From 'Longlegs' to 'It Follows,' Maika Monroe Is the Modern Scream Queen We Need

Maika Monroe stars as Lee Harker in emLonglegs /em(2024).

The Big Picture The final girl. That term, coined by Carol J. Glover in her 1992 book Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film, refers to the trope, predominantly seen in slasher movies, that sees the hero and the one who takes down the villain as a shy, smart, good girl whose life is spared because she isn’t having sex and doing drugs like her friends.

Release Date July 12, 2024 Director Oz Perkins Cast Maika Monroe , Nicholas Cage , Alicia Witt , Blair Underwood Runtime 101 Minutes Writers Oz Perkins Studio C2 Motion Picture Group , Saturn Films Distributor Neon Expand ‘The Guest’ First Showed What a New Final Girl Could Be Like First came The Guest. It's more of a thriller but it has a lot of horror elements and is directed by Adam Wingard, who was coming off the surprise success of You’re Next in 2011.

Monroe plays Jay who isn’t your typical college kid stereotype. She lives in Detroit, her dad is dead, her mother is a drunk and Jay goes to community college. Though you can see that she quietly struggles, that struggle is not who her character is. She’s still a person, one who likes boys, gets excited about dates, and even has sex in the backseat of a car on the first date. You wouldn’t ever see Laurie Strode doing that.

It’s The Subtleties That Make Maika Monroe the Perfect Gen Z Final Girl While the film was lauded for its clever premise, thrilling synth score, and the questions it creates throughout, Monroe got some criticism from those who thought she didn’t emote enough. For a final girl, she didn’t scream enough, she didn’t panic enough. She didn’t smile and laugh constantly in the opening scenes like some male writer from the 1980s would have had her do.

‘Villains’ Took the Final Girl Trope and Turned It On Its Head Five years later, Monroe would become another atypical final girl in Villains by starting out as just that, the villain. Starring alongside Bill Skarsgård, the two actors play a young couple named Mickey and Jules who have just robbed a gas station. They flee to what they think is an abandoned house, but in the basement, they find a little girl tied up.

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