10 Slasher Horror Movie Openings That Surprised Us All
6. Last Girl Standing
Going into Last Girl Standing cold, one would likely presume the picture was your regular slasher movie based around some young woman being forever pursued by a nefarious presence.
While that is technically correct, the difference here is that the torment suffered by Akasha Villalobos' Camryn is the mental fallout of having already dealt with your standard masked killer.
Rather than follow the usual slasher tropes, Benjamin R. Moody's film surprisingly gets all of that action out of the way during Last Girl Standing's opening scene.
There, we're thrown straight into things as Camryn finds herself fighting for her life against a mysterious killer who has already slaughtered her friends. Managing to escape this most harrowing of experiences, the more surprising element of Last Girl Standing is that the traditional slasher element is done and dusted in those first five minutes.
From there, the picture jumps forward to shine a spotlight on how one deals with surviving such an ordeal. We find a Camryn who lives a soulless life of isolation that sees her float from her one-bedroom apartment to her mundane job at a local laundromat - with every dark shadow, every stranger, every noise a stark reminder of what she's been through, as Last Girl Standing becomes a character study of sorts.