10 Lesser Known Horror Movie Final Girls You Need To Know
These awesome Final Girls deserve WAY more credit.
One of the most common tropes of the horror genre - and especially slasher films - is the Final Girl, the one woman left alive at the end of the movie to do battle with the killer.
It's been a long-standing staple of slasher flicks since their inception, with the more iconic examples of course including Halloween's Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), A Nightmare on Elm Street's Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre's Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns), and Scream's Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell).
Not all Final Girls are created equal, and some are certainly more memorable than others, but there are also those fantastic ones who simply haven't been given the same spotlight as the genre's most venerated ladies.
With so many horror films releasing every single year, it can be tough to keep up, and so inspired by this recent Reddit thread on the very subject, here are 10 lesser known horror movie Final Girls you might've missed - and who you absolutely need to know about.
These Final Girls deserve to be whispered about among the greats, rather than confined to the cluttered corners of cult horror fandom...
10. Becky - Becky & The Wrath Of Becky
Child protagonists are extremely uncommon in horror movies, yet the Becky movies offer up a rarest instance of a Final Girl who is quite literally a girl.
In the first film, Becky (Lulu Wilson) is a mere 13 years old when a gang of neo-Nazis, led by the terrifying Dominick (Kevin James), invade her family's lake house in pursuit of a mysterious key.
Unmatched against a group of violent thugs though she might seem, Becky goes full Home Alone on her attackers, creating a glut of improvised weapons to steadily dispense with them one-by-one, eventually killing Dominick by running his head over with a lawnmower.
And in sequel The Wrath of Becky, a 16-year-old Becky is this time assailed by a far-right extremist group led by the quietly vicious Darryl (Seann William Scott).
Once again though, Becky's far more fierce than she at first appears, in turn proving herself to be one of the most righteous, underappreciated Final Girls of the 2020s, aided by Lulu Wilson's terrifically entertaining, blood-drenched performance.
A third Becky film is in the early stages of development, and it honestly can't come soon enough.