Meta Horror Movies
"The Blackening," "Scream" and More Meta Horror Movies
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Before the "Scream" franchise, Craven helmed the 1994 meta horror film "Wes Craven's New Nightmare," which put a new twist on Freddy Krueger, the villain of "Nightmare on Elm Street" (also a Craven film). But "New Nightmare" isn't an "Elm Street" sequel — it takes the fictional Freddy Krueger and puts him in the real world, where he haunts the very people who made the "Nightmare on Elm Street" films. The movie references the original film constantly, even recreating some sequences.