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* This (along with [[Gorn]] and [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]) is pretty much the point of ''[[Funny Games]]''. It is the one of very few films in history to give you the option of turning off the movie and walking away to "save" the family therein. If you watch it right to the end, you are a massive bastard, being as you didn't "save" the family when you had the choice. If you enjoyed watching the film, you didn't get it. [[Title Drop|You bastard.]]
* The 2000 [[Russell Crowe]] movie ''[[Gladiator (film)|Gladiator]]'' has the title character pulling this on his audience, and perhaps the viewers by extension.
** Of course, the difference between the two is that the in-film audience is ''actually'' watching people die, while the movie audience can be fairly certain all the actors went home at the end of the day.
* The Belgian movie ''[[Man Bites Dog]]'' is based around this trope. It's a satire of the media's glorification of violence and criminals done as mockumentary about a film maker who follows a [[Serial Killer]] around and films his crimes. The killer himself is [[Affably Evil|charming and likable]] and the violence is played as [[Black Comedy]], but then it throws in a couple of scenes so disturbing that it makes viewers feel queasy for enjoying the rest of it.
* [[WWE]]-sponsored [[Battle Royale]] ripoff ''The Condemned'' tries to have this as its [[Aesop]] with the infamous line, "Those of us who watch... are we [[Title Drop|the Condemned]]?"
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* In ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]'', after an intense confrontation between Ben and Harry:
{{quote|'''Ben''': ''I oughta drag you out there and FEED you to those [[Not Using the Z Word|things]]!''}}
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