Playing reunited mother and daughter, Akerman and Farmiga have to escape a machete-wielding serial killer.
- Aug 22, 2015
AceShowbiz - Todd Strauss-Schulson's "The Final Girls" offers a mix of horror and comedy which are both shown in the first trailer. Called an "instant classic", the flick centers on a girl who meets her dead mom in the popular slasher movie she starred in.
Max, a high school senior, is mysteriously transported with her friends into a 1980s horror film that starred Max's mother, a celebrated scream queen. Trapped inside the movie, Max finds herself reunited with her mom, whom she lost in real life. Together with Max's friends, they must fend off the camp counselors' raging hormones, battle a deranged machete-wielding killer and find a way to escape the movie and make it back home.
Taissa Farmiga plays Max, Malin Akerman stars as her late mom, and Nina Dobrev and Thomas Middleditch play Max's friends.
"On set they bonded, and were together all the time," Strauss-Schulson said about Farmiga and Akerman to Slashfilm. "They did pick up the mother/daughter dynamic. Malin just had a baby a couple months before the movie started, she had a real maternal sense, and this was Taissa's first major role in a film, and Malin looked out for her. So it was a pretty natural dynamic they created. It was great to watch."
"The Final Girls" opens in select theaters in the U.S. October 9.
