Thanks for signing up! You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time. Jade never mentions Clover, but Jones, in his afterword, thanks her “forevermuch,” and the novel is suffused with another of Clover’s key ideas about the slasher film: that it is at heart a story driven by revenge.
Clover’s coinage struck such a popular nerve that the final girl found her way into the titles of horror movies and books, as well as becoming a band name. The final girl is the sole survivor of the slasher rampage, a character who, in the end, summons the grit from deep inside herself to confront and defeat the killer. Clover in her influential 1992 book, Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. She is beautiful but demure, strong-willed yet kind, and above all she is innocent, which Jade considers to be an essential quality in a final girl.įor those not familiar with the term, the “final girl” is a recurring slasher-movie trope first identified and named by Carol J. This she recognizes as “the blood sacrifice the ritual needs to get going right.” Another sign is Letha herself. She sees the signs of this everywhere, beginning with the discovery of the corpse of a Danish tourist found floating in the lake. The pop culture Jade marinates in, that has penetrated seemingly every cell in her body, is slasher movies, and she believes that a slasher narrative is about to commence in real life, right in Proofrock.
Jade’s hoping for worse, which is why she’s so excited to meet Letha.
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