10 Best Fake Horror Movies Within Horror Movies

2. Coed Frenzy

Appears in: Blow Out

The fake film: For all that Scream's Randy Meeks might insist on how sex means death in a slasher film, the likes of Groundhog Day, Garden Tool Massacre and Stab are not exactly wall to wall !*$% and ass. Not so Coed Frenzy. The eponymous frenzy is as much an orgy of nude teenage flesh as it is of blood and guts. The film's signature scene features a point of view shot from the killer's perspective Halloween-style as he stalks the college campus, spying sex and nudity in every window, before entering the girls' showers to hack and slash at the wet, bare chested coeds inside. At least the screams provided by sound technician Jack Terry have a certain power to them.

The real film: Director Brian De Palma has always skirted the line between homage and rip off and in Blow Out his usual Hitchcockian aspects combine with a plot inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow Up and aspects of Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation. In the titillation heavy exploitation flick that Jack (John Travolta) works on when he accidentally records an assassination attempt, De Palma also pastiches the derivative teen horrors of the era that his Carrie, with its own memorably disturbing shower scene, rose above. Making his protagonist and plot mechanics audio focused in the face of a voyeuristic genre is a strong choice from De Palma and gives Blow Out a downbeat conclusion once Jack has found the perfect scream for the film's soundtrack.