Context: The term Final Girl was coined by Carol J. Clover in her 1992 book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film, to refer to the last girl standing at the end of a horror movie, especially a slasher. Clover, a professor with expertise in Scandinavian language and film, points to a common series of traits that Final Girls have — they’re virginal and virtuous, they sometimes have a unisex name, most of the time they’re brunette — and explains that their existence is a reflection of how society consumes horror and violence.
