Last Screening

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Audience Member French director Laurent Achard's meta-horror film The Last Screening could be considered to be The Cabin in the Woods for slasher films, yet gone horribly wrong. Moving at a glacier-like pace, Achard seems insecure whether this's meant to be a dark comedy, straight-up horror, an exploitation film, or the meta-commentary it seemingly intended to be. Unable to choose, he combines elements from all of the above: The serial-killer is a man obsessed with cinema (meta-commentary), he works in a theater which only shows two films on loop (dark comedy), he stalks his prey before the kill (straight-up horror), and once he commits the murder, steals body parts from his victims (exploitation). All of this is shot like a moody art-film, adding more confusion to the genre mix. I hope that was the last screening I'll ever have to go to for The Last Screening. (If there was one benefit of watching the film, it was that pun) Grade: D Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member Une bonne mise en scène pour un film français de genre. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Graphic, disturbing moments of violence with a whole lot of not much in between. Sort of old-fashioned in many respects, especially psychologically with its Freudian mommy-issues. The single-camera real-time no-music killings are rather unsettling however. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Une bonne mise en scène pour un film français de genre. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member C'est pas mal, mais putain arretons de comparer ce film à un Giallo. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member If there is a gang-bang between Cinema Paradiso, French new wave cinema, Peeping Tom and Psycho, this is probably what you'll get. On paper, it sounds like a plausible premise with dark potentials (and there is a good film that can be made here - alert Hollywood!) but in the end it simply does not amount to much here other than a few decent scenes and a good idea wasted. Even taken into consideration the restrictive budget, the slow pacing and the wooden/stoic performances of the ensemble (whether that of the lead is appropriate or not is also debatable) sadly let the film down. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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