7 Most Overlooked Final Girls In Horror Movies

From the off, Sarah is Final Girl material. During the prologue of 2005's The Descent, she loses her daughter and husband in a freak car accident, of which she's the sole survivor.

Cut to one year later, and Sarah has found the fortitude to carry on with her life, but the going is hard - we see her taking an unidentified medication, and a friend's vocal desire to have children of her own visibly has an effect on her. She still tends to her grief. But she doesn't let that stop her from taking part in an all-girl cave exploration adventure. Spoiler: it doesn't go well.

First off, de factor group leader Juno has tricked the girls into lowering themselves into an unnamed, unexplored cave system. Not out of malice, but out of a sense of adventure and utter stupidity. The only way out is through... if there is a way out.

Secondly, there's a good reason no one has made it out of these caves alive, as evidenced by the old caving gear that's found; it's home to a horde of blind, humanoid monsters, a seemingly evolutionary offshoot of stone age man.

Staring down death again, something awakens in Sarah, turning her from meek and reluctant to savage and primal. In fighting these monsters, she becomes a monster herself. But what provoked her change - her grief, a mother's will to protect her family, a lizard brain response? Maybe all of the above. Maybe something else. Whatever is it, it helps Sarah become the last woman standing, even if it means taking a friend's life.

Traumatised by her ordeal, Sarah hallucinates her escape. Clearly something in her mind has broken. But a broken Final Girl is still a Final Girl. Should've had a girls' weekend in Blackpool instead, though.