10 Best Horror Movie Final Girls NOBODY Talks About

One element that helps to craft a great final girl, is having said character get vengeance on those who have wronged them. That can be taking down the bogeyman that's stalked them, avenging the loss of a loved one, or, in the case of The Descent's Sarah Carter, leaving your dead husband's mistress to die amongst a dank and dark cave filled with savage monsters.

Still grieving the loss of her hubby and young daughter in a car crash, Shauna Macdonald's Sarah was convinced to partake in a cave diving trip with her friends as a way to take her mind off things and as a way for the group to maintain an annual tradition of meeting up. Unfortunately, said cave was riddled with blind, flesh-devouring beasts known as crawlers.

When this group of six comes down to just Sarah and Juno - the woman who had an affair with Sarah's husband and is suggested as being partly to blame for his car crash - Macdonald's character sticks a pickaxe into the leg of her 'friend', leaving her to face a gnarly demise. From there, Sarah makes her break for freedom.

Of course, the fate of Sarah is entirely dependent on which version of The Descent you watch. While the US version of the film ends with Sarah escaping the cave and making it to safety, the more dour UK cut of the picture sees that escape rendered as a hallucination - with Sarah instead trapped in the cave alongside a hallucination of her dead daughter, while crawlers circle in on her.