History Main / TheDarknessGazesBack

* ''TheLivingDead'': After the zombified Chief is shot in the middle of Slowtown, the group sees hundreds of zombie eyes peering out from the darkness of buildings that they had once thought all but empty. [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere The quickly decide to vacate the area.]]

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'': [[spoiler:once Galeem is busted, Dharkon, his umbral counterpart]], launches his own attack from the shadows, and emerges from the darkness once the invasion is underway. Also counts as a DaylightHorror, since he ''breaks space'' to enter the world.

* In the Disney World version of ''Franchise/TheHauntedMansion'' there is a point where the Doom Buggy is surrounded by demonic eyes that look around and blink. As it moves to an area with better lighting, these eyes are revealed to be designs in the wallpaper. What makes this especially strange is that some of the eyes in the dark section are closer than other nearby ones, and a few are even moving in 3D space.

%%* ''Literature/TheHouseWithAClockInItsWalls'': When Lewis and Tarby accidentally [[spoiler:release Selenna Izard from her tomb]]. The editions of the book with Edward Gorey's illustrations milk this scene for all it's worth.

The trope title refers to one of the many philosophies of the eternally quotable Creator/FriedrichNietzsche, as seen on HeWhoFightsMonsters.

** As the campers rush into the forest of Boney Island in "[[Recap/TotalDramaUpTheCreek Up the Creek]]", they are met by eyes glowing up from the flora's shadows. The eyes turn out to belong to woolly beavers, which are hostile, carnivorous, and give chase.
** As the Mutant Maggots try to break free from the branches of a bush in "[[Recap/TotalDramaFindersCreepers Finders Creepers]]", Brick has a good look at the dark forest surrounding them. His eyes land on a tree hollow from which ten pairs of eyes gaze back at him. He screams, picks up the bush with his entire team, and runs away.

* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls1'': If you look into the pitch-black chasm near the boss fog gate to Manus, Father of the Abyss, you can see his [[ExtraEyes many red eyes]] down there. The Abyss gazes back indeed. [[spoiler:However, [[CombatPragmatist you can actually shoot those eyes with a bow]] and kill Manus before even entering the arena, it will take hundreds of arrows but will spare you from ''brutal'' BonusBoss fight.]]

** In "Planet of the Daleks", the beasts around the campfire, when the Doctor and Jo land on a jungle planet. Unfortunately [[NoBudget they are obvious pinlights]].
** PlayedForLaughs in "The Witch's Familiar" when Missy relates how the Doctor [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat escaped from android assassins]] only to "fall into a nest of vampire monkeys". Cue this trope.
* ''Series/TheXFiles''. In "Detour", the MonsterOfTheWeek can't be seen except for their glowing red eyes, given that their bark-like skin enables them to blend in with the trees. As a result this trope comes up a couple of times, [[spoiler:including the end which reveals one of them hiding under Scully's hotel room bed (fortunately she's left just in time).]]