(You could argue fourth-wall breakers like Funny Games and Man Bites Dog do so as well, but I think those flicks are tedious and don't say nearly as much as they think they do. These can go beyond basic game parameters and begin manipulating (or at least appearing to) the player’s television settings like volume, channel number, and so on.
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Only you can pick your genre.”. In spite of the spark of this beginning in 1994 with New Nightmare, Craven was already beginning to do a ton to move horror to a more modern, meta place.

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There’s a scene where Ellie is spooked by a clock, which just happens to be a Big Bad Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood cuckoo clock. Also, its puzzle riddles are cute fun and intuitive, not to mention that the story drags your attention since the first moment!

Song of Horror is a survival horror adventure. For such a small indie team they've done an amazing job for what is one of the creepiest atmospheres in a game. ( Log Out /  Barker. Return was my first ever zombie movie.

Also, the entire saga of Twin Peaks, I’d dive deeper into it but it’s meta towards entertainment in general rather than horror specifically.

Tucker & Dale Vs Evil is one of my faves. this is EXACTLY the kind of thing I am looking for. MetaHorror is an anthology of stories edited by Dennis Etchison. Along with its surprisingly good-looking graphics and quality sound design it's able to fully immerse you into its world of horror. I instantly force-quit the game hoping that my decisions aren’t saved before a cutscene ends but it was too late. For such a small indie team they've done an amazing job for what is one of the creepiest atmospheres in a game.

Imagine the disbelief when the player realized the game was fucking with them? The whole self-aware postmodern meta shit.

It's been twenty years since Wes Craven's meta masterpiece Scream changed the horror genre forever. R/HORROR, known as Dreadit by our subscribers is the premier horror entertainment community on Reddit. Consider this, you’re walking down a passage way, general creepy atmosphere keeping you a little bit tense, until your character spontaneously loses their head…and then keeps going as though nothing happens.

The addition of permadeth is difficult but handled well. It's basically what works in a game regardless of what you wish would work. But what if  a game takes that a step further? “A bunch of articulate teens sit around and deconstruct horror movies until Ghostface kills them one by one. What's this?

All of this just adds more to the thesis being pushed here, as the truth is forced to comment and dissect the fiction that has informed their lives. Not sure what that would look like. Metacinema, also meta-cinema, analogous to metafiction in literature, is a mode of filmmaking in which the film informs the audience that they are watching a work of fiction. To begin with, Cursed lacks the huge reflexive set pieces that kick off New Nightmare and Scream, instead opting to go down a much “hipper” route. I think another interesting thing that this game does is make you address what you think is important and how that object of importance has the ability to scare you.