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Horror movieshave several image that are common , but one of the most celebrated is the final daughter , a adult female or girl who often must triumph over iniquity so as to survive . However , what ’s much less vernacular is the final male child , often a man or teenage boy who fills the same role , fighting back against the news report ’s adversaries to live — here are all the horror movies with a last boy . While there are deal of last little girl and boy of all ages , last girls mostly pass within the same age range of tardy teens to early adulthood , while final boys seem to get a bit more variety .
case mountain chain from young children like Andy inChild ’s Playto teens like Jesse inNightmare on Elm Street 2 , adults like Louis inPet Sematary , and even midway - of age men like Dr. Verne inProphecy . Horror motion-picture show with a terminal boy are an interesting transmutation from the typical horror focus on women in peril , and offer a variety of unparalleled and valuable perspectives in many different types of repulsion picture show , from slashers to tool feature of speech to psychological thriller . As final son fill an significant and under - utilize role worth being examined , here are all of horror ’s final boys .
Hooper & Brody in Jaws (1975)
One of the first horror movies with a final son might not be the bear teenager boys who have faced off against a in series killer whale , but final boys they are all the same . Hooper and Brody serve as the only survivors of the infamous shark film that start the long history ofshark attack movies , Steven Spielberg’sJaws .
Mike in Phantasm (1979)
A more traditional last male child , and one of the few horror movies with a last boy , thirteen - year - old Mike Pearson inPhantasmsurvives the roguish silver grey celestial sphere of the mysterious being known as the Tall Man , after he sees the adult male recall a coffin to his hearse instead of bury it in the grave .
Dr. Robert Verne in Prophecy (1979)
Another perhaps unexpected final son is Dr. Robert Verne in the ill-famed mutant bear movie , Prophecy , from 1979 . Dr. Verne and his wife have several close calls with a home of mutated bears , but care to make it out of the Maine forest alive .
Todd in The Burning (1981)
The first substantial example of a terminal boy in the very traditional sense of a slasher pic killing everyone off except the principal role , Todd battle the Cropsey killer and lives to tell the tale in the furore classic slasher movie , The combustion , one of the few slasher horror movies with a terminal boy .
Ash in The Evil Dead (1981), Evil Dead II (1987), & Army of Darkness (1992)
The only survivor ofthe entireEvil Deadseriesis everyone ’s pet horror king , Ash Williams , one of the most iconic of all the horror movies with a final male child . Battling the evil spirit lurking in a cabin in the Mrs. Henry Wood fromThe Evil DeadandEvil Dead IIand the hordes of undead when he gets bewilder back in prison term to the Middle Ages inArmy of Darkness , Ash always seems to add up out on top .
Childs & MacReady in The Thing (1982)
The two subsister of arguably John Carpenter ’s slap-up movie of all time , The Thing , are MacReady and Childs , the only two remaining member of the inquiry team at Antarctic Outpost 31 . While one , both , or neither of them may be infect with the terrifying exotic organism that killed their crewmates , both men survive to earn the claim as the movie ’s last boys .
Tommy Jarvis in Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter (1984), Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985), & Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
PerhapsFriday the 13th’smost memorable subsister , Tommy Jarvis defeat Jason inFriday the 13th 4,5 , and6as a tyke , a teenager , and a untested grownup ( three different actors ) . Thus , he becomes the franchise ’s net boy across three of the serial ’ installments , even run on to asterisk in theFriday the 13thvideo game in the same persona , as one of the very few slasher horror movies with a terminal boy .
Jesse in A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)
Potentially one of horror ’s most famous last boy and notable scream king , Jesse takes on Freddy Krueger and lives to separate the taradiddle inA Nightmare on Elm Street 2 : Freddy ’s Revenge . Even after Freddy seek to take over his body and make him become a killer himself , he still overcomes , take in him one of the best out of other horror movies with a final boy .
Charley in Fright Night (1985)
Charley Brewster is another of the noted few in horror motion picture with a final male child , subsist the attack of his malevolent vampiric next doorway neighbor , Jerry Dandrige , inFright Night . While seek to get everyone around him to believe that Jerry is responsible for killing several local multitude who have vanish , Brewster last triumphs , defeat the vampire and surviving along with his lady friend , Amy . Though , Fright Night ’s original conclusion was much different .
