Even those of us a few years removed from our college days no doubt remember the stress of finals week. Those late nights spent staring bleary-eyed into a textbook on a subject far removed from our majors yet essential, from a bureaucratic perspective, to our futures just the same. Tensions were high during those dying days of the semester, and it’s there that Final Exam resides, a slasher more concerned with academics and social circles than actual slashing. Other films, from all genres, have played in this space, but few have done so with such a stunning lack of, well, anything.

Blumhouse Productions has made its mark in horror, for better or worse, by leaning into whatever off-the-wall story its films are trying to tell. There have been the successes, such as Get Out and Whiplash, as well as the many, many missteps (looking at you The Darkness, The Lazarus Effect, etc.).