5/12/26

The Final Girl & Her Shadow: Can She Ever Escape?

When You Look into the Dark the Dark Looks Back

The Final Girl is nothing without her Masked Killer, what is one without the other? In Jungian terms this mirrors the relationship between a person and their shadow. Can you ever escape? Can we ever be free of our Shadows?

Spoilers for the following movies:

Halloween (1978)

Scream (1996)

The Witch (2015)

Midsommar (2019)

US (2019)

X (2022)

Pearl (2022)

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