Here’s the latest After Dark Horrorfest poster, this one for THE FINAL, and boy does it bring back memories. Seems like only yesterday I was forced to write “I will not kill my classmates” on the chalkboard. I was that frizzy haired little schoolgirl… Some might say I still am.
But seriously folks, here’s what THE FINAL is all about:
In the scenic and remote county of Rocky Branch, Texas, the Workley ranch house would become the infamous scene known internationally on the internet as “The Final.”
Dane, an awkward student with a deadly vendetta and suicidal tendencies, leads a group of outcasts who plot to avenge the years of humiliation they faced by the popular students at Hohn High School. Employing ideas inspired both from their classes as well as from horror films they watched, the outcasts turn the tables on the popular students who made sport of them.
After receiving a lake-house granted to him in his uncle’s will, Dane and his friends, Jack, Ravi, Andy and Emily prepare for a single night that will leave their tormentors scarred for life… physically and emotionally.
Seems like pretty chilling subject matter – now it remains to be seen if THE FINAL uses it to tell a startling story, or if it’s just a springboard for the same old torture porn crap. Hard to tell from the trailer, which you can watch below.
Other films in the 8 FILMS TO DIE FOR line-up: Hidden, Dread, The Graves, Lake Mungo and Zmd: Zombies of Mass Destruction. The week-long fest debuts on JANUARY 29th.
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