There were TONS of fun characters in this, so I'm pretty curious who everyone liked most.
Vicki is mine, I think. Kurt is a VERY close second though, practically tied
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Definitely Max, but that is because I DREAM of playing the final girl (well final boy in my case) in a slasher film! Plus she was well developed and kicked ASS in the finale.
But other than her, I'd say Tina! She had me rolling on the floor!
I stuck a blender in his head and killed him.
Ooh, good luck with your final boy dream. (Also, who are some of your fav final girls/boys?) And yeah, I liked Max too.
Tina was pretty hilarious as well. She's in my top 5 I think. I liked pretty much everyone with a major role except Blake (who was okay but kinda bland)
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Scorpion, this is a long list! My obsession with final girls (and boys) began when I was like 5 or 6 years old (I'm now 25).
FINAL GIRLS
Nancy Thompson - A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise
Sidney Prescott - Scream franchise
Erin - You're Next
Laurie Strode - Halloween franchise
Ellen Ripley - Alien franchise
Ginny Field - Friday the 13th Part II
Kirsty Cotton - Hellraiser 1 and 2
Max Cartwright - The Final Girls
Sarah Carter - The Descent
Marie (pre-twist) - High Tension
Jannicke - Cold Prey 1 and 2
Erin - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
Sally Hardesty - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Samantha Hughes - The House of the Devil
Jess Bradford - Black Christmas (1974)
Suzy Bannion - Suspiria
Alice Hardy - Friday the 13th (1980)
Dana - The Cabin in the Woods
Marybeth Dunstan - Hatchet trilogy
FINAL BOYS
Ash - Evil Dead trilogy
Brent - The Loved Ones
Jesse - A Nightmare on Elm Street 2
Tommy Jarvis - Friday the 13th parts 4-6 (with part 6 Tommy being my favorite)
Todd - The Burning
Billy - Night Warning
Kyle - Chill: The Killing Games
Seth - See No Evil 2
I stuck a blender in his head and killed him.
LostinThought69, AWESOME list! i can't believe i forgot to include Jannicke from the COLD PREY movies! parts 1 & 2 are in my top 5 horror movies ever (part 3 was meh...).
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this movie did a great job at having likable characters in it. even Nina Dobrev's character who started off as a total b!tch ended up being really nice/caring. her scene where her Vicki & Gertie were about to die/were dying and Vicki reaches over to hold Gertie's hand as the final machete blow comes down was surprisingly touching.
but to you thread topic...my faves were Taissa's Max and Malin's Nancy/Amanda. i really loved their relationship and how they interacted.
oh and my favorite final girls would be:
FRIDAY THE 13th pt.2's Ginny (Amy Steel)
Jamie Lee Curtis (of course!) in every horror movie Jamie was in! lol.
Miley Cyrus in the HANNA MONTANA movie.....(just kidding!).
YES! I love Ginny
And tbh, I liked Nina even when she was a bitch. She was entertaining and saying pretty much everything I was thinking (steal the van and go, Max needs to let her mom go, get weapons, nominate a new final girl, etc) Albeit in a super bitchy way, but
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shareI liked the slut of the group
I forgot her name but I thought she was hilarious lol
I also liked Vicki but really enjoyed Max and Nancy. Loved their little bonding and that scene at the end was awesome with Bette Davis Eyes in the background as the lighting roars and the killers shows up
Nancy and Vicki. Vicki had some amazing lines and I cried like a baby at Nancy's death.
shareYeah Vicki was the most real of all the characters I wanted more of Vicki.
shareI liked them all. Except for Gertie. That chick was a bitch toward her brother!
My fave would be Tina (great acting!) and Nancy for sure. Malin Åkerman was a great actress. Chris was pretty likable.
My favorite final girl might be Kirsty (Ashley Laurence) from the Hellraiser series. Man, the stuff that chick would do to survive in the second film!? If you haven't watched it, Hellraiser 1 + 2 are pretty good, esp. the second one. Don't get why Ashley Laurence's career didn't take off after that one.
I wish more horror movies could make characters this sympathetic. I didn't hate anyone which is pretty amazing in itself, but there were several ones I genuinely liked.
I'm sure Kurt would've been made totally hateable if FG was a serious slasher, but here he just becomes hilarious. The relationship between Max and Nancy was surprisingly powerful, but I think Vicki beat both of them. Totally expected to hate her, but she made a touching turn for the better towards the mid point.
I only wish we had seen a little more of original final girl Paula.