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| 3 | ''Final Exam'' is a 1981 SlasherMovie. |
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| 5 | It's midterms week at a small North Carolina college. Only a few students are left. Perfect hunting grounds for a SerialKiller, don't you think? |
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| 7 | Not to be confused with [[VideoGame/FinalExam the survival horror video game series]]. |
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| 9 | !!This film contains examples of: |
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| 11 | * BigBad: The unnamed SerialKiller terrorizing the college. |
| 12 | * CacophonyCoverUp: The Gammas ''fake a mass shooting'' so that some of them can cheat on a chemistry test. |
| 13 | * DevelopingDoomedCharacters: There are fifty minutes between the first kill and the second. |
| 14 | * EventTitle |
| 15 | * FinalGirl: [[spoiler:Courtney, who is bookish and studious, of course.]] |
| 16 | * GenericDoomsdayVillain: The killer is simply a guy with a knife who kills college students, who eventually has to be stopped by the FinalGirl. The audience never learns anything about him or what his motivations for the killing spree might be. |
| 17 | * HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: Finals week. |
| 18 | * TheLastTitle |
| 19 | * {{Novelization}}: By Geoffrey Meyer. |
| 20 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The Gammas happen to have a lawn jockey in their frat house for no other reason than to further demonstrate they're assholes if you hadn't already figured that out from the fake mass shooting they staged. |
| 21 | * ShoutOut: Radish has posters for ''Film/TheToolboxMurders'', ''Film/TheCorpseGrinders'' and ''Film/MurderIsMyBeat'' in his room.. |
| 22 | * TemptingFate: Mitch says that "There ain't not one bit of crime on this campus... Not yet." Cue a SerialKiller. |
| 23 | * TheUnreveal: [[spoiler:We don't learn a thing about the killer.]] |
| 24 | * WackyFratboyHijinx: In this case, "hijinx" means faking a mass shooting on campus as an initiation rite. |
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