恐怖電影中五個令人難忘的最後女孩

Her friends are dead; she looks like hell; the guy with the knife won’t let up. Meet the final girl.

她的朋友們都死了，她自己看上去也糟透了；拿刀子的男人不肯放過她。這就是恐怖電影裏那個“最後的女孩”。

Rooted in grindhouse cinema, the final girl, as she’s known to fans, is the feisty character who’s left to face the killer in a horror movie. To cheers from the audience, she usually wins the climactic combat with weapons and wit, providing a cathartic end to the gore and gloom.

影迷們熟悉的“最後的女孩”源自於刑房電影(grindhouse cinema)類型，她是恐怖電影中那種堅強面對殺手的女性角色。令觀衆們激動的是，她總能靠武器和智慧贏得電影裏的戰鬥，還能爲片中的流血和陰鬱帶來一個昇華性的結局。

“You want these teens to meet horrible ends, but the final girl goes against that,” said Stacie Ponder, the writer of the horror movie blog Final Girl. “It’s a woman who’s ultimately victorious.”

“你希望這些少年們遇到恐怖的結局，但那個‘最後的女孩’挺身反抗，”恐怖電影日誌“最後的女孩”(Final Girl)的作者斯塔西·龐德(Stacie Ponder)說，“這個女人是最後的勝利者。”

The final girl — almost always white, young and straight(ish) — has had a complicated evolution in the male-dominated horror world. She’s a feminist renegade to some fans, including women, but a sexist fantasy figure to others. Originating in the early 1970s as a sexless “good” girl, usually with a masculine name like Chris, she survived more by luck than by aggression. Fast forward to 1984, when “A Nightmare on Elm Street” introduced a proactive final girl who booby-trapped her home to catch Freddy Krueger.

“最後的女孩”幾乎都是年輕的、異性戀的白種人，在男性主導的恐怖電影界經歷了複雜的演化。對於某些影迷來說（包括女影迷），她是叛逆的女權主義者；但是另一些人覺得她是男權主義幻想的象徵。她發源於20世紀70年代初，最開始是一個性別色彩不明顯的“好女孩”形象，通常有個男性化的名字，諸如“克里斯”之類，她能活下來與其說是因爲敢於鬥爭，倒不如說是靠運氣。把時間撥回1984年，《猛鬼街》(A Nightmare on Elm Street)中推出了一個先發制人的“最後的女孩”，她在家鄉設下陷阱，追捕變態弗瑞迪·克魯格(Freddy Krueger)。

A game changer arrived in 1996, when the winking “Scream” featured an in-control final girl who knew what a final girl was. Time travel in the new film “The Final Girls” introduces two fresh twists: mother-daughter final girls and a tear-jerker ending.

真正改變規則的電影是1996年的《驚聲尖叫》(Scream)，裏面有一個掌控全局的“最後的女孩”，她知道身爲“最後的女孩”意味着什麼。新片《最後的女孩》(The Final Girls)中的時空旅行推出了兩個新花樣：母親和女兒的“最後的女孩”組合，以及催人淚下的結局。

What other final girls are worth a look this Halloween? Here are five standout women you don’t want to mess with.

萬聖節之際，有什麼值得一看的“最後的女孩”電影？下面是五個了不起的女人，絕對不可錯過。

Actress: Olivia Hussey

演員：奧莉薇婭·荷塞(Olivia Hussey)

Movie: “Black Christmas” (1974)

影片：《黑色聖誕節》(Black Christmas, 1974)

Character: Jess

角色：傑絲(Jess)

This Canadian holiday horror movie set a standard for feminist final girls. Jess refuses to back down from rotten men, including a possessive boyfriend, inept police and the unhinged killer wiping out her sorority sisters. Her life, including decisions about marriage and abortion, is keenly explored. Few final girls get such an “incredibly radical through line,” as the horror blogger Kate Hogan put it.

這部加拿大假日恐怖電影爲女權主義“最後的女孩”設立了標杆。傑絲面對腐朽的男人們絕不退讓，其中包括佔有慾強的男友、無能的警察和精神錯亂的殺手，他殺死了她女生聯誼會的姊妹們。影片深入探索了她的人生，包括結婚與流產的決定。正如恐怖電影博客寫手凱特·霍根(Kate Hogan)所寫的，很少有“最後的女孩”能夠說出如此“極度激進的臺詞”。

Actress: Marilyn Burns

演員：瑪麗蓮·伯恩斯(Marilyn Burns)

Movie: “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (1974)

影片：《得州電鋸殺人狂》(The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 1974)

Character: Sally

角色：莎莉(Sally)

There’s not much fight to Sally. But that’s to be expected after Leatherface chases her through the Texas night. She’s also stuffed in a bag and hit with a broom by a deranged cook. She’s tied to a chair, forced to sit at a beastly dinner table with a gruesome family of homicidal maniacs. To escape, she jumps through a window. Battered and bloodied, she stumbles away from the killer and flees in the back of a pickup truck, diminished to a cackling mess. How was your day?

