Deconstructed and reconstructed in American Gothic (1988). The meek and emotionally fragile Cynthia does indeed become the last girl left standing, but in the process, she ends up losing her sanity and does a Face–Heel Turn when she joins the murderous family as a full-fledged member. This doesn't stop her from going batshit crazy on the family and becoming a killer herself, reconstructing the trope as she in her madness takes out the family of killers one by one.
This trope, and the extreme Lampshade Hanging thereof, is a central plot element in the slasher deconstructionBehind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, where the character is referred to as a "survivor girl." Vernon spends most of the movie setting one character up as the final girl, both to the viewer and the crew filming his exploits. However, it turns out that Vernon's final girl is a decoy, and sexually active at that. It is the female reporter in the film crew who is his real final girl all along, and she fulfills her role exactly according to the trope.
Black Christmas:
Black Christmas (1974) is one of the first slasher films ever made and was a Trope Maker in the genre. The movie has a final girl in Jess, though she is something of an Unbuilt Trope example; while she's obviously pegged as the heroine, she's also quite different from the conventional final girl set by the Trope Codifier. To start with, her actress Olivia Hussey is Latina. Jess is also pregnant and wants an abortion against her boyfriend's wishes, so she is definitely not a virgin. Meanwhile, the "good girl" Claire is the first victim, her death setting the plot into motion, while the Hard-Drinking Party Girl Barb only dies in the third act.
The 2006 remake has a straight example in Kelli, who confronts the killers, manages to kill both of them, and survives. However, the director tried to play around with the trope by casting multiple actresses who aesthetically could be the Final Girl (indeed Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who plays Heather, was the first choice for Kelli)- in hopes of fooling the audience. The film was supposed to have more survivors in Melissa and Leigh; Melissa was killed off because her actressmade it a requirement for signing on, and Leigh only dies because of Executive Meddling forcing them to change the ending.
Subverted in the 2019 remake with Riley, even though she survives, she lost her virginity being raped by The Dragon before the events of the movie. And Kris also survives, along with several other background sorority sisters, and only one boy is with them.
Jodie in Cherry Falls, though mainly out of virtue of being the main target and taking the fight to the killer, as many other female characters (Sandy, Cindy, Sharon, Heather, Jan and Deputy Mina) all survive as well.
Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror plays this pretty straight with Allison. She's the plainest of the group that gets stranded in the middle of nowhere and has a run in with a deadly cult, with whom she has a tie with considering that her brother is a member. Allison's the last one left standing to take down the cult at the end, as well.
The Cold Prey trilogy:
The original film plays this straight with Jannicke, though there's a slight inversion considering virginal Ingunn gets killed first whereas the sexual experience of the others is left a bit more ambiguous.
The second film does a Decon-Recon Switch. Picking up immediately after the events of the first movie, Jannicke is understandably affected by all that transpired and knows what will happen if the clinic resuscitates the killer. Despite her warnings, she ends up getting sedated as the killer wakes up and starts killing the hospital staff one by one, leaving only Camilla left as a Final Girl. Once Jannicke comes to, she becomes an Action Survivor and teams up with Camilla to stop the killer once and for all. And they both end up surviving.
The third film, a prequel to the first, subverts this completely. Siri seems more innocent and reserved when compared to Hedda, who rips off her top and goes skinny dipping with boys. Hedda ends up outliving Siri, though she herself doesn't make it out alive by the end.
In Death Factory, Rachel is the only one of the teens to survive the slaughter in the factory. She is the only one who doesn't get drunk and high on marijuana, and Louisa jokes that her parents want her to remain a virgin.
Evil Breed The Legend Of Sam Hain: Shae, the bookish brunette virgin is the only character to survive the onslaught of the Cannibal Clan. Lampshaded early in the movie when she is ranting about why she doesn't like horror movies and says that it always the goody two shoes virgin who survives, and Jerk Jock Steve says that she should be safe then.
April come as this for most of the movie and it look like she does make until the end along with Kyle, but they both are killed by the army.
