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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.
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* [[Final Girl]]: Lampshaded, like so many other horror tropes.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: What this book is supposed to make you be. It points out dozens of horror movie clichés, tells you how to [[Defied Trope|defy]] and [[Subverted Trope]] them, what to do if you ''do'' make that clichéd choice...
* [[Genre Shift]]: One of the "ejection seats" (quick escapes from the Terrorverse of horror movies) provided is to start acting as though you were in another movie, such as a [[Wacky Fratboy Hijinx|wacky teen comedy]], an [[Le Film Artistique|artsy foreign film]], a [[Period Piece|Merchant-Ivory work]], or a [[Everybody Was Kung -Fu Fighting|Kung-fu]] [[Hong Kong Dub|movie]].
* [[The Lost Woods]]
* [[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.
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* [[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]]''...
* [[Self -Deprecation]]: The general low quality, low budgets and [[ClicheCliché Storm|clichéd writing]] that show up in [[SturgeonsSturgeon'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 Out]]: By the boatload, to just about every classic horror movie and to some not-so-classic ones. Some of the scenarios are [[Whole -Plot Reference|Whole Plot References]] to ''[[Snakes On a Plane]]'', ''[[Children of the Corn]]'' and ''[[The Exorcist (Film)|The Exorcist]]''.
* [[Sorting Algorithm of Mortality]]
* [[Summer Campy]]: The most dangerous place to be in the Terrorverse is at a summer camp.
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