Review of Final Stab (2001) by Anna N — 21 Sep 2007

Where to begin.....the story sounds like a good place to start.

Nefarious rich girl Kristen wants to scare the crap out of her goody two shoes sister Angela and her mentally unstable boyfriend Charlie because he wouldn't sleep with her. To do this she enlists the help of a bunch of coke addicted ivy league grads, an ex of Angela and a professional actor in order to create a murder mystery weekend getaway. What they don't know is that a real killer is about to show up and put a final stab into everyone.

....but wait there's more! Kristen has upped the ante by holding the whole getaway in the house Charlie's parents were murdered in. That's original and definitely vicious.

....but wait there's more! Kristen enlists an ex of Angela's as blackmail because...wait for it....he was CHARLIE's ex too.

Anyone who's seen the movie knows the rest....the real killer shows up and kills the ivy leaguers one by one (including 3 rednecks and the actor she hired) and it turns out to be Kristen doing the killing, in which case Angela wipes out her own sister (don't we all wish we could do that sometimes) and I guess lives happily ever after with Charlie.

A lot of this movie had holes in it, for instance what purpose did Bud and his cronies Earl and Cosmo serve? I know Bud was po'd that Kristen stiffed him but what was he going to do, kill her and her friends? Which makes me wonder how Kristen knew they were coming to begin with and how the 3 rednecks knew she was going to be there.

Least the ivy league grads called attention to the obvious by saying guys like them die in the horror movies, cross them off the survival list. Erinn Carter needs to do something better than this...like get in a real horror movie like the next Friday the 13th, Halloween or anything like that.

As for Final Stab...I give it 3 out of 5 because I was at least entertained with the many killings and the T and A of Julie though covered.