Dawn of the Dead (2004) Image Analysis - Steven's Death

Within this scene, we see Ana finally killing off Steven. This links into an earlier point of the film where Ana says she’ll kill Steven if he turns. At this point, we can see that Ana has more power over Steven with her phallic weapon. We could link Steven’s death with that of the Female Victim as he has had sex before he dies. This gives Ana more power over Steven and makes her the more likable character. When looking at Ana in this scene, we see that she has blonde hair which is conventional to our female victim. Although we know Ana is the final girl, she breaks conventions by having her hair in a ponytail which gives her another point into the final girl category. If Ana had her hair down instead of bunched up, it would probably give off a much larger sense of her being the female victim. We can compare this with K-Mart (Spencer Locke) from Resident Evil: Afterlife (2004) who also has blonde hair but is a female survivor. Although K-Mart is different from Ana as she has her hair down instead of bunched.