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* The Milla Jovovich version of ''[[Joan of Arc]]'' plays out the way the true story went until she is captured by the English, at which point it deconstructs the entire mythology surrounding Joan of Arc. In prison, she meets {{spoiler|(or better said, ''hallucinates'')}} a character (played by Dustin Hoffman) whose only function seems to be to question her calling from God.
* ''[[Saturday Night Fever]]'' harshly deconstructs America's hedonistic take on life in [[The Seventies]]. Sure, there were beautiful clothes, music, and lots of dancing, but there was a dark side to the life led by people like Tony and his friends. For example, Tony, who turns to hedonism as a way to cope with his own life as a low-class Brooklyn guy with a ''really'' [[Dysfunctional Family]], has no thought for the future (and the culture as a whole didn't either), and his friends are involved with [[Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll|drugs, drinking, and casual sex]] which does cause them huge problems.
* ''[[The Babysitter w: Killer Queen]]'' is a comedy-horror that deconstructs many well-known slasher movie Tropes:
** [[Black Dude Dies First]]: John is the only black dude, he’s one of the bad guys, and he is killed ''last'', {{spoiler|unless you count Bee}}.
** [[There Are No Therapists]]: Cole ''is'' actually seeing one, he just doesn't believe Cole's - admittedly far-fetched- story.
** [[Let's Split Up, Gang!]] : Cole really does ''not'' think this is a good idea, warning Phoebe more than once they have to stay together to survive. The bad guys, however, do split up, and it doesn’t end well.
** [[Final Girl]]: Both the male and female lead survive, but Cole seems to get first billing. And he survives by ''losing'' his virginity.
** [[For the Evulz]]: While every member of the cult has obviously passed the [[Moral Event Horizon]], some do have admirable traits. Sonya kills the thug trying to rape Phoebe before going after her and Cole, Max actually compliments Cole more than once for standing up for himself (even though Max is the one he’s standing up to), Sonya, Max, and maybe John don’t seem to think it’s necessary to ''kill'' Cole. Sonya even goes so far as to bring cookies when they’re planning to sacrifice him - whether she actually intends to share them with Cole isn’t specified, but then, seeing as they plan to drain his blood…
** Most notably, Cole and Phoebe survive because they are too [[Genre Savvy]] to fall into the typical Slasher Movie traps, while the bad guys act pretty stupidly. The worst display of this comes when Mary even suggests gang-raping Cole, despite their ritual specifically needing him to be a virgin.
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