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* In ''Film/AquamanTheCastOfTheAngler'', the Angler kidnaps Katie King and forces her to watch as he and his goons fight Aquaman.
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* ''Film/ItsAWonderfulKnife2023'': Winnie can only watch helplessly in both timelines as her best friend, mother and aunt are murdered. [[spoiler:She does manage to bring the latter two back however by resetting the timeline.]]
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* ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian2011'': Khalar Zym, along with his daughter Marique (then just a girl) had to watch as her mother Maliva was [[BurnTheWitch burned alive for evil sorcery]].
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* ''Film/TheCondemned'': Paco was crippled and chained up, being unable to get away from hearing or seeing his wife Rosa being raped by [=McStarley=], then murdered.
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* ''Film/TheCondemned'': ''Film/TheCondemned2007'': Paco was crippled and chained up, being unable to get away from hearing or seeing his wife Rosa being raped by [=McStarley=], then murdered.
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* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. Judge Doom does an offhand version of this when he has Eddie Valiant, Roger Rabbit, and Jessica Rabbit captive, providing the page quote.
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* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. Judge Doom does an offhand version of this when he has Eddie Valiant, Roger Rabbit, and Jessica Rabbit held captive, providing the page quote.quote for the main page.
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* ''Film/Requiem2021'': Evelyn is held back from intervening by her father and can only watch as her lover Mary is burned alive for supposedly enchanting her into them being together.
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* The ''[[Film/FridayThe13th2009 Friday the 13th]]'' remake has Jason using a BearTrap to snare Richie and make him watch as Amanda, who he's hung over the campfire in her sleeping bag, is roasted alive, one of the most sadistic things that the SilentSlasher has done to date.
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* The ''[[Film/FridayThe13th2009 Friday the 13th]]'' remake has Jason using a BearTrap to snare Richie and make him watch as Amanda, [[spoiler:Amanda, who he's hung over the campfire in her sleeping bag, is roasted alive, alive]], one of the most sadistic things that the SilentSlasher Jason has done to date.
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* The ''[[Film/FridayThe13th2009 Friday the 13th]]'' remake has Jason using a BearTrap to snare Richie and make him watch as Amanda, who he's hung over the campfire in her sleeping bag, is roasted alive, one of the most sadistic things that the SilentSlasher has done to date.
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* ''Film/BloodRayne'': Rayne, as a girl, could only watch from her hiding place as Kagan murdered her mother.
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* In ''Film/TheRibaldTalesOfRobinHood'', Robin is [[AMinorKidroduction introduced as a boy]] who is forced to watch as Prince John murders his father, and orders his mother and sister raped.
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* ''Film/TheBananaSplitsMovie'': Fleegle forces Thadd into a wooden box and locks him inside, while he makes his fiancé Poppy witness him [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe getting brutally sawed in half]] and then presents his gruesome remains to her. [[spoiler:This causes Poppy to lose her sanity by the end of the film.]]
* ''Film/BerlinSyndrome'': Clare gets the attention of a man who comes to the door and asks him for help. He doesn't know English though, and Andi comes back the same time. She's forced to watch in horror while Andi kills him with a crowbar.
* ''Film/BirdBox'': Deranged survivors feel compelled to do this to others. [[spoiler:Gary speaks of them physically forcing people's eyes open, and indeed, this is what he does to Cheryl at the window.]]
* ''Film/BloodHarvest'': [[spoiler:After stringing Scott up by his ankles, Gary lays Jill on the floor and prepares to rape her, even turning Scott to make sure he has a good view. He's scared into stopping by police sirens.]]
* ''Film/BerlinSyndrome'': Clare gets the attention of a man who comes to the door and asks him for help. He doesn't know English though, and Andi comes back the same time. She's forced to watch in horror while Andi kills him with a crowbar.
* ''Film/BirdBox'': Deranged survivors feel compelled to do this to others. [[spoiler:Gary speaks of them physically forcing people's eyes open, and indeed, this is what he does to Cheryl at the window.]]
* ''Film/BloodHarvest'': [[spoiler:After stringing Scott up by his ankles, Gary lays Jill on the floor and prepares to rape her, even turning Scott to make sure he has a good view. He's scared into stopping by police sirens.]]
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* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** ''Film/TheAvengers2012'': Loki threatens to have [[spoiler:Clint]], who's under Loki's control, ambiguously rape, torture, and finally kill [[ComicBook/BlackWidow Natasha]], and then release him from the mind control to allow him to see what he did before killing him. A bit of variation, however, as it's Natasha who he is threatening.
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'':
*** Both Loki and Gamora are forced to watch [[spoiler:their siblings being tortured in front of them. Both cave in to Thanos's demands.]]
*** When Thor is captured by [[ComicBook/{{Thanos}} Thanos]] and the Black Order, he is BoundAndGagged and can only watch helplessly [[spoiler:as [[ComicBook/{{Loki}} Loki]] and Heimdall are murdered by Thanos in front of him.]]
