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* [[David Cronenberg]]'s ''[[Videodrome]]'', about a TV signal that causes brain tumors and hallucinations. The discoverers of the signal attach it to a violent [[Gorn]] show {{spoiler|in order to clean up society by killing everyone who watches violent television}}.
* In ''[[Mystery Men]]'', Casanova Frankenstein built a machine that could warp [[Reality Warper|reality itself]]. Apparently the equations underlying it were so complex that anybody who studied them would go insane. Fortunately for Frankenstein, he was [[Obfuscating Insanity|already insane]] and had spent a decade in [[Bedlam House|the asylum]] with several of those scientists.
* ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'' has the Knights who say Ni!. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Like their name makes clear]], they utter the word "Ni!" in a very screechy high pitched voice to hurt passing travelers and scare them into doing their bidding. {{spoiler|
** "Ni!" works whether it's the Knights saying it or someone else, as when King Arthur is [[It Makes Sense in Context|harassing that old woman to find a
* In ''[[Mars Attacks!]]!'', it is discovered that the Martians' main weakness is the singing voice of Slim Whitman, which causes [[Your Head Asplode|their heads to explode]]. Seriously.
** Which is itself likely a call back to ''[[Attack of the Killer Tomatoes]]'', where the title tomatoes are pacified by a song called "Puberty Love". The last tomato, wearing earmuffs, was defeated by {{spoiler|showing it a copy of the sheet music.}}
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