Eggar wasn't wrong, although no one really thinks all that much of it at first.
FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 1 MOVIE THUMBNAIL WIDESCREEN DRIVER
A bunch of.I don't know, forest ranger interns or something sneak out into the woods to screw, get stoned, and generally have an R-rated good time, shrugging off the warnings of their more-than-a-little unstable driver (Joe Pantoliano). There's almost not a premise for me to recap. Sometimes, though, they're just shitty, and that's pretty much the beginning and end of the tragic story of The Final Terror.
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Some movies vanish or are woefully unappreciated because they don't have the right marketing muscle behind 'em, because it's the right material at the wrong time, or because they're just further out there than audiences were willing to embrace.
The Final Terror sat on the shelf for several years before finally being dusted off, and even then it was just because Arkoff or whoever saw Splash and remembered he had a movie with that mermaid in it somewhere. This was an era when it seemed like two or three slasher flicks were opening every weekend - when all you needed were a bunch of trees, a couple of tits, and a bloodied knife to sell fistfuls of tickets - and no one wanted it. Depending on who you ask, this room-temperature slasher was produced in either 1980 or 1981, riding the wake of Friday the 13th's staggering success. It's just that almost anything I'd say about The Final Terror is me talking around the movie rather than about it. Hell, even the way that Scream Factory rescued this all-but-lost movie makes for a pretty phenomenal story. It's a slasher co-starring Daryl Hannah, for crying out loud, sharing the bill with other familiar faces like Adrian Zmed, Mark Metcalf, Rachel Ward, and Joe Pantoliano. This marked the first independent production by Sam Arkoff after he parted ways with AIP.
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Don't get me wrong: there's plenty to talk about when it comes to The Final Terror.