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* ''Literature/TheMangler'' (published in the collection ''NightShift''), a killer laundry machine.

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* ''Literature/TheMangler'' (published in the collection ''NightShift''), ''Literature/NightShift''), a killer laundry machine.
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* ''Film/{{Sharknado}}'' [[XMeetsY combines this with]] DisasterMovie in [[SoBadItsGood premise so preposterous]] that no one will be afraid of the dark, or water, or wind, as a result of it.
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* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' has touched on this trope in several strips, including "Scene from the film ''Giraffes IV'': This time, they're not just looking for acacia leaves."
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* Unlike the [[MonsterOfTheDay Monsters of the Day]] from previous seasons, the Daimons/Heart Snatchers from ''[[SailorMoon Sailor Moon S]]'' were normal objects infected with a Daimon egg/pod and transformed into monstrous beings [[MonogenderMonsters female in appearance]]. Said objects included a sport car, a vacumm cleaner, a violin, a train, a script for a TV show, a star projector (this episode was skipped during the show's first run on CartoonNetwork due to the resulting daimon resembling [[http://sailormoon.wikia.com/wiki/File:Uchoten.jpg a scantily clad carnival dancer]]) just to name a few.

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* Unlike the [[MonsterOfTheDay Monsters of the Day]] from previous seasons, the Daimons/Heart Snatchers from ''[[SailorMoon Sailor Moon S]]'' were normal objects infected with a Daimon egg/pod and transformed into monstrous beings [[MonogenderMonsters female in appearance]]. Said objects included a sport car, a vacumm vacuum cleaner, a violin, a train, a script for a TV show, a star projector (this episode was skipped during the show's first run on CartoonNetwork Creator/CartoonNetwork due to the resulting daimon resembling [[http://sailormoon.wikia.com/wiki/File:Uchoten.jpg a scantily clad carnival dancer]]) just to name a few.
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*Unlike the [[MonsterOfTheDay Monsters of the Day]] from previous seasons, the Daimons/Heart Snatchers from ''[[SailorMoon Sailor Moon S]]'' were normal objects infected with a Daimon egg/pod and transformed into monstrous beings [[MonogenderMonsters female in appearance]]. Said objects included a sport car, a vacumm cleaner, a violin, a train, a script for a TV show, a star projector (this episode was skipped during the show's first run on CartoonNetwork due to the resulting daimon resembling [[http://sailormoon.wikia.com/wiki/File:Uchoten.jpg a scantily clad carnival dancer]]) just to name a few.
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* ''Duel'' a 1971 made for TV movie directed by StevenSpielberg about a terrified motorist stalked on a lonely and remote road by a grimy and rusty 1955 Peterbilt 281 tanker truck. Spielberg intentionally made the truck driver a mostly unseen character so the audience would see the truck as the true antagonist.
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* ''KillerCondom'' - And the condoms were designed by HRGiger, creator of the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}''. Confused yet?

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* ''KillerCondom'' - And the condoms were designed by HRGiger, Creator/HRGiger, creator of the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}''. Confused yet?
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** ''Uninvited'' (1987). It's about a mutant cat that hides inside another cat and it is played by a handpuppet.

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** ''Uninvited'' (1987).''Film/{{Uninvited|1988}}'' (1988). It's about a mutant cat that hides inside another cat and it is played by a handpuppet.
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If you can think of something, there's probably a B-grade horror movie about it trying to kill a bunch of people. You name it. Snowmen, ice cream men, [[BadSanta Santa Claus]], [[DepravedDentist dentists]], [[MonsterClown clowns]], [[CreepyDoll dolls]], trucks, boats, lifts, chairs, [[AIIsACrapshoot computers]], [[TheMostDangerousVideoGame video games]], clocks, toilets, vacuum cleaners, laundry machines (three of these, actually), condoms, [[KillerRabbit rabbits]], [[RodentsOfUnusualSize rats]], [[CrushKillDestroy robots]], birds, bees, ticks, sharks, barracudas, flying fish, eggs, tomatoes ([[AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes four-movie series]] with a remake in the works), pieces of dry toast, leprechauns, triffids...and anything that you're not usually scared of.