Somehow played straight with minor character Nancy McPherson, who is taken by aliens, but is returned back to earth. She is also the Sole Survivor character in the entire movie, but she stops appearing after the first movie half.
Fatal Exam with Nick, a gender-flipped take on the convention. He's more responsible and studeous compared to his comrades, whom he has to save from the killers when all hell breaks loose.
Final Exam with Courtney, who may be even more of a textbook example than Laurie Strode even. She is free from any vice and has to single-handedly take down the killer at the end.
The Funhouse with Amy, though the movie makes a point to show her topless early on in the film.
Despite its titillating premise, Girl House manages to play this pretty straight with Kylie, a brunette final girl who would be innocent and virtuous if it weren't for financial troubles.
Graduation Day with Anne. Justified since she initially wasn't in Kevin's list of targets, and he only comes after her once she finds Laura's remains in his room. Unlike earlier examples, she's a bit less Damsel in Distress and a bit more Action Survivor, most likely thanks to her time serving in the Navy.
In Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, Rachel and Jamie both shared this title, the latter notable for being a little girl. The ending, however, implies that the film was Jamie's Start of Darkness and that she will become a killer like her uncle Michael Myers, though this plot element was dropped in later films.
Double subverted (ultimately played straight) in Happy Birthday to Me with Ginny. At first, "Ginny" is revealed to be the murderer when she kills Alfred. Then, the birthday party from hell — where "Ginny" is unmasked as the true killer, who disguised herself to look exactly like Ginny to trick both her victims and the audience. The real Ginny manages to stab the killer to death. A police officer showing up at the end and asking Ginny what has she done suggests a deconstruction.
The Rare Male Example shows up in Hell High, which plays out like a Mook Horror Show slasher with a group of despicables breaking into the house of an unbalanced teacher who goes nuts and starts killing them off. The survivor is Jon-Jon, a studious ex-football player who just happened to fall into the wrong crowd before the slashing takes place. He's the only survivor, but it's evident that he inherited his teacher's trauma by the end.
Hell Night with Marti, the most innocent of the four pledges and the only one to survive both killers.
House of Wax (2005) saw Carly emerge as the lone female survivor of what unfolds as a "real-life" horror story in the ghost town of Ambrose, Louisiana; her brother, Nick, also is alive at film's end, both having escaped the burning wax mansion (the town's centerpiece) seconds before it collapses into itself. It's downplayed as Carly is shown sleeping in the same tent as her boyfriend and does strip off on camera when she's changing (though is tastefully covered by her friends). The other female character she's contrasted with - her best friend Paige - is portrayed more sympathetically than normal (she's dealing with a possible unplanned pregnancy).
The House on Sorority Row with Katherine. She was the most moral and level-headed of a group of sorority girls who find themselves being killed off one by one after a prank results in the death of their house mother. She was going to subvert the trope by dying in the end, but Executive Meddling put a stop to it.
Humongous inverts this, at least so far as looks and resourcefulness are concerned. The plain girl, Carla, who easily looks the part of the final girl actually dies rather brutally towards the end with little chance to fight back. The true final girl? Sandy, a very attractive but resourceful girl who manages to take down the killer and live to the end credits.
I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel with Julie, though her love interest Ray survives both films as well. Notably in the book it was based on, no one was killed off. Julie is also made into a straighter Final Girl than her book counterpart - in the book she's a red-haired cheerleader who was previously a slacker and only just buckled down in her schoolwork towards the end.
Kelly in The Initiation. Although not a virgin, she is only one of the girls not to have sex over the course of the movie. Justified as the killer has a specific reason for saving her for last.
Intruder with Jennifer, though she's definitely a bit more conventionally attractive than most traditional final girls and some of her qualifying traits (lack of doing drugs and having sex) may be justified by the fact that the slashing takes place at a grocery store on a night she was working.
The characterization is subverted in Just Before Dawn, but the convention is also played straight rendering this a reconstruction of sorts. Connie starts out as an ordinary final girl candidate with her tomboy looks. As the film progresses though, she goes through a makeover that boosts her confidence. It's this quality, not her tomboy nature, that ensures her survival after her friends are killed off. Warren surviving as well also indicates a downplaying of this, as well.
