Final Exam

Year: 1981

Director: Jimmy Huston

Written by:Jimmy Huston

Threat: Psychopath

Weapon of Choice: Knife

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Rish Outfield's reviews
A college slasher, yes! But a good one? No. This was talky, talky, talky, followed by slow, slow, slow. There was almost sex--and then not. The nerd never shut up. The killer was an unmotivated moron. The only good parts, the scenes with the fraternity brothers and the hazing, didn't even belong in this movie. There was a glut of silly fake scares. The comedy sometimes worked, but the horror never did. I fell asleep . . . sorry. The cheapness couldn't have been more apparent if a neon sign reading "Low Budget" had been flashing. Characters were introduced only to be arbitrarily killed ten seconds later. Did I mention that nobody did it? Boy, even at my college that's not accurate. Two interesting factoids: The heroine stabbed the not-dead-yet killer TWELVE times at the end (tyranist and I counted). And: Everybody dies!
Best Scare: I don't know! I'm sorry! I just don't know!
I'd Recommend It To: Those who have to see all the movies Randy Meeks mentioned in Scream 2.

The tyranist's thoughts
It is enormously unfortunate that this little subgenre hasn't yielded much worth watching. This isn't the sorority house beauties being hacked up genre. It isn't the smart teenagers in peril genre. It is the college campus gets a visit from a psychopath genre. Probably the best movie in this genre is Urban Legend and if you believe Rish, that makes this genre very very bad indeed. This movie actually has some great little moments, but for the most part they are far outweighed by long stretches of boring dialogue and utter predictability. My favourite moment was easily the treeing of a young frat pledge. I don't have to tell you that he ends up dead, but I will tell you that the best moment in the film happens here. Let me just say, "You can have yours on the rocks." If I said anymore, you wouldn't have to see the movie. But then maybe that would be a very good thing.
Just one big warning, the reason we don't see the killer much is because he is STUPID.

Total Skulls: 24

Sequel
Sequel setup
Rips off earlier film
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie
Future celebrity appears
Former celebrity appears
Bad title
Bad premise skull
Bad acting skull
Bad dialogue skullskull
Bad execution skull
MTV Editing
OTS skull
Girl unnecessarily gets naked skull
Wanton sex
Death associated with sex skull
Unfulfilled promise of nudity
Characters forget about threat
Secluded location skull
Power is cut
Phone lines are cut
Someone investigates a strange noise skull
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door skullskull
Camera is the killer
Victims cower in front of a window/door
Victim locks self in with killer skull
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls
Toilet stall scene
Shower scene
Car stalls or won't start
Cat jumps out
Fake scare skull
Laughable scare skull
Stupid discovery of corpse skull
Dream sequence
No one believes only witness skull
Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth
Music detracts from scene skull
Death in first five minutes skull
What the hell? skullskull
x years ago . . .
Dark and stormy night
Killer doesn't stay dead skull
Killer wears a mask
Killer is in closet
Killer is in car with victim
Villain is more sympathetic than heroes
Unscary villain/monster skull
Beheading
Blood fountain
Blood hits camera
Poor death effect
Excessive gore
No one dies at all
Virgin survives skull
Geek/Nerd survives
Little kid lamely survives
Dog/Pet miraculously survives
Unresolved subplots
"It was all a dream" ending
Unbelievably happy ending
Unbelievably crappy ending