* ''Film/TheBananaSplitsMovie'': Fleegle forces Thadd into a wooden box and locks him inside, while he makes his fiancé Poppy witness him [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe getting brutally sawed in half]] and then presents his gruesome remains to her. [[spoiler:This causes Poppy to lose her sanity by the end of the film.]]
* ''Film/BerlinSyndrome'': Clare gets the attention of a man who comes to the door and asks him for help. He doesn't know English though, and Andi comes back the same time. She's forced to watch in horror while Andi kills him with a crowbar.
* ''Film/BirdBox'': Deranged survivors feel compelled to do this to others. [[spoiler:Gary speaks of them physically forcing people's eyes open, and indeed, this is what he does to Cheryl at the window.]]
* ''Film/BloodHarvest'': [[spoiler:After stringing Scott up by his ankles, Gary lays Jill on the floor and prepares to rape her, even turning Scott to make sure he has a good view. He's scared into stopping by police sirens.]]
** ''Film/TheAvengers2012'': Loki threatens to have [[spoiler:Clint]], who's under Loki's control, ambiguously rape, torture, and finally kill [[ComicBook/BlackWidow Natasha]], and then release him from the mind control to allow him to see what he did before killing him. A bit of variation, however, as it's Natasha who he is threatening.
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'':
*** Both Loki and Gamora are forced to watch [[spoiler:their siblings being tortured in front of them. Both cave in to Thanos's demands.]]
*** When Thor is captured by [[ComicBook/{{Thanos}} Thanos]] and the Black Order, he is BoundAndGagged and can only watch helplessly [[spoiler:as [[ComicBook/{{Loki}} Loki]] and Heimdall are murdered by Thanos in front of him.]]
* ''Film/TheBananaSplitsMovie'': Fleegle forces Thadd into a wooden box and locks him inside, while he makes his fiancé Poppy witness him [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe getting brutally sawed in half]] and then presents his gruesome remains to her. [[spoiler:This causes Poppy to lose her sanity by the end of the film.]]
* ''Film/BerlinSyndrome'': Clare gets the attention of a man who comes to the door and asks him for help. He doesn't know English though, and Andi comes back the same time. She's forced to watch in horror while Andi kills him with a crowbar.
* ''Film/BirdBox'': Deranged survivors feel compelled to do this to others. [[spoiler:Gary speaks of them physically forcing people's eyes open, and indeed, this is what he does to Cheryl at the window.]]
* ''Film/BloodHarvest'': [[spoiler:After stringing Scott up by his ankles, Gary lays Jill on the floor and prepares to rape her, even turning Scott to make sure he has a good view. He's scared into stopping by police sirens.]]
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* ''Film/LouisTheChildKing'': Louis is forced to watch the bodies of the men who died fighting against the Fronde for him to make a point about the sacrifices needed to secure royal power and order.
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** ''Film/TheAvengers2012'': Loki threatens to have [[spoiler:Clint]], who's under Loki's control, ambiguously rape, torture, and finally kill [[ComicBook/BlackWidow Natasha]], and then release him from the mind control to allow him to see what he did before killing him. A bit of variation, however, as it's Natasha who he is threatening.
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'':
*** Both Loki and Gamora are forced to watch [[spoiler:their siblings being tortured in front of them. Both cave in to Thanos's demands.]]
*** When Thor is captured by [[ComicBook/{{Thanos}} Thanos]] and the Black Order, he is BoundAndGagged and can only watch helplessly [[spoiler:as [[ComicBook/{{Loki}} Loki]] and Heimdall are murdered by Thanos in front of him.]]
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** ''Film/TheAvengers2012'': Loki threatens to have [[spoiler:Clint]], who's under Loki's control, ambiguously rape, torture, and finally kill [[ComicBook/BlackWidow Natasha]], and then release him from the mind control to allow him to see what he did before killing him. A bit of variation, however, as it's Natasha who he is threatening.
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'':
*** Both Loki and Gamora are forced to watch [[spoiler:their siblings being tortured in front of them. Both cave in to Thanos's demands.]]
*** When Thor is captured by [[ComicBook/{{Thanos}} Thanos]] and the Black Order, he is BoundAndGagged and can only watch helplessly [[spoiler:as [[ComicBook/{{Loki}} Loki]] and Heimdall are murdered by Thanos in front of him.]]
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* In the ''Film/DoubleDragon'' movie, not only does Koga Shuko kill Satori Imada, the Lee brothers' guardian, by blowing up her place, but he also uses his Dragon Medallion, the one that grants power over the soul, to take her over just before things go boom, ''just to make her watch''. It manages to be by far the cruelest thing Shuko does in the movie.
