The Final Girl Concept




The Final Girl Concept

Laurie Strode (Final girl) Stereotypical Final Girl
 with school books (Halloween, 1987)

The final girl concept was founded by Carol J Clover who had the idea of someone who had had a past history with a certain killer in the slasher films for example Halloween and Psycho. How Laurie Strode defines the final girl architype. The signifiers that show her to be the final girl are the facts that she is carrying academic books an she then forgets her biology book which her friends laugh at her but she shows great concern over this to mean that she is quite interlectual. Also she is very covered up in what she is wearing and doesnt show any fleash and not very 'sexy' looking. Brown hair, flat chested and not very good sence of footwear, this also surggests

Laurie Strode playing the final girl in the slasher film (Halloween, 1987)

 that she is not a very self confident person. She is also a responsible character unlike the other 'scream queens'.

Scream (Wes Craven, 1986)
As like Laurie Strode Sidney Presscot is a young brunette girl who is doing her homework and has a sence of old fashioned wear to do with her clothing and hair style. She is also a very well spoken girl and is trusted and sensible due to her father leaving her home for the weekend. Th final girl would normally be a virgin and wouldnt end up being a virgin. Billy Loumis states in the fgilm that he wouldnt dream of breaking her underwear rule meaning her virginity.