Final Summer

Final Summer has been ridiculously praised as a tribute to Friday the 13th. This horrendous movie is merely a flat-out rip-off from that highly successful film franchise.

With its' simplistic dialogue and atrocious acting while witnessing buffoons as they wander aimlessly through the woods, Final Summer also compares to the cemetery scenes of Plan Nine from Outer Space.

Ed Wood at the least created an unintentionally hilarious good-bad movie. Far more than John Isberg had accomplished with Final Summer.

Of course, no lame slasher flick would be complete without the obligatory scenes of a masked maniac seemingly incapacitated and the intended victims running off instead of killing him. No surprise whatsoever when the maniac then arises, takes hold of his weapon which was conveniently lying next to him and easily continues his killing spree.

Call it a tribute if you wish, but Final Summer then manages an obvious variation to a storyline copied directly from the conclusion from Friday the 13th.

A quote from Oscar Wilde states, "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" Final Summer however is a completely pointless and absurd fiasco.

I agree with everything previous critiques said. The plot is the biggest failure here, running neck and neck with the visual quality of the film.

I did not understand how "everyone knew who was responsible" when there wasn't any real backstory on the camp yet, other than "accidents" that plagued the camp for years. Which makes no sense, because even in the 70s & 80s, a camp THAT notorious would've been closed down easily.

Add to that the visual quality I mentioned, I don't know what that was about. Is he trying to make the actors look younger with a failed soft focus technique? Is he trying to make it look like a movie from the early 90s (which would've been shot on film and not on video)? If so, color correcting it to look like an older movie and adding noise and a film effect overlay might've gone a lot further and wouldn't have been super expensive.

Instead, we have a movie that looks like the director just discovered this thing called depth of field, and manhandled the technique throughout the feature. Instead of being interesting or helping the movie look old, it only serves to distract.

It's too bad, too, because low budget doesn't guarantee a bad movie. Lack of imagination and poor filming choices sure will, though.

This first film by John Isberg, is a good start but had conflictions in providing innovation or something fresh with 80s college teen slasher movies.

Considering its limitations of the story, it offers good night scenes, that are watchable which can be technically difficult to film. The actors deliver evotive reactions to the terror uleashed to them.

PTSD is a theme carried throughout the film, providing and giving some good dialogue. Its "final girl" trope is not strong, but her acting is good. Its chase scenes has suspense, but it lacks the tension provided with 80s slasher.

One interesting aspect that it was shot in rural Illinois's woods, has strong natural landscape locations. It one makes for a good start for Isberg, there is an interesting closing credits, hopefully to make more horror genre paths for this first directorial debut!

Taking place at Silverlake camp, it is about to close and be sold for development. The owner says she has had it in the family, and the first year there were a couple of deaths, and each year after there were 'accidents'. So she is selling as the camp isn't viable anymore. One of the camp counselors makes a Jason joke, so is this a homage or a parody movie? Regardless, it would have been greatly improved if all killings took place in the first 10 minutes of the film. The actors seem earnest in their roles, although most seem amateurs, and when face to face with the killer, they immediately decide to make the worst possible decision. Dumb and inept seems an appropriate description. Difficult to care who get killed. The most adult of the group is among the first killed. Very predictable and a waste of time.

I know this was not easy to film so I will give it some credit...but it is definitely in my least favorite horror movies.

The Kills were horrible, barely showed them. Almost all of them were off screen.

I don't understand the random tree shots, they were there for no reason.

The acting... dont even get me started... There was barely any character development, and the acting was horrible.. def trying a little too hard.

And now the killer... He was literally Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees inbred little cousin...

My opinion doesnt run the world so yall do ya thing but...idk this is just my opinion.