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* In the ''Film/DoubleDragon'' ''Film/DoubleDragon1994'' movie, not only does Koga Shuko kill Satori Imada, the Lee brothers' guardian, by blowing up her place, but he also uses his Dragon Medallion, the one that grants power over the soul, to take her over just before things go boom, ''just to make her watch''. It manages to be by far the cruelest thing Shuko does in the movie.
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* ''Film/{{Casino}}'': Nicky Santoro’s gang, on orders from his bosses, make him watch as they bludgeon his brother, Dominick, to within an inch of his life with aluminum bats before turning them on him and [[BuriedAlive burying them both alive]].
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** ''Film/TheAvengers2012'': Loki threatens to have [[spoiler:Clint]], who's under Loki's control, ambiguously rape, torture, and finally kill [[ComicBook/BlackWidow Natasha]], and then release him from the mind control to allow him to see what he did before killing him. A bit of variation, however, as it's Natasha who he is threatening.
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'':
*** Both Loki and Gamora are forced to watch [[spoiler:their siblings being tortured in front of them. Both cave in to Thanos's demands.]]
*** When Thor is captured by [[ComicBook/{{Thanos}} Thanos]] and the Black Order, he is BoundAndGagged and can only watch helplessly [[spoiler:as [[ComicBook/{{Loki}} Loki]] and Heimdall are murdered by Thanos in front of him.]]
* ''Film/TheBananaSplitsMovie'': Fleegle forces Thadd into a wooden box and locks him inside, while he makes his fiancé Poppy witness him [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe getting brutally sawed in half]] and then presents his gruesome remains to her. [[spoiler:This causes Poppy to lose her sanity by the end of the film.]]
* ''Film/BerlinSyndrome'': Clare gets the attention of a man who comes to the door and asks him for help. He doesn't know English though, and Andi comes back the same time. She's forced to watch in horror while Andi kills him with a crowbar.
* ''Film/BirdBox'': Deranged survivors feel compelled to do this to others. [[spoiler:Gary speaks of them physically forcing people's eyes open, and indeed, this is what he does to Cheryl at the window.]]
* ''Film/BloodHarvest'': [[spoiler:After stringing Scott up by his ankles, Gary lays Jill on the floor and prepares to rape her, even turning Scott to make sure he has a good view. He's scared into stopping by police sirens.]]
* ''Film/CatsEye'': In "Quitters, Inc.", after smoking once, Dick is forced to watch Cindy in the electric cage.
%%* In ''Film/AClockworkOrange'', Alex does this to Mr. Alexander.
* ''Film/TheCondemned'': Paco was crippled and chained up, being unable to get away from hearing or seeing his wife Rosa being raped by [=McStarley=], then murdered.
* In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'':
** The Joker makes Harvey Dent listen to [[spoiler:Rachel]]'s last words as part of his EvilPlan to break him.
** One of the Joker's own {{multiple choice past}}s involves him as a child watching helplessly as his father stabbed his mother, then used the same knife to give the future Joker his GlasgowGrin.
* In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', Bane gives the imprisoned Bruce Wayne a satellite connection so he can watch as Bane rips Gotham apart. Bruce smashes the screen before escaping.
* The killer does this to his first victim in ''Film/DieWatching'', setting a TV monitor next to the chair she is tied to so that she can watch him kill her.
* In the ''Film/DoubleDragon'' movie, not only does Koga Shuko kill Satori Imada, the Lee brothers' guardian, by blowing up her place, but he also uses his Dragon Medallion, the one that grants power over the soul, to take her over just before things go boom, ''just to make her watch''. It manages to be by far the cruelest thing Shuko does in the movie.
* In ''Film/EvenLambsHaveTeeth'', Katie and Sloan tie Jed's mother to a chair and force her to watch as they pretend to hang him. Then, just when she thinks he is safe, they shoot him on the head.
* In ''Film/TheFinal'', the outcasts chain their victims to the floor and set up a torture chair in the front of the room, torturing and mutilating them one by one as their friends watch.
* In ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore'', El Indio, the BigBad, in one of his first KickTheDog moments of the movie, forces a guy who took money to place him behind bars to watch as the family that he started with that money (his wife and his little boy) are taken outside and shot to death, while also making him listen to the pocket watch that Indio always carries.
* ''Film/ForcedVengeance''. Creator/ChuckNorris' character leaves his girlfriend Claire with his friend Leroy for protection. Unfortunately TheBrute storms the building with his gangsters and breaks Leroy's back, leaving him paralyzed so he can watch helplessly as Claire is raped and killed.
* Invoked in ''Film/TheGreenHornet''. "He took my favorite toy, and he ripped the head off. Right in front of me."
* A rare instance of a hero subjecting a villain to this happens in ''Film/TheGreenMile''. Percy Wetmore, a sadistic asshole to the core, puts a dry sponge on Delacroix's head before his execution by electric chair, resulting in a truly horrifying sequence when the switch is thrown and Delacroix is burned alive. When Percy sees just how horrific it is to watch someone burn to death he has a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment and [[ICantLookGesture turns away.]] Paul Edgecombe, thoroughly pissed off at Percy, grabs him and forces him to watch the results of his act of cruelty.
