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130. Rachel Carruthers (7 points)
Nominated by: RaidenGarai (4/5 remaining)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ3kyQpJPtI

Importance: 2
Fear: 1
Snake: 4

A largely inessential final girl from a largely inessential slasher sequel. In typical Halloween franchise fashion, Rachel is a babysitter to a little girl, this time her adopted sister Jamie Lloyd. Though a plain character on the outset, Ellie Cornell does inject some amount of spunk into her character, but definitely not enough to separate her from her contemporaries if you ask me. She has a cliche boyfriend & a sexually promiscuous rival, all well-trodden ground even at the time of Halloween 4's release. The best parts of her character shine when's just hanging out with Jamie as her sister, sharing a close bond despite not being blood related. This stuff is definitely serviceable, and it does make the climax of the film, where she's trying to shake a crazed Michael off her car, slightly more exciting than it otherwise would be. Rachel is unceremoniously killed in the sequel, a rather contested & controversial death for the series. I too dislike when characters survive a movie just to die early on in the next, it's rather cruel & undeserved, as well as just a cheap too to platform off into the next forgettable plot. If not for this little bit though, I rather think Rachel would be an even more forgotten character than she already is.

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Is this girl the cat or is she the canary?
https://imgur.com/1e1e70S - https://imgur.com/XObpAjw