Similar to metafiction in technique, metafilm is the style of the film-making shows that the film is a metaphor about the production of the film and that the audience is tied in with the drama unfolding on the screen. Examples of this would be Federico Fellini's 8½, François Truffaut's Day for Night, Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mepris, Spike Jonze's Adaptation., Tom DiCillo's Living in Oblivion, Alejandro Jodorowsky's "The Holy Mountain", Wes Craven's New Nightmare and Michael Powell's Peeping Tom.

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