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Total Film
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Megan Garside

Self-confessed horror buff Sydney Sweeney on what it feels like to be the genre’s new final girl, and which OG scream queens inspire her

Immaculate.

Confirmed horror head Sydney Sweeney never expected to become this generation’s new scream queen, but she may well be after her performance in new movie Immaculate, which she says was influenced by the genre's original final girls.

"I mean, I've always been a fan of the OG final girl Jamie Lee Curtis," Sweeney tells GamesRadar+. "I truly think that John Carpenter and Jamie [on Halloween] kind of submitted the term final girl, like, it existed beforehand, but then they just really nailed it in and everyone was like, we’ve got to do that."

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