Posts Tagged ‘slasher films’
The Survivor Girl
You know exactly what I mean. In the majority of slasher films–and I don’t mean any generic horror film, I mean slashers–there is almost always one girl who manages to survive until the very end. She somehow does this despite having no qualities that set her above the other characters.
She is not smarter, faster, stronger, or more useful to society in any way. For all intents and purposes, she should die first.
The reason she lives is because those other characters are simply fodder to be thrown in the wake of her path where the killer can best get to them first.
She is the real villain.
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