YMMV / How to Survive a Horror Movie

• Harsher in Hindsight: The section on how to deal with the Children of the Corn originally had a joke about Michael Jackson being a pedophile in it. This was removed in the 2019 edition, likely because (Leaving Neverland and its huge controversy aside) such jokes became a lot less comfortable after his death.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • One of the stereotypical horror movie characters listed is "The Sex-Crazed A-Hole (or 'Italian')". This book was originally written in 2007; guess what show came out two years later...
  • One of the signs to immediately say "no" to babysitting is "There's an escaped ____ on the loose." It then says that any noun in that space is probably lethal, "with the possible exception of 'pony'." Given the existence of a certain infamous fanfic, it's safe to say that "pony" is no longer an exception in the Terrorverse.
  • On the list of animals not to trust in the Terrorverse is sloths — the narrator admits that they're only on there because they're the only animals that share a name with one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Years after the book's release, we'd get Slotherhouse, a horror movie about a killer sloth.
• Spiritual Successor: In the appendix to the updated 2019 version of the book, Seth Grahame-Smith referred to The Cabin in the Woods as this, calling it "the reason there will never be a movie adaptation of the book you're currently reading."

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