The Final Girl watches as her friends die increasingly horrific deaths, and must resort to escalating violence to save herself-in the process becoming more and more like the terrifying figure she’s trying to escape. Halloween’s Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), Nightmare On Elm Street’s Nancy (Heather Langenkamp), and Alien’s Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) are among the big-screen sole survivors of serial killers and other monsters.
Clover in her 1992 book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film, is the virginal female character who populated 1970s and ’80s slasher films. The Final Girl, a term coined by film theorist Carol J. Samara Weaving as Grace in Ready or Not (Photo credit: Fox Searchlight Pictures)
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