Jim in The Hitcher (1986)
When Jim Halsey , a new adult male deliver a car from Chicago to San Diego , spots a man hitchhiking in the West Texas desert he make the mistake of stop over to give him a drive only to discover the human being , John Ryder , is a murderer . Despite being follow and tormented by Ryder kill the great unwashed and cast him for the murders , Halsey finally accept control , kills Ryder , and survives .
Sam & Michael in The Lost Boys (1987)
Brothers Sam and Michael confront a vampire menace in Santa Carla , California and exist to tell the tale , even after Michael is transformed into a vampire himself . After killing the vampire biker gang , the boy are finally saved by their grandad who kills the drumhead vampire , Max , removing Michael ’s vampirism and cease the execration .
Andy in Child’s Play (1988), Child’s Play 2 (1990), Child’s Play 3 (1991)
Despite being rag by his Good Guy Chucky bird bent on kill him , Andy manages to come through Chucky ’s attack through three movies and doubtlessly a tidy sum of puerility trauma , take a crap him one of the famous few in horror picture show with a final boy . When serial killer Charles Lee Ray inhabits a Chucky dame through a voodoo curse , he sets his quite a little on Andy as a new host for his soul , but Andy prevails , becomingChild ’s Play’sfinal boy .
Louis Creed in Pet Sematary (1989)
The tormented final son ofPet Semataryis doctor , Louis Creed , who see his entire family vote down one by one . Louis , stricken by brokenheartedness , ca n’t stop himself from attempt to lend them back by bury them in the blaspheme burial grounds he attain behind his new rest home in Ludlow , Maine . However , despite his questionable decisions in one ofthe good Stephen King adaptations , Louis remainsPet Sematary’slone survivor and noteworthy in terms of horror flick with a concluding male child .
Bill in Society (1989)
Bill Whitney is the final boy of the cult classic ' 80s torso horror moving-picture show , Society . Despite being dramatize into a wealthy , mellow - society family who flex out to actually be members of a homicidal society of an alternative species to humans who literally prey on the lifeblood of outsider , Bill manages to fight back them off and hightail it .
Fool in The People Under the Stairs (1991)
Another very young final son and an iconic smuggled repulsion movie character , Poindexter " Fool " Williams is enlist by his older buddy , Leroy , to help divulge into the home of the family ’s landlords , The Paul Robeson , inThe People Under the Stairs . Once inside , he fall upon that the couple are even more malevolent than they seem , but manage to escape and even bring The Robesons to justice .
Seth in From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
A more action - orient entry into the subgenre of horror moving-picture show with a final boy , Seth is a bank robber on the running from the law who ’s thrust to battle it out with a landing strip club full of vampires . But , thanks to his quick brainpower and a whole deal of firearms , he manages to make it through the night and away to safety .
Kazan in Cube (1997)
An underdog final boy , Kazan fromCubeis a neuro - divergent man who can quickly do prime factorizations mentally and has been trapped in the titular gargantuan metal puzzle square block for an strange amount of time . However , when he ’s found by a group of survivors , he helps them progress through the mystifier and manages to make it out of the ambuscade as the only one leave behind live .
Cooper in Event Horizon (1997)
The lone subsister of the Lovecraftian sci - fi repulsion movie , Event Horizon , Cooper get by to literally gaze directly into Inferno and come out the other side alive . keep by the self - forfeiture of Captain Miller , Cooper enters stasis alongside Lieutenant Starck and is found by a rescue political party , make them the only subsister of the diabolical mission . Though , Event Horizondoes have two alternative endings .
Casey in The Faculty (1998)
One of the good revulsion motion-picture show with a final boy isThe Faculty . A terminal son made a victim by a whole school full of alien - controlled instructor , Casey manages to survive despite being in brief infect by the exotic queen . Despite being a final boy in the traditional gumption of being a male protagonist who outlive a repulsion flick , Casey is not the sole survivor , and take down the alien invasion alongside several of his classmate .
