The Final

Plot synopsis:
In the opening black and white sequence, a teenage girl with a hood on walks into a burger joint, she orders and the cashier has a startled look when she sees her. When the girl walks into the restaurant everybody in the room is looking at her. A boy in the room asks his mom "Why does the lady look like that?" The boy's mother tells him to stop for everybody now is staring at her. It is revealed that the girl has a distinctive burn on one half of her face. Suddenly, she yells at them to stop staring and says she did not choose to look that way.Sometime earlier... a South Asian boy, named Ravi, is constantly being bullied by a much larger tormentor in class. Another scene shows a nerd Goth girl named Emily, who is by her locker, is approached by three girls, named Kelly, Bridget, and Heather, who emotionally attack her and taunt her for crying. A little later, two teen nerd boys, Jack and Dane, are in a field setting up bear traps.At lunch, the outcast students are all sitting quietly at a lunch table until one of the bullies throws his milk box on one of the bullied kids books. He approaches him, giving back his milk box. Another kid named Kurtis, who is friends with both the outcasts and the popular group, approaches the group of people and invites them to one of his video shoots on Friday. The outcasts talk among themselves and say they like him and they tell each other to make sure Kurtis does not end up being at the party.The next scene shows their home life. Dane talks to himself and points a gun at his own head while in his bedroom, while his uneducated and negletful parents fight downstairs. Another scene shows Ravi at home with his suttle and emtionally barren Indian family; a depressing quiet life where nobody talks or even looks at each other except for the house maid. Emily's mother is a shrewed and divorced woman who pays little attention to her. Jack, whom is a talented banjo player, has a divorced mechanic father who ignors him all the time.At the video shoot, Bradley and Tommy both confront Ravi and Dane in the boys room, and break Ravi camera for no reason. Bradley tells Dane that he bullies him because he will not do anything about it. Afterwords, Ravi tells Kurtis about what happened and Kurtis warns Bradley to leave Parker. The beligerent Bradley refuses and starts a fight wtih Kurtis, fed up with the egotistic boy's attitude.Jack, leaving his home, is talking to his father who is a mechanic working on his car, about what he is going to do. He tells him that he has a letter about it and that he'll probably be angry. The father, obviously ignoring him, continues on working as Jack leaves.At night, Bradley and two others are pulled over by the cops on their way to a party, and are caught smoking marijuana. They are let go after getting almost all their weed confiscated. Meanwhile, the group of outcasts are around a fire talking about hell and doing God's work in tormenting their tormentors. They put on costumes and blend in with a costume filled house with a hidden camera. They then lace a punch bowl with chloroform causing everyone to pass out.Sometime later, the people in the party awaken to a loud noise from a boom box. They find themselves chained together, with the five outcasts all masked and wearing costumes inspired by horror movies (Killer Klowns from Outer Space, The Strangers, My Bloody Valentine, The Mummy, etc). They want revenge for the years of torment and want to torture their worst enemies.A vulgar teenager, named Miles, decides that the entire thing is a stupid Halloween joke and starts to mouth off. As a result, Jack applies a cattle gun to his face and knee, severly wounding him and disfiguring his face and knee. One boy, Tommy, is allowed to go and get help, but his escape is cut short when he steps into a bear trap in the woods and is caught by a group of three boys riding on dirt bikes nicknamed "The Triplets", who help the outcasts. Tommy is brought back to the house and thrown into a room with the wounded Miles.Another tormenter, a popular jock named Bernard, is next as he defiantly mouths off to the group (clearly a defiant sociopath, daring them to kill him). Bernard is tortured first by Ravi who stabs him in his shoulder with a knife, and pours a liquid drug down his throat that attacks his muscular system, keeping him from moving or speaking. Emily then tourturs him by stabing him in his face and neck with hot-tipped needles.Kurtis, who attended the party after all, is secretly given a key by Ravi and luckily escapes. Ravi is then stabbed by Dane and killed almost instantly, for betraying the group.Heather is the next victim as she is tied to a chair and Emily smears a paste on Heather's face that is made to slowly start disintegrating the skin it touches, leaving Heather horribly scarred. It is here that Bridget realizes that it is Emily and apologizes. Emily offers Bridget the chance to be spared by cutting off Bradley's fingers, but she refuses. Emily then offers Bradley safety if he agrees to cut off Bridget's fingers. Bradley cuts off two fingers on Bridget's right hand before Emily offers the deal to Bridget again. Bridget reluctantly agrees to cut off Bradley's fingers. Ultimately, she decides she cannot harm her friend and is punished by Emily, who smears the previously-used acidic compound on her face.Meanwhile, Kurtis makes it to a neighbor's house, an elderly ex-soldier named Parker. He is suspicious of the fact that Kurtis showed up with a gun. On top of all that, Parker is a racist and seeing a black teenager on his property makes him tie up Kurtis for a long period before Kurtis finally convinces him that there really is trouble at the old house in the woods. Remembering meeting two of the kids earlier the previous day and seeing them set up bear traps in the grass, decides to investigate, leaving the tied up Kurtis behind. Parker goes to investigate, but