Final girl
Trope in slasher horror films / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Final girl (disambiguation).
The final girl is a trope in horror films (particularly slasher films).[1][2] It refers to the last girl(s) or woman alive to confront the killer, ostensibly the one left to tell the story. The final girl has been observed in many films, including Psycho, Voices of Desire, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Halloween, Alien, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream.[3] The term was coined[4] by Carol J. Clover in her article "Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film" (1987).[5] Clover suggested that in these films, the viewer began by sharing the perspective of the killer, but experienced a shift in identification to the final girl partway through the film.