

It got me thinking about all kinds of things. I got the idea for Final Girls while watching the movie Halloween on, you guessed it, Halloween.

It’s a gripping homage to 90s horror movies – which films in particular inspired you the most when writing the book? To celebrate the book’s paperback release last month, we chatted to Sager about the process of writing Final Girls, the unreliable characters in the book and the resilient movie heroines that it’s inspired by.įinal Girls is the story of three women – all survivors of horrific massacres – who the press dub ‘the final girls’. Combining the psychological suspense of Gone Girl with the slasher scares of classic horror, it’s hardly a surprise that the film rights were snapped up by Universal. Hailed by Stephen King as ‘the first great thriller of 2017’, Riley Sager’s Final Girls was one of the most exciting fiction debuts released last summer.