is caught in a trap, severely injuring his legs. Despite the injuries, he manages to get himself free and kills two of the triplets as they are riding around him on their ATV's.Back at the house, Bradley (still tied up in the chair) is taunted by a now very insane Dane whom by this time has revealed his face to his captives. Bradley, now breaking down into a sobbering coward, attempts to apologize, though this bears no fruit. Dane then uses his switchblade to sever Bradley's spinal cord, instantly paralyzing him from the neck down.Back at Parker's house, Kurtis manages to untie himself and calls the police from Parker's house phone to report what is going on. Kurtis then returns to Dane's house, where he saves a boy, named Riggs, from getting his tongue cut off. However, Kurtis is shot in the arm by Dane after he manages to kill Andy, one of the other outcasts. Dane is about to finish the job, but he is shot and killed by Emily, who has had enough. After one last hug, and Emily speaking her final words to Kelly. Jack then shoots and kills Emily, just as the police arrive. The police burst through, demanding that Jack drop the gun, but he only points it to his own head, declaring that they are "too late" and that "there are more of us out there" before pulling the trigger, killing himself.A news report recounts how the popular kids were abducted and tortured "without reason". Kelly, who remained unharmed, swallows a large amount of pills in the school's restroom. At school, Kurtis exchanges looks with the remaining triplet. The final scene reveals that Bridget is the disfigured girl from the beginning of the movie.

Tags: violence, revenge, murder, sadist

Review:
The torture scenes are, for the most part, very badly acted out (with the notable exception of Emily's character) with very little blood (there's more blood in an Indiana Jones fight scene), but also very poetic as each bully and princess is confronted with their own crime and "punished" accordingly.Granted this film probably wont do for school bullies what Fatal Attraction did for adulterers, but its definitely a step in that direction.
It's still a movie with lots of great ideas and some good moments but the movie doesn't really known how it wants to make you feel and the movie therefore feels confusing and messy.Let's face it; the premise of having a bunch of bullies get taken revenge on by their 'victims' sounds like an awesome idea, you can do so much good and interesting with.
Even when the movie really starts to cross the border you won't get too disturbed by it, due to the entire way the movie got shot and set up.The entire premise of this movie might sound gory but the horror fans will still most likely miss some real good gore and disturbing shocking moments in this.
I wasn't a huge fan of the ending and thought it could have been revised for a better product.Plot/Characters: 5* - A group of kids at school are bullied by the popular kids and are fed up with their antics.
This lesson is taught in a sadistic and brutal way, though, and it is based on a dark philosophy grown in those bullied students' minds.All in all, if you are a fan of drama/horror movies, then this is the perfect one for you!
This movie appears to draw inspiration from the likes of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the Saw franchise, but fails to impress due to wooden acting, a woeful script, an almost complete lack of visual effects and poor character development.
The whole movie basically feels like a glorified high school stage play with largely very amateurish acting.
Story is shallow but I suppose that little higher impact on this film would be empathy from people for those kids who wants that revenge.Acting is OK but nothing worth of praise and none of the actors in this film stands up.
Atmosphere and locations are rather good but unfortunate try to make this film horror genre lacks enough scariness and dark sensations that they try to show through this film, beside that, there isn't even blood and gore to replace that lack of story so this film should be viewed only as drama/thriller with few scary scenes.However my rating maybe is low due to fact that I didn't like this film but I simply cannot tell watch it.
Not a very well thought out movie, there were too many errors in editing, such as someone dying and then suddenly back in the movie again, way too many times to count.It really looked like they just took the reel of film and distributed it without watching it themselves, as it is impossible to overlook these mistakes.The acting was pretty good for a low budget movie, especially Lindsay Seidel and Jascha Washington, but the script is too far fetched and not very believable.I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone, as there are far better movies of this general type out there, and they don't look and feel as though some first year film school student directed it..
"The Final" is a movie about a group of tormented teenage school kids who are constantly humiliated by the more popular and stronger bullies.
This isn't the first movie to touch on the bullying subject but this movie shows what happens when the tormented finally snap and decide to take justice into their own hands in the most brutal way possible.Unfortunately there isn't a lot to like about this movie.
It really felt like a group of teenagers got together to make a torture film in the style of hostel and were too impatient to get to the gruesome scenes, therefore not concentrating on the more important elements to movie making.** for this movie.
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 using guns, acid, swords, garden pruners, acupuncture needles, and a compressed air-powered bolt gun (gee, I wonder where the filmmakers got that idea?).
Their cruelty comes from a clichéd mold only found in movies about vicious High School kids, but this lack of realism works in the film's favor.
