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* "K-Fee" is a coffee beverage sold by a German company with a similar name. They have made nine different television commercials that imitate the screamers found online (they were actually shown on TV in Germany). The most popular one is the one featuring a car driving through a road, but after the car disappeared, a green zombie jumps up with a loud monstrous scream. The reason why it is more popular than the other commercials is because it was passed around the internet and was said to be a commercial that was never aired on TV because a ghostly mist would appear next to the car about halfway through the commercial. You can read about all of the K-Fee commercials on the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-fee K-Fee Wikipedia page]]. In 2006, there were three parody commercials released on German television to advertise a new variant of K-Fee coffee with less caffeine.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7fTeT3g1AA Video featuring the infamous K-Fee car commercial]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLicfr1AYfo Video featuring all of the K-Fee Commercials (including the parodies)]]
* Busch Gardens' 2011 Howl-O'-Scream TV ad is scary in and of itself, what with the creepy imagery and dark NurseryRhyme being played in the background, but the kicker comes at the end, when the song ends ("Come play in my garden...") and a female zombie tears through the "O" and lets out a very loud scream. If you're ''that'' curious, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWV8a1n9Qo0 here's the ad]].

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* {{In-universe}} example in [[http://www.gocomics.com/theargylesweater/2012/06/01 this]] ''The Argyle Sweater'' comic.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''UpgradeComplete'' offers one through the Heart Rate upgrade.
* ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'' has the Krypt Monster, a little fucker that can pop up every now and then when the player is in the Krypt.
** Speaking of MK, one of Kabal's fatalities counts as this: [[spoiler: he tears his mask off, revealing a NightmareFace and screams at his opponent, which scares them so badly that their spirits exit their bodies & run away!]]
* Abused to no small extent in the ''Arise'' series of Flash games, to the point that it's more tedious than actually frightening.
* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' champion [[ScaryScarecrows Fiddlesticks's]] Crowstorm tends to be used to this effect. He'll jump out of the brush with no prior warning, and then you're getting eaten alive by a murder of crows.
* A now-long-defunct location in the SecondLife virtual world featured a "haunted" maze where visitors could wander the halls to find free money. Occasionally, however, the visitor will trigger a screaming face that appears on screen for a few moments.
* ''Eternal Damnation'', a fan-made reimagining of the ''Postal2'' game (and included with ''Postal 2'' in the ''Fudge Pack'' box set) has a few scare faces thrown at the player during the first mission.
* ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy 3'' has Matt's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin aptly-titled]] Screamer spell, which flashes this on the screen. It also does Dark-elemental damage to the enemies.
* Soul, on Xbox Live Indie Games, does this. On one of the early levels, the shadowy figure of a girl can be seen standing on the course. When the player passes over the figure, the image of a monstrous screaming woman fills the screen, with appropriate sound effect. The same thing also sometimes happens randomly when you die.
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* "[[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/kikia Kikia]]" is one the first screamers to be widely spread and thus provide inspiration for other similar creations. It originated on Taiwan's Kimo webhosting service from a person with the online username "Netspooky." The first frame shows a cartoon boy sits on a lawn gazing at the sky. Two lines of Chinese text appear. A rough translation is "Hasn't it been a long time... / Haven't looked at the sky closely...". The second frame shows the boy walking down a city street lined with buildings. A rough translation of the Chinese text is "Walking on the street... / You see...". Third frame shows a picture of a ghost woman from FatalFrame with a piercing scream. The last frame has "Kikia" in yellow text. This does not loop.
* "[[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/whatswrong What's Wrong with this Picture?]]" starts a rather innocent photo of a dining room. This is actually a flash file, but because of its early appearance, many viewers had little or no knowledge of flash. After staring at the picture for about thirty seconds, a black and white close-up photo of a woman clenching her face, with eyeballs missing from her sockets briefly pops up and screams.
