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* [[TheFilmOfTheBook The film version]] of ''Literature/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'' preserves the backstory of James's parents being killed by a rhinoceros...broadly speaking. In the original book, the rhino was just a random animal that escaped from the zoo and somehow ate James's parents despite being a herbivore; it was clearly just an excuse for James to wind up living with his abusive aunts, and it was more played for BlackComedy than anything else. The ''film'' version, on the other hand, takes... [[AdaptationalAbomination a rather different approach]]. The rhino in the film is an ''outright eldritch horror'', being a sentient mass of clouds in the rough shape of a rhinoceros, with glowing red eyes and lightning constantly crackling around and inside it. James is understandably ''terrified'' of the damn thing, and one of the ways his aunts torment him is by threatening that the rhino will one day come back to get him like it got his parents. [[spoiler:Which it does near the end of the film (although fortunately he's [[ImNotAfraidOfYou able to stand up to it]] by that point).]] We find out [[NothingIsScarier absolutely nothing]] about where the damn thing came from; it just...[[DiabolusExNihilo exists]], and it's ultimately left unclear whether it's a real entity, a figment of James's imagination, some kind of metaphor, or something else entirely. James [[LampshadeHanging lampshades this]] during his final confrontation with the Rhino:
-->"You're not even a real rhino! You're just a lot of smoke and noise!
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* Played with in ''Film/{{Nope}}'': [[spoiler:"Jean Jacket," the organism which serves as the film's main antagonist, certainly ''looks'' the part; it initially appears to be a classical FlyingSaucer, but it proves to be a living creature made out of a strange canvas-like material, and when threatened it is capable of unfolding into something that can only be described as a cross between a gigantic jellyfish and a biblically accurate angel. It also constantly emits an EMP field that shuts down all electronics in the vicinity while it's present, is capable of generating a perfectly static cloud around itself, and feeds by sucking animals or people into the "mouth" in the bottom of its body and slowly digesting them over the course of what's implied to be ''days''.]] The catch is, [[spoiler:in terms of ''behavior'', it couldn't be further from this trope; beyond its bizarre appearance and abilities, the "alien" really is nothing more than a hungry wild animal prowling the area it's claimed as its territory, and the main characters are able to manipulate it, and eventually capture proof of its existence, by applying their own animal training expertise. In fact, Jean Jacket's species has been established InUniverse to have evolved on Earth, and belongs to the fictional phylum Nubaria.]]

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* Played with in ''Film/{{Nope}}'': [[spoiler:"Jean Jacket," the organism which serves as the film's main antagonist, certainly ''looks'' the part; it initially appears to be a classical FlyingSaucer, but it proves to be a living creature made out of a strange canvas-like material, and when threatened it is capable of unfolding into something that can only be described as a cross between a gigantic jellyfish and a biblically accurate angel. It also constantly emits an EMP field that shuts down all electronics in the vicinity while it's present, is capable of generating a perfectly static cloud around itself, and feeds by sucking animals or people into the "mouth" in the bottom of its body and slowly digesting them over the course of what's implied to be ''days''.]] The catch is, [[spoiler:in terms of ''behavior'', it couldn't be further from this trope; beyond its bizarre appearance and abilities, the "alien" really is nothing more than a hungry wild animal prowling the area it's claimed as its territory, and the main characters are able to manipulate it, and eventually capture proof of its existence, by applying their own animal training expertise. In fact, Jean Jacket's species has been established InUniverse was confirmed to have evolved on Earth, and belongs belonging to the fictional phylum Nubaria.]]
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* The vampire space-ship in ''Film/{{Lifeforce}}'' fits the definition almost exactly. It comes from across the universe, turns out to be in fact ''alive'', is utterly inhuman (although its servants assume human form for convenience), arrives to consume the planet, and the heroes [[spoiler:have no chance in hell of defeating it. They merely manage to contain the destruction it causes, and it goes back unharmed to Halley's Comet to return in 95 years for its next feeding.]]

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* The vampire space-ship in ''Film/{{Lifeforce}}'' ''Film/Lifeforce1985'' fits the definition almost exactly. It comes from across the universe, turns out to be in fact ''alive'', is utterly inhuman (although its servants assume human form for convenience), arrives to consume the planet, and the heroes [[spoiler:have no chance in hell of defeating it. They merely manage to contain the destruction it causes, and it goes back unharmed to Halley's Comet to return in 95 years for its next feeding.]]
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* WesternAnimation/RaggedyAnnAndAndyAMusicalAdventure has The Greedy a G rated version who is unironically one of the most faithful incarnations of a Eldritch Abomination in animation due to a clever use of DerangedAnimation. He is a giant BlobMonster made entirely of taffy who constantly eats and is rarely the same form twice. He is very similar to Abhoth from "The Seven Geases" but instead of obscene monsters it's junk food.