Terrible movie in every aspect, with an absolute lame plot (kids bullied at school turn into sadistic killers, soo stupid and absurd) , terrible acting, full of clichés, total absence of tension, an so on and on...
It's rated R but I think if you're in high school and have ever been bullied or just hate the popular kids then this film may speak to you, too..
Well it is far from being alright and I am unimpressed by this unpleasant film that I saw on the Horror Channel.I was equally unimpressed by the flimsy intro given by the Sy Fy 'Horror Booth's' continuity presenter, which chose to reference the Columbine massacre as if it was an earlier and disappointing film for its lack of torture and real horror and went (I quote) as follow: "It's not always easy being different and in High School, as we all know, their social system really can be murder - you see you got your Plastics and the Jocks, then there's the Geeks and Goths and the two can never mix.
Well, there you have it coming, you see after a while, all that torture and humiliation and bullying and cruelty can get a bit, well - get a bit too much, so much that one day the Geeks and the Goths might just - makes gesture with secateurs.So the tables are turned on the bullies in this high school horror film, which rings more than a few alarm bells of the Columbine massacre when you think about the storyline.
I love a good revenge fantasy wherein the viewer can put themselves in the shoes of the downtrodden as they dish out justice to deserving jerks, but it's unlikely that many people will experience such satisfaction with this particular film, the high-school outcasts who plan to get even with their tormentors going way too far in their quest for retribution.
The horror elements are still there, but it's a combination of the lack of torture scenes and sub par elements that make the film less than what it could have been.The film sets itself up as your typical story about tormented high school students who very much are outcasts.
The Final is a pretty low budget horror film, which could be described as 'post Hostel torture porn.' And, the first thing I have to say is that it appears not to be for everyone.I really liked it, but, if you read the numerous reviews, you'll find that just over fifty per cent seemed to really hate it.
It's nothing that special, but I thought it was a nice enough idea to elevate it from the mounds of horror b-movies, infesting the DVD stores.It's about a group of bullied students who decide to take some - pretty deadly - revenge on their 'uber cool' tormentors, in the form of drugging them all at a party and then...
I only watched this because I read in a review that the acting was so good that it really brought out the characters, but in reality, half of that cast does NOT have a future as actors.The topic itself is an important one as things like this happen everywhere; bullying is not a joke and the intention of this movie is a positive one, to teach the public and let them know about things like this.
They do it in heinous ways too.I always get really mad when I watch movies like this because I think that its really selfish for someone to decide that they are gonna get revenge on people who hurt them in the past.
I wanted to give this movie a 6.5 but there's no such rating, so I gave it a 6, not saying that this is a bad movie, but just thinking that this is movie with a lot of great potentials and rooms for improvement.Interestingly, some might see the under-defiance shown by some of the victims in the movie as plot holes (for example, not trying hard enough to fight for their lives), but I tend to think this is done on purpose, for bullies are usually cowards who need to retain their self-esteems by taking advantages of the weaker, but when they are facing those who have greater power over them, they are the one who submit most easily.Anyway, do not expect to see gores like in Saw or Hostel.
This group is lead by Dane, who is a kid that has decided that the only way that he can get even is with violentwell, violence.Now, while you may think that with the description that I gave you, this film is nothing more than a worthless, torture-porn flick like hostel or all of those useless saw sequels.
I really hope that she gets acting roles down the line.Yet, a bad thing that I have to say is that not only do they shove the message down your throat (even though they shove it real nicely), but this film kinda feels like an unfinished project.
Tired of the years of abuse and torment inflicted upon them by a group of students at their high school, a group of outcasts kidnap them and hold them hostage during a party, inflicting the damage and torture back upon them in retaliation for what they did to them.This one was actually quite a bit of fun and had a lot to like about it.
The story in "The final" is very simple: a bunch of high school outcasts and bullying victims plot and execute a bloody and terrible form of revenge on their bullies.The movie is about one hour and half long, and it doesn't really abound that much into the bullying that the kids are subjected to, although it expressly makes a point of informing that it's been an ongoing thing since they were little.
This movie has gore, violence, and a good depiction of what bullying can be like in high school.
"The Final" could be called "Saw"- or "Hostel"-lite for teenagers, but what it is simply is a brutal tale of high school revenge, with some elements taken from "Saw" and "Hostel" and any of the anonymous legions of like-minded "torture-porn" imitators out there.First off, "The Final" is not a bad movie at all, although I do believe that upon further examination of the film's story, the motivations of the characters and the sensitive nature of the film's events (comparisons to the Columbine massacre come to mind), it could have been a grim and deep mediation on the nature of revenge (in a high school situation, no less) and the cycle of violence that inevitably culminates as a result of it.
