Final Girl

Stacie Ponder over at Final Girl threw up this image from Tobe Hooper's THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE 1974 and I had to stare at it a while.

House to house Arbogast 2008

Across town at Final Girl, Stacie Ponder is celebrating a rainy Awesome Movie Poster Friday with a collection of Mario Bava onesheets from around the world.

Touch of evil indeed Arbogast 2008

Clover, a professor with expertise in Scandinavian language and film, points to a common series of traits that Final Girls have — they’re virginal and virtuous, they sometimes have a unisex name, most of the time they’re brunette — and explains that their existence is a reflection of how society consumes horror and violence.

The “Final Girl,” a key part of every great slasher movie, explained Alex Abad-Santos 2015