Final Girl, Final Hour: Lizzie’s Survival in Fear Street: Prom Queen (2025)

Every great slasher needs a “final girl,” someone who survives the bloodbath, not just by chance, but by grit, smarts, and emotional strength. In Fear Street: Prom Queen 2025 Lookmovie, that honor goes to Lizzie McVee, a shy newcomer who starts the movie in the shadows and ends it bathed in blood, secrets, and the full weight of Shadyside’s curse.

Lizzie is not your average horror protagonist. She doesn’t begin the movie looking for trouble, nor does she seem like someone equipped to handle it. She has just transferred to Shadyside High, already haunted by a painful past, and hoping for a quiet final year. When she is suddenly nominated for prom queen alongside four other girls and one by one they start turning up dead, she’s thrust into a nightmare she didn’t ask for.

What makes Lizzie such a compelling character is how grounded and real she feels. She panics, she makes mistakes, she doubts herself. But with each death, something inside her sharpens. She starts asking questions. She connects the dots others overlook. She begins to trust her instincts, even when everyone else gaslights her or begs her to stop digging.

Unlike many “final girls,” Lori Granger and Megan Rogers, who stumble into survival, Lizzie earns hers. She pieces together the truth behind the prom curse, unearths a decades-old tragedy, and ultimately confronts the killer in a brutal, emotional climax that feels as much like a reckoning as it does a fight for her life.

And she doesn’t just survive—she grows. The trauma she’s been running from becomes the very thing that helps her understand the twisted motivations at play. By the end, she’s not the girl who wanted to disappear anymore. She’s the girl who stood up when no one else would.

There’s something incredibly satisfying about the way Prom Queen handles its ending. It doesn’t wrap everything up with a neat bow. Lizzie survives—but she doesn’t walk away unchanged. That haunted look in her eyes during the final scene tells us Shadyside hasn’t let her go. Not completely.

She may have beaten the killer. But the curse? That’s another story.

Witness Lizzie’s rise from outsider to final girl in Fear Street: Prom Queen (2025)—now streaming on LookMovie, where horror’s heroines leave a lasting scar.