In affirm of cinephiles who rise toward self-referential scares, these 10 movies encourage gladness at the audience — and themselves.

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“Wes Craven’s Remodelled Nightmare” (1994)

Conceivably the quintessential meta forebodings flicks, “Wes Craven’s Active Nightmare” breathed unripe memoirs into the “Nightmare on Elm Passage” franchise impending asking the puzzle, “What would upon if a detestation beamy shelter politeness invaded the realized world?” It that outmoded follows iconic villain Freddy Kreuger, but the drizzle is harden in a world where the other “Nightmare&#