Final girls and boys: Teenagers as action heroes in horror TV

From victims to heroes: Teenager in horror TV

1992: the term final girl is coined Buffy is released

Weed, teenage and horror

The 1980s Reagan years

1) Slasher films
Weed It makes you vulnerable? Linked to sex? Moralistic view? Slasher-movie
conservatism and '80s anti-drug paranoia
Halloween (1978) the final girl approves of (and occasionally smokes) weed, but
the real stoner gets slashed
Friday 13
th
(1980) also links weed-victimhood

2) Supernatural horror
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Poltergeist (1982) Its adults, not teens, who smoke pot. Spielberg portrays
characters in specific lights to enhance the purity of Carol Ann. Diane and Steven
are shown to be impure by their marijuana usage
(http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2967/why-were-the-parents-in-
the-poltergeist-shown-smoking-pot-and-drinking)
John Carpenters The Thing (1982) Adults. Also links weed-vulnerability

The 1990s

3) Postmodern generic self-consciousness
Goofy comic-relief stoner
Scream franchise (1996)
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

4) Horror parody wave
Scary Movie franchise (2000)
Idle Hands (1999)

The 2000s
5) Torture porn
The Hamiltons (2007) Weed to lure victims into the butchers basement
6) Homage to the genre
The Tripper (2007)
Cabin in the Woods (2012) Manny the stoner is the one who sees the truth. Weed
less rational (rationality trap), more intuitive.