Bare boobs=death!


A lot of ignorant people think the "final girl" has to be a virgin. That hasn't been true since "Scream" and it wasn't even really true before (the first two "Friday the 13th" protagonists were both sexually involved with their respective adult counselors as I recall). It IS an iron-clad rule though that every female character who shows her boobs in a slasher movie must die thereafter. I appreciate the running joke in this movie which makes fun of that, BUT. . . It's kind of obvious, isn't it? If not, this movie should pay me royalties because I've been complaining about it for years.

It's also apparently obvious to actresses and their agents. That is why the prettiest and most talented actresses won't due nudity in horror movies--because it denotes a second-rate part. Take Amber Heard, who has done a lot of nude scenes and a lot of horror movies, but has never done nudity in a horror movie. Or Addison Timlin, who shows off her goodies in crap TV shows like "Californication", but not the very decent "Town that Dreaded Sundown" remake. Hell, even your second-rate actresses like Odette Yustman or Jenna Dewan won't do nudity in horror, nor will a lot of the anonymous bitchy girl-type actresses (who usually get killed anyway) like the girl in this movie. They have to fly in some silicone-breasted porn star who's not otherwise EVEN IN THE MOVIE to do some ridiculously gratuitous nude scene as with "My Bloody Valentine".

My point though (and I do have one) instead of lampooning this "rule" and annoying everyone with MORE near-nudity in the process, why not flagrantly BREAK IT. Have the "final girl" do a full-frontal nude scene and still survive the movie. To my knowledge, this has been done ONCE in horror film history when Jill Schoelen (a beautiful actress who once dumped Brad Pitt!), playing a cute-as-a-button, girl-next-door type in "The Stepfather" suddenly and unexpectedly stripped off for a gratuitous shower scene. Think if Taissa Famiglia or Nina Dobrev did THAT. The horror fan-boys would explode! (Perhaps Hollywood doesn't want to be responsible for that. . .) But here we just have more "meta" slasher fodder, clever though it may be, and no boobs. I can't help being a little disappointed somehow.

"Let be be finale of seem/ The only emperor is the Emperor of Ice Cream"

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The final girl in The Funhouse (1981) shows her breasts and survives. I wouldn't call it a rule, as there are definitely other examples out there, just not in the more well-known slashers.

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Iced (1988) is another example.

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be honest you just wanted to see the girl in this show her boobs

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You did not just insult Betsy Rue in "My Bloody Valentine"! Pistols at dawn!

America isnt ready for a gay mexican chicken sandwich - Poultrygeist

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