* "[[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/good Good Intentions]]" pretends to be just a slide show of very pretty, peaceful photos (to the tune of R.E.M.'s Shiny Happy People) but, after a while, a photo will come very slowly and all of a sudden it screams, and the Fatal Frame image from Kikia (see above) covers it. It's not over yet, because after this it starts doing the complete opposite, showing scary and unpleasant pictures of murders, monsters, and more, and appears to be over, but after a short time, will scream again.
* "[[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/subliminal Subliminal Music and Images]]" is often considered to be the [[NightmareFuel scariest screamer]] [[TurnedUpToEleven on the internet]]. After loading, an advertisement for gin is shown. After a few seconds, part of the image is highlighted and the word "SEX" is visible. An image for a flooring company appears, with a woman appearing to be touching her shoulder. The image is then flipped, so it appears the woman is masturbating herself. Then a song, Cradle of Filth's "Dinner at Deviant Palace" begins to play backward. The Lord's Prayer is heard along with faint noises. In the middle of the prayer, a loud scream is heard, along with a flurry of pictures; the first one is a demon face from the movie Demoni, then Pazuzu's face from ''Film/TheExorcist'', then a gray-scale image of a dead woman from Rotten.com (don't go to that site, it's a ShockSite), and then a harlequin baby (don't look that up either), and a gray-scale image of a mummy without wrappings. It ends with a message, "Never trust strange flash documents talking about subliminal stuff!" with metal music playing in the background.
* "[[http://www.winterrowd.com/maze/ The Maze]]" is a famous screamer that gets the user's attention by presenting a game where the challenge is to get to the red area with your cursor while not touching the walls. Usually, there is note saying that few people have completed the game to intrigue you further. There are three levels in all, and after one finishes the 3rd level, the girl from ''Film/TheExorcist'' appears on the screen and lets out a blood-curdling scream, and if you touch the wall near the end of level 3 where the level gets progressively thin, it will still surprise you. To cheat, hold down the mouse and drag it to the red area.
** There is also [[http://www.winterrowd.com/afvmaze/ another version]] shown on America's Funniest Home Videos that changes the Exorcist girl to the pic that was used in "What's Wrong with this Picture?", most likely for licensing reasons. The scream is also changed to the one in "What's Wrong with this Picture?".
* "[[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/steadyhand2 Steady Hand 2]]" (this one's in Japanese) is another screamer that plays similar to the maze. The "game's" objective is to go to the "goal" without touching the wall. The first level operates entirely as a normal game, and will result in a game over if lost. However, on the second level, always at the same place on the course (3/4 of the way through), a black and white portrait of a deformed person will zoom in and out on a red background with a long scream.
* "[[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/waldo.php Where's Waldo]]" shows a realistic Where's Waldo comic, then Pazuzu's face from The Exorcist pops up with a loud scream.
** There is also an [[http://www.superlaugh.com/1/waldo.htm alternative version]] of this screamer which has the pic used in "What's Wrong with this Picture" but with lights in the eye sockets, the screen also flashes white during the JumpScare in this version.
** Note that Waldo was nowhere in the scene, but Odlaw and Wenda were both in it.
* "[[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/halloween Chris the Jack O Latern]]" is a crudely animated Halloween cartoon featuring a sad jack-o-lantern, who says "Hi kids, my name is Chris. You guys know what Sunday is? Yeah, that's right, Sunday is Halloween, and that makes me upset. You know why it makes me upset?" He pauses until you click the screen, then he says, "Yeah, because Sunday is the day that..." then a rather scary smiling ghost face with a deafening high pitched scream appears. Chris' comments date this prank to 2004 (as Halloween fell on a Sunday that year).
** There were also 2 sequel episodes, at the end of [[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/chris2 episode two]], [[spoiler:there was a menu where you could select to either to go back to Albino Blacksheep's main site, replay the video, or go to the creator's website. However, moving the mouse over any of them brings up a picture with the same scream used in the first CTJ. Moving the mouse over "Back to ABS" makes the ghost used in the first CTJ pop up, moving it over "Replay" makes a greyscale cloaked man pop up, moving it over "Website" makes a picture of the creator pop up (as a joke). None of the buttons actually work.]] [[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/chris3 Episode three]][[spoiler: was the only episode to have no real screamer part. In the middle, there was a quick appearance of the ghost from the first one (with no scream).]]
