This is Sharni Vinson who is an Australian model and actress that I have only seen in one thing and that is You’re Next, a home invasion/slasher movie from what is now almost a decade ago which is kind of scary.  I rewatched it this morning and while it isn’t perfect it is a pretty cool twist on the genre in general. If you have ever watched a horror movie and wished the victim was more capable well… this movie is for you.  It doesn’t quite go all Rites of Spring/The Last House on the Left where she becomes the predator (and a monster) or anything, but it is fun to watch a bunch of men who appear to be thrill killers suddenly realize one of the women they are targeting is substantially more competent and capable than they are.  I don’t want this in every horror movie, it would become lame and pandering but it is a nice twist on the final girl.  It sort of feels like the end point of the type.  Not that it shouldn’t exist anymore but the logical extreme that some movie needed to take it.  The Final Girl is of course the girl who lives to the end of the movie but more so is the most capable member of the movie.  I have always had a lot of love for slashers, in part because I grew up with them and in part because they are unknowing commentary on the times we live in, but also because of the final girl.  In what is largely considered the best scholarly work on Slasher movies (which is why every hack like me quotes it, it’s almost the only resource we have), Carol J Clover came to the conclusion that Slashers are really the most consistently feminist genre of movie (which is both disappointing in some ways and probably shocking to people who love to shit on genre movies) in that not only is it one of the few sub genres that consistently gives female characters agency, it also is one of the few that forces male viewers to empathize with and actually identify with the female lead.  We don’t just feel for her in a movie, we are forced to see the world through her eyes and any fantasies we have about being the hero force us to want to be her.  Which is why I say this is sort of the logical conclusion of the type in that Sharni Vinson doesn’t just survive, she becomes the bad ass you are actively rooting for.  It’s why I included the first picture. When she picks up that ax you aren’t worried if she’ll live, you know those dudes in their creepy animal masks are in fucking trouble.  Again, this wouldn’t work for everything and the movie has it’s flaws, but it sure is a lot of fun to see the tables turned and her beat the shit out of some dudes.  And she does it really well.  And her accent is kind of sexy.  So today I want to fuck Sharni Vinson.