Laid to Rest and its sequel, though the concept is subverted slightly in the first when the Final Girl is revealed to be a prostitute.
Lost After Dark specifically highlights this trope in the naming of its female characters - each one is named after an actress who played a classic final girl (Marilyn, Heather, Jamie, and Adrienne). It then deconstructs the trope by setting up its obvious final girl to be so virtuous that she becomes easy prey to the killer. After she's the first casualty, another (non-virginal) character rises up to be the true final girl, reconstructing the trope in the process.
Luther The Geek has a peculiar way of downplaying this trope. This time, the final girl is not the teenaged daughter, who has sex with her boyfriend on her mother's bed. Rather, it's the mother — a widowed farm wife — who is left to take the killer down in the film's final moments.
Averted in the case of Madman, whose main female protagonist Betsy survives nearly to the end of the film, only to join the tally of the eponymous Madman Marz's victims when trying to confront him, whereas Richie (the camper who set the events of the story in motion, but sat out most of the main plot) ends up the sole survivor instead.
A throwback to 80 slasher films, Killer Holiday follows a group of teens going on vacation, until they are killed off one by one, until one girl (Cammi) is forced to take him down and this girl is an A-student and virgin. Off course, her crush survived too.
Applies to most of the Elm Street series. Nancy, Lisa, Kristen, Alice, Alice again, Maggie/Tracy, Heather Langenkamp (the actual actresswho played Nancy), and Laurie. Part 2 is a partial subversion. Jesse is the only male protagonist of the series, and the one Freddy targets throughout the movie, making Lisa's role as Final Girl very limited. Lisa doesn't so much kill Freddy as drive him out of his possessed victim Jesse, who also survives in a rare case of Final Boy.
In Rovdyr, the blonde-haired Camilla is the only one of the protagonists to walk out of the woods; having killed all of the hunters single-handed. (She is probably not a virgin, though.)
In Scream (1996), the main character has sex (with the killer!), but still maintains her final girl status throughout the entire film franchise. Subverted somewhat as Gale, Dewey, and Randy survive the events of the first film as well.
Silent Night Bloody Night, released two years before the original Black Christmas (1974) and filmed in 1970 (even before Bava'sA Bay of Blood went into production), sees narrator and Mayor's daughter Diane Adams filling the role of the final girl by surviving to the end of the film and shooting the killer without any outside intervention.
Spirit Camp demonstrates an unusual zig-zagging use of the trope. While playing it straight, this film has a Final Girl with vices that would normally signal sure death for a character in a slasher film. For instance, she's a juvenile delinquent who smokes and she is the only character other than the opening victim who is seen topless.
Spree has Jessie, the only victim in Kurt's killing spree who lived to tell the tale by smacking Kurt to death with his own phone. She then capitalizes on the experience to skyrocketing fame and fortune.
StageFright -Aquarius- with Alicia, an unassuming actress who must demonstrate a bit of resourcefulness after a mass murderer slices and dices his way through the rest of her theatre production staff.
Tenebre with Anne. The film does not initially follow her as the main protagonist, but there does come a point where she becomes the only person left for the audience to identify with and she ends up being the last one left to take down the killer, albeit accidentally.
Terror Train with Alana, as made clear by the fact that Jamie Lee Curtis was playing her. However, she's not completely pure or innocent either, given that she had a part in a prank that sent the killer over the edge.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre films tend to have a final girl who is forced to endure a hellish ordeal before escaping the psychotic family through any means necessary. This is especially true with the first two films with Sally, who manages to escape with a bit of luck after a grueling chase, and Stretch, who has to use a chainsaw to fight off one of her captors. It's upheld in later installments, as well — Michelle, Jenny, Erin, Heather, and Lila.
The series has also been known to subvert this, especially if the film is a prequel: Chrissie and Lizzy weren't so successful in escaping.
Tourist Trap's final girl is purer than the white snow. In the Rifftrax version, the guys even jokingly call her Amish.
The Tripper: Although not virginal, the blonde Samantha does not do drugs or have sex at the festival and is the only one of the friends to survive the massacre.