* "[[http://www.winterrowd.com/jinglebells/ Jingle Bells Reversed]]" plays an excerpt of Jingle Bells, then plays it backwards. During the 3/4 mark of the reverse excerpt, heavy breathing is heard and a negative image of a man screaming suddenly pops up with a loud scream that vibrates/echoes afterwards. The words "Hmm... It sounds slightly different in reverse. Hidden message? Who knows? I'm a bastard? Yes." appear at the end.
* "[[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/sajjad.php The Fact About Sajjad Ali]]" uses soothing music from a Pakistani pop singer Sajjad Ali. Text appears over a picture of Stonehenge describing the song played in the flash, "Paniyon Mein", followed by some Romanized Hindi. A Banshee with glowing eyes suddenly zooms out to a scream, covering the Stonehenge picture. The scream is the same as "What's Wrong With The Picture".
* "[[http://www.suriyanto.net/special/ Zoeken]]" is a Dutch prank ("Zoeken" is a Dutch word for "search") that asks you to find the three differences between two (actually identical) pictures. After a short while, a picture of a vampire woman from the movie Fright Night (uses the same image as the shock item as the "Jessica Alba Nude" screamer) suddenly appears, zooming in and out a few times over a long scream (same as in "Steady Hand 2"), before heading to the end portion with a picture of SpongeBob and the sound of Spongebob laughing.
* "[[http://www.winterrowd.com/swearing-baby/ Swearing Baby]]" shows a video of a baby sleeping, then the baby opens its mouth, but a few seconds after that, it turns blue, it's head grows giant, and lets out a high pitched distorted scream before turning back to normal.
* "[[http://www.winterrowd.com/dancing-girl/ Little Dancing Girl]]" is a video of a young girl dancing down a hallway, but after the girl is gone from the screen, a red demon woman jumps up with a powerful scream. Another scary thing about the screamer is actually the TV on the right which just has constant static.
* "[[http://www.kontraband.com/show/show.asp?ID=2320&CAT=games&NSFW=0&rtn=search-2320&Keywords=spooky%20ro Escape The Spooky Room]]" is a prank that shows a picture of a rather poorly drawn room, in which you're supposed to find a way out of (like a game called [[http://www.fasco-csc.com/works/crimson/crimson_e.php The Crimson Room]]). However, clicking on anything has no effect at all and, after about half a minute, a creepy shadow is shown moving across the floor. Upon waiting a few more seconds, a rather scary picture of a deformed person's face leaps onto the screen, accompanied by a woman screaming.
* "[[http://www.winterrowd.com/ghostchair/ Ghost Chair]]" is a video that shows a room with a rocking chair, green lighting, and a bunch of toys. After a while, the chair starts rocking on its own, then Exorcist girl quickly crawls up to the camera a few seconds later with a distorted and echoing scream.
** There is also [[http://szworld.net/CaughtOnTape/Ghost1.html another version]] on szworld.net which at the end, a white mask of a distorted face with long hair and pupilless eyes comes up instead of the Exorcist girl.
* "[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/47612 Clock Crew Quiz]]" pretends to be a test which involves a series of questions, all of which gives the following choices: "Strawberry Clock," "Josh Bedn," "Tom Fulp," or "George Bush." First Question: Who is king of the Portal? Answer: Strawberry Clock. Second Question: Who was the first clock? Answer: Strawberry Clock. Third Question: Who is from Canada? Immediately after the question is revealed, an image of a distorted woman's face will appear with a scream. The Clock Crew of the title is a reference to a group of people who make Macromedia Flash animations on Newgrounds (where this prank is hosted), with "Strawberry Clock" referring to the person who started it all.
