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1981 American slasher film
- Final Exam is a 1981 American slasher film written and directed by Jimmy Huston, and starring Cecile Bagdadi, Joel S. Rice, DeAnna Robbins and Timothy L. Raynor.
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Final Exam is a 1981 American slasher film written and directed by Jimmy Huston, and starring Cecile Bagdadi, Joel S. Rice, DeAnna Robbins and Timothy L. Raynor. The plot follows a nameless killer stalking the remaining group of students left on a college campus days before the beginning of summer vacation.
Final Exam: Directed by Jimmy Huston. With Cecile Bagdadi, Joel S. Rice, Ralph Brown, DeAnna Robbins. A psycho killer shows up on college campus to slash up pretty co-eds and dumb jocks.
- (4.7K)
- Horror, Thriller
- Jimmy Huston
- 1981-06-05
- Who Initiates The Shooting on The Campus?
- Who Ends Up Becoming The Victims of The Killer?
- Who Is The Killer, and What Was His Motive?
Early in the film, as the students are giving their chemistry exam, a group of masked men in a van interrupt the campus and begin shooting—causing mass hysteria and outrage. Radish manages to escape and calls the local Sheriff (Sam Kilman). It is later revealed that this shooting was just a prank initiated by some frat bros of the Gamma Fraternity ...
As Courtney is preparing for her exams in the dorm room, she is stalked by the killer (in a sequence reminiscent of John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978)), who watches her from the street. Later, Courtney visits Radish, and when she returns, someone seems to have moved her stuff. Meanwhile, the college bros take a pledge called Gary (Terry W. Farren) a...
Unlike other slasher films, which feature a supernatural masked murderer (Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, and Michael Myers), the killer in Final Exam is a seemingly ordinary jeans-donning middle-aged man whose face we are shown right at the beginning of the film. Throughout the film, we are not given anything about his identity, motives, or even a...
I tell the story behind one of horror cinema's purest slasher films: Jimmy Huston's "Final Exam", the quintessential college killer movie.
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- Layton Eversaul
Jun 29, 2009 · Final Exam may fall short of being a truly great slasher film but it still worthy of your attention.
“Final Exam” (1981) is the first slasher to take place at a college campus, not counting “Black Christmas” (1974), which focused on a sorority house. It beat two other campus slashers to the theater by a few months: “Night School” and “The Prowler.”
"Final Exam" is a 1981 slasher film directed by Jimmy Huston. Only making a few directorial entries during a 20-year period of time from the mid 70's to mid 90's, "Final Exam" is probably Huston's most successful effort.