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If you can think of something, there's probably a B-grade horror movie about it trying to kill a bunch of people. You name it. Snowmen, ice cream men, [[BadSanta Santa Claus]], [[DepravedDentist dentists]], [[MonsterClown clowns]], [[CreepyDoll dolls]], trucks, boats, lifts, chairs, [[AIIsACrapshoot computers]], [[TheMostDangerousVideoGame video games]], clocks, toilets, vacuum cleaners, laundry machines (three of these, actually), condoms, [[KillerRabbit rabbits]], [[RodentsOfUnusualSize rats]], [[CrushKillDestroy robots]], birds, bees, ticks, sharks, barracudas, flying fish, eggs, tomatoes ([[AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes four-movie series]] with a remake in the works), pieces of dry toast, leprechauns, triffids...triffids, frogs, snails, puppy dog tails... and anything that you're not usually scared of.
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** A problem with filming was trying to hide the fact that the scary-looking but harmless tarantulas were [[HumanAreCthulhu fleeing from the human actors]]; from their point-of-view an AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever.

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** A problem with filming was trying to hide the fact that the scary-looking but harmless tarantulas were [[HumanAreCthulhu [[HumansAreCthulhu fleeing from the human actors]]; from their point-of-view an AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever.
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** A problem with filming was trying to hide the fact that the scary-looking but harmless tarantulas were [[HumanAreCthulhu fleeing from the human actors]]; from their point-of-view an AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever.
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* ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', and it's Sequels. A Giant [[ThreateningShark great white shark]] starts killing swimmers at the resort town of Amity. Eating people whole even. The Mayor tries to cover it up, but as the situation gets more and more dangerous a team looks into it and start hunting the shark.

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* ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', and it's Sequels. A Giant [[ThreateningShark great white shark]] starts killing swimmers at the resort town of Amity. Eating people whole even. The Mayor tries to cover it up, but as the situation gets more and more dangerous a team looks into it and start hunting the shark. The sequels introduce new sharks, and the final film has a shark targeting the Ellen Brody character's family as "revenge".

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* ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', and it's Sequels. A Giant [[ThreateningShark great white shark]] starts killing swimmers at the resort town of Amity. Eating people whole even. The Mayor tries to cover it up, but as the situation gets more and more dangerous a team looks into it and start hunting the shark.



* ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', and it's Sequels. A Giant [[ThreateningShark great white shark]] starts killing swimmers at the resort town of Amity. Eating people whole even. The Mayor tries to cover it up, but as the situation gets more and more dangerous a team looks into it and start hunting the shark.
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* ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', and it's Sequels. A Giant [[ThreateningShark great white shark]] starts killing swimmers at the resort town of Amity. Eating people whole even. The Mayor tries to cover it up, but as the situation gets more and more dangerous a team looks into it and start hunting the shark.
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* ''TheFoodOfTheGods'' and [[FoodOfTheGods2 its sequel]]. The first included giant wasps and rats attacking people on an island. The second featured giant rodents as well only they ran wild in a city, attacking everything they could find.

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* ''TheFoodOfTheGods'' ''Film/TheFoodOfTheGods'' and [[FoodOfTheGods2 [[Film/FoodOfTheGods2 its sequel]]. The first included giant wasps and rats attacking people on an island. The second featured giant rodents as well only they ran wild in a city, attacking everything they could find.



