Dir: Scott Glosserman
Post-modern slasher film in which a documentary crew follows a serial killer as he chooses and stalks a new group of teenage victims. Although it owes a little to the superior "Man Bites Dog", the twist here is that, rather than being a straight killer, our titular Leslie Vernon is a horror movie slasher. There are some truly laugh-out-loud hilarious sequences where he deconstructs all the familiar film tropes for the audience and explains of the difficulty of things like running really fast but making it look like you're walking. Writer/director Glosserman has obviously watched a lot of movies and his film works both as a clever pastiche and a suspenseful slasher in itself. It won't change your life but it's fun, whip-smart stuff that turns the Fourth Wall to rubble - basically the film that "Scream" could've been if it only had a brain. ***
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