How to Survive a Horror Movie: Difference between revisions

''[['''How to Survive a Horror Movie]]''': All the Skills to Dodge the Kills'' is a 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 [[Childs Play|a murderous doll]], how to survive an [[Alien Invasion]], what to do if [[The Sixth Sense|you've been dead]] [[Dead All Along|since the beginning]] [[It Was His Sled|of the movie]], how to defeat [[Satan]] himself, and many other useful skills. It's divided into six chapters, each devoted to a particular subgenre: an introduction (how to tell that you're in a horror movie, and rules that apply across the genre), [[Slasher Movie|slashers]], evil inanimate objects, the undead (namely [[Our Ghosts Are Different|ghosts]], [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampires]] and [[Zombie Apocalypse|zombies]]), [[Alien Invasion|aliens]] and beasts, and finally, [[Demonic Possession|demonic]] and [[Religious Horror|religious]] evil.

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* [[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 -- andmovie—and trickier, more inventive writers trying to kill you.