Essay On Meta Horror
The definition of meta, is something that is reflected in itself, or self-referencing of itself in something. It also has to deal with something that is aware of itself. Meta-horror is a horror that self-references itself in the movie, or a horror book. Another concept of meta-horror, is that the characters are going to know how the movie is going to play out, even if they don’t know or think that they are in the movie. In this paper, I will be discussing the two movies I watched in the metahorror genre, You’re Next by Adam Wingard and New Nightmare by Wes Craven. I will talk about two main points, the first being how the two movies show meta horror similarly. Secondly, I will discuss how they discuss and show meta horror in different ways. These movies expressed horror in their own ways, but also in the same ways as movies from the past. You’re Next is American slasher movie directed by Adam Wingard, from 2011. It is about a family who is coming together for a reunion, but some of the characters plotted a nasty surprise for the rest of the family. The family
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The movie is about Freddy’s revenge on the cast of the previous Nightmare movies. Freddy come back from the dead to plot his revenge and haunt the previous casts and main characters of the six other movies before this. At the end of the movie, Wes Craven suggests that Freddy is a supernatural entity that was drawn to his films because they were about him. At the end of the movie, just like a couple of the other Nightmare movies, Heather (the main character of this movie) and her son fall asleep to confront Freddy in his secret realm. Heather and her son, Dylan, team up to kill Freddy. The last scene of the movie shows us Heather and Dylan reading a script of Wes Craven’s next movie, which ended up being the script for this movie. Heather thought that she was just living out her life, but in reality she was staring in a