Supernatural: Hollywood Babylon
I chose to do this episode of Supernatural because it shows the main characters on a horror movie set that starts off being like all other horror movies. The Winchesters than help the writers make the movie more original. Also I chose to this episode because it is one of my favourites from the show.
Plot Summary: Dean and Sam go to Hollywood to investigate a haunted studio where the lead actress Tara Benchley of a horror movie saw a member of the crew dead and a ghost. Sam researches and finds that four people have died along the last eighty years and the ghost could be any of them. The Winchester brothers are mistaken as PAs and discover that the event was actually a marketing strategy to promote the film. But when the producer Brad Redding first and another executive later die in the set, they discover that a revengeful screenwriter is really summoning fiends in the shooting.
This episode would be a meta fictional episode because it shows scenes of how every single horror movie goes. The horror movie has the preppy girl, the jock, the nerd, the funny person, and the virgin who are in every single horror movie. The preppy girl ends up dying first and so on and so forth. But this makes fun of this genre because Sam and Dean Winchester end up making remarks to other horror films as well as they say it is horrible several times. Also they end up having to fight ghosts in the studio, so the writers make the rest of the film to follow what they did on the set of the movie.
References:
Dean Winchester think he saw Matt Damon. Sam Winchester denies this, because the mentioned person is sweeping the floor, to which Dean replies that probably he is doing research for a new role. This is a reference to Damon's role in Good Will Hunting(1997).
When Dean mentions that he wanted to come to California for "swimming pools, movie stars" (lines from the theme song to The Beverly Hillbillies (1962)), Sam replies that it is not swimming pool weather, as it is "practically Canadian". This is in reference to the fact that Supernatural is not filmed in Los Angeles, but in Vancouver, Canada.
In the trailer for 'Hell Hazers 2' there are several scenes from previous Supernatural episodes. The shot of the knife being dipped in blood (27:00) is from "Bloodlust". The shot of the coffin lid with the lining torn and symbols carved on it (27:06) is from "Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things". When announced that it is from the producers of 'Cornfield Massacare' (27:10) that shot is from "Scarecrow". When 'Monster Truck' is announced (27:12) that shot is from "Route 666".
When Dean tells Tara she was great in 'Boogeyman', she says it was a horrible script. The Script to Boogeyman (2005) was written by Supernatural creator Eric Kripke (who is the creator of the show).
When a take is stopped because of the argument of salt against ghosts, a shotgun is suggested and then rejected as making less sense than salt. The main character, Ash, of The Evil Dead (1981) fights against the dead-come-back-from-hell with a shotgun and a chainsaw.
