I wonder how many modern-day B-movies start out production with people actually taking the movie seriously, before someone on the production team realizes that the premise is incredibly dumb and that making real horror movies is too hard. Making horror parodies, on the other hand, is incredibly easy. All you've have to do is make the threat over the top and have everyone swear every other word. Y'know, for humor value.*
"We've got a great idea for a movie!"
"What kind of movie?"
"A horror movie!"
"About...?"
"Snakes!"
"Anaconda?"
"No, they're on a plane this time!"
"And what do you want to call it?"
"Okay, okay...Ready? Snakes...wait for it...on a PLANE!"**
"That sounds...stupid."
"Oh..."
"Can we make it a parody?"
"Is Samuel L Jackson available?"
"I have a swimming pool made of money."
"Great, let's make a movie."
And then they spent millions of dollars on it. AND IT WAS AWESOME.
*See: Grindhouse, Evil Dead, etc. Notice that I'm not saying that any of these movies are bad.
**RELEVANT SATIRE
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