John in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
One of the best horror movies with a final boy isHalloween H20 . The last of the three major slasher franchises , Halloweenhas its own final male child in Laurie Strode ’s Logos , John , fromHalloween H20.When all the educatee of the private schooling where Laurie is now the headmistress oral sex away for a line of business tripper , John is left behind and has his own encounter with Michael Myers , but survives .
Steve in Disturbing Behavior (1998)
When a monolithic cabal to reprogram all the children in a Puget Sound high school through mentality implant is uncovered , Steve is on the chop cylinder block . Thankfully , with the help of Dorian , the school janitor , and Rachel , a fellow student , most of the reprogrammed students and citizenry involve in the confederacy are killed and Steve is capable to make it out alive as the film ’s net male child .
Carter & Preacher in Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Another pair of last boy who live through a shark attempt movie , Carter and Preacher are the only two survivors of a research facility full of genetically engineered sharks who fly the coop their containment social unit . After flood most of the facility , the pair are capable to escape by blow up the last remaining shark with an electric charge .
Anton in Idle Hands (1999)
In this black clowning , lazy lapidator Anton finds himself with a possessed hand that kills without his knowledge . After chopping off the offending hand , Anton still manages to furrow down the handwriting and survive even after his friends accidentally bring him in a full body mould .
Alex in Final Destination (2000)
Perhaps one of the horror movies with a last male child horror devotee would think of first , Alex Browning is the main reference and final boy inFinal Destination , a movie in which he and several of his classmates cuckold dying by get off of a plane before it mysteriously explode in mid - melodic line . Afterward , death hail to take the lives that should have been taken in the explosion . Alex was only in one , but there end up beingfiveFinal Destinationmovies in aggregate .
Sean & Nick in The Forsaken (2001)
In this vampire road movie , Sean is an aim filmmaker working as a driver where he picks up Nick , a hitchhiker that turns out to be a vampire hunter . After fighting back against the vampire cult and surviving , Sean and Nick in the end take to the route as a vampire hunting duo .
Jim in 28 Days Later (2002)
When a highly contagious , rage - inducing computer virus is unleashed in Great Britain , Jim is a bicycle messenger who wakes up in a hospital 28 days after the initial irruption . After being rescued by a span of survivor , Jim manage to cope with his dying way of life and fend off the infected to become the film ’s final boy.28 solar day Lateris arguably one of the scariest repugnance film with a final male child .
Cooper in Dog Soldiers (2002)
When a group of soldier come in impinging with a large number of loup-garou , Cooper is part of a group of survivor hole up in an abandoned house stress to outlast the flack . After discovering that Cooper ’s platoon was supposed to be sweetener for the government to trance a lycanthrope , he kills off the rest of the wight and becomes the lone survivor of the movie , addingDog Soldiersto the inclination of horror movies with a terminal boy .
Shaun in Shaun of The Dead (2004)
The titular character inShaun of the Dead , an cussed slacker , Shaun , backwash up one morning hungover to discover that the zombi apocalypse has happened . He quick amasses a small radical of survivor , who head out to take recourse in a local public house . By the remainder of the movie , Shaun comes into his own and becomes the terminal male child of his own tarradiddle in one of the funniest entries to the repulsion movies with a final boy subgenre .
Eddie in Hellbent (2004)
Hellbentis the originator of the gay slasher movie wave that began in the early 2000s , and follows constabulary technician Eddie who regain himself in the middle of a string of murders on Halloween . When a masked cause of death begins target gay men at a Halloween fair , Eddie has to take the killer down to survive the night .
Paxton in Hostel (2005)
Inone of Eli Roth ’s most controversial film , Hostel , college supporter Paxton and Josh are locomote across Europe when they find themselves in the eye of an underground trafficking surgery . Paxton is the only survivor of the movie , becoming the final boy by not only create it out of the facility and bolt down his captors , but tracking down the homo who kill his friend and killing him as well . Hostelis for certain a memorable introduction into the horror motion-picture show with a final boy subgenre .
Owen in Cry Wolf (2005)
When a group of teenagers play a game calledCry Wolf , a missy is line up dead ; rumour commence flying about who could be behind the killing . Unfortunately , though Owen is finally the subsister and final boy , he also ends up being framed for the murder and goes to jail , as he is unable to prove his sinlessness .
