What little interest I had is dead now.

Seems an odd attitude to me. Especially when you consider that slasher films have always had final girls who survive.

Pick pretty much any slasher movie from the 1980s, and there'll be a female lead who ends up bravely defeating the villain. I hate the idea that they have now that this is some radical new idea. Women have always kicked ass in horror movies. From your Ripley in the Alien films, to Nancy Thompson (and several others) in A Nightmare On Elm Street, to Kirsty Cotton in Hellraiser. I'm just naming a few of the famous ones. There's plenty of others.

This sounds like a cynical way of trying to make something that has always existed sound modern. In a way, it kind of insults the movies that went before. Slasher Movies were having strong female characters who kicked ass before lots of other movies were, so why pretend otherwise? Instead of pretending it is something that was just invented for this movie, why not just have a continuation of it as a slasher tradition? If anything, it just suggests that the people making it don't know the first thing about slasher movies, which almost confirms what people had already suggested. That this movie is most likely going to suck.


And as for aiming it at young girls. I mean, I can only assume that their intentions are good and they want to give young people good role models. And though I'll applaud it if that's what they're trying to do, it still makes me think that the movie will suck. Most generations of kids have had at least big horror franchise that they've wanted to see or tried to see sneakily because they were told it was too old for them. That's a natural part of growing up. Aiming it at kids seems a weird idea. You can't have a horror movie that adults tell you it's safe to watch, it just feels forced. Watch A Nightmare On Elm Street or something. You'll get to see a brave, intelligent, independent woman that you can learn life lessons from without it being all parenty.