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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 (
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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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* [[Curiosity Killed the Cast]]: Investigating strange sounds is never a good idea.
* [[Dead All Along]]: The book has a very obvious way of testing whether or not this is you. Just ask ''very specific'' questions, not vague ones. To several people, not just one.
* [[Death
* [[Don't Go in The Woods]]
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]
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* [[Rage Against the Author]]: The books are basically a guide for how to escape from malicious horror writers who are trying to get you brutally murdered.
** 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
* [[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
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: The general low quality, low budgets and [[Cliché Storm|clichéd writing]] that show up in [[Sturgeon's Law|many horror movies]] (especially [[Slasher Movie|slashers]]) is a frequent target of parody. One of the "ejection seats" is great, well-written dialogue, and another is fleeing to a location that's far too expensive for the cash-strapped producers of a horror movie to shoot in.
* [[Shout
* [[Sorting Algorithm of Mortality]]
* [[Summer Campy]]: The most dangerous place to be in the Terrorverse is at a summer camp.
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