Final Girl Series 4: Shriek

***IMPORTANT!*** This Feature Film box is not playable by itself and requires you to also own the Core Box.

Van Ryder Games Overview
Mort the Teenage Dirtbag has come with one purpose and one purpose alone: to sow chaos. He brought masks of all his favorite Final Girl killers and began taking victims, one at a time, wearing a different mask each time. At the end of it, he would put on his own mask and kill his one true target... YOU!

The Mega Boardgame Convention is packed to the brim with excited attendees, all eagerly anticipating the hot new game releases from the best publishing companies in the industry. They’re SO excited, in fact, that they refuse to leave the convention floor! You’ll need to create a little panic yourself if you expect to save these starry-eyed gamers from the end of Mort’s blade!

Shriek is a Special Feature for Final Girl. Unlike normal Feature Films, a Special Feature includes a red foil logo and miniatures.

Horror Movie Classification
HMeta-Slasher / Whodunit Horror

The strongest movie connection is Scream (1996).

The Reaper evokes the masked slasher tradition represented by Ghostface, while the horror-convention setting pushes the scenario firmly into Scream's favorite territory: horror stories populated by people who already know the rules of horror stories.

That self-awareness is the key connection. Scream didn't merely feature another masked murderer—it played with decades of slasher conventions while its characters discussed those same conventions.

There are also shades of later meta-horror and convention-centered slashers, but Scream is unquestionably the clearest touchstone.

And putting a masked killer loose inside a horror convention creates an especially nasty problem: when half the people around you are already wearing costumes, spotting the actual murderer becomes considerably more complicated.

Closest Movie Comparison: Scream (1996)

Secondary Movie Comparison: Scream 2 (1997), for expanding the original film's self-aware slasher formula and playing further with horror fandom and sequels.

For Horror Fans Who Enjoy:
Scream • Masked slashers • Meta-horror • Horror conventions • Whodunits • Self-aware horror

Movie-Night Pairing: Scream (1996)

The Short Version:

Scream goes to a horror convention—a masked killer, genre-savvy victims, and an entire building full of people dressed like they belong in a slasher movie.

• 1 Player

• 20-60 mins

• Age: 14+