Horror films as a reimagined space for healing
If you’ve watched a slasher movie, you’ve probably been exposed to the final girl trope – a closing scene of a white, suburban teenage girl who triumphed over a threatening monster and lived to tell the tale.
But her story doesn’t stop there – in some ways, a whole new life, overshadowed by trauma, has only just begun, Ohio State University graduate student Morgan Podraza posits in an article published in the journal
Consider actor Jamie Lee Curtis’ depiction of Laurie Strode in the
Halloween film released in 2018, 40 years after her friends were murdered by Michael Myers on Halloween night. In that original film, she survived his attacks by wielding a knitting needle, a coat hanger and a knife that he dropped.
If you've watched a slasher movie, you've probably been exposed to the final girl trope – a closing scene of a white, suburban teenage girl who triumphed.
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