In the horror genre , and especially the slasher subgenre , there is leaden use of a character labeled “ The Final Girl . ” This is the female protagonist of the moving-picture show that is the last persona left active , and the one that stops , or evades , the resister .
The relaxation of the character are often dazed and have little depth , and therefore are nothing more than sweet meat for the villain to bolt down . The Final Girl , however , is typically moral , intelligent and resourceful .
Here are 10 of the slap-up Final Girls who manage to defeat some of horror ’s most iconic villains .
10. Julie James - I Know What You Did Last Summer
AlthoughI fuck What You Did Last Summer(and the sequel ) is very much a simple slasher involving attractive daughter run by from a orphic assailant , it does make good manipulation of the Final Girl character . This is Julie James ( Jennifer Love Hewitt ) , who proves herself to be this character too soon on by suggesting that they call the constabulary after running over a pedestrian ( good ethics ) . They go against her wish and deck the body in the sea .
A yr later they find themselves being stalked after Julie receives a subject matter say “ I know what you did last summer . ” Her friends are kill one by one , and Julie step by step unravels the mystery and narrowly avoids death ( with a little assist from Ray , who also exist ) . She comes excruciatingly close-fitting to surviving the sequel too , but seems to be killed by the fisherman in the final conniption of the picture .
9. Suzy Banyon - Suspiria
Dario Argento ’s sensational 1977 Italian horrorSuspiriais a ocular feast that uses vivid colour to create a surreal context , and this makes it a very singular and fascinating film . Also unique is the approaching to the Final Girl lineament , who is Suzy Banyon . Suzy is an American concert dance student who enrolls in a honored German terpsichore academy , but she soon discovers that things are not quite what they seem and several characters die at the honorary society .
Suzy investigates and discovers that the honorary society was establish by a witch , and she must then practice a tongue against a female foe ( a curiosity ) , which is also her reanimated friend Sarah . She then carry off to get off as the building catches fire , and her willingness to fight this ancient evilness and ability to resist supernatural conquest makes her one of the best terminal Girls in a alone and intriguing repulsion from Dario Argento .
8. Ginny Field - Friday the 13th, Part II
The last Girl fromFriday the 13th , Alice Hardy , does make this list and is a fantastic Final Girl , but she is first up for the chop in the continuation . Five years pass , and this meter it is Jason himself who is on a killing spree at Crystal Lake . Once again there is a Final Girl , and this is Ginny Field , who , unlike most terminal Girls , has sex and even drinks alcohol and live to tell the taradiddle ( typically , characters that do this are viciously penalise ) .
Ginny , a child psychology bookman , trust that Jason has no sense of right-hand and haywire and seems to understand him . This is patent through her fast thinking towards the end of the film , which sees her put on Jason ’s female parent ’s perspirer and win over him that she is his female parent ( momentarily halting his attack ) . She then manages to use his panga on him and escapes .
7. Alice Hardy - Friday the 13th
Long before Ginny Field was using her smarts to evade Jason , Alice Hardy had to battle incredibly heavily to ride out alive and take down Jason ’s female parent , Mrs. Voorhees . Alice is a counsellor at Crystal Lake ingroup , which is where Jason supposedly drowned 21 years to begin with and Mrs. Voorhees is now out for retaliation .
Alice finds her fellow counselors viciously remove one by one , and then encounter Mrs. Voorhees herself and puts up an telling fighting . She first bludgeons her with a open fireplace poker and induce away , but is then round again but superintend to knock her out with a frying pan . Mrs. Voorhees then comes for a third time ( this meter with a machete ) , and after a lengthy clash , it is Alice who emerges victorious by decapitating her assailant and cementing herself as one of revulsion ’s greatest Final Girls ( although the sequel does not work out well for her ) .
6. Sally Hardesty - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Few Final Girls go through as harrowing of experience as Sally Hardesty in Tobe Hooper ’s enormously influentialThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre . First her , her brother and friends take on a rather troubling hitchhiker who make them revere for their living , but this is nothing compared to what follows .
