Writer Joshua John Miller is the son of Jason Miller (Damien Karras in The Exorcist and playwright of That Championship Season) and the younger half-brother of actor Jason Patric. He wrote The Final Girls to help process his reaction to his father's death. Jason Miller was a troubled man whose most famous role would always be as Karras. Joshua John Miller maps this onto slasher films, which seems a bit odd, but OK.
The recently orphaned, teen-aged daughter (Taissa Farmiga) of a minor actress (Malin Akerman) best known for her role in a slasher movie called Camp Bloodbath gets pulled, along with several friends, into that same movie because of some vague supernatural shenanigans. Once there, they have to survive while also trying to figure out how to escape. And the daughter tries to reconnect by proxy with her mother through the character in the movie.
I suppose The Final Girls is about as enjoyable as a parody of slasher films can be when that parody is PG-rated. There's little gore and no nudity. There is a lot of metacommentary on horror movies in the tradition of the Scream franchise. And there is a dynamite cast, which helps keeps things moving even when the movie pauses for sentiment and soul-searching. Recommended.
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