The killer as the ‘doppelgänger’ of the ‘Final Girl’. The ominous in the first film of the ‘Scream’ saga
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As Freud points out in his text ‘The Ominous’, the question of the sinister can stem from repressed infantile complexes and is often linked to the self-image, to the reflection. This article sets out to investigate the Freudian ominous component of the figure of Gosthface, the masked killer in Scream, the teen and mass horror slasher directed by the American author Wes Craven. To do so, we have investigated the construction of the character of Sidney Prescott, the Final Girl -a term created by Carol Clover- of the saga, the last survivor and the only heroine capable of confronting the psychopath. Analysing the last sequence of the film, in which the identity of the killer is resolved, from a psychoanalytical and gender perspective, we will investigate the consequences that the confluence between the always plastic identity of the psychopath and that of the protagonist of the story have had on the construction of female identity since the nineties.
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