honestly my own take that carol clover was basically right: the essential libidinal moment of slasher horror is when a woman picks up a machete and hacks a man to death it's a passion play, where you start weak and victimized but overcome
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Yeah; and you're generally out of danger if you can get your clothes back on anyway.
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But yeah the Final Girl of Friday the 13th Pt. 2, Ginny, is the same deal She drinks, she parties, she's sleeping with her boss, he wants to have sex but she makes a joke letting him know she's on her period (Maybe that's the protection against slashers)
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Ash Williams in Evil Dead is an interesting contrast to this, as the rare male (and eventually, hypermasculine) survivor in a horror series.
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