The final girl theory is the name for the traditional girl fighting the killer at the end of the film in a slasher horror film (thriller too). This has been observed in extremely successful horror films such as "Friday the 13th", "Nightmare On Elm Street", "Scream" and so on. The final girl will usually have a connection to the killer, such as a long lost relative, or an obssessed lover.
The theory was thought up by an author called Carol J. Clover. She wrote a book entitled "Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender In The Modern Horror Film." Clover suggests that in these films, the viewer begins by sharing the perspective of the killer, but experiences a shift in identification to the final girl partway through the film.
Through researching this I have decided to use this theory in my film. I will be "torturing" a girl in the opening scene. A girl walks past the house who does not see the torture victim pleading for help, but does hear a scream, and after searching around the house outside and not seeing anything she thinks nothing of it. The girl who misses this becomes the final girl in the film. However I am just showing the opening scene so you will not see this in my film.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Girl_theory
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