10 Perfect Horror Movies About Hollywood

10. The Final Girls

A knockabout horror with a premise so good it’s surprising no one came up with it before, The Final Girls is The Purple Rose Of Cairo meets Friday The 13th. A group of friends go to the movies to see a double bill of a popular slasher franchise. A fire breaks out in the theatre, and the only escape seems to be through a hole in the screen itself.

Only, they quickly realise that they have quite literally ventured to the other side of the screen, emerging in the world of the movie they were watching, the aptly titled Camp Bloodbath.

What follows is a gently teasing love letter to the slasher genre, most particularly Friday The 13th and Sleepaway Camp. The heroes are savvy with the rules of the game, and do everything they can to evade death by trope, keeping the other kids from having sex lest it lure the murderer, the machete-wielding Billy Murphy.

Unlike films with a similar post-modern bent, The Final Girls isn’t here to analyse the effects of the genre - it’s just great, high concept fun that stands alone as a new bloody horror.