Hannah in Varsity Blood. Brunette, virgin, with a troubled home life and tragic back story, and the most recent addition to the cheer squad, it was obvious she obvious from the start of the film that she would be the one to survive. Her love interest Jeff also survives, but he is unconscious at the point where she kills the slasher.
Venom (2005) with Eden, who has all the qualities and is the only one to escape the killer.
In You Might Be the Killer, this trope is discussed in detail. Chuck explains to the counselors that the purest and most innocent girl will probably kill the killer and be the sole survivor in the end, and pegs Jaime as the most likely candidate. Imani tries to exploit this by killing Jaime so she can be the final girl instead, but fails; Jaime is indeed the only counselor to make it out alive.
You're Next: Erin could be considered a Deconstructive Parody of one. While at first she appears to be a normal variety, it quickly turns out that she is not only an Action Survivor, but also came from a Crazy Survivalist background. It reaches the point where the remaining masked killers are scared of her. It's also heavily implied that she gets arrested after the events of the movie for the people she killed.
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Abigail (2024): The protagonists are all criminals who kidnap a young girl, but Joey (real name Ana Lucia Cruz) gets the most sympathetic backstory out of all of them and serves as the main focal point for the audience. She's a former Combat Medic who got injured in battle and developed an addiction to morphine as a result, which eventually got her kicked out of the military and cost her custody of her daughter after she was caught stealing morphine to feed her addiction. She became a Back-Alley Doctor to pay the bills afterwards, and wound up accidentally killing a powerful underworld figure because she was high while she was trying to fix his injury, which is both how she got on Abigail and Lazar's hit list and the moment when she finally decided to get clean. During the film, before The Reveal of Abigail's true nature Joey is the only person who tries bonding with the young girl, which pays off towards the end when Abigail saves her from Frank (who they then team up to defeat) and convinces Lazar to spare her.
Aftershock does this on the straight and narrow...until a last-minute subversion shows up in the form of a tsunami indicating that the final girl is doomed.
Alien does this with Ripley. And it should be noted that every role in the film was written as gender neutral (which is probably why everyone just used their last names for the whole film), so it could have easily been a Final Guy instead.
It's a common misconception that all of the subsequent Alien movies followed suit; in reality, there were other survivors in the second and fourth movies, and Ripley actually dies in the third.
AVP: Alien vs. Predator: Everyone but Alexa Woods are killed, leaving her alone with the last remaining aliens and the last predator; ultimately she is left to fight the Queen alongside the last predator who is slowly dying from his wounds. She's also the rare non-white Final Girl; her actress Sanaa Lathan is African American.
Prometheus: Shaw, sort of: David also survives of a fashion, although in a state of Bishop-like discombobulation thanks to an Engineer.
Alien: Covenant looks like it will follow suit in series tradition, with Daniels taking this role alongside the other survivors, until the ending implies a subversion: "Walter" is actually David, who plans on using the people on board as further Xenomorph breeding fodder, so the "finality" of Daniels likely won't last.
In Alien 2: On Earth, Thelma is the only member of the expedition to survive the events of the film. The ending implies she may be the last surviving member of the human race as well.
Kate Ward in Army of the Dead is the only member of the Caper Crew who isn't in it for the money, having joined her father's team in order to get into the Las Vegas quarantine zone and rescue somebody. At the end, she's also one of only two survivors out of the main cast, with the other one, Vanderohe, being a Zombie Infectee about to start a new outbreak in Mexico.
Played straight in the official ending of Autopsy from the third set of After Dark Horrorfest. The Final Girl manages to escape the insane doctor and nurse who had killed all of her friends. It is, however, subverted in the alternate ending where instead of escaping or being killed, she is strapped to a bed with all her organs removed but still functioning to keep the doctor's ailing wife alive.
The Bar: Elena is the only one who survived the entire film in the Spanish Flick after the other characters were either killed by Authorities or by each other's in the titular bar.
Upheld in Black Water. After the men in her group get killed and her sister gets terribly injured, Lee is the only person left to fight off the crocodile. She kills the croc, but she returns to find her older sister's lifeless body, thereby making Lee the sole survivor.
