My favourite choice of scene from all of my horror research is from Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010). In this scene, we see Alice (Milla Jovovich) as the main protagonist conforming to the overall stereotype for female survivors. We see this through the use of her short, brown hair, tomboyish dress sense, lack of interest in make-up and her overall attitude. From this screenshot, we can see an empty emotionless expression which tells the audience that she isn't afraid of what may happen giving her a tougher outlook than most other females in the film. The use of her guns could be seen as her phallic symbols, which are kept on her at all times and give her the symbolic power of males. This is also quite useful as later on in the scene, she is thrown the weapons when defenceless by K-Mart (Spencer Locke) who is portrayed as being a weaker character, but develops male strength throughout the series. The fact that both of them help to deal with Bennett (Kim Coates), a person displayed to be your ideologically “slime-ball” villain shows that there is a much stronger picture of female empowerment throughout these films.
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