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* In ''Series/FortBoyard'', the King of Silence is a skeleton giant, and if woken up (or at the end of the challenge anyway) it springs up with red glows in its eye sockets.

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* The Horned King from ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'' gets glowing red eyes when he's furious.

* Pretty much every ghost in ''Film/Ghostbusters2016''.

* ''Film/ThorRagnarok'': Fenris and the Berserkers have green-glowing eyes [[spoiler:after Hela revives them with the Eternal Flame.]]

* The title Jedi ghost of ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear: Ghost of the Jedi'' first appears, when Tash can see him clearly, with empty eyes. As she talks to him and needs his help a flicker of light comes to them, strengthening to a steady glow.
* While it's not visible in the infamous [[NightmareFace illustration]], the murdered girl's ghost in ''Literature/ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark'' is described as having a faint blue glow emanating from her empty eye sockets.

* In ''VideoGame/OriAndTheWillOfTheWisps'', the undead OminousOwl BigBad Shriek has had glowing white eyes since birth, thanks to TheCorruption that petrified her parents.

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* ''Webcomic/AntiHeroes'', another ''D&D''-inspired StickFigureComic, has Finx the lich. His design is quite similar to Xykon, but he's a lot less scary.

** [[BigBad Xykon]], as a ''D&D'' lich, has glowy red lights where his eyes should be.

** The bone golem [[spoiler: made from Roy's body]] has green eyelights. (Though by D&D rules a bone golem is a Construct, rather than an Undead).

* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002'': Although he isn't undead, Skeletor has no soft tissues above his collarbones. He pulls off the glowing eyes whenever he is really angry.

* The Helghast (plural) in the ''Literature/LoneWolf'' gamebook series, as shown with the image above. Note that they are [[{{Humanshifting}} shapeshifters]], and thus their eyes don't glow while in human form, as it would give them away. (The glow may be a side effect of the psychic attack that a Helghast is trying to ''melt your brain'' with...) Most other undead in the series avert this. The skeletal Vordaks still have [[TheDeadHaveEyes human eyeballs]], while some zombies either have eyes or just rotting eye sockets.

** In ''VideoGameTheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', the Stalchildren have red light for eyes.

** In ''TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', the Stalchildren have red light for eyes.

* {{Justified|Trope}} in ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': the undead Duane sees with enchanted glass eyes; the [[http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch11/ch11_29.html glow]] in their sockets is a side effect of the spellwork that links them to his sense of vision.

* In ''Series/FortBoyard'', the King of Silence is a skeleton gisant, and if woken up (or at the end of the challenge anyway) it springs up with red glows in its eye sockets.

%%* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'': Raziel, in cutscenes. It's not properly rendered ingame until Defiance.

** It used to have "[[FanNickname Emily]]", the ghost bride. Until somewhere in the 80's, all the versions of the character had glowing light-yellow eyes blazing through the darkness of the haunted attic, paired with a glowing, beating red heart. The 70's Bride's face was actually pitch black with only the two glowing eyes. However, the later, more realistic design had more normal-looking eyes (except in Tokyo Disneyland, where the Bride's eyes, though with a visible pupil, still glow a bit). The current bride ghost, [[TheScrappy Constance]], who replaced Emily, does not glow at all.

* [[FanNickname Mr. Tall]] of ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'' has green eyelights, if you look closely enough.

* Many, but not all undead in the ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' games have them.
* The Skull from the ''VideoGame/FZero'' franchise was a skilled racer who died in an accident, then come back from the dead as a skeleton. He sports a pair of glowing yellow eyes.

* All the infected in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead''. This is clearest in the case of the Witch.
** The Witch is the only one to technically have glowing eyes. All the others simply have untextured eyes, leaving blank and white.
* Raziel in ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'', in cutscenes. It's not properly rendered ingame until Defiance.

** The Hero's Shade in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' is a skeletal one-eyed variation. Stallord also has glowing pale-pink eyes.
** The [=ReDeads=] in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' will have empty, black sockets when still, but once they shriek...
** Similarly, the Stalchildren from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'' also have red lights for eyes.
** [[spoiler:Lanaryu]], from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]''. When Link meets him in the present time, he's little more than a decaying skull surrounded by the rotting [[spoiler: rather, rusting]] remains of his helpers. Attempts to communicate with him result in his empty sockets lighting with a sickly yellow. You get the chance to change that, however.
** The Stalfos and Staldra enemies also have glowing eyes. When a Staldra's eyes [[RedEyesTakeWarning turn from blue to red]], it's time to get your shield ready.
** The Stal- version of enemies in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' all have glowing eyes.
* All ways of becoming a husk involved dying, or at least ceasing to be a living human, in ''Franchise/MassEffect'', so they probably qualify.
* The Sorrow in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' has glowing red eyes when he first appears as a ghost behind The Boss.

** {{ZigZagged}} with [[TheGrimReaper Death]] is a personification of the process of dyeing not an undead creation. Further his eyes are a rather soothing blue light, they only turn red when he's enraged such as in ''Literature/{{Mort}}'' or when [[BerserkButton Rincewind's]] name is mentioned to him in ''Literature/{{Eric}}''.
** Traditional example shows up in ''Literature/ReaperMan'' where the newly "non-alive" Windle Poons is described as having eyes like gimlets.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'''s Death, only with blue lights. They turned red once in ''Literature/{{Mort}}'' when he was enraged.

->[[TheGrimReaper The Black Rabbit]] smelled as clean as last year's bones and in the dark [[GuileHero El-ahrairah]] could see his eyes, for they were [[RedEyesTakeWarning red]] with a light that gave no light.

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-->-- ''{{Literature/Watership Down}}''

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* [[BigBad The Lich]] from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' has a very, ''very'' faint pair of these, as does anyone else under his control.

* The [[NonHumanUndead Terrorcons]] of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' have both this ''and'' GlowingMechanicalEyes, being undead MechanicalLifeforms. Some (like the one that used to be Cliffjumper) also get {{Throat Light}}s.

* Seems to be a sign of intelligent undead in ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'': creatures like the [[http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0126.html farmstead wights,]] the [[http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0275.html forest wraith,]] and [[http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0641.html the Bone]] have them, but mindless skeletons and zombies [[http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0640.html don't.]]

* Lord Ains of ''LightNovel/{{Overlord|2012}}'' has glowing red pinpoints in his eye sockets, which occasionally flare into full red flames for dramatic effect.

* In ''film/ZoltanHoundOfDracula'', Zoltan's eyes glow an eerie green every time he uses his vampric powers.

** The bone golem made from Roy's body has green eyelights.