The Final
USA 2010
Director: Joey Stewart
Certificate: 18
92mins 36secs
Summary
Set in an American high school, the film follows the story of a bullied group of individuals: Dane, Ravi, Emily, Andy and Jack. They decide to take revenge and so secretly invite their tormentors to a fancy dress party at a farmhouse. At the party they then spike the punch which will knock out the guests. When the guests awaken they are chained up and staring in the face of the group they once bullied, these are wearing sinister costume complete with creepy masks. This group then announce everyone will be tortured and traumatised. One boy is shot with a cattle gun, another set loose only to be fatally hunted down. Dane fatally stabs Ravi after he helps someone called Kurtis escape. Kurtis finds a cop whom the conspirators kill along with a neighbour. The ending is an unexpected one, with Kurtis finally calling the police and then confronts the torturers himself. In the final stand off Dane is killed by Emily and Kurtis is injured. As the police arrive Jack kills Emily and then himself.
This film, although fiction, picks up on the viewers fears about modern day society particularly in America. Things can sometimes be taken this far such as the Columbine High School massacre in 1999.
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