![]() ![]() ![]() Novelists such as Sager and Hendrix are exploring one of horror’s most appealing archetypes in ways filmmakers can’t.Ĭase in point: Stephen Graham Jones’s ferocious 28 th-ish novel, MY HEART IS A CHAINSAW. So the recent spate of final girl novels, from Riley Sager’s Final Girls to Grady Hendrix’s The Final Girl Support Group, isn’t just a welcome addition to the slasher canon-it’s a necessary one. ![]() It’s no one’s fault, really-if you’re going to squeeze a respectable body count into a 90-minute slasher movie, there’s hardly time for a deep dive into the heroine’s background and motivation (beyond a keen desire to avoid getting stabbed to death). For all the lip service that’s paid to the final girl, she rarely gets her due on screen. ![]()
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