10 More Horror Movies Which Broke The Fourth Wall To Scare You

10. Creepshow

George A. Romero's cult-classic centres around young Billy, who's chastised by his father Stan for reading a horror comic called Creepshow. We are then shown five tales of terror from the comic, involving monsters, zombies, giant bugs, and space plants. Once each of these chapters conclude, the action cuts back to Billy before moving onto the next sinister saga.

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Due to this set-up, viewers should quickly get a grasp of the movie's framework. In the comic book world, anything can happen. But since Billy lives in the normal world, everything is grounded in reality.

Or so it seems. In the final scene, Billy becomes so tired of his abusive father, he repeatedly stabs a voodoo doll of Stan.

As Stan screams in pain, exaggerated lines of light spray across the screen, indicating this story doesn't take place in the real world after all.

The camera then zooms out, revealing that everything we saw took place in, you guessed it, a Creepshow comic. Not only was this the perfect way to leave blindside viewers, it perfectly fits with Creepshow's motif that nothing is ever as it seems.

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