10 Best Horror Movie Final Girls NOBODY Talks About

10. Camryn - Last Girl Standing

From Benjamin R. Moody, 2016's Last Girl Standing is a film that's criminally gone under the radar of many a horror hound. Taking the very concept of the final girl and exploring what happens once the cameras stop rolling, Last Girl Standing serves as a fascinating character study of the impact squaring off with a masked maniac can have.

As the movie opens, Akasha Villalobos's Camryn and her friends find themselves being brutalised by your classic masked killer. But while Camryn's friends all end up as further notches on this murderer's body count bedpost, she manages to somehow escape with her life intact.

Having set the table, Last Girl Standing then jumps ahead to spend the vast majority of its run time exploring the after effects of this encounter, as we find Camryn living a life of paranoid solitude, spending all of her time alone in her one-bed apartment or in quiet seclusion at her job at a laundromat.

In a landscape where the ideal of the final girl is all about surviving whatever terrifying threat is rearing its head, Last Girl Standing jumps out as something utterly unique in the horror genre - and seeing Camryn trying to go about her day-to-day life makes for compelling viewing.

Authored by Andrew Pollard

Senior Writer

Once described as the Swiss Army Knife of WhatCulture, Andrew can usually be found writing, editing, or presenting on a wide range of topics. As a lifelong wrestling fan, horror obsessive, and comic book nerd, he's been covering those topics professionally as far back as 2010. In addition to his current WhatCulture role of Senior Content Producer, Andrew previously spent nearly a decade as Online Editor and Lead Writer for the world's longest-running genre publication, Starburst Magazine, and his work has also been featured on BBC, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, WhatToWatch, Sportkskeeda, and various other outlets, in addition to being a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic. Between his main day job, his role as the lead panel host of Wales Comic Con, and his gig as a pre-match host for Wrexham AFC games, Andrew has also carried out a hugely varied amount of interviews, from the likes of Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Adrienne Barbeau, Rob Zombie, Katharine Isabelle, Leigh Whannell, Bruce Campbell, and Tony Todd, to Kevin Smith, Ron Perlman, Elijah Wood, Giancarlo Esposito, Simon Pegg, Charlie Cox, the Russo Brothers, and Brian Blessed, to Kevin Conroy, Paul Dini, Tara Strong, Will Friedle, Burt Ward, Andrea Romano, Frank Miller, and Rob Liefeld, to Bret Hart, Sting, Mick Foley, Ricky Starks/Saints, Jamie Hayter, Britt Baker, Eric Bischoff, and William Regal, to Mickey Thomas, Joey Jones, Phil Parkinson, Brian Flynn, Denis Smith, Gary Bennett, Karl Connolly, and Bryan Robson - and that's just the tip of an ever-expanding iceberg. Where his beloved Wrexham AFC is concerned, Andrew is co-host of the Fearless in Devotion podcast, which won the Club Podcast of the Year gong at the 2024 FSA Awards.

First Posted On: 4th Jan 2021

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