Who Is the Ultimate Horror Survivor? Our Top 5 Final Girls Ranked

My fifth one, I don't know, I think people might not agree with this because it's at number five.

And that is from the 1978 movie Halloween.

And that's Laurie Strode.

I'm I feel like she's kind of known as like the mother of all slasher final girls.

And she's played by Jamie Lee Curtis.

And while, you know, some of the ones I'm going to talk about later on are later films.

You know, she did set kind of a blueprint for every teenage horror survivor that followed.

So she did kind of set the tone.

I know we had Sally Hardesty, but that was obviously... a very different vibe to what we're kind of used to seeing with these slasher films.

And, you know, she kind of survives on, I think, instinct and, you know, protecting these kids that she's looking after.

And it feels very much like she's out of her depth and she's...

It feels very much like it's just kind of like... like it's never happened before and I think that's what it means when it's kind of when you see how the other girls do it I think it's more because of how she did it because obviously it's very easy to do something when someone else has done it before because you can be like oh I'm not going to do it like that or I am going to do it like that and I think with Laurie You know, she does feel very much like a real teenager.

You know, she's babysitting.

She's terrified in the way I feel we would be terrified.

She's very unprepared for her killer.

But yet she finds like this really incredible strength that I think she that comes out mainly because of the kids, because she can see that they're being threatened, too.

So, I mean, how would that have played if she was just on her own? And I don't think I think without Laurie Strode, a lot of the horror movies wouldn't exist, especially when you go on to things like Friday the 13th, because they in themselves are like, we saw the success of this and we went on to this.

But and I knew I know we do get the final girl in it, but it doesn't kind of have the same vibe for me personally.

But I think Laurie.

kind of did it first so that others could do it better you know that way and I don't mean in the writing of the film or the because I love this film Halloween is like one of my comfort movies I absolutely adore this movie but I think seeing the way she dealt with it and I think that the being that unprepared really set her on a tone set a tone for everybody else so maybe I'm being unfair but by putting her at five because she didn't have the knowledge that everybody else seems to have from that but you know that's kind of where I am with it she didn't give me the finer girl vibe that I actually wanted as you see with the other films but I do agree that I'm being unfair I do feel like I'm being unfair which probably doesn't make any sense but that's where she is Fourth, we have Erin Harsin and that is from the 2011 film, You're Next.