The Scream Queen Trope

The final girl trope plays into the idea of the perfect victim. Many often point to 19 78 halloween as the introduction of the menacing villain that can't be killed. Some researchers even argue that weve fetishized women's pain, particularly when we are looking through he eyes of the killer and torments them with a fallic weapon. The fact that these are tropes that revolve around women being victimized was calculated the belief that women would get more sympathy than men.