* ''PoultrygeistNightOfTheChickenDead'': Played for all the squick, potty humor, gorn, and black comedy it's worth.
* ''NightOfTheLepus''. It's a movie about GIANT KILLER RABBITS. And they're adorable real bunnies jumping around in little sets, and then closed-up for maximum dramatic effect. You've never witnessed terror until you see a furball gnawing ketchup.
* ''RoadTrain (Road Kill outside Australia)'' A movie about a spirit/demon possessed road train roaming the Australian Outback and demanding blood for fuel.
* The Japanese horror film ''{{Premonition}}'' (unrelated to the Sandra Bullock-starring psychological drama of the same name) is about a killer ''newspaper''. The newspaper predicts peoples' deaths before they happen by way of the obituary section. The trailer alone was so disturbing that a mother wrote in to a local, uh, newspaper, complaining that the trailer should not have been screened on jumbotrons in the middle of crowded streets. She was probably very right.

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* ''PoultrygeistNightOfTheChickenDead'': ''Film/PoultrygeistNightOfTheChickenDead'': Played for all the squick, potty humor, gorn, and black comedy it's worth.
* ''NightOfTheLepus''.''Film/NightOfTheLepus''. It's a movie about GIANT KILLER RABBITS. And they're adorable real bunnies jumping around in little sets, and then closed-up for maximum dramatic effect. You've never witnessed terror until you see a furball gnawing ketchup.
* ''RoadTrain ''Film/RoadTrain (Road Kill outside Australia)'' A movie about a spirit/demon possessed road train roaming the Australian Outback and demanding blood for fuel.
* The Japanese horror film ''{{Premonition}}'' ''Film/{{Premonition}}'' (unrelated to the Sandra Bullock-starring psychological drama of the same name) is about a killer ''newspaper''. The newspaper predicts peoples' deaths before they happen by way of the obituary section. The trailer alone was so disturbing that a mother wrote in to a local, uh, newspaper, complaining that the trailer should not have been screened on jumbotrons in the middle of crowded streets. She was probably very right.



* The political satire ''The Year of the Angry Rabbit'' by Russell Braddon. The rabbits are infected with a highly-toxic (to humans) strain of myxomatosis. Rather than trying to wipe them out however, the Australian government is more than happy to possess the most feared biological weapon in the world. Inspired the movie ''NightOfTheLepus''.

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* The political satire ''The Year of the Angry Rabbit'' by Russell Braddon. The rabbits are infected with a highly-toxic (to humans) strain of myxomatosis. Rather than trying to wipe them out however, the Australian government is more than happy to possess the most feared biological weapon in the world. Inspired the movie ''NightOfTheLepus''.''Film/NightOfTheLepus''.
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** Once even his dinner came to life, grasped his fork, and tried to eat him.
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* The ''DannyPhantom'' episode title, "Attack of the Killer Garage Sale". It's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Technus uses machinery from Danny's garage sale to wreck havoc.

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* The ''DannyPhantom'' ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' episode title, "Attack of the Killer Garage Sale". It's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Technus uses machinery from Danny's garage sale to wreck havoc.
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** His book once ate his homework and then attacked him, but he survived by breaking its spine.
** He's also had at least two run-ins with killer piles of autumn leaves.
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* ''Paper Jam'' is a short film about killer printers. You read that right

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* ''Paper Jam'' is a short film about killer printers. You read that rightright.
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* ''Paper Jam'' is a short film about killer printers. You read that right
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** That's not the only killer brain film. We also have ''The Brain From Planet Aros'' and ''Fiend Without a Face''.
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** Cats crop up again in 3rd Edition housecats, which can, it has been famously point out, kill 1st level commoners.
** In D&D, sometimes ''the floor and or ceiling'' wants you dead. Also, living cubes of Jell-O. And [[EverythingTryingToKillYou housecats]].

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** Cats crop up again in 3rd Edition housecats, which can, it has been famously point pointed out, kill 1st level commoners.
** In D&D, sometimes ''the floor You have monsters that pretend to be the floor, monsters that pretend to be the ceiling, monsters that pretend to be walls, and mimics can pretend to be whatever the hell they feel like. It is entirely possible for an apparently unoccupied room to cause a TotalPartyKill even without traps or ceiling'' wants you dead. Also, living cubes of Jell-O. And [[EverythingTryingToKillYou housecats]].invisibility.
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** And his baseball.
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* ''AgentUSA'': Attack of the Killer Television.
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** A better example would be ''{{Christine}}'', wherein it's actually scary.

