The Final Girls (2015)

The thing about slasher films, is that all in all they're rather fun, but we've seen them before. The concept of The Final Girls is, however, different. Max (Taissa Farmiga) lost her mum a few years back, a famous scream queen actress Amanda Cartwright (Malin Akerman) who played in an eighties slasher film called Camp Bloodbath, which Max's friends force her to attend a viewing of. The viewing of the film turns disastrous, as an accident sends the entire theatre into flames, but Max and her friends head for the screen hoping to find the exit behind it. Inadvertently, they find themselves inside the film itself, having to follow the set-up of Camp Bloodbath, while Max struggles to cope with seeing her mother alive again even if it's not really her. However, due to their appearance, the films story seems to alter, and the final girl is up for grabs.

It's not often I find myself tearing up about a film, but I did. There are lots of films who've done similar concepts back in the day, and this could have easily wound up as one of those generic flicks hadn't it been for the underlying theme. The mother and daughter relationship within it, and the bittersweetness of loss.

I can never listen to Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes now without getting emotional.