莎莉本沒有多少打鬥。但當一個得克薩斯的夜晚，“人皮臉”(Leatherface)在她身後緊追不放，觀衆就對她充滿了期待。她被塞進一個大口袋，被一個瘋掉的廚子用掃帚打，被捆在椅子上，逼着和殘忍的謀殺狂家庭共進野蠻晚宴。爲了脫身，她跳窗而出。她遭受虐待，渾身是血，從殺手身邊笨拙地逃開，跳上一輛皮卡貨車的後車廂，最後在瘋狂混亂的大笑中淡出鏡頭。你看了以後還好吧？

Actress: Jamie Lee Curtis

演員：傑米·李·柯蒂斯(Jamie Lee Curtis)

Movie: “Halloween” (1978)

影片：《月光光心慌慌》(Halloween，1978)

Character: Laurie

角色：勞瑞(Laurie)

In John Carpenter’s much-copied tale, the final girl goes from innocent babysitter to tenacious protector in 90 minutes. She uses a knitting needle, a coat hanger and a knife against the maniac man-child Michael Myers. Though Laurie is one of horror’s beloved final girls, she is saved by a man (Donald Pleasence). Still, she serves a crucial function, which is to be a “ray of hope that it’s not all nihilism and death, that somebody can make it through,” Ms. Ponder said.

在約翰·卡朋特(John Carpenter)這個廣爲人模仿的故事裏，“最後的女孩”在90分鐘內從純真的看護者變成了堅強的保護人。她使用毛衣針、衣架和一把刀對抗小大人殺人狂邁克爾·邁耶斯(Michael Myers)。儘管勞瑞是恐怖電影界最受鍾愛的“最後的女孩”，但最後她還是被唐納德·普利森斯(Donald Pleasence)飾演的男主角拯救。不過她仍然扮演了關鍵性角色，是“虛無與死亡中的一線希望，讓人看到有人可以挺過一切”，龐德女士說道。

Actress: Amy Steel

演員：艾米·斯蒂爾(Amy Steel)

Movie: “Friday the 13th, Part 2” (1981)

影片：《13號星期五 2》(Friday the 13th，Part 2，1981)

Character: Ginny

角色：金妮(Ginny)

To outsmart the masked evildoer Jason, this final girl uses her wits: She puts on his mother’s sweater and pretends to be her. “She used what she learned as a psych major against the killer,” Ms. Ponder said. “She thought on her feet and talked him down long enough to enable herself to strike and to get away.” But when Jason wises up, Ginny tries to kill him with a machete. That doesn’t work. Cue “Friday the 13th, Part III.”

爲了智勝面具惡人傑森(Jason)，這位“最後的女孩”得好好動用智慧。她穿上他媽媽的毛線衣，假扮成他的媽媽。“她是一個心理學學生，用上了自己學到的一切去對付這個殺手，”龐德女士說。“她反應敏捷，長時間地和他交談，得以藉機發起反擊，最終脫身。”但當傑森明白過來，金妮也試着用大砍刀殺死他，不過沒有成功，爲《13號星期五 3》埋下了伏筆。

Actress: Jan Jensen

演員：簡·詹森(Jan Jensen)

Movie: “The Last Slumber Party” (1988)

影片：《最後的永眠聚會》(The Last Slumber Party, 1988)

Character: Chris

角色：克里斯(Chris)

Wearing just a sports jersey, this foul-mouthed, sex-loving final girl calmly hunts down a scalpel-wielding mental patient who has killed her friends at a party on the last day of school. An ultra-low-budget riff on the “Slumber Party Massacre” series, this film features two anomalies: a final girl who’s not virginal and — spoiler alert — a final girl who dies. Or does she?

這個“最後的女孩”身穿運動衫，滿嘴髒話，熱衷性事，她在平靜地追捕一個喜歡用手術刀的精神病，他在學期最後一天的派對上殺死了她的朋友們。這部影片是“最後的永眠聚會”系列裏一個成本特別低的片子，其中有兩大反常之處——其一，一個不是處女的“最後的女孩”；其二（劇透警報），一個死掉的“最後的女孩”。不過她真的死了嗎？