Days of drinking, drugging and promiscuity form the backdrop to friendships being tested and a horrible secret that will cost more than one of these teens their life.ĭirected by Dominik Hartl ( Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies) is making a cover version of American slashers, but he remembers something that his domestic contemporaries have forgotten - how to build tension and fear within the actual stalk before the slash. Julia and her entire class have just graduated high school and taken a trip to Austria’s X Fest, which takes place on an island. It also owes plenty to I Know What You Did Last Summer, which owes a lot to Terror Train and Slaughter High. This movie feels closer to the slasher’s Italian absentee father, the giallo, as its look, lighting and even appropriation of modern dance music within the narrative structure of those films makes total sense. However, this 2018 Austrian effort - known there as The Last Party of Your Life - defied that title and all the worries that it brought with it. Any time I hear the phrase “in the tradition of the best post- Scream slashers,” I get worried that I’m going to completely hate a movie.
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