The Final Girls is an unconventional horror/comedy about Max, a high school senior, who is mysteriously transported with her friends into a 1980s horror film that starred Max's mother, a celebrated scream queen.
Centering on a teenage girl named Max (Taissa Farmiga), the story picks up three years after the death of her mother (Malin Akerman), an actress who famously once starred in a ludicrous ‘80s horror movie called Camp Bloodbath. Though Max is still struggling to cope with the loss of her mom, she winds up being goaded into attending a special screening of the film, organized by her best friend’s step-brother (Thomas Middleditch) – and while the night starts out pretty horrifically, with the theater catching on fire during an accident, things only get much worse from that point forward. Along with the aforementioned step-brother , her best friend (Alia Shawkat), the boy she has a crush on (Alexander Ludwig), and his bitchy ex-girlfriend (Nina Dobrev), Max tries to escape the cinema by slashing through the silver screen. Unfortunately, this action winds up dropping the group right inside the plot of Camp Bloodbath, where they must not only try to get back home, but evade the movie’s murderous psychopath villain.