In 2022, this doesn’t meet modern sensibilities. Clover coined a term for it in her 1992 book Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film: the “final girl,” or the innocent character who gets to survive by the end of the film. In fact, the trope is so common that professor and film scholar Carol J. Whether the filmmakers, Debra Hill and John Carpenter, had an intentionally sex-negative message in their film or not (according to them, they didn’t), Halloween falls into a massive category of slasher films that play by similar rules. Strode, a virgin, fights back, ultimately being saved and avoiding death. Annie and Lynda are brutally murdered by killer Michael Myers – the former on her way to pick up her boyfriend, and the latter immediately post-sex. Soles, respectively) are with their boyfriends, Strode is stuck babysitting. While her friends Annie and Lynda (played by Nancy Kyes and P.J. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is a slightly nerdy, romantically inept character. Take the original Halloween, one of the more famous examples of the trope. In most ’70s and ’80s slashers, the rules are clear: if you have sex, you die.
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