In the horror genre there is usually the “final girl” (Clover 35).  This is the character that lasts till the end of the movie (Clover 35).
She is the one who encounters the mutilated bodies of her friends and perceives the full extent of the preceding horror and of her own peril; who is chased, cornered, wounded; whom we see scream, stagger, fall, rise, and scream again.  She is abject terror personified. (Clover 35)
Alice is this mainly in this role at the beginning of the movie.  She is the only one in the group who does not have a weapon.  She is the character that starts to get a feeling something is wrong, even though she does not know what.  Alice then has to run from the zombies.  She is the only person that gets out of “The Hive” without being bit.  “She alone looks death in the face, but she also finds the strengeth either to stay the killer long enough to be rescued (ending A) or to kill him herself (ending B)” (Clover 35).  She is also the most moral of the characters present, like her sexually pure counterparts in the slasher genre. 
           
Alice is not just a “final girl”.  She also subscribes to the scopophilic role that is described in Laura Mulvey’s article “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”.  She is constantly zoomed in on and watched.  She is not in action in most of these camera sequences.  She is representing the myth of the perfect female body (Mulvey 2).  She also has a voyeuristic role, where she is a part of the action, but she is passive and the action is happening around her (Mulvey 2-4).