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** A better example would be ''{{Christine}}'', ''Film/{{Christine}}'', wherein it's actually scary.
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** ''{{Christine}}'', the infamous story of a homicidal (and rather possessive) car.
*** And ''FromABuick8'', which is about another evil car. Only this one isn't so much possessed as it is... [[EldritchAbomination wrong]].
** '' TheMangler'', which was spun off into a trilogy of movie adaptations - that's right, ''three'' movies about a killer laundry press. It's immobile, too, so it comes down to people being stupid enough not to learn to keep from walking up to the damn thing. Although the original short story implies [[spoiler:the thing does become mobile, in a TwistEnding]].

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** ''{{Christine}}'', ''Literature/{{Christine}}'', the infamous story of a homicidal (and rather possessive) car.
*** And ''FromABuick8'', ''Literature/FromABuick8'', which is about another evil car. Only this one isn't so much possessed as it is... [[EldritchAbomination wrong]].
** '' TheMangler'', ''Literature/TheMangler'', which was spun off into a trilogy of movie adaptations - that's right, ''three'' movies about a killer laundry press. It's immobile, too, so it comes down to people being stupid enough not to learn to keep from walking up to the damn thing. Although the original short story implies [[spoiler:the thing does become mobile, in a TwistEnding]].
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* ''TheRedShoes'' - South Korean horror movie about evil, possessed high heel shoes. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5CWrXqVE8c&feature=related See here]]. Possibly related to the fairytale of the same name.

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* ''TheRedShoes'' ''Film/TheRedShoes2005'' - South Korean horror movie about evil, possessed high heel shoes. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5CWrXqVE8c&feature=related See here]]. Possibly related to the fairytale of the same name.



* ''TheGiantClaw''. Earth is attacked by a '''Giant Antimatter Space Buzzard'''.

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* ''TheGiantClaw''.''Film/TheGiantClaw''. Earth is attacked by a '''Giant Antimatter Space Buzzard'''.
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* ''[[Franchise/Alien]]'' (the first movie) is about a mindless killer extraterrestrial lurking in the shadows of a spaceship, picking people off one by one, and going "boo" every once in a while.
* ''[[Franchise/Terminator]]'': the first three movies are about a mother and/or son being hunted by a killing machine (literally) sent back in time to eliminate the protagonists and change the future.

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* ''[[Franchise/Alien]]'' ''{{Franchise/Alien}}'' (the first movie) is about a mindless killer extraterrestrial lurking in the shadows of a spaceship, picking people off one by one, and going "boo" every once in a while.
* ''[[Franchise/Terminator]]'': ''{{Franchise/Terminator}}'': the first three movies are about a mother and/or son being hunted by a killing machine (literally) sent back in time to eliminate the protagonists and change the future.
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* ''[[Franchise/Alien Alien]]'' (the first movie) is about a mindless killer extraterrestrial lurking in the shadows of a spaceship, picking people off one by one, and going "boo" every once in a while.
* ''[[Franchise/Terminator Terminator]]'': the first three movies are about a mother and/or son being hunted by a killing machine (literally) sent back in time to eliminate the protagonists and change the future.

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* ''[[Franchise/Alien Alien]]'' ''[[Franchise/Alien]]'' (the first movie) is about a mindless killer extraterrestrial lurking in the shadows of a spaceship, picking people off one by one, and going "boo" every once in a while.
* ''[[Franchise/Terminator Terminator]]'': ''[[Franchise/Terminator]]'': the first three movies are about a mother and/or son being hunted by a killing machine (literally) sent back in time to eliminate the protagonists and change the future.
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* From Noboru Iguchi, ''Dead Sushi''. Bunch of killer sushi.

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