In horror movies the term ''final girl'' is a stereotypical situation that refers to the last surviving female character to ...

Clover describes the final girl as "abject terror personified," but she is also a symbol of the indomitable human spirit that ...

Horror is known for its many tropes and iconic characters that comprise the genre. One such trope is the famed final girl archetype. A phrase coined by Carol J. Clover in 1992, the final girl is the ...

Horror movies are box office staples, and there’s one trope in horror that has lasted for decades: the final girl. The Final Girl is a female protagonist who is usually the sole survivor of the ...

A New York native, Joe graduated from an avant-garde theater school upstate, where he was obsessed with sketch comedy. There, he and his lunatic friends founded The Sketchies — which still lives on at ...

If you’re a fan of movies like Ready or Not and The Strangers, then you’ll like You’re Next. The movie combines the best aspects of those two prior horror ...

Slashers are known for having a predictable formula so well known that the Scream franchise has spent three decades mocking them. One of the most used tropes is that of the final girl. She's often ...

Where would the horror world be without those inimitable ladies who manage to make it through every single roadblock life throws in their way? They dodge killers, monsters, creatures, and certain doom ...

Erin Hanson has been voted as the eighth best Final Girl, having appeared in 2011’s You’re Next.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When talking about horror movie tropes that can never really be overdone, we here at SlashFilm believe that final girls are ...