Final Exam (1981)
Final Exam (1981)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Cecile Bagdadi
Courtney
Joel S. Rice
Radish
Ralph Brown
Wildman
DeAnna Robbins
Lisa
Sherry Willis-Burch
Janet
John fallon
Mark
Terry W. Farren
Pledge Gary
Timothy L. Raynor
Killer
Sam Kilman
Sheriff
Mary Ellen Withers
Elizabeth
Don Hepner
Dr. Reynolds
Elijah Christopher Perry
Coach
Jimmy Huston
Director
Shannon Norfleet
Student in Car
Carol Capka
Student in Car
John L. Chambliss
Producer
Media.
Details.
Release DateJune 5, 1981
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 30m
Content RatingR
Budget$374,000
Box Office$3,000,000
Genres
Wiki.
Final Exam is a 1981 American slasher film written and directed by Jimmy Huston, and starring Cecile Bagdadi, Joel S. Rice, and DeAnna Robbins. The plot follows a nameless killer stalking the remaining group of students left on a college campus days before the beginning of summer vacation.
Filmed in North Carolina and South Carolina with a cast of largely Los Angeles-based actors, Final Exam was released by Motion Picture Marketing in the winter of 1981. The film was met with a middling critical response, being both criticized and praised for similarities to Halloween (1978) and Friday the 13th (1980). The campus filming locations included Limestone University (Gaffney, South Carolina) and Gardner-Webb University (Boiling Springs, North Carolina).
While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic. The film has received a modern reevaluation by critics for the arbitrary villain and its focus on character development rather than gore and shock value. The central male character in the film, Radish, served as partial inspiration for the character of Randy Meeks in Wes Craven's Scream (1996).