History Main / TaxidermyIsCreepy

* Played for BlackComedy in ''[[StrugatskyBrothers Monday Begins at Saturday]]'' as Cristobal Junta mixes this with TaxidermyTerror.

* Cristobal Junta in ''[[StrugatskyBrothers Monday Begins at Saturday]]''.

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'''Russel:''' I just wanted to break new grounds in that area, advance the tradition and bring a whole hip hop attitude to the taxidermy world. I've been cutting and pasting different animal styles together. Yaks with lizards, hogs and zebras... it keeps the whole thing fresh, y'know? Once they're done you can customize the animals with bass-bins, under-lighting, alloy wheels... a kinda "Pimp-My-Rhino thing.

* The Youtube user [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JisQo3EkjUY Vicious516]] uses this trope in one of his own [[{{creepypasta}} creepypastas]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel very effectively.]]

->"You can't just fall into taxidermy, you've really got to want it. "I wanna be a taxidermist! I wanna fill animals with sand! I wanna get more sand into an animal than anyone's ever got, I wanna fill a rat with the entire Gobi desert!"

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* In one issue of ''TalesFromTheCrypt'', an old woman's husband decides to take up taxidermy as a hobby. Because this is ''TalesFromTheCrypt'', you just know this is going to go horribly. [[spoiler: After he stuffs and mounts her pet cat, she stuffs and mounts ''him''.]]

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* In ''{{Psycho}}'' taxidermy is one of Norman Bates' hobbies.
* The landlady in ''{{Amelie}}'' keeps her cheating husband's loyal dog stuff and mounted on a table, staring at a picture of its old master. This is meant to show how pathetic the woman is. (It works).
* Brad Wesley in ''RoadHouse'', so much so that RogerEbert commented "This guy went hunting in the zoo.".
* The 1994 live action adaptation of ''TheJungleBook'' had Mowgli in a room filled with stuffed animals, [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel and he imagines hearing them screaming, with each scream punctuated by a gunshot.]]

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* The landlady in Roald Dahl's short story ''The Landlady''.
* Cristobal Junta in [[StrugatskyBrothers Monday Begins At Saturday]].
* In ''HarryPotter'', Sirius Black's aunt Elladora started the family tradition of beheading the family's house elves when they got old, and put their heads on walls like hunting trophies. This is one of the many ways the Black family is shown to be deranged and seriously creepy.

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* ProfessorElemental is a "mad taxidermist", who experiments with sewing parts of different animals together to create new ones (while they are living) in his song, "Animal Magic." [[spoiler: The animals get their comeuppance in the end.]]

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* [[AlmightyJanitor The Janitor]] on ''{{Scrubs}}'' ("Anyway, in my spare time I also enjoy stuffing animals. Usually with other animals.")
** He's apparently responsible for converting all the squirrels that lived around the hospital into a stuffed squirrel army.
* An episode of ''{{NCIS}}'' had a taxidermist who was part of a plot to get revenge on Ducky.
* There's also Sylar's dad from ''Series/{{Heroes}}''.

* In the ''TwilightZone'' episode "Elegy", three shipwrecked astronauts encounter a mausoleum where anyone willing to pay its exorbitant fees could have their corpse "eternified" and put on display, "living out" their fondest dreams posthumously. It eventually turns out that [[MeaningfulName Wickwire]], the automaton caretaker, has taken the attitude that HumansAreBastards, and ultimately [[spoiler: he poisons the three with eternifying fluid and gives them their own diorama set up to look as though they'd finally fixed their ship and were about to take off for home]].
-->'''Wickwire:''' ''Because you are men, and while there are men, there can be no peace!''
* One of the killers in ''CriminalMinds'' was a crazy taxidermist who was killing his victims in order to [[spoiler: use their eyes in place of the eyes of the animals he was stuffing]].

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* In the point and click adventure game ''The Lost Files of SherlockHolmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel'', the taxidermist turns out to be the one who was hired to kill the victim, and is said to have frequently done odd-jobs of dubious morality in addition to his public profession.

* In ResidentEvil2, Police Chief Irons has taxidermy as a hobby, and was planning on stuffing the mayor's daughter before his death.

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* ''Film/{{Coraline}}'' had Spink and Forcible and their wall of stuffed Scotty dogs. Every time one of their many Scotty dogs died, they'd have them stuffed and dressed in angel garb.

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* ''{{Coraline}}'' had Spink and Forcible and their wall of stuffed Scotty dogs. Every time one of their many Scotty dogs died, they'd have them stuffed and dressed in angel garb.

* Cristobal Junta in [[TheStrugatskyBrothers Monday Begins At Saturday]].

* ProfessorElemental is a "mad taxidermist", who experiments with sewing parts of different animals together to create new ones (while they are living) in his song, "Animal Magic."

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* Victor Rodenmaar in ''HouseOfAnubis'' keeps various stuffed creatures, including his raven Corbierre. Every one of them is creepy as heck.
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* ''{{Coraline}}'' had Spink and Forcible and their wall of stuffed Scotty dogs. Every time one of their many Scotty dogs died, they'd have them stuffed and dressed in angel garb.
* In ''FamilyGuy'', Brian the family dog is unnerved to discover the owners of his late mother (who seemed quite nice up until that point) had her stuffed and converted into a coffee table.

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* Victor Rodenmaar in ''HouseOfAnubis'' keeps various stuffed creatures, including his raven Corbierre.

* Brad Wesley of ''RoadHouse''.
* The 1994 live action adaptation of ''TheJungleBook'' had Mowgli in a room filled with stuffed animals, and he imagines hearing them screaming, with each scream punctuated by a gunshot.

Subtrope of PastimesProvePersonality,

* Randy Mann on ''PushingDaisies'' ("Frescorts")

* In ''{{Psycho}}'' taxidermy is one of Norman Bates's hobbies.

* In ''{{Psycho}}'' taxidermy is one of Norman Bate's hobbies.

* There is a DLC stand-alone adventure for ''HeavyRain'' called "The Taxidermist". It's probably scarier than anything in the actual game.

* In the point and click adventure game ''The Lost Files of SherlockHolmes: The Case of the Serrated Edge'', the taxidermist turns out to be the one who was hired to kill the victim, and is said to have frequently done odd-jobs of dubious morality in addition to his public profession.

--> "You can't just fall into taxidermy, you've really got to want it. "I wanna be a taxidermist! I wanna fill animals with sand! I wanna get more sand into an animal than anyone's ever got, I wanna fill a rat with the entire Gobi desert!" -- '''Eddie Izzard''', ''Glorious''.

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!!Examples:

* Randy Mann on PushingDaisies ("Frescorts")
* [[AlmightyJanitor The Janitor]] on {{Scrubs}} ("Anyway, in my spare time I also enjoy stuffing animals. Usually with other animals.")

* An episode of {{NCIS}} had a taxidermist who was part of a plot to get revenge on Ducky.
* There's also Sylar's dad from ''{{Heroes}}''.

* In ''{{Psycho}}'' taxidermy is one of Norman Bate's hobbies. It gets really {{Squick}}y when they discover that he had his mother stuffed.