Men, Women and Chainsaws by Carol J. Clover

This idea became even more engaging when the female representation of this character evolves further at the steadfast use of this technique. It is for this reason that the importance of the ‘ Final Girl ’ aspect becomes clearly defined. The intentions of the slasher films are originally aimed at catering to the taste of the male viewers. This notion became even more monumental at the latter part of the year 1990s and 2000s as the slasher film inched further at aiming to get through the younger generation of film viewers with the films, for example, ‘ I Know what You Did Last Summer ’, ‘ Scream ’, ‘ House of Wax ’ and ‘ Home of 1000 Corpses ’.

It was during the time of the 1970s and 1980s, however, that the final girl concept had savored the sweet taste of fame with the help of the growing notoriety of the ‘ Slasher ’ component in horror films like ‘ The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ’ and ‘ Halloween ’. Clover in her book entitled ‘ Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film ’, published in 1992. The ‘ final girl ’ aspect was originated by Carol J. She is the last person to be alive to confront the killer and usually survives to talk about the ordeal, after all her friends are killed off, one after the other. This leading character is luckily spared from the vicious attacks of the murderer.

This lone survivor is the personification of a Final Girl concept of this particular film classification. In certain spine-chilling and hair-raising films with horror and suspense genre wherein everyone dies except for one female survivor.

Men, Women and Chainsaws by Carol J. Clover