Best of Horror's Final Girls
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Best of Horror's Final Girls

Forget the strapping jocks --it's the smart girls who end up surviving. Which of horror's final girls rates the highest?

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1 Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis)
Escapes bogeyman brother Michael Myers in the original flick, not to mention Halloween II and Halloween: H20. 162 246
2 Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell)
Outsmarts masked psycho slashers in all three parts of the trilogy. We'll assume they same goes for the upcoming fourth chapter. 120 234
3 Nancy Thompson, (Heather Langenkamp)
<p>In a Nightmare on Elm Street, once Nancy figures out Freddy kills you in your sleep, she pulls him from the dream world into the real one. &nbsp;</p> 109 213
4 Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver)
Extra-terrestrial predators were no match for her, or her bad-ass attitude, in any of the franchise's four movies. 100 230
5 Ginny Field (Amy Steel)
Ginny will always be remembered as the first girl to go head-to-head with Jason Voorhees, in Friday the 13th, Part 2. 68 172
6 Alice Hardy (Adrienne King)
<p>Bested psycho-mom Mrs. Voorhees in the original Friday the 13th, though her mojo wanes a bit in Part 2. 56 176
7 Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns)
Escaped Leatherface and his clan of killin' cousins in the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. 41 157
8 Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt)
Julie goes two full rounds with a vengeful slasher and comes out alive in I Know What You Did Last Summer and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. 22 184
9 Francine Parker (Gaylen Ross)
This Dawn of the Dead's zombie-whacker extraordinaire delivers the kills even while hugely pregnant.</p> -2 142
10 Chrissie (Jordana Brewster)
Five years before Sally Hardesty's ordeal, Chrissie escaped Leatherface's saw in <a href="http://movies.amctv.com/movie/331727/Texas-Chainsaw-Massacre-The-Beginning/overview"><em>The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning</em></a> -4 158