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* The first 45 minutes of ''[[Audition]]'' could easily be mistaken for a romantic drama in which everything is slightly... off. Then we get {{spoiler|Asami's}} [[Establishing Character Moment]], which is so scary that it turns the next half hour of violence-free romance into pure terror.
* The original ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]'' gets two back to back in the same sequence. First we get something that looks like this, specifically the deaths of {{spoiler|Tom and Judy}}. In any other horror movie made at the time, that sequence alone would have been enough to qualify as this trope. It doesn't, but only because the '''real''' punch comes immediately afterward when we see an extremely graphic (for its day) image of the zombies chowing down on the recently charred corpses. [[Roger Ebert]]'s reaction provides the page quote.
** Adding to it was the fact there were ''children'' in the audience because this was ''before'' the MPAA rating. From his [https://web.archive.org/web/20121117011857/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=
{{quote|This was in a typical neighborhood theater, and the kids started filing in 15 minutes early to get good seats up front. }}
** It can be argued that ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]'' was one of these for the entire horror genre.
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