Final Girl TheoryCarol Clover's feminist perspective lead to the groundbreaking theory of 'The Final Girl'. The 'Final Girl' is someone who we see right from the start. She is not sexually active, she is intelligent, resourceful and watchful to the point of paranoia. She is male-like, even to the point of her name. Some examples of final girl names from horror films are: Stevie, Marti, Terry, Laurie, Stretch, Will, Joey, Max, Riply.
In some examples, the final girl has a shared history with the killer for example in Halloween II, Micheal Myers is revealed to be the borther of Laurie Strode. MR
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KillersCarol Clover devised another idea that all killers in horror films tend to either have issues with childhood or are sexually disturbed. For example Mike Myers in Halloween was just a kid when he started killing. Also Freddie Krugger was a child molester.
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