Bunni: Paige is the only survivor of the killer's rampage and is shown in the middle of the end credits to now be a single mother raising Chris' son. Then Chris shows up to take him back.
Sue in Carrie (1976) is an imperfect example. While she is the only major character who survives the film, she's also best friends with the villainous Alpha Bitch Chris, and she never actually faces the killer after everyone dies. However, she had genuinely good intentions in asking her boyfriend to take Carrie to prom to make up for how she and her friends humiliated her in the showers, and it's hard to forget about the dream sequence at the end that shows Carrie grabbing Sue's arm in an infamous jump scare. It succeeds at showing how traumatized Sue is left by what happened.
Gender-flipped in the sequel, The Rage: Carrie 2. Rachel's love interest Jesse is the only survivor, and he's also left spooked by what's happened. Like Sue, Jesse is the Token Good Teammate of the antagonists, in this case a high school football team who treat their female classmates as "points" to score in a game they have going, which led to Rachel's best friend killing herself when she found out.
Crimson Peak is Gothic Horror rather than a straight Slasher Movie, though the heroine Edith Cushing still has some aspects of this trope by the end. She's the last of Thomas' wives and the only one who survives]]; she also nearly single-handedly takes out Lucille following a deadly cat-and-mouse chase around the mansion. She's also intelligent and one of the film's more wholesome characters...though interestingly enough, she's not virgin by the end. In fact, she slept with Thomas, Lucille's accomplice.
Deadly Detention: Lexie is the one who survives to the end of the film. Subverted in the end, as Ms. Presley reveals the others are still alive too.
Jeryline is the last character left alive to confront the collector in Demon Knight. She eventually defeats him and lives happily ever after, according to the Crypt Keeper.
A good example of a Final Boy would be Cooper from Dog Soldiers. An early scene seems to demonstrate that he has a strong moral code, and he takes on leadership when his troop gets attacked by vicious werewolves. And, in the end, he is the only survivor left to take down one particular werewolf that has an personal ax to grind against him.
The Evil Dead series has a Final Guy, but otherwise plays it straight in spirit. The main character's name, Ashley (or more commonly "Ash"), is usually reserved for women nowadays. The 2013 remake fits this trope to a T, with Ash being gender-flipped into Mia, and her brother David (initially presented as the Ash analogue) being a Decoy Protagonist.
Epps from Ghost Ship outlives her male crew members and becomes the sole survivor.
In Ginger Snaps, Brigitte Fitzgerald, the quieter, plainer sister of the titular villain Ginger, is the last major character left alive after Ginger kills Sam, with Brigitte forced to kill the werewolf who was once her sister and best friend. The sequel Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed, however, retroactively subverts this by revealing that the monkshood Brigitte injected herself with to stop her own infection and transformation only slowed the process, with her now relying on ever-greater doses of the stuff to stave it off in a manner reminiscent of drug addiction. The film ends with Brigitte, without access to monkshood, fully turning into a werewolf, who is then kept captive by Ghost as a literal attack dog to unleash on her enemies.
Gravity follows some of the conventions, even outside a slasher context. The main character is rather tomboyish, has a gender-bending name, and must demonstrate resourcefulness just to survive. It is important to note that the film is a pure survival thriller with no real antagonist, though.
While the franchise tends to play this straight, it also has a habit of killing its survivor right away in the next sequel so no one ever truly escapes the curse. Karen survives the first film, and Lisa makes it through the third along with her little sister.
The second is more of a subversion, seeing as the film follows two different story lines and the expected final girl of both (Aubrey and Allison) is dead by the end of the movie. Jake is a sole survivor in this film.
The Hellraiser films tend to feature a young woman at odds with the Cenobites as all Hell breaks loose. Kirsty, Joey, Bobbi, Rimmer, Chelsea, and Emma. Deconstructed in Hellseeker in that original heroine Kirsty becomes Darker and Edgier in how she makes a deal with the Cenobites to kill five people (one being her husband, who conspired to have her killed for her family fortune) to save herself.
