The Final Terror

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<B>1981/Color/82 Min./ /Rated R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director............Andrew Davis (Code of Silence, The Fugitive)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay......Jon George, Neill Hicks & Ronald Shusett</B></div> <div> <B>Music...............Susan Justin</B></div> <div> <B>Producer.........Joe Roth</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....Samuel Z. Arkoff</B></div> <div> <B>Story by Jon George & Neill Hicks</B></div> <div> <B>Director of Photography....Andreas Da Videscu</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Marco...............Adrian Zmed (Bachelor Party, Grease 2, TJ Hooker-TV)</B></div> <div> <B>Windy...............Daryl Hannah (Bladerunner, Roxanne, Splash)</B></div> <div> <B>Margaret..........Rachel Ward (Sharkey's Machine, The Thornbirds)</B></div> <div> <B>Boone..............Lewis Smith (Fulfillment, The Heavenly Kid)</B></div> <div> <B>Zoritch.............John Friedrich (The Thornbirds, The Wanderers)</B></div> <div> <B>Nat..................Ernest Harden, Jr. (White Mama)</B></div> <div> <B>Eggar..............Joe Pantoliano (Midnight Run, Risky Business)</B></div> <div> <B>Mike...............Mark Metcalf</B></div> <div> <B>Vanessa..........Akosua Busia</B></div> <div> <B>Melanie..........Cindy Harrell</B></div> <div> <B>Mr Morgan......Richard Jacobs</B></div> <div> <B>Mrs Morgan....Donna Pinder</B></div> <div> <B>Jim................Jim Youngs</B></div> <div> <B>Lori................Lori Lee Butler</B></div> <div> <B>Eggar's Mother..Tony Maccaris</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: Director Davis hit it big with Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones in </B><I><B>The Fugitive</B></I><B>. Note that when he made his first blockbuster movie, he took Joe Pantoliano from this more humble effort with him. Pantoliano carries this movie through as he helped carry </B><I><B>Risky Business</B></I><B> and </B><I><B>Midnight Run</B></I><B> where admittedly he had plenty of help. Give it an extra skull for making so many movie stars stand around in the rainy woods. The extremely poor production values are tailor made for the poor make-up job on the crazy mother: the shadowy woods effects and grainy film allow us to accept that we never get a clear look at mother. It was nice to see Tim Matheson's and Belushi's curse fulfilled: Niedermeyer, dead! This movie is surprisingly suspenseful--you cannot get more formulaic, but it's all in the execution. Nothing terribly complicated here, but the idea that an insane woodswoman is lurking in those shadows is unsettling. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: The play of deer in the idyllic wilderness of Mill Creek is interrupted by crazy Jimmy and his girlfriend as they dump his motorcycle. She has but a few scratches, but Jimmy's leg is badly injured. As Jimmy lays helpless, his date arrives at an empty ranger station, then returns to find Jimmy gone without a trace. As she searches, Jim falls from a tree--slashed to death--and as she turns to run, she is decapitated by a crude "Papillon"-style trap, fashioned from jagged can tops. At the ranger base, sexy trainee Marco lies in bed reading about hash when he is suddenly attacked by state employee/handy-man Eggar, who wakes all the trainees violently, threatening them with a baseball bat. Zoritch, a Vietnam veteran barely less aggressive than Eggar, pulls a knife on him and Marco disarms him and he leaves cursing, but having succeeded in rousing the lazy recruits. The head ranger purchases supplies for the big weekend off. His girlfriend, also a ranger, and three beautiful trainees meet them at Mill Creek for a canoe trip adventure. Eggar warns Marco that Mill creek is dangerous, what with the missing couple, but Marcoignoresthewarning. The group heads off in a forest department bus singing three blind mice. Eggar triesto warn them about the dangers again, hgow a man had been killed, but they ignore him. They drive by a mentalinstitution along the way, and Eggarseems uncomfortably quiet. The group arrives at Millriverand theybegin clearing away fallenwood. One of the workers suggests there ismarijuanagrowing in the area. The teasing of Eggar continuesand then he tells them that he had tied someone down who had teased him and no one had ever found him. Later, overthe camp fire, Boone tells a story of a fourteen year old girl who lived here whose father raped her. She was driven mad, and ended up in the mental institution, where she has a child. Ninteen years later, the son returned and tookthe mother out--themother, still mad, supposedly lives here still, whipering "who stole my leg". Eggar doesn't likethisstory at all. They hop back on the buas andthe trip continues. The plan is to steal marijuana from the "hippies" that own it. Marco is told tobe a lookout and howl like a wolf every twenty minutes. He is apparently being set up by the others. Back at the camp, dawn breaks and everyone wakes up except Marco. The others admit they played a trick on Marco. They return to the spot they left him, but he seems to have wandered away. They find a scarf, next to a dead animal. The search continues, and one of the girls enjoys watching goon take a little bath. Tempers flare back at the camp. At the bathing hole, the girl and Boone don't seem overly concerned for a while about Marco, and have a sexual situation, when suddenly someone comes up behind them and gores Boone again and again, leaveing his girlfriend whimperingbeneath his corpse. Two of the pranksters come up on a shed The particularly objectionable prankster, Zorich, goes in and begins screaming. But it's just another prank. They find Eggar's hat, and a radio that had been missing. They also find a wolf's head. They run off. That night, they are much more vigilant. A snuffligindividual leans over the sleeping bag of one of the girls and she screams--but the person disappears. they hear someone running through the water. Marco finally shows up, and seems to have enjoyed himself. The british black female overacts a tongue lashing and goes to cool off, and finds Mike's corpse in the campsite outhouse. Melanie is still missing. They become deadly serious now, and try to find Melanie the next day. In military style, they start to sneak around the woods, back to Eggar's shed. They breakinto the shed and they find a human hand in a jar. She is in the shed but can't make a noise. They assume the hand is hers and decide to give up on her and make their way back to civilization. They paddle down river alert to every sound Melanie, with throat cut is dropped right onto their raft. They bury her by the side of the river, cursing Eggar. The others arrive at the school bus, and cautiously check it out. Eggar staring into a fire, mutters, "I told them not to come." The folks hear somne on the roof of the bus, and then whoeverit is starts breaking windows. They are trapped in the bus, but they scape through the emergency exit. Wendy (Daryl Hannah) gets separated and attacked--her ear is slashed. Zorgeis sent back to the bus to retrievethe first aid kit. surprisingly, it went without a hitch. They patch up Wendy and everyone agrees they need to go on the offensive. They have managed to hold onto raincoats through it all, so they don them as they trudge through the woods. Zorge decides he's found the perfect place for the trap. He has a vietnam flashback, and it comes ouyt he has eaten mushrooms found in the shed. They are under Redwoods--apparently this was filmed in Oregon. Zorge's plan involvesclimbing up a redwood--somepretty striking footage. As part of the trap? Marco starts yelling to Eggar, saying that they're going to get him (or help him). Eggar does indeed attack him from behind, and the ambushers beat him to death. However, a long haired individual cuts Zorge from behind, She, however, is impaled on Zorge's more elaborate trap, and is left hanging on his Papillon-trap.  </B></div> <div> <B>poor production values</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>