What if a horror movie, but as soon as things start getting suspicious, the actors turn to the camera and go “oh, we heard you screaming “get out of there! You’re in a horror movie!” Thanks for the warning! We’re getting the fuck out. But the price of your good deed is that there’ll be nothing to entertain you anymore.” And then flee the set. The camera keeps rolling. The rest of the movie is nothing happening, or perhaps the monster/killer/whatever running around looking for someone to kill so it’s kind of disturbing and the audience doesn’t have to just be bored.


‘Cabin in the woods’ was kind of the opposite of this along the same discursive lines; about audience complicity.