As well as battling monsters and demons, the women fight against the limits of the role
HORROR FILMS used to feature a “final girl”. The term, coined by Carol Glover in her book “Men, Women and Chainsaws” , refers to a young woman, usually virginal, who is the last survivor of a violent psychopath and acts as the “investigating consciousness” of the film. She shrieked her way through the 1970s and 1980s in “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre”, “Halloween” and “A Nightmare on Elm Street”; “Scream” , a slasher movie which mocked the worn tropes of the genre, more or less finished her off.
In recent years film-makers have returned to these ideas and put several mothers at the centre of stories. A “Halloween” sequel showed Laurie Strode —the original “final girl”—as an adult, twice-divorced and estranged from her daughter. “The Babadook” , “mother!” , “Hereditary” , “A Quiet Place” , “Bird Box” , “The Hole in the Ground” and “Us” all featured female protagonists grappling with family issues. Some of these characters are isolated, either through divorce or widowhood.
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