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When Murder Is A Game

WINNER TAKES ALL!

SUMMARY

When a supposedly prank turn into reality, a bunch of young people must reveal the person under  the mouth stitched masked killer....... before it's too late.

PLOT

On a dark and stormy night, alone in the house, Charlie (Jamie Gannon) receive a phone call from his girlfriend, Angela (Melissa Renée Martin), telling him that she will come to give Charlie a bit of tenderness. Charlie goes to the shower to freshen up, meanwhile an unseen assailant sneaking up to his house. Charlie hears something and decides to investigate, and he eventually comes face to face with the mysterious shape; himself. Jamie wakes up from what a similar nightmare he ever had due the murders of his parent when he was a little child.

The plot continues as Angela’s bitchy and mean spirited sister, Kristin (Erinn Carter) arranges a “weekend party” to the person she hate most, her sister Angela. She assisted by her friend Doug (Chris Boyd). Despite in her plan is to give a shocking surprise to her sister, but the true agenda is she tries to get revenge to Charlie, because Charlie had rejected her twice.

The plan set-up is a Murder-Mystery party at an old mansion deep in the forest, when an actor hired as a fake killer to supposedly stalk and kill all the party-goers. Of course all of it only a stage act for Kristin and her friends, but not with Charlie and Angela. With mentioning the superior Fridaythe13th as her regard, Angle expects a shock-expression from Charlie, because she knows what secret that Charlie tries to hide from Angela.

As the plan getting organized by Kristin friends, Julie (Laila Reece Landon) and Patrick (Bradley Stryker), three young men, led by Bud (Scott Hudson), the ex-boyfriend of Kristin, gaze at the party preparation outside the mansion. Bud’s plan is to get Kristin some “lesson” for dumping him. Meanwhile Bud and Cosmo (Brannon Gould) sneak up to the mansion, Earl (Britt Soderberg) who left alone in the car, slit in the throat by a mysterious killer. The next victim is Cosmo who butchered by the masked figure.

When the time is turn up, Kristin start to give the role to all her friend, and it’s also including his newest boyfriend, Brett (Forrest Cochran) and his friend Steve (Michael Lutz). She also hired Wallace (Donnie Eichar), who claims himself as a respectful actor.

Finally, Angela and Charlie arrive; despite Angela can smell a fishy thing beneath it, Charlie persuades her to come along instead, just to respect her sister. When Angela at last meet with Kristin, Kristin acts like she’s full of sincerity and wants to make a better sisterhood with Kristin. Everything is on the set, when the fake killer starts to “kills” and his first victim is Steve. Panicky, Angela ask Doug to get the police, meanwhile she try to convince Charlie to stay put. But the frightened Charlie refuses it and decides to goes back to the town by walk.

In the meantime, the obsessed Kristin so cheer that her plan seems to be succeeding. She forces all her friends to carry on the show and ask them to get to their position as on the role. In the outside, Bud secretly listening to all what happened. Without they know. Wallace, the supposedly killer get kill by the real killer

And since Doug said that the car wasn’t work, they have to stick there all night. Kristin suggests they got to split out to find phone that they can use. As they splitting out, Angela stays in the room with Doug, and suddenly the cell phone of the supposedly dead Steve ringing and he come alive to answer the phone. Because of this, Angela thinks she finds out the sketch that Kristin draws and she really irritated of it.

Meanwhile, when Bud stalks Kristin, he lost her. Suddenly he’s bump with the killer, and it cost him his life. The next target is the fake victim, Steve; his death becomes reality when the killer plunges a real knife to him.

The oblivious Angela start to make a little conversation with Dough. She manages to find that Doug is really a good guy. But Doug refuses to tell Angela why he is wanted to help Kristin with her cruel plan. Doug also say to Angela that he have an affection to her. But, civilly Angela refuses it. They walk over Steve whose still lying in the floor. They think Steve is still pretending death and unaware that Steve is stand motionless.

The scene goes to Patrick and Julie who eagerly to play their role, because they just can’t hold to get a little intimate any longer. And they get their wish, because the killer stabs them merciless over and over again. The killer also strikes over Brett.

On the other side, Angela thinks that she saw Charlie comes into the house. But she and Doug can’t find him. They lastly can find him when they check the downstairs. Charlie tells Angela his dark past afterward and this make Angela get more heated to Kristin. She asks Doug to take Charlie back to town, when she tries to find Kristin.

In the car, Doug and Charlie act hesitantly for each other, because Doug and Charlie truly have a secret; they ever together back in the college. Since Doug known as a straight guy to his parent; that’s why Kristin “insisted” him to help her, or else.

On her way to find Kristin, Angela also find are the death body of Patrick and Julie. She  thinks they still act for the stage. But she becomes aware for what is going on, when Patrick cell phone ring and because it's look that Patrick  won’t pick it up, she picks up the phone. All she can hear are the muffled voice of Doug, because the killer strangles Doug when he try to call Patrick, since Charlie decide to look upon Angela and leave Doug alone.

Frantically, Angela tries to stay away from the killer. But, when she eventually comes face to face with the mouth-stitched killer, she must fight back and find the truth behind the madness or her life in the jeopardy.

COMMENT

By mentioning the superiority of "Friday the13th", "Final Stab" is one of the latest flicks in the tradition of "Scream". Okay, maybe it's not the best, and a little weak in the cinematic aspect. It is a B-movie, so you know what you are dealing with, don’t do the complaint.

The killing scene is somewhat brief and there's no chase scene, but fairly effective to build the fright tense, even though it's gory but not so gruesome.

The acting of the most of the cast needs more improvement, but Erinn Carter, which is plays the Kristin's character is good and will be a fine actress if she involving her self in more serious films.

The direction from David DeCoteau is a B-Movie typical but better than the standard; a good point for the movie, since it's a low-budget feature. One thing that DeCoteau dissimilar his flick with others is; if the others explicit death in majority of female, so as you can watch here, most in the  list of the body count are male and it’s a gorgeous and hunky males too, that be usually typical of female victims in this genre. Of course there’s female victim, but there’s only one count! These symptoms are already illustrated since the very beginning, when Charlie (Jamie Gannon) goes to shower. This typically tends to a woman character too, right? ^_^

In general, "Final Stab" still can manage an enjoyable entertainment, especially for an average slasher flick. However, “Final Stab” can be a fine company if you want to hanging out with some friends and watch some movies.
 

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