Genre: Meta

Meta stories know they’re stories — works that turn the lens on storytelling itself, playing with form, genre, and the reader’s expectations.

  • The Cabin in the Woods (2011) Cover

    The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

    Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon's meta-horror about college students at a remote cabin who discover their ordeal is engineered.
    Comedy • Horror • Meta • Supernatural
    May 19, '26
  • Scream (1996) Cover

    Scream (1996)

    Wes Craven directs the meta slasher about a high school targeted by a killer in a Ghostface mask who knows horror conventions.
    Horror • Meta • Slasher
    May 19, '26
  • The Final Girls (2015) Cover

    The Final Girls (2015)

    Todd Strauss-Schulson's 2015 American meta-horror comedy about a grieving teenager and her friends pulled into the 1980s slasher film starring her dead mother where the cheerleader and counselor characters are stalked by a masked killer. Taissa Farmiga and Malin Akerman star in the canonical 2010s meta-slasher.
    Cheerleader • Comedy • Horror • Meta
    May 19, '26
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