Carol Clover theorist

The final girl is a slasher film trope that specifically refers to the last person (usually a woman) alive to confront the killer, ostensibly the one left to tell the story.
This technique has been used in many films including The Texas Chain Saw massacre, Friday rge 13th, Halloween, and A Nightmare on Elm Street. The final girl is typically sexually unavailable or virginal, avoiding the vices of the victims. she could have also shared history with the killer.
One of the basic premises of Clover’s theory is that audience identification is unstable and fluid across gender lines, particularly in the case of the slasher film. During the final girl’s confrontation with the killer, Clover argues, that the final character becomes masculinized through phallic appropriation by taking up a weapon, such as a knife or chainsaw, against the killer.

Clover argues that for a film to be successful, although the Final Girl is masculinized, it is necessary that this surviving character is female, because she must experience abject terror, and viewers would reject a film that showed abject terror on the part of a male.

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Carol clover argues that "For a film to be sucessfull, although the final girl is masculinized, it is necessary that the survivng character is female".However The Descent goes against the generic conventions of a typical horror/slasher film, as the final girl is left to die which outlines its original narrative and story line.