Grace MacCaullay is Samara Weaving's protagonist in the Ready or Not movies, where she's proven that she's the best final ...

Horror tropes provide a sense of comfort and protection while still delivering scares. They remind us that what we're watching is just a movie and allow us to feel in control. Tropes like creepy kids ...

Rooting for a final girl in a horror movie is quite comforting, no? She is the one who crawls through blood, outsmarts the killer, and limps her way out of the wreckage. Whether she’s clutching a ...

We know a final girl when we see her in a horror movie — she’s young, chaste, and often coded with a moral superiority that differs from her cohort. But since the days of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ...

Feature image of Final Girls, Neve Campbell and Jamie Lee Curtis, with a red horror background. Image by Zanda Rice Somewhere Quiet subverts the final girl trope by showing the aftermath of survival ...

Final girls were common in horror movies, but the term wasn’t invented until 1992 when author Carol J. Clover used it in Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. The book ...

Aya Tsintziras is a freelance writer who writes about TV, movies, and has a particular interest in the horror genre. She has a Political Science degree from the University of Toronto and a Masters of ...

The Angel of Indian Lake, book three of CU Boulder Professor Stephen Graham Jones’ Indian Lake Trilogy, comes out Tuesday. But while writing his latest novel, The Angel of Indian Lake, which will be ...

The "Final Girl," the last heroine standing at the conclusion of the horror/slasher film, is arguably one of the most exciting tropes horror movies have to offer. In Carol J. Clover's Men, Women, and ...

There were characteristics. The one who survives a horror film, often of the slasher variety, sometimes killing the killer herself, is virginal, tomboyish. She has short hair and a name that doesn’t ...