She’s a voice actor with a bunch of credits doing voiceovers and ADR-work, but maybe you know her as one of horror’s ultimate Final Girls? She was Alice in the original Friday the 13th. And then, that same self-aware, self-mythologising trope has been explored in a decade and a half’s worth of very bad horror films to the point of parody ever since.īut in a knowing-nod of a move, the audiobook is narrated by Adrienne King. It’s being optioned for a TV show – and it’ll be great, has that very self-aware, reference-filled way of myth-busting horror that was so influential in the movie Scream. Cool concept: The title all but points it out, but it’s a support group for women that have survived real-life horrors, overcome killers and stalkers. (That’s Jamie Lee Curtis’ character, if you didn’t know).Īnd I’m currently listening to the audiobook of Grady Hendrix’s brand new novel, The Final Girl Support Group. Holland, a horror fanatic (of course!) wrote first-person poems from the point of view of famous Final Girls Laurie Strode (from Halloween ) for instance. If not entirely successful, it was certainly interesting. Around the same time, I’d stumbled onto a book of poems called I Am Not Your Final Girl.
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