* "[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/294974 Meaning of Life 2006]]" is a Newgrounds animation that states it is a serious Flash and apologizes for a quiet music rip. It appears to be a rather substandard Flash presentation talking philosophically about the meaning of life. After several frames, a picture of a woman's skull (it still has long hair and one eye) that's boiling in a gorey goo-like substance appears accompanied with a continuously looping scream.
* "[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/464999 3D Practice]]" is a Newgrounds animation that shows a few 3D animations. at the end, a hideous bloody green zombie face pops up with a horrifying scream, despite it being rated suitable for everyone (most likely on purpose to trap to some viewers).
* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPadE6txI_Q Watch This While High]]" is a prank spread across Website/YouTube for people that are drunk and/or high. It starts of with a sun smiling, and then shows random pictures from ''SpongeBobSquarePants'' as the "The Best Day Ever" song plays. At the end of the video, a flurry of disturbing art pops up with a roar.
* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fuH_26nWoo&feature=channel_video_title Hot Blond in Tanning Bed]]" is an infamous, no scream Youtube prank. It shows a pretty 18 year old getting ready to tan (stripping down to a bikini, putting on tanning lotion, etc.). Then she turns on the tanning bed. She then sits on the edge of the tanning bed and puts tanning lotion on her leg, but then the top lid of the tanning bed closes quickly (kind of like a Venus flytrap) and distorts her body, but with no blood. It cuts off to a message saying "Tanning can kill you". Finally, it goes back to the video and electric sparks come out of the tanning bed.
** This was referenced in ''{{Bionicle}} Heroes'' with the Piraka Sun Lounger, except with a lawn chair.
*** Speaking of, wasn't there a Piraka Connect-the-Dots game you could download on the Piraka website? It told you to turn up the volume. There were no numbered dots and if you got it wrong a number of times a Piraka (or other picture) would appear and flash at you until it showed the Piraka logo. Not to mention this was for KIDS.
* "[[http://www.optillusions.com/dp/1-51.htm Freaky Picture]]" is not a video or a flash file, it is an animated GIF. A normal messy room is shown, and the instructions tell you to watch closely at the blue sack hanged on the door for about one minute, the time to figure out what's wrong on this room. After 60 seconds a picture of a blurred lady ghost appears from the door toward you before disappearing really fast. No scream but the sudden appearance is quite (hence the title) freaky.
* All five [[VideoGame/LunaGame Luna Games]] (a series of {{Creepypasta}} fangames) contain screamers. However, the first and fourth ones are tame especially compared to the second and third ones (The fourth one has alot more actual game-play). The screamer in the full version of the fifth game (titled "''Luna Game 0''") only pops up if you try to restart the game.
* [[http://www.ebaumsworld.com/games/play/305521/ Hour of Death]] is a screamer that fakes a death guesser. It tells you it guesses your death, you enter the info about yourself. Now this is where the scary part happens; it tells you that your death will be caused by a Heart Attack then afterwards it will roll off what day where you die and a clown wearing glasses appears with a scream. But this is not the scariest part, there is a button that says "find out your real death date", once you click it, an explicit photo of a bleeding deformed person vomiting appears with an even louder scream. After the picture disappears, text appears saying you've been sabotaged, and during the text appearing, an animated Ninja drops down to the bottom of the screen.
* [[http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley/4358/red_room1.html The Red Room]] is an interesting horror animation with a "screamer" element of sorts thrown in. The text is in Japanese, but the story related is of a student trying to encounter a mysterious pop-up ad that simply asks, "Do you like-?" that has been linked to the disappearance of a classmate. Once he finds it, he discovers that attempting to click out of the pop-up simply causes it to reload, adding on more to the phrase until it asks, "Do you like the red room?" The student is then presented with a list of the names of others who have encountered the pop-up and gone missing, and rumors of his suicide circulate the next day. The final shot is of the list, with the student's name on the bottom. The screamer comes at the very end - an [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou actual pop-up window will activate in your browser, asking, "Do you like-?"]]
