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How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

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15

What gloriously campy fun. 
Gory deaths, hellish consequences, hauntings by grotesque corpses, a camera possessed by occult forces with a Faustian twist, and yet the true darkness is Hollywood and its way of doing business and consuming souls. 
The author obviously had a lot he wanted to say about horror movies, slasher films in particular, but I'll admit it was hard to take the discourse seriously, or identify as closely with the final girl or obsessive director-turned-perpetrator because everything was at one remove, analyzing how it all fed into ugly truths about the film industry, horror tropes, etc. It got and stayed too ridiculous for me to be anything other than entertained. If you like how the Scream movies critique horror but also ensure the endings stay true to the genre, I think you'll get a kick out of this. 
⚠️animal death, suicide, gore

August 17, 2024Report this review