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From Laurie Strode to Maxine Minx: How the Final Girl Stopped Being Good

In 1978 she survived because she did not sleep with anyone. In 2022 she survives because she is the most dangerous person in the film. Seven women, fifty years, one rule slowly falling apart.

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Matchup of the Week

Your taste, on the record.

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Desert Island Pick

You can only ever watch one again. Which?

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The Daily

Four puzzles,new every day.

Group the films, link the actors, sort the release dates, name the frame. Same puzzles for everyone, new at midnight.

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