1.   And the intense violence is now being sold to even younger kids by advertising these films as comic sendups of other slasher flicks.

2.   But this is not a reinvention of the slasher flick.

3.   Campbell gets to stretch her acting muscles beyond teen slasher flicks and proves herself more than capable, and Ullman, too, has some impressive moments.

4.   Here, Douglas is kind of zany and kind of wacko as the receptionist who writes ghoulish slasher flicks.

5.   Jacobs, for instance, has the sort of staying power that psychopaths in slasher flicks might envy.

6.   Slasher flicks, which are always about sexy teenagers encountering murderous madmen, are big moneymakers with teenage audiences.

7.   Slinking into a darkened theater to test-market slasher flicks.

8.   Talking about slasher flicks during a slasher flick is supposed to make slasher fans laugh.