Grady Hendrix reimagines the horror movie sequel in 'Final Girl Support Group'

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🗓️ 10 November 2021

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Grady Hendrix LOVES horror movies, especially those old 80's slashers. And his new book is a tribute to that "final girl" at the end of so many of them. The one who doesn't necessarily survive by being smarter or stronger, but simply makes it to the end alive by not giving up. NPR's Audie Cornish interviewed him about his novel Final Girl Support Group, which is about exactly what it sounds like, a support group for women who survived psycho murderers — except it seems like someone's starting to hunt them down... again. As Hendrix says, what's the scariest thing for a "Final Girl?" A sequel.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbong.
0:06.3	Okay, did you see the trailer for Scream 5? It is absolutely bonkers.
0:11.0	When do you like to play a game, Tara?
0:14.3	In it, Nev Campbell is back as Sidney Prescott, and she has to tell whoever the new
0:20.1	main girl is, everything she's learned,
0:22.6	you know, having lived through screams one through four. It's something I thought about while
0:27.9	listening to this interview with author Grady Hendrix. His novel, The Final Girl Support Group,
0:33.8	imagines the survivors of different horror movies coming together and comparing notes
0:38.4	on everything from survival strategies to lingering unease.
0:43.6	And Hendrick says something like,
0:45.0	the only thing a so-called Final Girl can't escape is a sequel.
0:50.0	The book goes deep into his horror film fandom,
0:52.5	and he talks about it with NPR's Audi Cornish.
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