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* ''[[Strange Brew]]'' (1983) had a mind-control agent added to beer.
* Beauline beauty cream in the ''[[Catwoman (film)|Catwoman]]'' movie can transform regular users into [[Made of Iron]], but if someone stops using it they look like a burn victim, ''and'' the heroine's best friend becomes ill enough to be hospitalized simply from using it regularly.
* ''[[The Stuff]]'' takes it to a new level. The eponymous Stuff is marketed as a sort of yogurt and is threatening to put ice cream companies out of business. What it actually is, however, is a living, parasitic (possibly even sentient) alien lifeform that gradually takes over the brain of whoever eats it, then mutates the victim into bizarre zombie-like creatures, and finally consumes them from the inside. All of this is played for [[Black Comedy]] in a movie where the true “villain” is unfettered capitalism.
* The "Regenerate" product seen in the adverts for the ''[[Resident Evil (film)|Resident Evil]]'' films, being made by the giant evil organization.
* The 1989 ''[[Batman (film)|Batman]]'' movie had the Joker lace beauty products with the ingredients for his trademark Smilex poison. The twist was that the contaminated products weren't poisonous on their own; they had to be mixed when the consumer used multiple products together, making it harder to find the cause of the poisoning.
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* Probably unintentionally (although with [[J.J. Abrams]], who knows) averted by the lead-up viral marketing campaign for ''[[Cloverfield]]'', which heavily featured a fictitious drink called "Slusho!", leading to online [[Wild Mass Guessing]] that the monster would be attracted to and devour its imbibers.
* ''[[CSA: Confederate States of America]]'' gives us Contrari, a drug that is supposed to cure [[wikipedia:Drapetomania|drapetomania]], a "condition" that Confederates believe causes their slaves to run away. It pretty obviously just keeps them drugged enough to be compliant.
* The monsters in the 2016 horror-comedy ''[[Attack of the Killer Donuts]]''. These tiny fiends are created when an experimental chemical is accidentally dumped into a donut shop's deep fryer, resulting in donuts that are living and ''evil''. Not exactly the most competent monsters, but then, they ''are'' just donuts.
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