gavin6942 A group of friends meet for the weekend in a "cursed" house that had been the site of a vicious, Mansonesque murder. The new owner wants to use it for a murder mystery game, where the friends get "killed" off, and the ones left alive are left to guess the killer. But then a real killer shows up, so that's not good.This film is a lower budget affair with unknown actors. It's in the vein of a Full Moon film, being helmed by David DeCouteau, a 1980s Full Moon regular (and apparently still around). Strangely, the film tries to pass itself off as a "Scream" replica, but it is really nothing like that franchise, not in plot or look or sensibility.The real source for this film is "April Fools Day". I have to assume that the writer of "Final Stab" ripped this one off directly, because it would be one heck of a coincidence otherwise. A murder mystery weekend? Preppy friends? A practical joke? It just follows right along, at least until the murders turn real. But that's such a minor change that this can hardly be called an original film.The acting is decent but not great, the effects are nothing special, the plot as mentioned is a rehash... if you want to see a good DeCouteau film, see "Creepozoids". Or better yet, watch "April Fools Day" (the original) and just be done with it. This film has vanished off the radar (if it was ever there), and I feel no compulsion to defend it.

jerronspencer Was there a previous stab? Like in a past life, maybe? In the world of low budget horror, there is nothing more annoying than seeing a large sum of money go to a seriously crappy film. ****SPOILER****In this star-barren flick, six Ivy League grads are part of a 'devious' plot to drive a middle-class outsider crazy. Their leader, a self-styled super bitch, sets up a mock murder mystery where everyone really dies. Her plan is to blame the killings on our poor outsider. The bodies pile up, but the tables are turned and the outsider comes out on top. This movie was slightly disjointed and greatly lousy with bad acting and too-dark lighting. Two strong points–good title sequence and fairly decent musical score.

callanvass dumb horror movie has awful acting and lack of gore and some fake looking stabbings has a couple of effective moments but we have seen this before a 1000 times and done better at that !!!!!!!! this is not recommended *1/2 out of 5

trackie02rock Final Stab was a delightfully pathetic movie. It reminded me of the videos made in my high school film class. That aside, it had potential. The slasher idea, while about as used a week old kitty litter, still has potential to produce "that movie"....another scream (the original). If this script was tossed to John Sayles for a couple weeks it could have been worked into a good piece of work. The potential lied mostly in the fact that it was a murder mystery party, so the victims walked right into there deaths, not expecting anything but a rubber knife and fake blood. The part that killed it was, by far, the writing. Even without changing a thing about story, good writing could have made it more bearable. My friend commented that he thought it was bad acting, but I felt the actors did quite well stumbling over all that awkward dialogue. The villianous sister, played by Erinn Carter is a quite talented actress. She movied onto the Sitcom/improv show "On the spot" with Tim Conway. There she does an excellent job in flexing her comedic muscles. One last comment on the film, while the ending was semi-predictable, I was pleased how it was incorporated. It was the ending that a good slasher filck should have had.