** [[NightmareRetardant Unless, of course, you have an ad blocker in place.]]
* In a ''WebAnimation/PonyDotMov'' short that aired at [=Trotcon=] (viewable [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgMb9pEMqD8 here]]), Spike reassures the viewer that so the short can be family-friendly, nothing scary will happen. This is followed by the RD-5000 smashing through the wall, causing the camera to get disconnected. After this, Fluttershy's NightmareFace from SHED.MOV pops up with a loud scream.
* [[http://www.sinthaistudio.com/alrena/ Alrena Roushe's Profile]] is a prank that pretends to be a Facebook profile of Alrena Roushe, the ghost woman in the scary flash game "The House". The profile picture is her baby picture. Moments later, Alrena pops up tearing the Facebook page with a loud scream at the same time, her baby picture will have its eyes open. There is also an alert box warning upon loading the site saying that it is not for the faint of heart.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmX5YvSmeM0 UFO Screamer (Real or Hoax?)]] is a prank that tells viewers that a rumored UFO was supposedly spotted. Then it shows a picture of a forest that zooms in before an alien jumps out and shakes with a long distorted screech.
* A two part V-log ([[http://spoonyexperiment.com/2012/10/20/vlog-10-19-12-paranormal-activity-4-sinister/ 10-19-12]]) from [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Noah Antwiler]] discusses jump scares. Early into the first video, a random assortment of screamer faces appears, complete with loud shriek, in order to prove a point. [[spoiler:It appears again at the very end of the video for absolutely no reason.]] The second part is more straightforward, though.
* Some screamers just start right at the shock, like [[http://gifura.orzhk.org/src/1332235315120.swf 1332235315120.swf]] which has a flashing picture of Jeff The Killer from Creepypasta with a loud looping scream.
*  [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se8sgjla9HA Viacom BND of doom]] starts out with a video of the infamous Viacom "V of Doom" logo. Suddenly it shatters to show the BND mask flying at you with its eyes wide open and its tongue sticking out with a piercing roar.
* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5LkXTRdYLk Come with me]]" has poems early but after the KIkia face pop up, various BodyHorror images pop up. followed up by Second Screamer. then to light the mood up, the [[RickRoll Never gonna let you up ends it.]] [[SchmuckBait try it at your own risk.]]
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* The ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode "Courage in the Big Stinkin` City" fits this trope. He walks into an old abandoned building and starts opening doors, seeing things like King &#65279;Ghidorah (from Godzilla) and Jaws. He finally opens up the third door and sees a realistic girl playing a violin from behind which Courage likes at first, but the girl turns around and scares him with a giant clay face with a scream.
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[[folder:Parodies of this Trope]]
* "[[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/notscary Not Scary]]" shows a picture of a room, then it shows a picture of a face drawn on MS Paint with a guy going "Boogity boogity boogity boo". Then it switches between the room and the MS Paint face for a while until [[spoiler:the guys face says "Alright, I'm done. You can go away now". Then he says one last "Boogity boogity boogity!" with the face]].
* PlayedForLaughs in WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd's review of ''Nintendo Power''. We first see a long, quiet shot of the Nerd's room with a few magazines piled up on the floor before the Nerd suddenly jumps into the screen and yells "[[CatchPhrase ASS!]]"
* {{LetsPlay/Chuggaaconroy}}'s LetsPlay of ''TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' has one with a picture of a [[OverlyLongGag RED RUPEE]] of all things after explaining that you only get the Giant's Wallet after completing the Oceanside Spider House on the 1st day.
-->'''Chuggaaconroy:''' Just ask some of the other LPers what they think of that! '''''AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!'''''
* On ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', Grunkle Stan tries in vain to scare a couple of trick-or-treaters. When he asks what scares kids nowadays, they show him a clip of a cute kitten on one of their cell phones. Suddenly a scary face appears on the screen, scaring the bejeesus out of Stan.
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