-->'''Paul Edgecombe:''' [[PrecisionFStrike YOU WATCH, YOU SON OF A BITCH!]]
* In ''Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies'', Azog takes great delight in holding up [[spoiler:Thorin's nephew Fíli]] and impaling him while Thorin and his companions are too far away to act.
** His son Bolg noticeably pauses right before [[spoiler:he kills Kíli in front of Tauriel]], giving her just enough time to realize what he was about to do.
* ''Film/HotelRwanda'': A heartbreaking example is discussed by a Red Cross worker who tells how she was forced to watch Hutu soldiers butcher Tutsi children, even one who begged her, "Please don't let them kill me. [[ChildrenAreInnocent I promise I won't be Tutsi anymore]]."
* In ''Film/HotSpur'', the 11-year-old Carlo was forced to watch while O'Hare and two of his men raped his 17-year-old sister.
* ''Film/TheHungerGames'': It's required by law that everyone in the Districts watch the Hunger Games in some capacity. It hammers home the message that the Capitol is sending: we can abduct your children and force them to fight to the death in a sensationalist bloodsport ''and there is nothing you can do about it.''
* In ''Film/LadyNinjaKaede'', Kaede is forced to watch as her sister Koharu is raped.
* ''Film/LawAbidingCitizen'': Clyde removes the eyelids of the man who killed his wife and daughter and puts a giant mirror above the operating table he's been strapped to, forcing him to watch as he is tortured and dismembered.
* In ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet4TheDreamMaster'', Freddy forces Alice to watch as he sucks the life out of Sheila, his first victim after the death of [[spoiler:Kristen Parker.]]
* The BigBad's thing in ''Film/{{Opera|1987}}'' is forcing the main character to watch him brutally kill people. He does this by placing needles under her eyes, making her unable to blink.
* ''Film/ThePinkPantherStrikesAgain''. Professor Fassbender refuses to help Dreyfus create a WeaponOfMassDestruction, so Dreyfus "tortures" Fassbender's daughter by dragging his steel-clawed gauntlet on a chalkboard. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fMst4xayY8#t=6m15s Starting at 6:15]].
* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'': After Bootstrap Bill betrays him by helping Will escape the Flying Dutchman, Davy Jones makes him watch as he summons the Kraken to destroy the ship that Will is currently on. Though Bootstrap is initially unaware of it, Will gets out alive.
* General Chance in ''Film/PlunkettAndMacleane'', in a ''supreme'' KickTheDog moment, forces [[LoveInterest Rebecca]] to watch as [[spoiler:Macleane is hanged]].
-->'''Chance:''' Open your eyes!
* ''Film/TheQuickAndTheDead''. As a child, Lady was forced to watch Herod hang her father, who asks the BigBad not to let her watch. Instead, Herod says he'll let her father go if she's able to ShootTheRope. [[spoiler:Unused to the heavy revolver, she accidentally puts a bullet in her father's head.]]
* In ''Film/RazorsTheReturnOfJackTheRipper'', [[spoiler:Professor Wise seizes Sadie and holds her: forcing her to watch as UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper murders Jane.]]
* ''Film/RedEye'': Inverted. When Rippner faces Lisa in their final confrontation, Rippner tells Lisa that he is going to make her father watch what he's going to do to her (instead of the hero/heroine watching a loved one get harmed). Whatever he was planning on doing, it is averted in the end.
* ''Film/RoboCop2'': Hob turns away as Cain mercilessly butchers a traitor to his cause. Cain, proving just how evil he is, forces the maybe-15-years-old-tops Hob to watch anyway.
* In ''Film/{{Salt}}'', the heroine is forced to watch her husband getting drowned by Russian mobsters. The scene is particularly cruel as she is actually being asked if she wants to save her husband but doing so would have blown her cover.
* Done, quite notoriously, to Tony in ''Film/{{Scarface|1983}}''. After being captured in a drug deal gone bad, Tony is forced to watch as Angel is messily dismembered with a chainsaw. He's rescued just before facing the same fate.
* Mal does this to the Operative in ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' -- torture in this case being watching a heartbroken Alliance researcher tell and show off the atrocity on Miranda -- the Alliance's greatest crime -- right before the speaker is [[spoiler:attacked, raped, and ultimately eaten by Reavers. The feed goes on.]] It also tortures him in a different way. It destroys his entire view that the Alliance is truly making the universe a better place, [[KnightTemplar which is the reason he was doing horrible things for them.]]
* In Marv's short of ''Film/SinCity'', his friend and parole officer Lucille was kidnapped by the cannibal Kevin, who then cut off and ate her hand. When Marv finds her, the poor woman breaks down and cries "he made me watch!"
