![]() Like Max, the younger Miller has had the unique experience of watching a character played by his father killed in a horror movie. However, The Final Girls also parallels aspects of Miller’s life – his father, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer-actor Jason Miller, starred as Father Karras in the 1973 horror classic The Exorcist. Clover in her book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film). Fortin, took inspiration from slasher movies traditionally having a “final girl” who escapes the fatal ending that the other, less fortunate characters face (the term and concept were classified by film studies professor Carol J. The writers of The Final Girls, Joshua John Miller and M.A. Max refuses to watch her mother – or at least the character played by her mother – die again, and The Final Girls portrays this personal struggle seeped in the bloody campiness that horror fans love about classic slasher movies. ![]() ![]() Max is uncomfortable enough with going to the screening because she saw her mother die in real life several years ago, but the experience become even more distressing when somehow Max and her friends are pulled into the movie and Max meets the character played by her mother, Amanda. In The Final Girls, student Max (Taissa Farmiga) reluctantly attends a special screening of a schlocky slasher movie, Camp Bloodbath, which her mother Nancy (Malin Akerman) had starred in as a victim years ago. ![]()
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