History Main / SinisterScrapingSound

* Used with GREAT effectiveness in Creator/RobertMcCammon's book ''Stinger'', a splendid horror book. One of the characters hears this scraping sound and only sees four twisted, alien claws by peering underneath a house that's on bricks. Prudently, he runs away.

-->-- ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''

Often an example of HellIsThatNoise

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* Sone with a bat in ''WebVideo/ThereWillBeBrawl''.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'' the virus Gigabyte corners Bob and Dot in an alleyway and scraps his long claws along the wall as he slowly approaches them.

* ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'': "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lAgkp2q2UQ Clank clank thunk scrape,]] [[MemeticRapist Pyramid Head]] has come to rape!" On later playthroughs, James can use Pyramid Head's sword - and if you do this trope and enemies can't see you, they'll think ''you're'' Pyramid Head and run from it!

* Sone with a bat in ''ThereWillBeBrawl''.

** Another version is similar to the Hook-Handed Killer, but with [[ArtificialLimbs a clockwork arm]] making a clicking and sliding noise.

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Often an example of HellIsThatNoise.

* ''Film/ResidentEvil''. The arrival of the first zombie is preceded by the scraping noise made by the fire axe it's dragging along. Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIeBp9RapcI here]].

* In the indie horror game ''ThePath'', although nothing is explicitly shown, a sound of knives scraping is heard in the background of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EhF1T5lQ2Q Scarlet's ending]], leading some people to speculate that Scarlet...may have met a rather violent end.
* ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'': "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lAgkp2q2UQ Clank clank thunk scrape]], [[MemeticRapist Pyramid Head]] has come to rape!" On later playthroughs, James can use Pyramid Head's sword - and if you do this trope and enemies can't see you, they'll think ''you're'' Pyramid Head and run from it!

** Played with in "Before the Flood", when the MonsterOfTheWeek is stalking a blind woman while dragging a fire axe, but she can't hear it. However [[RuleOfDrama when it gets close]] picks up the vibrations in the floor in time to escape becoming a VictimOfTheWeek.

* In the second ''AceVentura'' movie, he tortures a suspect into talking by sitting down to a table setting and running a knife back and forth over an empty plate, making a horrible screeching noise.

* In DeanKoontz's ''ByTheLightOfTheMoon,'' Jillian follows Dylan into a house (he had gone off to prevent a woman's murderous grandson from carrying out his plans) and hears the sound of metallic scraping and pinging noises, mentally envisioning someone sliding knives against one another. [[spoiler: It's just a bird scraping its beak against its cage.]]

->''The next moment a hideous, grinding screech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room. It was a noise that set one's teeth on edge and bristled the hair at the back of one's neck.''

* [[{{Persona 3}} "Be careful! I sense Death!"]] A second later, you hear chains dragging across the floor...

* A bit of a sound motif in ''VideoGame/{{Condemned}} 2''

[[AdultSwim "The Dawn Is Your Enemy"]]

* During ''[[XWingSeries Wraith Squadron]]'', Grinder finds a stack of boxes, each with a mantislike insect that makes a good pet inside. One scrapes insistently - ''scritch, scritch, scritch'' - on its box, so he steals it and puts it in Face's X-Wing, with the idea that he'll notice it in a routine mission and freak out. But Face doesn't. A few nights later, Grinder hears that same scritching in his room every night. Eventually he looks up the insect and finds an entry on the pet, and on its closest relative the Crystal Deceiver, which targets specific large mammalian prey, stalks them, paralyzes them, and starts feeding. Cue Grinder sealing every entrance into his room... and still the scritching continues, and it's in his room! Under his bed! He ends up fainting. [[spoiler: Face is getting back at him for that prank and others.]]

* When some psycho is chasing one of the model girls in ''The Ratman'', he scrapes his knife to a wall while walking.

* ''JonathanCreek'' - in the episode "The Clue of the Savant's Thumb", a subtle SinisterScrapingSound can be heard drifting along an empty corridor as Jonathan and Joey explore the derelict convent, and again before someone is [[spoiler:nearly crushed by a falling statue]] at the same location. We eventually learn that the sound is caused by [[spoiler:a lurking hitman who habitually runs his thumb along the teeth of a metal comb]].

* Used with GREAT effectiveness in Robert McCammon's book ''Stinger'', a splendid horror book. One of the characters hears this scraping sound and only sees four twisted, alien claws by peering underneath a house that's on bricks. Prudently, he runs away.

* This sound is the only warning a character has that something wicked is coming in Robert McCammon's Stinger.

* In ''TheGoonShow'' episode "The Phantom Head Shaver of Brighton":

* Sone with a bat in ThereWillBeBrawl.

* Series/{{Supernatural}} uses this trope a lot. In, "Hook Man" loud scraping sounds and deep gouges herald the arrival of a murderous ghost.
** Hellhounds, the invisible dogs that dragged doomed souls to Hell, are accompanied by loud baying and a SinisterScrapingSound.

* ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'': "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lAgkp2q2UQ Clank clank thunk scrape]], [[MemeticRapist Pyramid Head]] has come to rape!"

* ''*scraaaaaape, clomp. scraaaaaape, clomp. scraaaaaape, clomp.* '''[[YoungFrankenstein "Doctor Frankenstein???"]]'''''

* One of the lesser effects of low sanity in ''EternalDarkness'' is hearing knocks and scrapes.
** One of the terrifying effects of no sanity in ''EternalDarkness'' is hearing someone sharpening a metal instrument while a woman pleads desperately, before she starts screaming in agony.