These kids have unfortunately slipped past the breaking point, but at least recognize their own evil when they realize the inhuman beasts that they've become and the newfound sense of power that has come along with it.The movie starts out pretty effectively in establishing the daily rituals of bullying at their school.
As someone who was bullied in high school, you will feel guilty for getting some sense of just desserts here.One could complain that the movie could have been a lot better, and indeed I thoroughly believe it could have been.
But I also just wish the picture could have made those feelings have more sensitivity attached to them, since the filmmakers here were clearly playing with fire and could have gone down a much darker route, but instead chose the one more traveled by way too many modern horror filmmakers.From watching "The Final," you also probably get the impression that screenwriter Jason Kabolati and director Joey Stewart were probably bullied in high school, and this picture could very well be a cinematic representation of those fantasies of revenge.
I don't recall seeing a single drop of blood, but be warned that there are many disturbing scenes.The film's message is not straightforward, and it's easy to miss because the premise given is poor: "A group of high school outcasts get revenge on the students that torment them." This is very misleading.
This horror, thriller film with drama elements is about a group of high school students who have been humiliated, bullied by the "popular" students.
Knowing how "good looking high school girls and boys having fun at some party would end up killed by some evil and secret monster, and the uncool kids taking every chance to be thought as cool try to save them and be the hero" clichés work, the revenge plot is very refreshing and unexpected/ Since we do not have a masked, evil monster with an unknown identity that would provide the plot twist normally; the thought provoking part of the story is not "who", but is "how and why did every single one of them end up in a situation like this".
You kind of wish there was a Tarantino-like Wunderkind behind it sometimes to inject some "I haven't seen THAT before"-type camera work into it, but overall, it's an impressive little horror piece and a cut above the usual from the After Dark guys.Big Disclaimer: If you're one of the Beautiful Ones, like the reviewer who claimed that his bullying in high school was "teaching us a lesson about what it takes to be a winner in real world" --- he obviously doesn't know many failed ex-jocks --- I can only hope you find yourself in that Final test-taking dental chair someday...soon..
Set in the Rocky Branch, Texas, THE FINAL – is a tale about some kids at high-school who get bullied and abused  until they eventually team up and turn the tables on their oppressors to exact revenge on those that tortured them  As this preview was being shown at 11:30pm – and it was way beyond the "watershed" – it is being widely promoted as THE horror film to see  I was expecting this film to be quite a shocker  and indeed it was  only, not in the way that the producers and the director intended  It has been a long, long time since I've seen such a boring pile of drivel  it's hard to know where to start  the direction, casting, acting, music and cinematography on this film were ALL underwhelming  I've seen scarier things on Coronation Street  or a bit of mouldy cheese  truly!
Such as one of the geek/bullied kids dressed as a clown gets killed by fellow geek, only to be riding a motorbike in the next scene don't know how someone editing the movie did not see that I guess they just used stock film takes over and over.
The movie started out having me anticipating a dark movie of geek outcasts exacting revenge on stereotypical jocks, bullies and the in crowds of any high school.I noticed they didn't take any time at all establishing any story behind the bullies/popular crowd in the beginning of the movie but that was okay since they were just going to be killed off and they were all bad actors.
million dollar budget.i really connected to this movie and it made me think about when i did bully someone at school did they ever feel like that?
I was very disappointed with this movie, because after watching the trailer i thought it had real potential.First of all the bullying preceding the main event wasn't raw enough, we really didn't get a feeling of pure desperation from the characters that would provoke such an extreme reaction.Secondly the "torture" scenes were extremely mild given todays standard of gorefests such as hostel, saw etc.Thirdly, most of the acting was terrible.
There are some characters who could've been played a little better, but besides that, the acting was pretty good for a low-budget film.
From an older aged perspective, this movie is very dark, gruesome and realistic in violence and the real underlying feelings from victim as the perpetrator of crime, (ie: What really motivated and went through the minds of the Colombine shooters.)Knowing from experience that the outside world as unsafe and predatory, but such institutions as family and schools should be safe, this film is taut and extreme in showing the after effects of being bullied and beat up and the revenge reflex to such cruel treatment in "safe" environments.
The film could have been better without him as he tends to slow down the pace of the film.one final note, the worst bully reacts as a real bully acts, surprised and then broken, doing anything to save himself.this is true to life.all that said,the movie is well worth the price, I myself have watched the film a dozen times.
The wounded Vietnam veteran becoming a hero along with the black guy didn't work; 3) the rushed ending, confusing, without showing what happened to some of the new victims; 4) the bad acting of some of the actors, most of them actually, only two or three are enjoyable; 5) it could have a longer running time in order to present more things about the bullied kids since the film got reduced in only presenting the popular team tormenting the Indian student, all the time.
I cannot believe this movie was selected for the '8 Films to Die For'!Summary: A group of bullied teens get their turn at the jocks and popular kids who tortured them.Pro: The acting wasn't too bad and the idea itself had potential.