The monstrous feminine is the more pro-dominant theory used in this narrative since the character Angela starts out as a nice, sweet but rather quiet girl who then after an incident in her church becomes possessed by and ungodly force (most likely the devil) and then turns into this maniacal, vicious and unstoppable monster. Angela's character and her transformation are very similar to 'Carrie' since they both religious girls who have demanding parents, though Angela isn't nearly as shy and doesn't posses any powers from the get-go. The main reason we chose this theory is that if pulled of correctly, this type of theory can be incredibly powerful since it often involves a female character becoming some sort of terrifying creature and usually when the change comes about it's very powerful. The best example of this is 'Carrie' since as the film progresses we connect with Carrie and understand what she's feeling and get to relate to her more as a character, but once she's covered in blood and turns evil the impact is very strong since we care for her seeing the change is very striking. We did something similar with Angela expect that she's not necessarily the evil one, rather that she is being controlled and influenced by and evil spirit, yet the audience already knows what she's like and the change of character due to the result of her actions that aren't actually hers gives off a rather upsetting and rather strong emotion feeling towards her.
We also used the final girl theory but like most films that use this is occurs during the last act of the film. This is when Mason is dead and both Leyla and Freddie have been 'possessed' and it's just Sammie against Angela, Angela pins Sammie down and tries to posses her but Sammie then stabs her in the heart when her guard's down, which dosen't exactly kill her but rather stops her. This theory does play a rather small role in the narrative and our narrative goes against the common convention associated with the final girl theory. What I mean is that in the final girl theory the 'final girl' is the only one who can fight of the killer and this character just so happens to the only developed character throughout the course of the film where as the side characters are based around stereotypes and are simply used to provided killings for the killer (e.g. in Halloween Laurie is only character that is explored and all her friends get next to no development and are just there for Michael Myers to kill), In our narrative Sammie, Leyla, Mason and Freddie are all developed (some more than others) and there purpose in the film is to be there for Angela at the being and try to confront her and the end rather than just being victims for Angela.
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