* In ''Film/{{Snatch}}'', in retribution for refusing to [[FixingTheGame throw a match]], [[FightingIrish Mickey]] is forced to watch his mother's caravan burn down while she's asleep inside.
* In ''Film/{{Soldier}}'', the SuperSoldier squad is forced to watch a pack of dogs attacking a wild boar as children during their training.
* ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' parodies this; the bad guys' plan to have the King give the air-shield combination is to force him to watch them give his daughter back ... her old nose!
* ''Film/Spawn1997'': After Clown's plan is foiled in the climax, he prepares to rape Wanda in front of a beaten Spawn and forces him to watch. Cogliostro intervenes to prevent this, prompting Clown to retreat to Hell.
* This happens in ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' when [[spoiler:[[BigBad Blofeld]] forces Madeleine to watch Mr. White commit suicide. When Bond tells Blofeld to shut off the video, one of the SPECTRE thugs hit him in the leg. Bond convinces Madeleine not to watch before the thug knocks him out. Blofeld later forces Madeleine to watch Bond being tortured.]]
* Wendy Teller's first scene ''Film/SpecialForces'' have her being forced to remain where she is, watching General Rafendek's army having two hundred Moldivian refugees massacred in their DeathMarch while capturing the entire scene on camera. Later on, the heroes have to stay behind their cover and remain silent while Rafendek had their new ally, a local schoolteacher named Saira, executed for educating lower-class citizens, and another scene where Rafendek's soldiers captures two of the heroes - protagonist Don Harding and their team's FriendlySniper, Jess - alive, and then making Harding watch while he had Jess executed.
* ''Film/StarTrek2009'': Nero [[WatchingTroyBurn makes Spock watch]] as he [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroys his home planet]].
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** Princess Leia was forced to watch the destruction of Alderaan in ''Film/ANewHope''.
** It's the core of the Emperor's plan in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'': park Luke in front of a window with a view of the slaughter of the Alliance fleet, and indulge in some good old-fashioned EvilGloating until he's ready to cross the MoralEventHorizon.
** It happens again in ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'', where [[spoiler: Palpatine]] shows Rey the resistance fleet getting curb-stomped, and tells her that she can stop it if she'll just take the Sith throne.
* ''Film/StreetFighterTheLegendOfChunLi'': After capturing Chun-Li and letting her see her father again, Bison enters, declares that Chun-Li's dad had [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness to him]], and then proceeded to [[NeckSnap snap his neck]] right in front of her despite her pleas.
* A rather [[NightmareFuel chilling]] example in ''Film/StrangeDays'': a rapist blindfolds his victim, then hooks her up to the memory-recording device he's using at that moment... forcing her to experience her own rape and subsequent murder as though she were in his body. So not only is it happening to her, she's forced to get off on it the way he is.
* Bryan Mills threatens to invoke this in ''Film/{{Taken}}'' when confronting a corrupt French agent about the whereabouts of his kidnapped daughter. After the agent attempts to intimidate him into dropping the case, Bryan shoots the agent's wife in the arm, assures him that [[OnlyAFleshWound he only winged her]], and orders him to help, or "the last thing you'll see before I make your children orphans is the bullet I put between her eyes." The agent complies.
** In the sequel, the tables are turned and it's Bryan who is told that he'll have to watch his ex-wife die when her throat is partially slit and she's suspended upside down to bleed out.
* In ''Film/TenDeadMen'', Hart's men hold Ryan down and force him to watch as his girlfriend Amy is shot and killed: close enough that her blood splatters over Ryan's face.
* This backfires in ''Film/{{Tenet}}'' when Sator sends his goons to rough up the Protagonist because he ''might'' be having an affair with his abused wife Kat. She tries to leave the scene, but the driver refuses to do so, so she can watch what happens. What Kat actually sees is the Protagonist kicking ass and walking off unharmed, convincing her to seek his help. Played straight later on when Sator forces the Protagonist to watch him shoot Kat with an inverted bullet.
* In ''Film/UnderworldRiseOfTheLycans'', after Sonja is tried and found guilty of high treason [[spoiler:mainly due to her being impregnated by her lover, the werewolf Lucian, with a child who would be half vampire, half werewolf]], her punishment consisted of having her chained to a pillar and Lucian chained to the floor face-to-face, where she was forced to watch Lucian get whipped. Then, [[FromBadToWorse it all gets worse]] when Lucian was then forced to watch her [[spoiler:get burned to death by exposure to the sun.]]
* In ''Film/WarCraft2016'', when Medivh's shield accidentally separates Lothar and Callan, trapping the latter with an orc warband, Lothar can do nothing but watch as [[spoiler:his son's entire unit is slaughtered and Callan himself is impaled by Blackhand.]] The orc even looks up to check if Lothar's watching.
* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. Judge Doom does an offhand version of this when he has Eddie Valiant, Roger Rabbit, and Jessica Rabbit captive, providing the page quote.
