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The Final Girl
The final girl is a trope in thriller and horror films (particularly slasher films) that specifically refers to the last woman or girl alive to confront the killer and the one left to tell the story. There are also examples of final girls in other genres as well. The term was created by Carol Clover in her 1992 book Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. Clover suggests that in these films, the viewer begins by sharing the perspective of the killer, but experiences a shift in identification to the final girl partway through the film.
The final girl usually has a unisex name, is a virgin or sexually unavailable and has typically masculine skills such as being able to fix a car or woodwork.
The final girl usually has a unisex name, is a virgin or sexually unavailable and has typically masculine skills such as being able to fix a car or woodwork.
Weapons
There are no guns in slasher movies, as this is too quick and clean. Sometimes victims get firearms, but just like telephones and other modern commodities, they never work.
Terrible Places
Places such as decaying and haunted mansions are not terrible just because of their appearance, but also because of the terrible families and histories inside them.
Walls in a house which at first seem safe, end up trapping the victim inside with the killer.
This theory is shown in "Ils" where the victim locks herself in the car to try and keep the killer away from herself, but she does in fact end up locking herself inside the care with the killer.
Walls in a house which at first seem safe, end up trapping the victim inside with the killer.
This theory is shown in "Ils" where the victim locks herself in the car to try and keep the killer away from herself, but she does in fact end up locking herself inside the care with the killer.
Killers
Killers in horror films usually either have issues with childhood or are sexually disturbed. One of the only female killers to show gender confusion us the mother in Friday 13th. Other females kill for different reasons.
Wheeler Winston Dixon
Dixon believes horror film are so popular because humans have a subconscious feeling of masochism. Because of this, women and men in horror films are "sites of activity," situations rather than characters. As the "level of graphic specificity" continues to rise in the horror film, it is not so much the story of the film that matters, but rather the "certainty of fleshly mutilation."
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