House of 9 features a group of people being held captive in a house for a hefty prize to the eventual sole survivor. The winner of this prize is Lea, The Ingenue. She's so innocent that she was one of the very few who did not succumb to the temptation to kill for the prize money. Even in her final confrontation with a homicidal maniac, she attacks in self-defense and only kills him by accident.
Crystal May Creasey in The Hunt (2020) is a US Army veteran who, thanks to a case of Mistaken Identity, is among the people kidnapped by the villains for the titular hunt, and winds up as the Sole Survivor who outsmarts them and picks them off one by one while her peers' paranoia and general idiocy get the better of them. Furthermore, in a film satirizing the hyper-partisan political culture of the US in the late 2010s, her apolitical, moderate views mark her as morally superior to both the elitist liberals who staged the hunt and the bigotedreactionaries who were selected for it.
The Fangoria Frightfest film Hunger employs this with Jordan, who acts as the moral compass of a group of strangers who have been trapped together and forced to turn into cannibalistic savages in order to live. As if surviving that wasn't enough, she then has to outsmart the man who set up the experiment to begin with in order to escape.
Trish from Jeepers Creepers fits into the Final Girl trope, as the only real other main character, her brother, is murdered and torn apart for his body parts.
Sandy from Killjoy 3 is revealed to be a virgin and the last one left alive to take down Killjoy by laughing at him and reciting his real name. A deconstruction is hinted at the end when she's seen in an insane asylum still laughing and suspected by authorities of committing the murders herself.
Played pretty straight with Simona and the child-killer in the Italian L'immoralita,` except that the final girl is eleven-and-a-half...and no longer a virgin... and she's the one who did all the on-screen killing, except for her father whose suicide helped touch off her Roaring Rampage of Revenge. All the child-killer's victims had already been dispatched before the film began, and he's shown burying the last of them in a shallow grave at the beginning. Let's just say that what accounts for her survival in the sorting algorithm is that everyone else in the film was demonstrably even worse.
A group of climbers in A Lonely Place to Die rescue a kidnapped child in the mountains and are then subsequently picked off one by one by the captors until one girl remains. It is she who must take down the bad guys to rescue the child.
Mindhunters is an action thriller but follows many slasher movie tropes. Sara is meeker and more delicate than the rest of the protagonists - who all have their own Achilles Heels. Theirs are based on vices, while Sara's comes from a trauma in her past. Nicole, the only other girl in the film, is sleeping with one of the others while Sara is celibate. The film does have Gabe survive as well though.
Barbara becomes this in the Night of the Living Dead remakes. In the 1968 original, Barbra, having just seen her brother get killed, was a catatonic mess for much of the movie and presumably dies towards the end when she's captured by the zombies. In the 1990 remake, the character responds to the living dead by becoming an Action Girl and ultimately survives.
A New Hope: Done retroactively in the Disney EU, with Gold Squadron's sole survivor being a woman who just so happens to come from Alderaan and wasn't among the victims of the Disaster.
In Nine Dead, Kelley Murphy was the sole surviving female of the movie. In the end, she shot the masked shooter, leaving nine people dead in the room. Subverted in that Kelley murdered the two men who should have survived with her to stay out of jail.
The Serbian horror film Nymph has three female characters - Kelly, Lucy, and Yasmin. Lucy is the Hard-Drinking Party Girl, while Yasmin is the bitchy 'other woman' to Lucy's ex-boyfriend. Kelly naturally is more responsible and demurer, and she survives to the end. It's a Bolivian Army Ending of sorts though.
We see a group of young adults communicating with creepy spirits in The Ouija Experiment. Unfortunately for them, one of the ghosts ends up being a murderer and starts picking off the group one-by-one when they fail to say goodbye to the spirit before leaving the Ouija board. By the end, the only survivor is female. While it's played straight in the 2015 sequel, that's not to say that they don't play around with this a little bit. The shy, timid girl we expect to survive dies near the end, while the more outgoing one who does end up living makes it a point to not make the same mistakes girls tend to make in horror films.