* In ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', when the Wicked Witch of the West has Dorothy and her friends cornered at the climax of the movie, she gloats, "The last to go will see the first three go before her. [[AndYourLittleDogToo And her mangy little dog, too!]]"
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* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** ''Film/TheAvengers2012'': Loki threatens to have [[spoiler:Clint]], who's under Loki's control, ambiguously rape, torture, and finally kill [[ComicBook/BlackWidow Natasha]], and then release him from the mind control to allow him to see what he did before killing him. A bit of variation, however, as it's Natasha who he is threatening.
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'':
*** Both Loki and Gamora are forced to watch [[spoiler:their siblings being tortured in front of them. Both cave in to Thanos's demands.]]
*** When Thor is captured by [[ComicBook/{{Thanos}} Thanos]] and the Black Order, he is BoundAndGagged and can only watch helplessly [[spoiler:as [[ComicBook/{{Loki}} Loki]] and Heimdall are murdered by Thanos in front of him.]]
* ''Film/TheBananaSplitsMovie'': Fleegle forces Thadd into a wooden box and locks him inside, while he makes his fiancé Poppy witness him [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe getting brutally sawed in half]] and then presents his gruesome remains to her. [[spoiler:This causes Poppy to lose her sanity by the end of the film.]]
* ''Film/BerlinSyndrome'': Clare gets the attention of a man who comes to the door and asks him for help. He doesn't know English though, and Andi comes back the same time. She's forced to watch in horror while Andi kills him with a crowbar.
* ''Film/BirdBox'': Deranged survivors feel compelled to do this to others. [[spoiler:Gary speaks of them physically forcing people's eyes open, and indeed, this is what he does to Cheryl at the window.]]
* ''Film/BloodHarvest'': [[spoiler:After stringing Scott up by his ankles, Gary lays Jill on the floor and prepares to rape her, even turning Scott to make sure he has a good view. He's scared into stopping by police sirens.]]
* ''Film/CatsEye'': In "Quitters, Inc.", after smoking once, Dick is forced to watch Cindy in the electric cage.
%%* In ''Film/AClockworkOrange'', Alex does this to Mr. Alexander.
* ''Film/TheCondemned'': Paco was crippled and chained up, being unable to get away from hearing or seeing his wife Rosa being raped by [=McStarley=], then murdered.
* In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'':
** The Joker makes Harvey Dent listen to [[spoiler:Rachel]]'s last words as part of his EvilPlan to break him.
** One of the Joker's own {{multiple choice past}}s involves him as a child watching helplessly as his father stabbed his mother, then used the same knife to give the future Joker his GlasgowGrin.
* In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', Bane gives the imprisoned Bruce Wayne a satellite connection so he can watch as Bane rips Gotham apart. Bruce smashes the screen before escaping.
* The killer does this to his first victim in ''Film/DieWatching'', setting a TV monitor next to the chair she is tied to so that she can watch him kill her.
* In the ''Film/DoubleDragon'' movie, not only does Koga Shuko kill Satori Imada, the Lee brothers' guardian, by blowing up her place, but he also uses his Dragon Medallion, the one that grants power over the soul, to take her over just before things go boom, ''just to make her watch''. It manages to be by far the cruelest thing Shuko does in the movie.
* In ''Film/EvenLambsHaveTeeth'', Katie and Sloan tie Jed's mother to a chair and force her to watch as they pretend to hang him. Then, just when she thinks he is safe, they shoot him on the head.
* In ''Film/TheFinal'', the outcasts chain their victims to the floor and set up a torture chair in the front of the room, torturing and mutilating them one by one as their friends watch.
* In ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore'', El Indio, the BigBad, in one of his first KickTheDog moments of the movie, forces a guy who took money to place him behind bars to watch as the family that he started with that money (his wife and his little boy) are taken outside and shot to death, while also making him listen to the pocket watch that Indio always carries.
* ''Film/ForcedVengeance''. Creator/ChuckNorris' character leaves his girlfriend Claire with his friend Leroy for protection. Unfortunately TheBrute storms the building with his gangsters and breaks Leroy's back, leaving him paralyzed so he can watch helplessly as Claire is raped and killed.
* Invoked in ''Film/TheGreenHornet''. "He took my favorite toy, and he ripped the head off. Right in front of me."
* A rare instance of a hero subjecting a villain to this happens in ''Film/TheGreenMile''. Percy Wetmore, a sadistic asshole to the core, puts a dry sponge on Delacroix's head before his execution by electric chair, resulting in a truly horrifying sequence when the switch is thrown and Delacroix is burned alive. When Percy sees just how horrific it is to watch someone burn to death he has a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment and [[ICantLookGesture turns away.]] Paul Edgecombe, thoroughly pissed off at Percy, grabs him and forces him to watch the results of his act of cruelty.
