The Final Scream-- My take on the movie with spoilers!
Plot Summary: After numerous rejections, Kia thinks she's landed a big break in a movie only to discover the true horror of her new role.
We’ve all heard stories about aspiring actors who are sometimes exploited with promises of getting the “big break”.
The entertainment industry seems all lights and glamour until you read these kinds of stories and are horrified.
Hopefully, these casting couch incidents don’t happen anymore.
THE FINAL SCREAM Movie Plot
When the movie begins and you meet Kia Anderson being told by the director that she would have to take on an unpaid role that requires her to do nudity, you expect to see yet another story being told of exploitation.
Kia has given numerous auditions for movie roles, and we see an unknown person going through the audition tapes and settling on her.
Meanwhile, Kia is dropped by her agent for becoming thirty years old. Kia is devastated and seeks solace from her girlfriend and roommate Reese.
Reese is still sceptical about her choice of career but supports Kia’s dream nonetheless.
The next day, Kia receives a callback for a horror movie she had auditioned for. It’s in a remote place, but she’s the only girl being called back!
Kia is excited and begins packing. Her girlfriend is dubious about the whole offer but knows she must be supportive which she does by allowing Kia to take her car.
Kia drives over to the house in the middle of nowhere but she’s too excited at first to see something seems off about the whole deal.
She meets Ruth who is the makeup artist and sound recorder. The cameraman is a creepy looking bald guy who leers more than smiles and uses a handy cam.
Excuses are made of this being a low budget production.
The director is Tim, who is keen on Kia getting into the skin of her character Melissa. He taps into her deepest, saddest emotions and Kia learns to deliver her scenes properly.
Reese is worried about the lack of communication with Kia after Tim takes her phone away because Melissa, doesn’t have a phone in the wild.
She still has a sneaking suspicion that something is not right and along with another friend, set off to find Kia after retrieving the address from her email.
On the other side, a girl is being made to beg for her life as make-up is forcefully applied to her. A mask is put over her and her head chopped off by a masked stranger.
Kia is blissfully ignorant of all that is going on.
Tim is getting the best performance out of her.
All hell breaks loose when she has to film a scene where she meets the other girls in the movie. Turns out, the other girls are prisoners of the sadistic trio.
They are shooting a horror movie, but it is a snuff film.
Kia freaks out but it is too late. One of the girls has her head drilled, another has her teeth all pulled out. However, in the next scene, we see her teeth intact.
Kia and two girls manage to escape, but one is quickly caught and stabbed by Ruth. Tim too adorns a mask.
They chase the girls who run for it.
Reese and her friend have almost made it to the area when their car hits one of the girls.
As she gets out to check up on her, her head is struck and stabbed. Reese gets out of the car, horrified, but is captured.
THE FINAL SCREAM Ending Explained with Spoilers!
Ruth and the cameraman are killed. Kia is captured and chained. She awakens to find Reese strapped on a chair and being harassed by Tim.
Knowing from the other girls that Tim had done terrible things to them, Kia is frightened. Both girls manage to free themselves and attack their captors.
However, Reese is murdered in front of Kia. In a fit of rage, Kia pushes Tim into the cage.
In the next scene, Kia has Tim strapped to a chair and cuts off his genitals.
Then she sets him on fire.
In the last scene, Kia is watching the footage of the girls when she looks up.
Is she going to delete the videos? Make money out of selling them? Perhaps Kia developed a taste for violence after torturing Tim?
The ending was left ambiguous where Kia’s intentions are concerned.
The movie was a decent watch if you can stomach the gory scenes. Though not emphasized in the movie, the insinuation makes it a bit stomach-churning.
The acting was impressive. Kia especially has to play Melissa being scared, then actually being scared when sinister intentions are revealed. The distinction was obvious and efficient.
Scare scale: 3/5
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