The Last Showing (2014)

Please don't spend money on this.

Good start, but then it gets ruined

From my favorite movies..

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

After working as a projectionist for 25 years he decides he wants to make movies and his genre of choice is horror. The angle he wants to use is having real people commit the murders in his film. He hones in on a couple as his casting choice and starts filming. At the end of the film playing the couple find no one else around and before you know it she's been kidnapped with him locked inside the theatre. The boyfriend receives instructions from the disturbed projectionist on what to do if he ever wants to see... you know the rest.Robert Englund plays the projectionist who has been told he can no longer be the projectionist limiting him to selling popcorn and cleaning. This of course helps in his new psychotic career choice. Englund plays the part to a tee. This wasn't too bad as watch how deep of a hole the boyfriend digs himself into. The ending might upset you if you like regular happy endings.

Robert Englund acts everyone off the stage... literally! It could have been better cast as regards the other characters, but I really enjoyed R.E's performance, as I always do. I'm of the firm belief that he's sooo underrated because of Freddy Kruger et al.It's just a shame it wasn't a little more emphatic - I found it wasn't as 'tense' as it should/could have been.I still liked it, and I'm glad I bought it. This ten lines of text thing is sometimes way more than you have to say about a film, and that gets a little wearing, thanks IMDb.This ten lines of text thing is sometimes way more than you have to say about a film, and that gets a little wearing, thanks IMDb.This ten lines of text thing is sometimes way more than you have to say about a film, and that gets a little wearing, thanks IMDb.

Young couple Martin (Finn Jones) and Allie (Emily Berrington) attend a midnight screening at their local multiplex unaware that ageing projectionist Stuart (Robert Englund) is planning his own production with them as the stars.The idea of a deranged cinema projectionist creating his own horror film with real people taking the place of actors is a rather a neat premise, but the actual execution lets this film down, with plausibility stretched to breaking point. In order for the film to work it requires its victims to behave precisely in the manner predicted by antagonist Stuart, something that simply asks too much of the viewer in terms of suspension of disbelief.Countless 'what ifs' arise during the movie: What if someone else bought a ticket for the same showing? What if Martin had also tasted his girlfriend's drink? What if Martin hadn't panicked and shot the manager? What if he had called the police right at the start? What if Allie had collapsed while sat next to Martin? What if Martin didn't grab the gun left for him at the end? What if Allie and Martin had both (quite rightly) decided to go home rather than watching the rather awful The Hills Have Eyes 2 to the end?These awkward questions (and many more I can't be bothered to type) make for an extremely frustrating film that either thinks it is cleverer than it actually is or hopes that the viewer is incredibly stupid.

I don't think so. But it can be too desperate for its own good. Freddy Kr... I mean Robert Englund delivers and he's elevating this movie above mediocrity. The script is nice and there are changes in pace and direction, but it thinks too much of itself at times. And tries too hard to satisfy a few needs, to really go the extra mile.Having said all that and even though, it does have it's issues here and there (plot holes/character flaws), the movie is entertaining if you let it in. It played well enough at Frightfest in London and people enjoyed it for what it is. The ending was something else that really made the movie better (at least in my eyes). Depending on what you think about that, you might feel it's not as decent as I thought