![]() ![]() She survives, in part, by virtue of being both virginal and vice-free. ![]() Clover in her book Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film, the Final Girl is a filmic trope referring to the last female character left alive after a string of serialized murders. Cunningham’s Friday the 13th-particularly that of the Final Girl. Nightmare shares plenty of rhetorical patterns with its turn-of-the-decade predecessors-John Carpenter’s Halloween, Ken Wiederhorn Eyes of a Stranger, Sean S. And so, too, should his original vanquisher, Nancy Thompson: an obstinate, foul-mouthed, hyper-feminine high schooler, who remains one of the most progressive female representations in the teen horror genre. ![]() Its infamous villain, Freddy-disfigured by burns, bursting with bile, armed with knife-fingers and the power to show up uninvited in teenage dreamscapes-was born to the '80s low-budget boom he has since resurfaced in sequels, spinoffs, crossovers, and one (awful) 2010 remake.įreddy still manages to resonate. Wes Craven’s 1984 supernatural slasher, A Nightmare on Elm Street, earned back its paltry production costs after just one week of theater runs, having ensnared its targeted teen demographic with the lure of body horror. Freddy Krueger turns 30 this Halloween season. ![]()
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