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PCD
Since: May, 2021
2023-06-09 20:41:28
Maybe Scream, a parody that was itself later parodied in the Scary Movie series?
Quantumawsome
Since: Apr, 2010

I remember a movie where the protagonist had to deal with a whole bunch of events that would all be instigating factors for a variety of different horror movie premises. At the end, it turned out that there was one ghost responsible for everything, and the ghost just really liked horror movies and wanted to celebrate them. The twist is kinda similar to Cabin in the Woods, but it was a very different type of movie, since none of the intermediate horror premises ended up playing out. I can’t remember the name of the movie at all. It might have been an episode of a TV show instead?