metahorror
Metahorror is a mode of horror that foregrounds its own status as a constructed text, emphasizing self-reference, genre critique, and audience mediation. Works in this mode typically blur boundaries between fiction and commentary, using self-reflexive narration, fourth-wall awareness, or deliberate subversions of horror tropes to interrogate what scares us and how horror is made.
In film and television, metahorror often deconstructs traditional tropes such as the final girl, jump scares,
In other media, metahorror appears in comics and video games through self-referential storytelling and commentary on