Last Girl Standing
Last Girl Standing
Five years ago, a masked killer brutally murdered a group of friends. Since then, Camryn, the lone survivor, has struggled to reclaim her shattered life. Wracked with guilt and paranoia, can Camryn ever have a normal life again or is she destined to be alone? Part slasher movie and part character study, Last Girl Standing is a penetrating and intimate look at what happens to the survivors of horror movies.
Kevin Ward reviewedJuly 2, 2025
This is one of those slashers that I was really not feeling…..until the last 20 minutes. I liked the opening that sets up our initial Final Girl. The life size Jack-a-lope is a pretty terrifying design, even if I couldn’t get Dave Courier’s voice out of my head each time. After the opening the film slows waaaay down. (Honestly, I fell asleep—that’s partly because it was another loooong little league tournament weekend in the Ward household. Hence the late review). It does a serviceable job of portraying the paranoia and fear as a product of Camryn’s PTSD, though. I think the low budget, amateurish feeling production makes that middle section really drag when there’s no kills or notable scares happening on screen. I’m glad I picked it back up, though, because that final 20 minutes delivered. Some excellent practical gore, a fairly shocking sex scene kill and a really solid final twist that actually serves as an apt metaphor for victim/perpetrator cycle. Maelyn can f**k right off with her “You wash other people’s dirty clothes? Did you have to go to school for that?” Really liked this in the end though.