![]() ![]() But what you can't do, is you can't have people willy nilly just going off and engaging in some sort of physical contact with somebody just because they're playing truth-or-dare, without some sort of acknowledgment to consent and stuff like that. We can use that as a trope – it's a really good trope. "We don't have to be asses about this stuff, right? We can just go, 'Okay, that's a trope, let's use that trope.' Truth-or-dare. "We don't want to feel trapped, but we do want to be aware that people's sensibilities are different and to be sensitive to stuff," Byers tells us. ![]() Even though the setting may be familiar, the rules this time are different. However, homaging these classic films doesn't mean pulling from their tropes without considering how modern audiences may receive them. According to creative director Will Byers, the team is taking ample inspiration from movies like Friday the 13th (which has its final girl: Alice) and the aforementioned Sleepaway Camp (which actually eschews the final girl trope in its own unique way, kind of), and many other slashers. And that's not lost on the team at Supermassive Games, developer of the upcoming game The Quarry, which strands a group of teenagers at an empty summer camp. In 2022, this doesn't meet modern sensibilities. You are punished for your transgressions – no matter how normal they are. In some cases, the girls might also be bullies – such as in 1983's Sleepaway Camp – as an added justification for their death, but the fact remains: have sex, then die. NEGATIVE NANCY TROPE MOVIEThe films are punishing characters – mostly teenage girls, though boys frequently get it just as bad – for engaging in the kind of activity audiences applaud the male characters of a John Hughes movie ( Breakfast Club, writer for Pretty In Pink) for. But suffice it to say: in its earliest incarnations, such as the Halloween example above, it's primarily viewed these days as a harmful stereotype. There has been a lot of writing about the evolving final girl trope since it was coined in 1992. Clover coined a term for it in her 1992 book Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film: the "final girl," or the innocent character who gets to survive by the end of the film. In fact, the trope is so common that professor and film scholar Carol J. Whether the filmmakers, Debra Hill and John Carpenter, had an intentionally sex-negative message in their film or not (according to them, they didn't), Halloween falls into a massive category of slasher films that play by similar rules. Strode, a virgin, fights back, ultimately being saved and avoiding death. Annie and Lynda are brutally murdered by killer Michael Myers – the former on her way to pick up her boyfriend, and the latter immediately post-sex. Soles, respectively) are with their boyfriends, Strode is stuck babysitting. While her friends Annie and Lynda (played by Nancy Kyes and P.J. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is a slightly nerdy, romantically inept character. Take the original Halloween, one of the more famous examples of the trope. In most '70s and '80s slashers, the rules are clear: if you have sex, you die. ![]()
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