10 Great Slasher Horror Movies With Annoying Final Girls

"What're you waiting for, huh?!"

In what might feel like sacrilege to '90s kids, Jennifer Love Hewitt's Julie James is actually pretty grating when one stops to think about it. Right off the bat, all of the leads are painted in a negative light thanks to their accidental rundown of someone who just happens to be an evil, near-indestructible killer named Ben Willis. From there, Julie's obsession with what they did leads to her tumbling down several rabbit holes while her friends get tormented and, in some cases, slaughtered.

There's an argument to be made here that Sarah Michelle Gellar's Helen would've actually made for a better final girl. While she didn't have the plot-leading romance with Freddie Prinze Jr.'s Ray Bronson, the actual character and performance were more engaging than Julie's awkwardly handled, guilt-ridden antics.

Julie's reconciliation with Ray after they get rid of scary old Ben rings hollow after the brutal, but not hugely scary, murders of their friends that have recently taken place. Bizarrely, the film ends on a dramatic epilogue the sequel completely forgets about. Julie, now in college in Boston, is attacked in the shower by who we presume to be the still alive after all Willis.

Funnily enough, the second film has a similar ending with the presumed-dead Ben turning up in her bedroom. Had she and Prinze Jr. come back for the third outing, what are the odds this sequel epilogue would've been forgotten about too?