Character Analysis: The Whore In Horror Movies

Second character will be Jules (The Whore). “The Whore” role in horror movies was to simply sexualize her. Like on the 39-minute and 46-second mark of the film where Jules was drugged by the technicians, so she will act dumb and horny, then later on Curt and she had sex in the forest while the technicians are watching (Goddard). The movie also introduced her in the beginning by presenting her as a blonde chick. This character archetype is also known as “The Cheerleader”, “Slut” or “The Blonde Bimbo. For example, on the 3-minute and 40-second mark of the film where Dana noticed that Jules dyed her hair. Dana said, “Oh my God! Your hair is blonde.” (Goddard). Jules was proud of it and clearly blonde wasn’t her original hair color. A blonde girl is the most cliché character in all horror movies in my opinion.

She is your typical bitchy, sexy and not so smart kind of girl. Basically, all looks and no substance. Jules’ character in the movie was just to expose her body, have sex and be punished and killed brutally. The movie was sexualizing her in a weird way. She’s the easiest one to hate of all the characters. Like what David Denby wrote on his essay “High-School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies”, “The most hated young women in America is a blonde- well, sometimes a redhead or a brunette, but usually a blonde.” (Denby 366). The Whore is the girl which the audience wants to die first, viewer’s mind is saying like “Kill her!”. As a result, most of the audience can relate that for once they knew a girl like this who they hated so much in their life. This character usually dies while having sex or doing something sensual, that’s a fact. Unlike “The Virgin” role, this character doesn’t receive any sympathy at all. Rather, they receive hatred. We tolerate that kind of person in real life because killing or hurting them is