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* ''WebVideo/JakeAndAmir'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2AoGJZfJoA Costumes Part 4]] features Amir switching between various costumes. One of them, a clown mask that covers the face, is called creepy by Jake. Cue the real Amir coming in from offscreen, and Jake suddenly rushing to get away from the monster masked.

* ''Film/{{Countdown}}'': Quinn and Matt spend the night together, convinced that they have thwarted the curse. In the middle of the night, Quinn hears creaking floorboards from outside the room and sees a shadow under the door. Frightened, she tries to wake up Matt, who is sleeping behind her with his arm draped over her body, but he does not respond no matter how many times she shakes his arm and calls his name. The bedroom door slowly opens...to reveal Matt, who asks, "Yo, are you calling my name?" Shocked, Quinn looks down to see that the hand next to her is now a demonic claw, which seizes her, drags her under the covers, and attacks her.

* In ''The Witch in the Window'', fearing the presence of a witch in his house, Simon arranges with his ex-wife Beverly to send their son Finn to her on a coach bus. To Simon's surprise, soon after he gets back from the bus station, Finn shows up, claiming to have sneaked off the bus when his father wasn't looking. Later that day, Simon and Finn sit together and have a heart-to-heart talk. Then Simon's phone rings. It's Beverly, who casually mentions that she collected Finn from the bus as planned. Simon even speaks to Finn over the phone to confirm this. When he turns to look, the "Finn" who has been sitting next to him for the entire phone call gives him a little smirk. Simon flees, and when he looks back, the witch is chasing after him, snarling with rage.
* ''Anything for Jackson'': Henry wakes up, looks over toward the bathroom, and sees his wife Audrey flossing at the sink with her back to him. He speaks to her for a few minutes before his cell phone rings. He picks up, and it's Audrey asking for help bringing groceries into the house. He looks back at the bathroom and the figure slowly turns around to reveal that she's flossing the teeth out of her mouth.
* In ''Head Count'', the group is playing a drinking game. One of the friends turns to Sam (who has been sitting at the table for the entire scene), and says, "Sam, you're up." Suddenly, Sam leans in from the next room and asks, "What?" For a split second both Sams are onscreen at once. Then the lights go out...accompanied by a subtle ScareChord.
* ''The Other Side of the Door'': Maria sees her daughter Lucy sitting on the bed, facing away from her and crying. [[FaceRevealingTurn She approaches, asking whether Lucy is all right, but Lucy does not reply or turn around]]. As Maria reaches out to touch her daughter, someone murmurs, "Mommy." She turns around to see Lucy right next to her, saying, "You woke me up." Maria looks back at the bed and "Lucy" is now staring right at her, sporting a [[GhostlyGape gaping-eyed and -mouthed]] Nightmare Face.

* ''Countdown'': Quinn and Matt spend the night together, convinced that they have thwarted the curse. In the middle of the night, Quinn hears creaking floorboards from outside the room and sees a shadow under the door. Frightened, she tries to wake up Matt, who is sleeping behind her with his arm draped over her body, but he does not respond no matter how many times she shakes his arm and calls his name. The bedroom door slowly opens...to reveal Matt, who asks, "Yo, are you calling my name?" Shocked, Quinn looks down to see that the hand next to her is now a demonic claw, which seizes her, drags her under the covers, and attacks her.
* ''The Privilege'': Finn, Lena, and Samira are hiding out in an abandoned gym and decide to sleep in the empty swimming pool. Samira wakes up in the middle of the night and hears footsteps. She turns to the sleeping bag next to her and says, "Finn? Did you hear that?" but there is no answer. The footsteps come closer and closer and finally turn out to be Finn, who says, "Hey. I went to the bathroom. Did I wake you up?" Samira simply responds, "Finn...who's holding my hand?" She pulls back the covers to reveal a monstrous hand gripping her wrist.
* A variant in ''The Cellar'', Keira hears her son Steven calling to her from behind the locked door leading to the cellar stairs. Unable to find the key, she peeks through the keyhole, only to be met with a monstrous eye looking back at her. Then Steven appears right behind her, asking whom she's talking to.

* In the climax of the film ''Caveat'', Moe is in the cellar of the house, where a corpse is rotting in a nook behind a piece of drywall. He peeks through a hole in the drywall and sees that next to the corpse is Isaac, who has been trying to saw his way out. Moe calls through the hole that the two of them should help each other escape the house. He hears the sound of sawing and waits for Isaac to emerge. After a few minutes, a voice comes over an intercom in the basement: It is Isaac, who apparently has found another way out. The sawing continues, prompting Moe to back around a corner in fright. When a face finally peeks around the corner, it is the corpse.

*** In the Creator/LaurelAndHardy crossover "[[Recap/TheNewScoobyDooMoviesTheGhostOfBigfoot The Ghost of Bigfoot]]", Ollie begins reassuring Stan, who's in the next bed, that he and the other guys can take care of Bigfoot if he shows up. Unbeknownst to Ollie, Stan left for the bathroom a few minutes into the speech, and Bigfoot sat down in his bed. When Ollie sits up and turns toward the bed, he sees who he's really been talking to and runs across the hall to fetch Fred, Shaggy, and Scooby.

* In the MickeyMouse cartoon ''The Pointer'', Mickey is hunting with Pluto, who wanders away when he's not looking. A bear goes after Mickey, but Mickey, thinking the bear is Pluto, keeps shoving it and slapping it on the nose when it gets too close. Eventually, Mickey sees Pluto standing in a field and says "Look, Pluto. It's you." Suddenly he realizes that if Pluto is there, then someone else has been behind him all along. So he slowly turns around...

