While it's great that so many fresh takes on horror have emerged from the festival circuit of late, sometimes all one wants us to laugh at the tropes of the genre. That's where The Final Girls comes in, having debuted earlier this year at SXSW and earning a good deal of buzz for its comedic take on the slasher film. Now the first trailer has arrived and it shows off the impressive cast led by Taissa Farmiga and Malin Akerman.
Directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson in his first film since 2011's A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, The Final Girls centers on a girl who becomes trapped in a 1980s horror movie that happened to star her late mother. The rest of the cast includes Alexander Ludwig, Nina Dobrev, Alia Shawkat, Thomas Middleditch, and Adam Devine. Here's the official synopsis:
The Final Girls is an unconventional comedy about Max, a high school senior, who is mysteriously transported with her friends into a 1980s horror film that starred Max’s mother, a celebrated scream queen. Trapped inside the movie, Max finds herself reunited with her mom, who she lost in real life. Together with Max’s friends, they must fend off the camp counselors’ raging hormones, battle a deranged machete-wielding killer and find a way to escape the movie and make it back home.
The Final Girls opens on October 9th, but will also be a part of the TIFF lineup next month.