Psycho is considered to be an Ur-Example of a Slasher film. While not a perfect fit of the Final Girl that has become conventional in later years, Lila can be considered a prototype since she is the one who investigates her sister's disappearance and survives her confrontation with the killer, albeit not by her own doing.
In The Pyramid, the group falls victim to the traps and creatures in the pyramid until we get a sole surviving female archaeologist, who manages to escape the clutches of the final monster and is thiseclose to escaping the pyramid. Though she survives to the final frame of the film, she's much worse to wear and odds aren't great that she survives for that much longer.
Resident Evil (2002) plays it straight. Before she became a badass in the sequels, Alice was the only one able to escape the Hive without getting killed or infected by zombies.
In the 2001 TV movie She-Creature, a mermaid kills an entire crew of men out at sea, letting the only female on the ship live.
Shock Waves with Rose. Oddly enough, the film established her as the Final Girl and Sole Survivor right from the getgo. The film basically narrates her survival story of a murder spree after being shipwrecked out at sea. While she was able to escape, the remaining members of the group she was with were not as lucky.
Suspiria (1977) is a colorful example of the trope at play. An all-American good girl attends a ballet school in Germany, where she's forced to defeat an ancient witch in order to survive the ordeal.
The Sadist features a prototypical final girl foreshadowing others in the nascent slasher genre in Doris Page, the last of three schoolteachers left standing after being held hostage by the murderous Charlie Tibbs and his girlfriend. Through her own initiative, she manages to outrun and outwit the persistent Tibbs (though he ends up being dispatched by a pit full of rattlesnakes rather than by her own hand).
Sarah Connor in The Terminator is an interesting combination of Final Girl and Damsel in Distress. For much of the film, she's dragged along by her protector, Reese. By the end, Reese is dead, and she, alone, unarmed and wounded, is forced to take the monster down herself. In the sequel, she's more of an Action Girl and isn't the only survivor. The first film also evokes the trope in other ways - she has a best friend who's killed while having sex with her boyfriend.
The Thing (2011) prequel. Kate survives her encounter with the alien, but she's effectively left stranded in Antarctica so it's anybody's guess if she truly survives or not.
Another possible candidate for the Ur-Example of the Slasher Movie would be the 1932 film Thirteen Women, which predates the classic proto-slashers Psycho and Peeping Tom (both 1960) by twenty-eight years. Thirteen Womencodifies the genre as follows: 1) all the deaths are brought about (even if indirectly) by one individual; 2) the film sets up the victims and then kills them off one by one; 3) all the major characters die, except for a lone, innocent Final Girl.
In Turbulence, a serial killer gets loose aboard a specially chartered 747, putting everyone in the cargo hold except for the cute, intrepid flight attendant who has to take him down. Slight variant on this trope in that, after she dispatches the serial killer, she still has to land the plane.
Ten: Murder Island's Nice Girl Meg Pritchard is this to a T. You pretty much pick up on this right off the bat, the second she steps off the boat. She's the last girl left at the end of the movie, and she's the only character to have a genuine showdown with the killer and win.
Triassic World: Diana is the only person to survive a building full of genetically engineered dinosaurs.
Without Warning (1980) features Sandy being the sole survivor left to end a human-hunting alien's reign of terror by blowing him to smithereens, following in the footsteps of Ellen Ripley and preceding "Dutch" Schaefer's own bout against a comparable headhunting extraterrestrial by seven years.
Zombeavers memorably subverts audience expectations. Jen is the cautious, level-headed girl who doesn't have sex (during the movie), and dresses the most conservatively. She ends up the first to get zombified. It's actually Zoe, the one who has loud, enthusiastic sex on screen and gets her tits out at the start of the movie, who survives to the end.
except that the final girl is eleven-and-a-half...and no longer a virgin... and she's the one who did all the on-screen killing, except for her father whose suicide helped touch off her Roaring Rampage of Revenge. All the child-killer's victims had already been dispatched before the film began, and he's shown burying the last of them in a shallow grave at the beginning. Let's just say that what accounts for her survival in the sorting algorithm is that everyone else in the film was demonstrably even worse.