One convention of satirical horror is using strong elements of popular movies and parodying them in order to make them funny, films that accomplish this is "Scary Movie', as the main antagonist, a parody of the Scream villain, who is revealed to be comical in childish mannerisms while killing off the main cast. Another character, Buffy, makes fun of the attack her killer is making on her as she purposefully breaks her own leg out of spite as she mocks the villain, even though he goes on to cut off her head.
This clearly makes fun of the stereotypical female victim trope by making her aware, though the comedy fails through the overuse of the joke, the shock factor also adds an element of surprise, the overuse of slapstick in subsequent jokes lessens the impact as it is expected, yet it does not get weighed down by emotional attachment to the characters as most are unlikable and underdeveloped, though this serves to make the comedic atmosphere lighter.
The comedy is generally very old fashioned as it heavily relies on slapstick over dialogue, although some of the physical comedy is more visual, with the villain hiding behind a couch, failing at being scary by destroying the expected element of surprise. Overall as the movie comes to a close it incorporates elements of action satire as they spoof a section of the matrix where the freeze frame occurs in the jump section. This is so different from the other parodied tropes as it does not fit into any horror aspect and somewhat takes the viewer out of the movie, although this is not a huge issue as the movie does not take itself seriously.
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