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The phenomenon of the male audience
The phenomenon of the male audience having to
identify with a young female character in an ostensibly
male-oriented genre, usually associated with sadistic
voyeurism, raises interesting questions about the nature
of slasher films and their relationship with feminism.
Clover argues that for a film to be successful, although
the Final Girl is masculinized, it is necessary for
this
surviving character to be female, because she must
experience abject terror, and many viewers would reject
a film that showed abject terror on the part of a male.
The film Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
(2006) explains and talks extensively about this popular
horror film trope (although in the film, it is referred
to as "survivor girl"), even using it as
a major plot
device.
Final girl - Index
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