* In the climax of the film ''Caveat'', Moe is in the cellar, where a corpse is rotting in a nook behind a piece of drywall. He peeks through a hole in the drywall and sees that next to the corpse is Isaac, who has been trying to saw his way out. Moe whispers through the hole that the two of them should help each other escape. He hears the sound of sawing and waits for Isaac to emerge. After a few minutes, a voice comes over an intercom in the basement: It is Isaac, who apparently has found another way out. The sawing continues, prompting Moe to back around a corner in fright. When a face finally peeks around the corner, it is the corpse.

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* In ''Film/EvilDead2'', during a lull in the action:

* In the film ''Film/TheOtherSideOfTheDoor'': Maria sees her daughter Lucy sitting on the bed, facing away from her and crying. [[FaceRevealingTurn She approaches, asking whether Lucy is all right, but Lucy does not reply or turn around]]. As Maria reaches out to touch her daughter, someone murmurs, "Mommy." She turns around to see Lucy right next to her, saying, "You woke me up." Maria looks back at the bed and "Lucy" is now staring right at her, sporting a [[GhostlyGape gaping-eyed and -mouthed]] Nightmare Face.

* ''Film/ItFollows'': More from the audience's perspective than that of the characters. Jay is relaxing with her friends at the beach, enjoying some time away from the shapeshifting monster that is stalking her. We see that her friend Yara is approaching her from behind as she chats with the others. After a few moments, we see that Yara is relaxing in an inflatable tube in the water and has been for some time, which means that the "Yara" walking up behind Jay...

* In ''VideoGame/{{Skinwalker}}'' , Joe believes he's walking alongside Celeste (and can potentially help her up when she falls and hold her hand), but when the fog clears enough he realizes he's actually been walking with the skinwalker disguised as her.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "Into the Bunker", Dipper and his crush Wendy are being menaced by a shapeshifter. At the climax, Dipper comes upon Wendy's unconscious body, prompting him to panic and tearfully confesses his feelings for her. Just then, Wendy pops up, alive and unharmed, right behind him.
-->'''Wendy''': Uh...Dipper?\\
'''Dipper''': Wendy? Wait, then who's...\\
''(body on ground arises and attacks)''

** A man tucks his daughter into bed when she tells him there's a monster in the closet. He goes to check... and finds his daughter, telling him there's a monster in her bed...
** A girl hears her mother yelling for her downstairs. As she goes, she hears her mother saying "Don't go, I heard it too."

* ''Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed'', as Scooby and Shaggy barricade a door against the Black Knight Ghost, Shaggy is handed armor pieces, presumably by Scooby. However, Shaggy then notices that Scooby is on his other side. The one passing armor to him was the Black Knight Ghost himself.

* ''Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark'': The first movie has an odd bit where, after finding out her "cookbook" is really a spell book, flips through it and finds a spell with "Moola" in the name, and [[LiteralMinded assumes it's a spell that creates money]]. She casts it, there's a really small and brief earthquake that makes the lights go out, and she feels something touching her and says to Bob (her boyfriend) that she thinks it was a love spell. He says "huh", and she soon realizes that it's actually a [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes snake summoned by the spell crawling on her]]. She freaks out and throws the snake on the ground, at which point it [[MadeOfIncendium burns up for no apparent reason]], and the whole thing is [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment never mentioned again.]]

* ''Film/ItFollows'': Jay is relaxing with her friends at the beach, enjoying some time away from the shapeshifting monster that is stalking her. We see that her friend Yara is approaching her from behind as she chats with the others. After a few moments, we see that Yara is relaxing in an inflatable tube in the water and has been for some time, which means that the "Yara" walking up behind Jay...

* In the infamous [[GhostTown Yi City]] arc of ''Literature/GrandmasterOfDemonicCultivationMoDaoZuShi'', Wei Wuxian is in the eponymous city to investigate supernatural events along with [[FirstLove Lan Wangji]] and some junior disciples. The mist is far too thick for any of them to see anything beyond vague silhouettes, so Wei Wuxian asks Lan Wangji, who he's been walking beside, to use his sword to give them some light. While Lan Wangji obliges, the sword light comes from some distance away in the mist and clearly ''not'' from the silent figure next to Wei Wuxian. However, the horror is alleviated somewhat by the quick reveal that the figure is an enemy cultivator and not a supernatural entity of the city.

* This happens in the very first scene of the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' pilot. At night when Mary Winchester is about to check on the then-six month old Sam in his crib, she stops at the door seeing a dark figure looking over the infant believing him to be her husband John. However when she goes downstairs and sees that John Winchester is in a recliner in the living room she realizes to her horror that the figure is a threat who has broken into their home. She tries to go back and protect Sam, but instead gets killed by the intruder eventually leading to the Winchesters to seek vengeance for her murder several years later.

* TheThreeStooges did this more than once. They're fleeing some monster or killer, and Moe and Larry (sometimes Curly replaces Larry) end up barricading themselves into a room for protection. Their partner starts hammering on the door and egging for entrance, they agree, and then realize who's in the room with them...

* A non-horror example in ''{{Film/Beethoven}}'' when the husband thinks his wife is getting flirty in bed... only for the wife to come in and ask who he's talking to. The husband sees he's been talking to the dog.