Nick in House of Wax (2005)
In a shift from most horror film with a final male child who survive alongside a distaff quixotic partner , Nick survives the attacks of a demented pair of wax model builder with his twin sister , Carly . Thanks to Nick ’s determination and protective nature , the pair are able to make it out alive and avoid being pour down and cover with wax like their friend .
Ben in Wolf Creek (2005)
Wolf Creekfollows two British tourists , Liz Hunter and Kristy Earl , and their Australian friend , Ben Mitchell , as the threesome is backpack across the nation . Finding themselves in the middle of nowhere the grouping falls victim to a consecutive killer list Mick Taylor . After his Quaker are killed , Ben handle to survive , and end up being rescued and lift to a infirmary .
Doug in The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
As the Carter family are traveling through the Nevada desert , they ’re attacked by a mob of cannibalistic mutants who survive in the nearby hills in the 2006 remake of Wes Craven’sThe Hills Have middle , one of the scariest repulsion movies with a last son . Doug Bukowski is the boy - in - law of the Carter crime syndicate patriarch , and the main admirer of the film . He manages to endure the killer along with his brother and sister - in - law and his baby girl .
Kale in Disturbia (2007)
One of many take on the classicRear Windowformula , Disturbiafollows Kale , a troubled adolescent who receive himself under house arrest after set on a teacher . Soon , though , Kale discovers his neighbour is a slayer and has to find a way to alarm the authorities without get himself drink down in the process .
Michael in The Stepfather (2009)
In a twist on the 1987 photographic film of the same name , The Stepfatherfollows Michael Harding , a immature human beings who return home from military school to find that his mother is engage to a serviceman who seems off . When it turns out the man is a slayer , Michael has to save himself and his mother to become the moving picture ’s final boy .
Brent in The Loved Ones (2009)
In one of the best horror movies with a last boy of late years , The Loved Ones , Brent is the true last male child in the traditional good sense , overcoming a female serial killer who abducts and rack him . Brent only manage to survive through exceptional circumstances and smart thinking , just like more Hellenic examples of horror movie ’s final girlfriend are known to do .
Arkin in The Collector (2009)
Former convict Arkin O’Brien work as a odd-job man , but so as to yield off debts his wife owes to loan sharks , he decides to steal a ruby from his employers ’ home . Unfortunately , he ’s not the only one weaken into the sign of the zodiac , and he and the fellowship have to work together to fight off a craze serial slayer who collects victims from different families .
Bug in My Soul to Take (2010)
One of Wes Craven ’s most underrated pic and one of the estimable horror film with a final male child , My mortal to Takefollows Bug as one of seven teenager who were carry the same yr as the demise of a local sequential killer , the Riverton Ripper . With many twists and turns , Bug has to hold out and keep himself and his friends secure as everyone around him is picked off one by one .
David in The Crazies (2010)
This2010 remake of George Romero ’s 1973 filmfocuses on an Iowa townsfolk afflicted by a biological agent that move around everyone it affects into crazed orca . David , the sheriff of surrounding Pierce County , and his married woman , Judy , the local doctor , are both caught up in a military quarantine , but eventually escape , and become the movie ’s only subsister .
Marty in The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
The stoner original grapheme very rarely subsist to the oddment of a slasher film , but that ’s just one of many expectations thatThe Cabin in the Woodssubverts as one of the best revulsion movies with a final boy . Marty , the stoner , becomes the final male child of this extremely meta repugnance film , surviving alongside the traditional final young lady .
Will in The Invitation (2015)
The Invitationfollows Will as he and his girl arrive at his ex - wife ’s home for a dinner party , but as the evening fall apart on , Will becomes more and more interested that something is not right . By the end of the night , Will has to save himself and his lady friend as both the house and metropolis erupts into chaos .
Eric in Circle (2015)
Circleis one of the most intriguing horror movies with a net boy and centre on fifty people who arouse up to find themselves in a dour room , not commend how they got there . Soon they realize that one of them is toss off every few instant or if they seek to leave , but when they begin to key they can control who is killed , Eric finally becomes the last somebody standing .
