Final Girl Official Trailer #1 (2014)
Final Girl Official Trailer staring Abigail Breslin
FINAL GIRL
The final girl is a trope in thriller and horror films (particularly slasher films). It refers to the last woman alive to confront the killer, ostensibly the one left to tell the story. The final girl has been observed in dozens of films, including Halloween,[1] Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street, and also appears in other genres.
The term was coined[2] by Carol J. Clover in her 1992 book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film.[3] Clover suggests that in these films, the viewer begins by sharing the perspective of the killer, but experiences a shift in identification to the final girl partway through the film.