The Final Girl Theory is a concept within thriller and horror films, that specifically refers to the last woman or girl alive to confront the killer, who then is left to tell the story. A common plot line in many horror films is where a series of victims get killed off one by one leaving which builds up the climax in which the last person standing from the group, a female, either defeats the killed or gets away.
According to Clover the final girl in many typical horror fillm plots share a common characteristic, she is typically sexually unavailable or virginal and they sometimes have a unisex name, such as, Teddy, Billie, Georgie, Sidney. Also, occasionally the final girl has a shared history with the killer, for example, in Halloween II, Michael Myers is revealed to be the brother of Laurie Strode, in Scream 1, Sidney Prescott’s boyfriend, Billy Loomis, is the killed and in Scream 3, the killed is revealed to be Roman Bridger, half brother of Sidney. The final girl theory is used in modern movies as well for example in 'You're Next' the final girl was someone they thought was innocent and vulnerable, this is a good example because it displays clovers theory in a slightly twisted way.
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According to Clover the final girl in many typical horror fillm plots share a common characteristic, she is typically sexually unavailable or virginal and they sometimes have a unisex name, such as, Teddy, Billie, Georgie, Sidney. Also, occasionally the final girl has a shared history with the killer, for example, in Halloween II, Michael Myers is revealed to be the brother of Laurie Strode, in Scream 1, Sidney Prescott’s boyfriend, Billy Loomis, is the killed and in Scream 3, the killed is revealed to be Roman Bridger, half brother of Sidney. The final girl theory is used in modern movies as well for example in 'You're Next' the final girl was someone they thought was innocent and vulnerable, this is a good example because it displays clovers theory in a slightly twisted way.
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