This refers to the last remaining female survivor out of the whole batch of main charcters in a horror film. This type of character is more apparent in slasher films since the girl will most likely have a final battle with the aggressor at the end of the film. This could be seen as the girl not having to lose her virginity as this point and that she is still young so the aggressor would attempt to attack her with a sharp weapon like a knife to represent the penetration as it is a phallic object and it involves intimacy which is why the aggressor purposely doesn't have a ranged weapon like a gun for example.
For instance, in The Shining, a character called Wendy Torrace was the final girl during the scene of the antagonist cutting the bathroom down in order to get to her.
Male gaze:
This refers to male audience observing females especially if they are sexualised. In the eye of the straight male side of the audience, women are supposedly seen as sexual objects for their pleasure. In horror films, you see that the males are dominant whereas the females submit to that type of dominance. It could be protagonists to each other or in a slasher, where the aggressor appears to be a male and is chasing after the last survivor which happens to be a female.
Zombies representation:
Zombies are the undead that only live off of flesh and brains which is their only purpose. Zombies are basically lost souls and are not bright at all. But the idea of zombies is much more than that.
Zombies can be seen as a representation of the mindless consumerism that is present today like on Black Friday for instnace. This means that we act a certain way price has been lowered for certain materialist things whether we like it not; sometimes we don't question ourselves when we buy something or put thought into it. Some people just buy because of the price. Also, this could represent people buying luxury things and base their whole life on materialistic things. They buy these things to prove that they are better.
The evolution of horror
Horror has changed over many years. it originated from stories, tales, fables back in the ancient times. Then as it got to the 1890s, there were short films of supernatural events. During the 1920s, many horror films were being produced such as Nosferatu, The Phantom of the Opera, The Unknown and many more. Nosferatu was the first vampire themed movie to be produced.
Post-Modern Horror
This is often remixed, shaped in a different way to challenge what we normally see. Movies like Cabin in The Woods is an example of post-modernism in the horror industry; this movie was a big metaphor for the horror industry and how hard they work in order to please their target audience. Also, it was very exaggerrated especially at th ened where you all the monsters were set loose.
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