Persuasive Essay On The Final Girls

The Classic slasher film is an idea of a movie genre that would involve a killer as a hunter hunting their prey in an animalistic or old fashion type of way. These killers would constantly stalk and hunt a person or even multiple people slowly revealing themselves to them by killing the people that their main target knows or has been seen by them to give them the idea that they are next or they are involved. Then typically to go along with the stalking behavior their murder method would be the brutalization of close-range handheld objects like a knife or a hammer. Many bad movies are using this genre but to me, the movies that just do it just perfectly are some of the best horror movies that can ever be made, perfect examples are Halloween

Like Scream this movie would be a slasher film but I think it's one of a kind, its goofy aspects and self-awareness would be more than any other movie we would ever see before, even more than Scream. This would be the whole purpose of this movie really, to have fun with the up-and-down drama that the slasher films would have. The very first instance of this would be the title itself “The final girls”, a nod to that common trope of a final girl idea that has been scrutinized for years and was made fun of in this movie by embracing it the entire movie. That the people that have intercourse are the ones to die in the movie, or how to get the killer attracted the girls need to do some questionable acts that are frowned upon, or even how Max the main girl needed to suffice her mom to get the abilities of the final girl to kill the killer. Every goofy horror slasher trope would be embraced. To refer to “Her Body. Himself” article, it would say “Drenched in taboo and encroaching vigorously on the pornographic, the slasher film lies by and large beyond the purview of the respectable audience” refacing most slasher films, The final girls would take this and try and make and affect comedic joke

Scream to me would just fix everything in good slasher movies, it means something and it's just more impactful. It gave a brand new idea that could just add more depth and more characterization and a deeper plot that the audience would understand with the logic being applied. Then note the fact that it did challenge tropes like the final girl had to be someone that is a virgin, a huge classic trope that this properly disposes of. While we look at the final girls it is just at heart a comedy film that does tackle some topics but in a goofy way that can be taken more lightly in its true intentions. For that reason I think it would be counted as something more forgettable, it is just too nonserious. You kinda get lost in all the goofiness that the other movie presents throughout. “Scream” is just such an important film for horror that is not compatible with many movies unless there is a higher-standing one that everyone