Lifestyle Events Comic-Con The Final Girls is the new (scary) Pleasantville By C. Molly Smith C. Molly Smith C. Molly Smith is the former assistant editorial manager at Entertainment Weekly. She left EW in 2019. EW's editorial guidelines Published on October 8, 2015 11:43PM EDT If you love horror comedies with a nostalgic flair for time-travel classics, you’re in luck. The Final Girls centers on Max (Taissa Farmiga) and her late mother (Malin Akerman), who was a famous horror star in the 1980s. When Max is drawn into the cinematic world of her mother’s best-known film, the pair must fend off the movie’s killer together. Akerman and director Todd Strauss-Schulson checked in with EW at New York Comic-Con to talk about their upcoming upcoming genre-blending flick, likening it to a few fan-favorite films. “I love the mother-daughter relationship that grounds this whole thing,” Akerman says, “and I think it’s so smart the way it’s set in this really bad 80’s horror film. It’s just a great marriage of different genres, and fun and sad and scary.” To which Strauss-Schulson adds, “It feels like Back to the Future or Pleasantville.” The pair also discussed how they got involved in the project and co-star Nina Dobrev’s on-set pranks (and love of hot dogs?). And in the spirit of horror and Halloween, they talked about their favorite scary movies too, with Strauss-Schulson joking that his is 27 Dresses — the 2008 bridal film that starred Katherine Heigl and Akerman. And for more, here’s the trailer: The Final Girls hits theaters October 9.