Leatherface viciously kill her friends , and then toss off her brother in front of her . She then flee in terror as she is dog by a chain saw - wielding Leatherface , but after thinking she is safe , she is then drop behind back to the house . She is then tortured and tormented by the deeply disturbing cannibal family unit , but , being a battler , Sally contend to escape for a second prison term and narrowly gets away in the back of a hand truck . The abominable event she go through , the fact that she get away twice , and her fierce determination to survive make her one of the music genre ’s toughest last Girls .
5. Nancy Thompson - A Nightmare on Elm Street
Most concluding Girls will do everything possible to evade the antagonist , but are forced into some kind of confrontation near the oddment of the film . Nancy Thompson proves her toughness and goes against the grain by actively seeking out Freddy inA Nightmare on Elm Street .
This is , of class , the classic horror which watch Freddy hit in children ’s dreams , and knowing that eternal sleep is unavoidable , Nancy goes into a dream with a plan to bring him out of the dream so that he can be arrest . She directly assault him in the dream and deplumate him out , and then he fall into all of the trap that she had cleverly specify out in the beginning .
She then now attack him again and knocks him out with a hot seat , before weakening him by forebode him nothing . This actively standing up to the adversary makes her braver and more cunning than most concluding Girls .
4. Erin Harson - You’re Next
You ’re Nextis a black comedy horror which brilliantly uses authoritative repulsion figure , but also breathe new life into the slasher and home invasion subgenres . A great instance of this is the upgraded adaptation of the Final Girl theatrical role , and Erin is certainly one girl that you would need in your nook if you were being hunted in your phratry vacation home ( the setup in the film ) .
Most Final Girls are resourceful but barely pull off to live and are often fortunate , but Erin was elevate by a survivalist don in Australia and knows how to set trap , heal wound and react smartly in unsafe situations . The crimson fire on the home and syndicate penis are met with cunning retaliation , and even a shock twist towards the end wo n’t stop her from give up butt and being the only one standing once the reference roll .
3. Ellen Ripley - Alien
Ripley fromAlienis not just one of the greatest Final Girls , but is consider to be one of the best film characters of all time , and one that is often studied extensively . She holds power over a male person - reign crew ( although , importantly , she is not define by these human being or her human relationship to them ) , she is able-bodied to react calmly and intelligently in fourth dimension of crisis , and she is also a survivor ( but kills herself to make unnecessary humanity in the third installment ) .
Not only does she survive , but she also manages to rescue her qat and a 12 - year - old girl along the way , and this makes her a expansive character in improver to a subsister . She is bright portrayed by Sigourney Weaver , and it was announce before this year that the fifth installment is on the visible horizon and Weaver will recapitulate her role as the iconic character .
2. Sidney Prescott - Scream
Sidney Prescott is amazingly well - adjusted consider the traumatic events that have followed her throughout her adult life , seeing her fend off a whopping seven different killers ( including her boyfriend ) , who all donned the famous Ghostface costume over the fourScreamfilms . She is even wrongfully accused of being the killer in the fourth installing , before being jab by her very own first cousin ( revere not , she does survive ) .
Over the course of the franchise , Sidney becomes stronger and more adept at fighting off the killer , and despite all the death and horror around her , she is still going strong after the 4th film . She is a survivor and undefeated champion , making her an iconic name in the genre and one of the nifty last Girls ever created . Additionally , Neve Campbell ’s enactment of Sidney has been praise heavy and get wind her dub “ Scream Queen ” of the ’ 90s .
1. Laurie Strode - Halloween
Laurie Strode is as iconic in the horror genre as all the greatest villains , and this is largely thanks to the wonderful performance by Jaime Lee Curtis which saw her become the original “ Scream Queen . ” Laurie Strode is one of the early and most influential examples of the Final Girl character , which is why she tops the list .
She perfectly walks the line of being innocent and vulnerable , along with intrepid , intelligent and resourceful , and proves to be the perfect match for Michael Myers ( who is also perhaps the most iconic in his character role ) .
Being stalk and attacked by Michael Myers on legion occasions would be a unfeignedly agonizing experience , but she proves her bravery by successfully manage to evade him and attack when yield the chance ( in the first pic , she does this with a knitting needle , a metallic element hanger and even his own tongue ) .
