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{{quote|''I'm sorry to the countless people whose lives I've cut short. The characters who've become unwilling sacrifices to my art: The buxom [[Badly-Battered Babysitter|babysitters]]. The [[Police Are Useless|doubting cops]]. The [[Overprotective Dad|overbearing]] [[My Beloved Smother|parents]] and [[Dogged Nice Guy|well-intentioned boyfriends]]. Teens with their whole lives ahead of them. Decent, hardworking adults. All sent to an early grave in the name of [[Money, Dear Boy|box-office gold]].''
|An apology from [[Wes Craven]]}}
You know the handy rules that ''[[Scream (film)|Scream]]'' provided us on surviving a horror movie? Well, somebody's expanded them into a whole book.
'''''How to Survive a Horror Movie''': All the Skills to Dodge the Kills'' is a 2007 book by horror lover Seth Grahame-Smith (of later ''[[Pride and Prejudice And Zombies]]'' fame) that details what you should do in the event that you find yourself stuck in a horror movie. In it, you will learn how to [[The Exorcist|perform an exorcism]], what to do if [[I Know What You Did Last Summer|you did something last summer]], how to persuade [[Police Are Useless|the skeptical local sheriff]], how to kill [[
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* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Of horror movies in general.
* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: Two of the stock characters named in the first chapter are "The Black Guy Who Buys It 20 Minutes In" and "[[Sassy Black Woman|The Black Guy's Girlfriend]] Who Buys It 24 Minutes In".
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** Inverted in the preface, in which Wes Craven apologizes profusely to all the fictional characters he's killed off or terrorized in his films over the years.
* [[Recycled in Space]]: A horror movie set IN SPACE! is a sign of one of two things. On one hand, you could be in a crappy sequel to a slasher franchise that's [[Jumped the Shark]], in which case you'll probably survive, since the writers are getting really lazy by this point. On the other hand, you could be in a big-budget alien monster movie, and with those high production values (usually) comes a better script than the average horror movie—and trickier, more inventive writers trying to kill you.
* [[Running Gag]]: About just how dangerous log cabins are.
* [[Satan]]: Defeated by way of {{spoiler|[[Male Frontal Nudity]], which doesn't exist in the Terrorverse. Therefore, showing your junk will instantly pull you out of a horror movie.}}
** If only that worked in ''[[I Spit on Your Grave]]''...
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