10 More Best Non-Final Girls In Horror Movies

7. Reese Wilson - Urban Legend & Urban Legends: Final Cut

Urban Legend Reese Wilson
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Making its way to the silver screen in 1998, Jamie Blanks' Urban Legend focuses on a college campus at the centre of a murder spree from a parka-adorned killer who offs their victims in ways that mimic classic sinister urban legends.

While it's Alicia Witt's Natalie in the final girl role here - with the killer revealed to be her best friend Brenda - one scene-stealing supporting character is Reese Wilson, as played by Loretta Devine. Reese is a campus cop seen in both Urban Legend and Urban Legends: Final Cut, with her just an easy character to root for whenever she's on screen.

Idolizing Pam Grier, and in particular Grier's turn as Foxy Brown, Reese is the most likeable figure of both of those movies, and she's actually incredibly proactive and useful, rather than the dopey security/police characters seen in so many other horrors. When she hears of an attack on someone, Wilson heads to the scene to check it out. When the bodies start to pile up, she requests more security to be brought in. When that request is refused by the Dean, she calls him an a**hole. And when Brenda is about to finally kill Natalie, it's Reese who appears to shoot the deranged lunatic.

Reese Wilson, man; one of '90s horrors most underappreciated characters.

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