10 Traits That Make Up A Modern Day Horror Movie Final Girl
5. Rule 6 - She Has To Be Smoking Hot But Also Have It Be Effortless
Unfortunately for us all, the universe where all horror movies exist is still only filled with the most beautiful woman you've ever seen. No uglies in this world, no sir!
All joking aside, one of the key features of a final girl is that she is hot, but in that way where she doesn't need to make an effort to be so. It's a completely unrealistic expectation for women, but really... isn't the whole idea of a final girl absolutely unachievable?
The final girl needs to stand out from the countless victims that add up throughout the movie's run, and beauty is just one of the ways she does this.
Tree from Happy Death Day is the perfect representation of this: She is a college student in the most girly, mean-girl-esque sorority on campus, where the girls are in skin-tight dresses and sexy gym-wear.
Yet, Tree is mostly seen in jeans, and unlike her sorority sisters, she doesn't try and hide the fact that she's hungover, leaving her hair unwashed and leaving smudged makeup under her eyes. But she's still the most beautiful girl there, and that's how you know she's the heroine of this story.
So just know, if you end up in slasher movie situation, find the most effortlessly beautiful girl around and stay with her. If we truly are in a simulation or a movie, that's how you figure out who's going to live and who will die.
If you have glasses and a ponytail, or contrastingly, if you're decked out in your Sunday best... you're probably on the killer's hit list.