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* ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater''. Shopping trolleys have been dumped in the stairwells of the apartment block where Frank lives, not only to slow down the Infected but also because the noise of anyone trying to climb over them serves as an alarm.
* In ''Creator/AbbottAndCostello Meet the Mummy,'' Bud and Lou try to push a dresser against a door to keep out several pursuers. The door opens the other way, and when the villains open it, Bud and Lou push the dresser right out of the room and into the midst of their enemies.

[[caption-width-right:350:...Wait, hold up. [[AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade Doesn't this door... open both ways...?]]]]

-->--'''Music/AesopRock''', "Jumping Coffin"

* Considered Plausible by ''Series/{{Mythbusters}} Jr.''. A wooden floor doesn't provide much friction, carpet is actually detrimental, but with the right stuff, and the right room size, one can conceivably pull this off.

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* In ''VideoGame/{{INSIDE}}'', the player barely escapes from a pack of rabid dogs by slipping through a hole in a building wall and knocking over a large filing cabinet to block them from getting in.

* ''Webcomic/KiwiBlitz'': [[spoiler:Tigris and Cho]] have infiltrated [[spoiler:Alter's]] base and caused a ruckus, and are in a computer room, and block the door with furniture, after [[spoiler:42]] suggests making a barricade, in [[http://www.kiwiblitz.com/comic/page-589 Page 589]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "One Flu Over the Loud House", several of Lincoln's sisters[[labelnote: Which ones?]] Lori, Lynn, Lana, Lola, Lily, and later Luna, Luan, Lucy, and Lisa[[/labelnote]], his parents, and their cat, dog, hamster, and canary all [[SickEpisode have the flu]]. Lincoln barricades the kitchen door with a table to keep them coming in and spreading germs, but [[TheDitz Leni]] thinks he's making them a meal.

* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': One step of Emil and Lalli's escape from the dusklings at the end of Adventure I involves taking refuge in solid-looking abandonned house and pushing all the furniture of the room in which they're hiding against the door.

* ''Literature/{{Mouse}}'': When Helene and Argo break into Mouse's building, he pushes his chair, boxes of books and [=DVDs=], a trash can, and a mattress in front of his bedroom door to buy time. The blockade only lasts a few minutes, but that's enough for Anna to arrive.

* Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool: After Joe is released from Elan, he sleeps with a desk pushed in front of the door and makeshift weapons within reach in case anyone ever tries to take him away again.

* ''Film/YouMightBeTheKiller'' opens with Sam hiding from the killer in a cabin. He secures it by moving furniture in front of the door.

* Shows up in ''Film/{{Signs}}'' but only in a deleted scene. The Graham family barricades their house by boarding up the windows and doors, and only realize they forgot the attic as the aliens are breaking in. In the finished movie, the family immediate lock themselves in the basement at this point; in the deleted scene, Merrill blocks the attic door with a large bookcase to buy everyone else more time to get downstairs.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/AliasJesseJames'' when the main character blockades a door to try and hold off the approaching outlaw gang only to be told that he's just barricaded the closet, while the actual door is unguarded.

* ''Film/YouMightBeTheKiller'' opens with Sam hiding from the killer in a cabin. He secures it by moving furniture in front of the door.
* In ''Film/{{Anthropoid}}'', three of the [[LaResistance Czech assassins]] of UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich hiding out in a Prague cathedral barricade the stairway up to the prayer loft they're holed up in with chairs, lecterns, benches and any other bits of furniture on hand to stop the Nazis reaching them. It holds the Nazis off for a time, but eventually the barricade is overwhelmed.
* ''Film/CarryOnScreaming'': Sidney Bung piles furniture against a door, to keep the monsters out. However, one of them walks through [[ThereWasADoor a hole he made earlier]], and casually hands Sidney Bung another chair.

* In ''Film/TheStrawberryStatement'', student protesters occupy a university building and barricade themselves inside by piling tables and chairs in front of the doors. The police easily push through the blockade.

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-->--Music/AesopRock, "Jumping Coffin"