
Story:
A teenage girl with a hood on walks into a restaurant and orders a burger. When the lady tells her that the charge is four dollars, she sets the money on the counter, revealing that she has two fingers missing on her right hand. She is told that the food will be brought out to her and she goes to the side room and sits at a table alone. A few people begin to stare at her and a young boy asks his mother "Why does that girl's face look like that? Was she in an accident?" The mother tries to quiet him and tells him to eat his food. Finally, the girl snaps and screams out in anger, bursting into tears after throwing her table over. She begins yelling how it's not her fault that her face looks like it does, that she didn't ask or choose for her looks.

In high school, an Indian-American boy named Ravi is constantly bullied and insulted by two jocks named Bradley and Bernard. A goth girl named Emily is taunted by a group of three popular girls, named Kelli, Bridget, and Heather, who abuse her despite Emily's pleas that they could be friends. Another outcast named Dane is shown to having inherited an old secluded house in the woods thanks to his late uncle's will. The outcasts are invited to a video shoot by a popular boy named Kurtis. They all agree that they like him and want to make sure he does not show up at an upcoming party, Ravi stating that "He's not one of them."

At the video shoot, two bullies named Bradley and Bernard confront Ravi in the bathroom when he is cleaning his camera's lense, breaking the camera for no reason after continuing on with their usual taunts and even calling Ravi a terrorist. Dane shows up to inform Ravi that the shoot is starting when he inquires as to what happened. Bradley admits to breaking the camera before shoving Dane against a wall, telling him that if he wins in a fight, he will buy a new camera for Ravi. He laughs when Dane says that he can't beat the jock. Bradley tells Dane that he bullies him because he knows Dane can not do anything about it. Back at school, Kurtis finds out what happened and starts a fight with Bradley, apparently fed up with the egotistic boy's attitude.

Most of the outcasts are shown to have disturbing family lives, Dane's parents fight all the time. Ravi's family being cold and distant, never exchanging words, and barely glances. Jack, a quiet boy that is skilled at playing banjo, has a father that ignores him completely The outcasts set up cameras and various equipment at Dane's house, where they lure all the popular kids by sending out party invitations earlier. They then lace the alcohol with a drug, causing everyone to fall unconscious. When the kids wake up again, they find themselves chained together, with the outcasts all masked and wearing costumes inspired by horror movies. They want revenge for years of torment and want to torture their worst enemies.

A rather vulger teen named Miles decides that the entire thing is some stupid Halloween joke and starts to mouth off. The result is Jack applying a cattle gun to his face and then his knee. One boy, Tommy, is allowed to go and get help, but his escape is cut short when he steps into a bear trap and is caught by a group of three boys nicknamed "the triplets" who help the outcasts. Bernard is tortured by Emily with acupuncture needles after he is given a drug that attacks his muscular system, keeping him from moving or making much sound.

Kurtis, who attended the party after all, is secretly given a key by Ravi and escapes. Ravi is then stabbed by Dane for betraying the group, killed almost instantly as a result of the blade piercing his heart. Meanwhile, Emily smears a paste on Heather's face that is made to slowly start disintegrating the skin that it touches, leaving her horribly scarred. Bridget realizes that it is Emily and apologizes. Bridget is given the chance to spare her torment by cutting off Bradley's fingers, but she refuses. Emily then offers Bradley safety if he agrees to cut off Bridget's fingers. Bradley cuts off the middle and index fingers on her right hand before Emily offers the deal to Bridget again. Bridget reluctantly agrees to cut off Bradley's fingers. Ultimately she decides she can't harm her friend and is punished by Emily who smears the previously used acidic compound on her face.

Kurtis makes it to a neighbor's house, an elderly ex-soldier named Parker who was seen earlier upon Dane's introduction. He is suspicious of the fact that Kurtis showed up with a gun, and has the teen tied up for a period before Kurtis finally convinces him that there really is trouble. Parker goes to investigate, but is caught in a trap and severely injured in his legs. Despite the injuries, he manages to kill two of the triplets. Bradley is taunted by a now-very insane Dane, and attempts to apologize, but is only replied with laughter. After another few moments of taunting, Dane uses his switch blade to sever Bradley's spinal cord, instantly paralyzing him from the waist down. Kurtis calls the police from the man's house and returns to Dane's house, called the Workley place, where he saves a boy named Riggs from getting his tongue cut off, but is shot in the arm by Dane after managing to kill Andy--one of the other outcasts. Dane walks up to him about to finish the job, but is shot by Emily, who has had enough. After one last hug, and Emily speaking her final words to Kelli, Jack kills Emily, just as the police arrive. The police burst into the door, demanding that Jack drop the gun, but he only points it to his own head, declaring that they are "too late" before pulling the trigger.

A news report recounts how the popular kids where abducted and tortured "without reason". Kelly, who remained unharmed, swallows a large amount of pills in the school's bathroom. At school, Kurtis exchanges looks with the remaining triplet.

The final scene goes back to the same black and white sequence where it is revealed that Bridget is the disfigured girl from the beginning of the movie. The last sounds being Dane's voice saying "Think of this as the final. And there's just one question you must ask yourself: What did I do to deserve this?" and, as the screen fades to black, you hear the young boy asking, "Mommy, why does that girl's face look like that?"
L² Scored: 2.5/10

L² Comment:
I really hate to watch those horror film, when the storyline is good but the actors/actresses acted badly. The idea of torturing those who bullied you in school is fun, listen to their scream, the way they beg for mercy~ isn't it nice?

But as the movie goes along, the blunt acting spoiled the whole film. I can say that nobody in this movie knows how to act, they're sucks !!! The story gets a bit bored in nearly the ending, the whole torturing stuff become predictable and i'm sorry to say that, i make a big YAWN ~

4 comments:

  1. was the sex scenes good , sometimes these B movies can have hot sex scenes ok

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  2. where got picky? this horror movie really teruk ma~

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