Last Straw
2023
Horror / Thriller

Last Straw
2023
Horror / Thriller
Plot summary
A rural roadside diner becomes the host of a maniacal killing spree – leaving a young waitress to clean up the mess. After hard-headed Nancy fires the staff at her dad’s diner, she decides to cover the last shift of the night by herself. Little does she know, she is far from alone. The day is coming back to haunt her and when things begin to spiral out of control, she must fight for her life over the course of one long night.
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My opinions are divided
Could have been much better without the "men bad" bias
It's essentially a variation on 3 different tropes:
-the isolated location surrounded by maniacs
-the final girl
-the revenge movie.
Were it not for its pathetically heavyhanded "men are either bad or weak" bias, the movie would flow much more naturally since the way it frames the narratives on 2 parallel tracks that converge is interesting.
Cinematography works well, particularly at night. There are slices of 80s synths that are also good. It doesn't deal satisfactorily with a few side characters (the female friend, the 2 other guys around the bonfire etc) and it could have been subtler instead of having awful lines such as "trauma is the real gateway drug"..
All in all, a watchable but flawed horror movie but its creators could improve if they learn from the mistakes made on this one.
Up until the last 15-20 minutes well worth a watch
I would have given this a 7/8 had it not been for the essentially braindead and completely unnecessary last 20 minutes. It's not the worst thing ever so would recommend giving this a view but the end was completely illogical. The acting was good, the story was good but the ending really spoils it. Everything that was built before was 'realistic' as far as a horror movie can be including decisions by characters etc but then they just decided to just mess it up by making the well woven main characters do things that completely takes you out of the movie and say 'wait, why, wtf'. The director could have done really well with this but decided to trope out.