Hard Truths

Meta Chills

Elena Lazic, Manuela Lazic

31 Oct 2025

Gleefully playing with established tropes, the three films Elena and Manuela discuss in this new episode of Hard Truths toe the line between comedy and terror, irony and sincerity, fiction and reality: early true crime spoof Man Bites Dog (Rémy Belvaux and André Bonzel, 1992), meta franchise sequel Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994), and French “slasher” High Tension (Alexandre Aja, 2003).

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