The Final Project
Film
Review
by Kam Williams
College Kids
Vanish without a Trace inside Abandoned Mansion in Found-Footage
Horror Flick
There is
often a fine line between paying homage and plagiarizing.
Unfortunately, that isn't the case with The Final Project, a
shameless ripoff of The Blair Witch Project, the micro-budgeted
horror flick which inaugurated the "found footage" genre
back in 1999.
Besides
having the word "Project" in the title, this pseudo
documentary also revolves around a group of film students who mount
an ill-fated expedition in search of an evil spirit. In Blair, they
were looking for a witch said to have been terrorizing a rural region
of Maryland for several centuries. Over the vociferous objections of
wizened local yokels familiar with the legend, the kids pressed on
with their mission deep into the woods where they eventually vanished
without a trace, leaving behind only the inscrutable video furnishing
the footage for the movie.
Because The
Blair Witch Project netted nearly a quarter billion dollars at the
box office after being shot for a measly $60,000, it spawned a
cottage industry of imitators, none of which ever quite measured up
to the original. This latest attempt to cash-in on the concept was
written, produced and directed by Taylor Ri'chard.
Taylor
apparently wore a lot more hats here, including visual and digital
effects, which is par for the course for a horror flick of such
modest means. It's just too bad that he lifted so many ideas from
Blair, otherwise I'd probably be lauding his efforts as a decent
outing by a first-time director.
The Final
Project is set on Lafitte Plantation in the tiny town of Vacherie,
Louisiana. The notorious estate is known for miles around as being
haunted by the ghosts of a family matriarch buried on the premises as
well as by a quartet of Union soldiers who perished there during the
Civil War.
The film
unfolds at the University of Southwestern Louisiana where we find a
half-dozen film majors in need of extra credits to pass a course.
After their professor (Robert McCarley) approves an outing to
Vacherie in search of the spooks, the classmates pack their gear and
depart for the abandoned mansion.
Their last
chance to turn around and avert disaster rests in listening to the
sage store clerk (Tiffany Ford) they encounter en route. She issues
the proverbial dire warning "Abandon hope all ye who enter
here!" But, of course, they ignore the suggestion and make their
way to the abandoned mansion.
Gradually,
the six, Genevieve (Arin Jones), Misty
(Amber Erwin), Anna (Teal Haddock), Charles (Charles Orr), Gavin
(Sergio Suave) and Ky (Evan McLean), are picked off one-by-one,
and all the clues to solving their mysterious disappearance are
contained on their cameras left behind.
A faux
student film which looks a lot like, well, a lot like a student film.
Good (2
stars)
Unrated
Running time: 82 minutes
Distributor: Cavu Pictures
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