Ah. Touché!a clockwork orange?
This does not meet the criteria.a twilight zone episode
The Twilight Zone - To Serve Man
Originally, I had only one Commandment of film stories:
Thou shalt not let the bad guys win.
Se7en (Spacey, Freeman, Pitt, 1995) was the first time I recall encountering a film where the bad guy wins. I came away from that movie wishing I had not seen it. I felt complicit in the triumph of evil over good. (I'm not a prude in that way. It's just that's not really what I look for entertainment-wise when I choose a film to watch.) ...
A film wherein someone is killed for real. It's illegal. Depraved ghouls watch snuff films for entertainment.
Shit!!
Antiheros are OK - it's the glorification of the deaths of innocents that trouble me.Hasn't that been going on in mitigated but gradually increasing degrees ever since the shift to the antihero protagonist, in the overall entertainment industry? I mean, as long a (traditionally) despicable character in a lead role makes a few token gestures to the righteous left and indicates he cares about his children (or something), then he's tolerated if not redeemed from all the other barbarity he commits. Like the example of Tony Soprano not being homophobic about Vito Spatafore in contrast to the rest of the mob, and as far as we know never molesting his kids.
Unfortunately, sculptor has shot a gaping hole in my idea. A Clockwork Orange - a great classic - definitely glorified the rape and violent assault of innocents.
(Then again, unlike my other examples, they didn't die.)