Review of The Last Horror Movie (2004) by Josh B — 07 Jun 2011

This had so much potential. It's an incredibly well conceived idea; we need a film just like this one, but it needs to be followed through on.

It needs a budget behind it for one thing, you never see anything that looks like a convincing kill because they had no real money to get the right kind of practical effects. I'd like to think that an intelligent person heading up the effects team could have done much better even with no real budget for it.

Secondly the acting is terrible. There are no believable actors in the film. To work this film has to be 100% believable, which of course can't happen if none of the people act like real people.

Finally the film cannot have any credits. It can't be law that a film has to have credits; there must be some other way to give credit to all the people involved. But even just in the name of making something to the best of my ability I would gladly give up credit on a film if it helped the story. This movie makes no sense unless it ends like a film that has been taped over. So it has to either have no credits, have credits from the original film, or something to the same effect. It cannot have the credits of this film, it completely undercuts the whole effect, completely ruining the genius scare at the end.

One of the very few genuinely scary films I've seen, unfortunately shoots itself in the foot.

This film does desperately need to be remade though.