When making a movie about a man making a movie, a structured ladder of events must occur in order to correlate with a genre's redeeming qualities. If the movie falls into a certain category, it has to represent the elements of that category. In A Classic Horror Story, the usage of the slasher subgenre's clichés functions to achieve a thrilling yet cleverly ironic film.
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