-->'''Paul Edgecombe:''' [[PrecisionFStrike YOU WATCH, YOU SON OF A BITCH!]]
* In ''Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies'', Azog takes great delight in holding up [[spoiler:Thorin's nephew Fíli]] and impaling him while Thorin and his companions are too far away to act.
** His son Bolg noticeably pauses right before [[spoiler:he kills Kíli in front of Tauriel]], giving her just enough time to realize what he was about to do.
* ''Film/HotelRwanda'': A heartbreaking example is discussed by a Red Cross worker who tells how she was forced to watch Hutu soldiers butcher Tutsi children, even one who begged her, "Please don't let them kill me. [[ChildrenAreInnocent I promise I won't be Tutsi anymore]]."
* In ''Film/HotSpur'', the 11-year-old Carlo was forced to watch while O'Hare and two of his men raped his 17-year-old sister.
* ''Film/TheHungerGames'': It's required by law that everyone in the Districts watch the Hunger Games in some capacity. It hammers home the message that the Capitol is sending: we can abduct your children and force them to fight to the death in a sensationalist bloodsport ''and there is nothing you can do about it.''
* In ''Film/LadyNinjaKaede'', Kaede is forced to watch as her sister Koharu is raped.
* ''Film/LawAbidingCitizen'': Clyde removes the eyelids of the man who killed his wife and daughter and puts a giant mirror above the operating table he's been strapped to, forcing him to watch as he is tortured and dismembered.
* In ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet4TheDreamMaster'', Freddy forces Alice to watch as he sucks the life out of Sheila, his first victim after the death of [[spoiler:Kristen Parker.]]
* The BigBad's thing in ''Film/{{Opera|1987}}'' is forcing the main character to watch him brutally kill people. He does this by placing needles under her eyes, making her unable to blink.
* ''Film/ThePinkPantherStrikesAgain''. Professor Fassbender refuses to help Dreyfus create a WeaponOfMassDestruction, so Dreyfus "tortures" Fassbender's daughter by dragging his steel-clawed gauntlet on a chalkboard. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fMst4xayY8#t=6m15s Starting at 6:15]].
* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'': After Bootstrap Bill betrays him by helping Will escape the Flying Dutchman, Davy Jones makes him watch as he summons the Kraken to destroy the ship that Will is currently on. Though Bootstrap is initially unaware of it, Will gets out alive.
* General Chance in ''Film/PlunkettAndMacleane'', in a ''supreme'' KickTheDog moment, forces [[LoveInterest Rebecca]] to watch as [[spoiler:Macleane is hanged]].
-->'''Chance:''' Open your eyes!
* ''Film/TheQuickAndTheDead''. As a child, Lady was forced to watch Herod hang her father, who asks the BigBad not to let her watch. Instead, Herod says he'll let her father go if she's able to ShootTheRope. [[spoiler:Unused to the heavy revolver, she accidentally puts a bullet in her father's head.]]
* In ''Film/RazorsTheReturnOfJackTheRipper'', [[spoiler:Professor Wise seizes Sadie and holds her: forcing her to watch as UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper murders Jane.]]
* ''Film/RedEye'': Inverted. When Rippner faces Lisa in their final confrontation, Rippner tells Lisa that he is going to make her father watch what he's going to do to her (instead of the hero/heroine watching a loved one get harmed). Whatever he was planning on doing, it is averted in the end.
* ''Film/RoboCop2'': Hob turns away as Cain mercilessly butchers a traitor to his cause. Cain, proving just how evil he is, forces the maybe-15-years-old-tops Hob to watch anyway.
* In ''Film/{{Salt}}'', the heroine is forced to watch her husband getting drowned by Russian mobsters. The scene is particularly cruel as she is actually being asked if she wants to save her husband but doing so would have blown her cover.
* Done, quite notoriously, to Tony in ''Film/{{Scarface|1983}}''. After being captured in a drug deal gone bad, Tony is forced to watch as Angel is messily dismembered with a chainsaw. He's rescued just before facing the same fate.
* Mal does this to the Operative in ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' -- torture in this case being watching a heartbroken Alliance researcher tell and show off the atrocity on Miranda -- the Alliance's greatest crime -- right before the speaker is [[spoiler:attacked, raped, and ultimately eaten by Reavers. The feed goes on.]] It also tortures him in a different way. It destroys his entire view that the Alliance is truly making the universe a better place, [[KnightTemplar which is the reason he was doing horrible things for them.]]
* In Marv's short of ''Film/SinCity'', his friend and parole officer Lucille was kidnapped by the cannibal Kevin, who then cut off and ate her hand. When Marv finds her, the poor woman breaks down and cries "he made me watch!"
* In ''Film/{{Snatch}}'', in retribution for refusing to [[FixingTheGame throw a match]], [[FightingIrish Mickey]] is forced to watch his mother's caravan burn down while she's asleep inside.
