10 Most Badass Horror Movie Survivors
1. Laurie Strode - The Halloween Franchise
To most horror hounds, Laurie Strode is viewed as the final girl. Much like Halloween is placed on a pedestal as the very first slasher movie, Jamie Lee Curtis' Laurie is viewed as the very first final girl of the horror genre.
Of course, much like it was actually Black Christmas that's the real first slasher film, so too was Laurie Strode not the first final girl. That doesn't stop Halloween and Laurie being the two most memorable early examples of these horror traits, mind.
In John Carpenter's 1978 Halloween, young Laurie is thrown into a nightmare situation on Halloween night as Michael Myers returns to cause chaos and carnage in Haddonfield. You're likely well aware of that though, for anyone with even a passing interest in horror will have seen Carpenter's seminal piece of cinema.
From shrieking and screaming victim, the Halloween series saw Laurie become more empowered as it went on. In that first film and Halloween II - which followed on directly from the closing moments of Halloween - Strode is rightfully terrified at this Shatner-masked monster stalking her. But by the time Laurie returned to the franchise in Halloween H2O, this was a more calm, prepared person than in those earlier movies.
Unfortunately for Laurie, her badass antics of H2O were ultimately for nothing, with her memorably killed off in the opening moments of Halloween: Resurrection. Thankfully, David Gordon Green's 2018 Halloween erased all post-Halloween II canon in order to bring Laurie Strode back to the silver screen - and in that film, we saw a methodical, clinical Laurie who had spent decades waiting to face The Shape once more.