Pat in Green Room (2016)
Pat is one member of a tough set who are traveling the Pacific Northwest , but when one of their gigs gets cancelled , they get a young show in a very rural area outside Portland . Unfortunately , the locale is owned by a radical of Nazi skinhead and when the band , being punks , voice their displeasure things intensify quickly . Pat scarce handle to make it out live .
Mike in The Belko Experiment (2016)
In an office repulsion movie and one of the most unique horror movies with a last boy , The Belko Experiment , employees arriving to workplace are apprise to stamp out two of their coworkers or face the consequences . Soon employees break off into factions , with Mike lead one of them , and thing promptly devolve as employees are killed . promptly , Mike takes out the protection guard , the vocalism over the intercom , and becomes the only subsister .
Luke in The Ritual (2017)
The one screwing - up in a grouping of four supporter , Luke get together his college buddies for a hike head trip in the timber of Sweden in memory of their supporter who passed away six months before . Unfortunately , the group gets lost in the timber and stumbles upon an ancient evil known as the Jötunn that kill each of them one by one until Luke finally deal to break loose .
Chris in Get Out (2017)
When Black lensman Chris encounter the family of his white girl for the first time , he start to remark their progressively strange behavior in one of the very best horror movies with a final male child . What might ab initio be dismiss as plain racial discrimination is before long revealed to be so much more sinister as Chris learn he is being hunted and must survive . In one ofJordan Peele ’s expert movies , he finally drink down his aggressor and escape as the final son , understandably subverting a longstanding repugnance movie trope about Black male protagonists being among the first to die .
Cole in The Babysitter (2017)
In the horror - comedyThe Babysitter , lone pre - adolescent Cole has two Friend , one of whom is his sitter , Bee . But , when his only other friend , Melanie , promote him to see what Bee convey up to when he ’s asleep , he discovers she ’s the leader of a demonic cult and has to fend off her and the other homicidal cultist in purchase order to survive the night .
Tom in Delirium (2018)
After pass twenty age in a mental institution , Tom Walker is released under sign catch , but soon identify that his father ’s honest-to-goodness hall theatre more than get together the oculus . When he begin experiencing what he assumes to be hallucination , he find himself with a very real opposer , having to whelm retiring trauma to become the last son in this story .
Ben in Escape Room (2019)
Escape Roomfollows six participant who are bid to take part in an leakage room to win a $ 10,000 prize . But , they quickly realize that the plot they ’re in has much higher stakes than they gestate . Each participant is killed off one by one until Ben , a stockboy , is the only one left , becoming the final boyin this horror movie .
Cole In The Babysitter Killer Queen (2020)
Cole once again graces the screen in the sequel to one of the campier horror movies with a terminal boy inThe baby-sitter : Killer Queen . A mixture of old and fresh occultists arrive in desperate pauperization of Cole ’s parentage as an offer of an innocent to make all of their wildest dreams add up straight . With the aid of Jenna Ortega ’s Phoebe Atwell , Cole is once again able to make it through the ordeal as a final son , but not without some bumps and bruises .
Ben In The Wretched (2020)
John - Paul Howard stars as net son Ben Shaw in one of the most late horror picture show with a final boy , The Wretched . While his parents are in the midst of a divorce , Ben moves in with his father . However , Ben soon becomes involved with scary events occurring next doorway as a witch that can take on the tegument of others has her sights set on the family .
Zeke In Spiral (2021)
Chris Rock asterisk in this repugnance movie with a final boy , Spiral , a spinoff of the popularSawfranchise . InSpiral , Rock plays tec Zeke Banks , who becomes drag in with what looks to be a Jigsaw copycat killer execution case . Complete with the brain - bending sick traps that madeSawfamous , Spiralsees Det . bank in an challenging game of cat and mouse all the way up to the horror film ’s declamatory ending .
Finney In The Black Phone (2022)
By far , one of the besthorror movieswith a final son isthe Joe Hill adaptationThe Black Phone , starring Ethan Hawke as the terrifying villain , The Grabber . In the picture show , Finney is abduct by kid murderer The Grabber , and the only affair he has at his disposal is a black phone , through which he later enter out he can speak to The Grabber ’s deceased victims . Luckily , Finney does make it out of the trial by ordeal animated , get to him one of repugnance ’s youngest last male child .
