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b'From Truffaut\\u2019s Day for Night to Burton\\u2019s Ed Wood and countless others, films frequently take the setting of filmmaking as their playground. For horror, the meta-possibilities seem endless. What if a serial killer hired a documentary crew to capture him as he lived the tropes of the slasher? I give you Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon. Or what if a horror veteran reinvigorated a dying genre by creating a horror film where life imitated art \\u2013 a serial killer struck a small town using all the slasher cliches in his arsenal \\u2013 just as a horror film was being released about that town? Oh Wes Craven, you genius.\\n\\nThe options are numerous, but today we focus on those films that use filmmaking as a backdrop to explore both horror and filmmaking, all the while entertaining and horrifying us all.'