Clover in her 1992 book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film, to refer to the last girl standing at the end of a horror movie, especially a slasher. The term Final Girl was coined by Carol J. What role does she serve? Why does she exist? And are all Final Girls created equal? What is a Final Girl? Therein lies a question about our fascination with and the necessity of the Final Girl.
And further, a Final Girl's formulaic survival often becomes as meaningless as the deaths that happen all around her. Typically, a Final Girl's life is nothing more than an equation that involves her hair color, how many nude scenes she has, and her personality. There are finite rules to surviving a horror movie, to the point that it's easy to quantify and calculate survival. That the present-day teens are smart enough to know how clichéd horror movies can be is Final Girls' primary conceit.īut as horror flicks like Scream and The Cabin in the Woods and Strauss-Schulson's aptly named Final Girls spell out, the Final Girl is also very much a trope. In this world, characters live and die by the rules of Reagan-era horror movies - sex, nudity, drinking, and drugs are completely forbidden. The plot focuses on a teenager named Max and her friends as they're transported into an '80s slasher flick starring Max's mom, who is essentially an aggregation of all the girls you meet in a horror movie except for the Final Girl. Strauss-Schulson's film is both an ode to and a critique of these women. "There's something also human about her that makes you fall in love with some of the other girls who we really only relate to because they're in peril. "I think there's something really hard and tough about her," Todd Strauss-Schulson, the director of the new film The Final Girls, told Vox about Alien's Ellen Ripley ( Sigourney Weaver). Final Girls are tough enough and strong enough to make it to end - the only people still standing when the last trickle of blood has hit the floor. Throughout the cinematic history of horror movies, Ripley, Laurie, Nancy, and the women they've inspired have endured murderous summer camps, terrorizing nightmares, and alien ghouls.
The Final Girl has been as crucial to the horror genre as villains like Freddy, Jason, or Michael.
Well, you actually just want to see her live.
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