* In ''Film/{{Soldier}}'', the SuperSoldier squad is forced to watch a pack of dogs attacking a wild boar as children during their training.
* ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' parodies this; the bad guys' plan to have the King give the air-shield combination is to force him to watch them give his daughter back ... her old nose!
* ''Film/Spawn1997'': After Clown's plan is foiled in the climax, he prepares to rape Wanda in front of a beaten Spawn and forces him to watch. Cogliostro intervenes to prevent this, prompting Clown to retreat to Hell.
* This happens in ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' when [[spoiler:[[BigBad Blofeld]] forces Madeleine to watch Mr. White commit suicide. When Bond tells Blofeld to shut off the video, one of the SPECTRE thugs hit him in the leg. Bond convinces Madeleine not to watch before the thug knocks him out. Blofeld later forces Madeleine to watch Bond being tortured.]]
* Wendy Teller's first scene ''Film/SpecialForces'' have her being forced to remain where she is, watching General Rafendek's army having two hundred Moldivian refugees massacred in their DeathMarch while capturing the entire scene on camera. Later on, the heroes have to stay behind their cover and remain silent while Rafendek had their new ally, a local schoolteacher named Saira, executed for educating lower-class citizens, and another scene where Rafendek's soldiers captures two of the heroes - protagonist Don Harding and their team's FriendlySniper, Jess - alive, and then making Harding watch while he had Jess executed.
* ''Film/StarTrek2009'': Nero [[WatchingTroyBurn makes Spock watch]] as he [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroys his home planet]].
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** Princess Leia was forced to watch the destruction of Alderaan in ''Film/ANewHope''.
** It's the core of the Emperor's plan in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'': park Luke in front of a window with a view of the slaughter of the Alliance fleet, and indulge in some good old-fashioned EvilGloating until he's ready to cross the MoralEventHorizon.
** It happens again in ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'', where [[spoiler: Palpatine]] shows Rey the resistance fleet getting curb-stomped, and tells her that she can stop it if she'll just take the Sith throne.
* ''Film/StreetFighterTheLegendOfChunLi'': After capturing Chun-Li and letting her see her father again, Bison enters, declares that Chun-Li's dad had [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness to him]], and then proceeded to [[NeckSnap snap his neck]] right in front of her despite her pleas.
* A rather [[NightmareFuel chilling]] example in ''Film/StrangeDays'': a rapist blindfolds his victim, then hooks her up to the memory-recording device he's using at that moment... forcing her to experience her own rape and subsequent murder as though she were in his body. So not only is it happening to her, she's forced to get off on it the way he is.
* Bryan Mills threatens to invoke this in ''Film/{{Taken}}'' when confronting a corrupt French agent about the whereabouts of his kidnapped daughter. After the agent attempts to intimidate him into dropping the case, Bryan shoots the agent's wife in the arm, assures him that [[OnlyAFleshWound he only winged her]], and orders him to help, or "the last thing you'll see before I make your children orphans is the bullet I put between her eyes." The agent complies.
** In the sequel, the tables are turned and it's Bryan who is told that he'll have to watch his ex-wife die when her throat is partially slit and she's suspended upside down to bleed out.
* In ''Film/TenDeadMen'', Hart's men hold Ryan down and force him to watch as his girlfriend Amy is shot and killed: close enough that her blood splatters over Ryan's face.
* This backfires in ''Film/{{Tenet}}'' when Sator sends his goons to rough up the Protagonist because he ''might'' be having an affair with his abused wife Kat. She tries to leave the scene, but the driver refuses to do so, so she can watch what happens. What Kat actually sees is the Protagonist kicking ass and walking off unharmed, convincing her to seek his help. Played straight later on when Sator forces the Protagonist to watch him shoot Kat with an inverted bullet.
* In ''Film/UnderworldRiseOfTheLycans'', after Sonja is tried and found guilty of high treason [[spoiler:mainly due to her being impregnated by her lover, the werewolf Lucian, with a child who would be half vampire, half werewolf]], her punishment consisted of having her chained to a pillar and Lucian chained to the floor face-to-face, where she was forced to watch Lucian get whipped. Then, [[FromBadToWorse it all gets worse]] when Lucian was then forced to watch her [[spoiler:get burned to death by exposure to the sun.]]
* In ''Film/WarCraft2016'', when Medivh's shield accidentally separates Lothar and Callan, trapping the latter with an orc warband, Lothar can do nothing but watch as [[spoiler:his son's entire unit is slaughtered and Callan himself is impaled by Blackhand.]] The orc even looks up to check if Lothar's watching.
* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. Judge Doom does an offhand version of this when he has Eddie Valiant, Roger Rabbit, and Jessica Rabbit captive, providing the page quote.
* In ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', when the Wicked Witch of the West has Dorothy and her friends cornered at the climax of the movie, she gloats, "The last to go will see the first three go before her. [[AndYourLittleDogToo And her mangy little dog, too!]]"
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