If you’re a horror movie fan, slasher films in particular, you’re already familiar with the final girl. Coined by Carol Clover in her book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film, the final girl term is used to describe the character who is most often the sole survivor at the end of the horror flick. In that vein, a new film term might have just been invented to describe the exact opposite—the character who gets killed first in the movie.
Users on Reddit discuss their favorite ‘first girl’ to be killed off in horror films. Read More