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* In ''AmericanPsycho'' (the film) the psycho draws pictures of naked women being killed. Sometimes he draws them in public.

* In {{SilentNightDeadlyNight}} Billy due to being traumatized by a maniac in a Santa costume murdering his parents draws a picture of Santa shot with arrows and a reindeer decapitated with an axe.
* In {{Joshua}} the title character draws a picture of a man with a bloody knife and a pile of dead bodies,[[spoiler: he did not do this because of abuse or trauma he did it because he wanted to get rid of his parents]].

** Because of MH and JAF, almost ALL of the Slender Man ARGs that came after include creepy drawings of this nature.

* In the ''Film/SilentHill'' movie, Sharon draws many pictures of Silent Hill itself, despite not being familiar with the place. Of course, given her interesting history with the town, it's pretty understandable that she might have a bit of an unhealthy obsession with it.

* The (adult) protagonist of ''Dreamscape'' once drew a picture of the Snakeman, a monster he'd encountered and battled in a boy's bad dream. In a later foray into dreams, a villain who has seen this drawing adopts the Snakeman's shape to fight the hero: a reversal of the usual {{Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book}} cause-and-effect.

* In {{Joshua}} the title character draws a picture of a man with a bloody knife and a pile of dead bodies,[[Spoiler: he did not do this because of abuse or trauma he did it because he wanted to get rid of his parents]].

* In {{Mikey}} Mikey drawing a picture of a turkey decapitating a pilgrim with an axe for Thanksgiving, this disturbs his teacher and this is what leads her to question his upbringing.

* ''{{28 Days Later}}'': At the climax of his walk around abandoned London, Jim finds a board of messages, notices and pleas for help, including a child's drawing showing "Daddy" shooting "Mummy" because she's [[ZombieApocalypse infected with Rage]].

* "28 Days Later": At the climax of his walk around abandoned London, Jim finds a board of messages, notices and pleas for help, including a child's drawing showing "Daddy" shooting "Mummy" because she's [[ZombieApocalypse infected with Rage]].

* 28 Days Later: At the climax of his walk around abandoned London, Jim finds a board of messages, notices and pleas for help, including a child's drawing showing "Daddy" shooting "Mummy" because she's [[ZombieApocalypse infected with Rage]].

* At the climax of his walk around abandoned London, Jim finds a board of messages, notices and pleas for help, including a child's drawing showing "Daddy" shooting "Mummy" because she's [[ZombieApocalypse infected with Rage]].

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-->''Fear, terror, panic and doom''\\

-->''She sent pictures of doom'' \\

—-TheResidents, "Pictures from a Little Girl"

** Autistic people find that really offensive.

* In DarkerThanBlack, this is essentially a Russian contractor's renumeration. He seems to [[CompleteMonster really enjoy it.]]

** WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: So the kid was powerless to do anything and desperate to [[AndIMustScream speak out]]?

* A PSA about domestic abuse had a child's drawing where the kid himself was a tiny figure with no arms and no mouth, and his father was a huge, monstrous figure with ''enormous'' hands and big, sharp teeth.

* In Noroi: The Curse, drawings made by Kana and Marika depicting strange patterns and (in Kana's case) hanging figures. Hori's fliers about ectoplasmic worms might also count.

* Subverted in ''TheAddamsFamily'' movie, where Wednseday makes disturbing art that her parents don't find worrisome in the least, and nor does she. Her teacher of course is a bit put off.

* In the ''Film/SilentHill'' movie, Sharon draws many pictures of Silent Hill itself, despite not being familiar with the place.
** Of course, given her interesting history with the town, it's pretty understandable that she might have a bit of an unhealthy obsession with it.
* In ''TheSixthSense'' the boy says that he got into trouble for drawing someone stabbing someone else (I think) and now he draws only nice things.
** He drew a man being stabbed with a screwdriver. Now it's pictures of rainbows, because teachers "''don't have conferences about rainbows''."

** This dipped well into {{Narm}} territory, especially if you happen to know what children of ''responsible'' gun owners are taught to do when they find an improperly stored gun: "Go tell a responsible adult." That and "[[CaptainObvious A gun is not a toy]]" would have been better messages.