* The BigBad of ''Anime/GodzillaThePlanetEater'' and the ''Godzilla Anime Trilogy'' is Ghidorah, who in this version is a truly gigantic dimension-crossing organism made of energy that takes the form of a golden three-headed dragon whose necks alone are 20 kilometers long. It's revealed that Ghidorah was pulling the strings ever since Godzilla appeared on earth in 2030, and that all the human-alien orchestrated events (the emigration, the info dump on Godzilla, and the return to Earth) were all orchestrated by the Exif on ''his'' orders. When Ghidorah [[spoiler:destroys the aratrum]], it is shown that he can warp space and time itself, causing the crew to come the realization that [[spoiler:they're already dead]]. When Godzilla attacks Ghidorah using his atomic breath, Ghidorah easily bends the atomic breath away from him.
* ''Franchise/OnePiece'':
** The Lily Carnation from ''Anime/BaronOmatsuriAndTheSecretIsland'' is probably the scariest monster in the franchise, and there's absolutely no explanation to what exactly it is or where it came from other than being called a "a rare flower". In its base form it's just a cute little flower with eyes and mouth that's seemly growing out of Omatsuri's shoulder but then it turns out the titular villain is the flower's host and his been feeding it pirate crews so it can produce plant-replicates of the his dead crew. The pure NightmareFuel comes in when the most of Strawhats (Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Chopper and Robin) have been swallowed by the abomination and Omatsuri reveals its [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-n9qBBjXXub4/VOhGmuscLxI/AAAAAAAAAm0/gnK6PTziQ84/s1600/9908055_orig.gif horrifying true form]]. It's especially freaky when Baron Omatsuri uses the flower's power to reduce Luffy to a terrifying zombie-like state. Though the Lily Carnation is killed by a simple bow and arrow, it's nevertheless probably the most demonic and scary ''One Piece'' movie villain to date. Movie 6's writer Masahiro Ito is one of the creators of the ''Franchise/SilentHill'' series, which may explain the darker mood of the story compared the main series as well as the Eldritch Abomination in the aforementioned Lily Carnation.
** The final opponent in ''Anime/OnePieceFilmRed'' is Tot Musica, a being that can only be described as the demonic embodiment of music. [[spoiler:Twelve years before the film's present, a young Uta accidentially summoned it. While she quickly ran out of power to sustain it, the kingdom of Elegia was destroyed regardless, with only the king and Uta surviving the devastation. In the movie's climax, she summons it once more, having eaten poisonous mushrooms that prevent her from falling asleep beforehand. And as it exists, Tot Musica begins to merge the real world with Uta's DreamLand.]]
* ''Film/{{Pokemon}}'':
** In ''Anime/Pokemon3'', Unown are, collectively, the most impenetrably enigmatic force in the setting. They barely look like Pokémon, no one knows where they came from, what they want, why they look like writing, how they think, or how they combine their individually miniscule psychic powers to arbitrarily rewrite local reality, or even what the curve of RealityWarper potential looks like as a group of Unown gains members. Their name even comes from the word "Unknown", and the only move they can learn is called "Hidden Power".
** A notable case is the Creation Trio in the Sinnoh movie trilogy. [[Anime/PokemonTheRiseOfDarkrai Dialga and Palkia's clashing]] can send a small city to a pocket dimension as well as dissolve it into another dimension. [[Anime/PokemonGiratinaAndTheSkyWarrior Giratina]] lives in an EldritchLocation that looks and feels off (especially with the wonky gravity) and [[Anime/PokemonArceusAndTheJewelOfLife Arceus]] is still the equivalent of {{God}}. Most of these overlap with AnimalisticAbomination.



* The Nightwalker/Daidarabocchi in ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' is the enormous and scary night form of the benevolent (but admittedly unsettling) Deer God/Shishigami, an already eldritch entity. While it's normally unsettling but benevolent, he's harmless to humans... [[spoiler:until his head is shot off and cut, resulting in the Nightwalker turning in a blob-like tide of dark matter which consumes all life in his path]].
* ''WesternAnimation/RaggedyAnnAndAndyAMusicalAdventure'' has The Greedy a G rated version who is unironically one of the most faithful incarnations of an Eldritch Abomination in animation due to a clever use of DerangedAnimation. He is a giant BlobMonster made entirely of taffy who constantly eats and is rarely the same form twice. He is very similar to Abhoth from "The Seven Geases" but instead of obscene monsters, it's junk food.



* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfKells'' has Crom Cruach, a massive, Ourobouros-esque serpent, made of [[LightIsNotGood light]], referred to as [[GodOfEvil The Dark One]], a being who's eyes can reveal unfathomable patterns and knowledge. [[AntiClimaxBoss It's beaten by a boy with a piece of pink chalk.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfKells'' has Crom Cruach, a massive, Ourobouros-esque serpent, made of [[LightIsNotGood light]], referred to as [[GodOfEvil The the Dark One]], a being who's whose eyes can reveal unfathomable patterns and knowledge. [[AntiClimaxBoss It's beaten by a boy with a piece of pink chalk.]]
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* Katsushi Boda's segment in ''Anime/WinterDays'' features a giant monster. Although he is vaguely human-like, most of his body seems to be made out of pulsating tentacles.
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* WesternAnimation/RaggedyAnnAndAndyAMusicalAdventure has The Greedy a G rated version who is unironically one of the most faithful incarnations of a Eldritch Abomination in animation do to a clever use of DerangedAnimation. He is a giant BlobMonster made entirely of taffy who constantly eats and is rarely the same form twice. He is very similar to Abhoth from "The Seven Geases" but instead of obscene monsters it's junk food.

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* WesternAnimation/RaggedyAnnAndAndyAMusicalAdventure has The Greedy a G rated version who is unironically one of the most faithful incarnations of a Eldritch Abomination in animation do due to a clever use of DerangedAnimation. He is a giant BlobMonster made entirely of taffy who constantly eats and is rarely the same form twice. He is very similar to Abhoth from "The Seven Geases" but instead of obscene monsters it's junk food.
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* Found-footage movie ''Film/{{Borderlands}}'' is marketed as and initially appears to be "''Film/ParanormalActivity'' in a church". As the movie progresses it becomes clear that it's much more Lovecraftian than anything, with an {{Apocalyptic Log}}, [[ChildEater murals of something inhuman that feeds on children]] and [[spoiler:a tunnel that turns out to be a huge organic orifice for something huge, unseen and hungry, that painfully devours the main characters]].

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* Found-footage movie ''Film/{{Borderlands}}'' ''Film/TheBorderlands'' is marketed as and initially appears to be "''Film/ParanormalActivity'' in a church". As the movie progresses it becomes clear that it's much more Lovecraftian than anything, with an {{Apocalyptic Log}}, [[ChildEater murals of something inhuman that feeds on children]] and [[spoiler:a tunnel that turns out to be a huge organic orifice for something huge, unseen and hungry, that painfully devours the main characters]].
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* Found-footage movie ''Borderlands'' is marketed as and initially appears to be "''Film/ParanormalActivity'' in a church". As the movie progresses it becomes clear that it's much more Lovecraftian than anything, with an {{Apocalyptic Log}}, [[ChildEater murals of something inhuman that feeds on children]] and [[spoiler:a tunnel that turns out to be a huge organic orifice for something huge, unseen and hungry, that painfully devours the main characters]].

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* Found-footage movie ''Borderlands'' ''Film/{{Borderlands}}'' is marketed as and initially appears to be "''Film/ParanormalActivity'' in a church". As the movie progresses it becomes clear that it's much more Lovecraftian than anything, with an {{Apocalyptic Log}}, [[ChildEater murals of something inhuman that feeds on children]] and [[spoiler:a tunnel that turns out to be a huge organic orifice for something huge, unseen and hungry, that painfully devours the main characters]].
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* WesternAnimation/RaggedyAnnAndAndyAMusicalAdventure has The Greedy a G rated version who is unironically one of the most faithful incarnations of a Eldritch Abomination in animation do to a clever use of DerangedAnimation. He is a giant BlobMonster made entirely of taffy who constantly eats and is rarely the same form twice. He is very similar to Abhoth from "The Seven Geases" but instead of obscene monsters it's junk food.
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* Played with in ''Film/{{Nope}}'': [[spoiler:"Jean Jacket," the organism which serves as the film's main antagonist, certainly ''looks'' the part; it initially appears to be a classical FlyingSaucer, but it proves to be a living creature made out of a strange canvas-like material, and when threatened it is capable of unfolding into something that can only be described as a cross between a gigantic jellyfish and a biblically accurate angel. It also constantly emits an EMP field that shuts down all electronics in the vicinity while it's present, is capable of generating a perfectly static cloud around itself, and feeds by sucking animals or people into the "mouth" in the bottom of its body and slowly digesting them over the course of what's implied to be ''days''.]] The catch is, [[spoiler:in terms of ''behavior'', it couldn't be further from this trope; beyond its bizarre appearance and abilities, the "alien" really is nothing more than a hungry wild animal prowling the area it's claimed as its territory, and the main characters are able to manipulate it, and eventually capture proof of its existence, by applying their own animal training expertise. In addition, it's been established InUniverse to have evolved on Earth, and is classified as belonging to its own unique phylum called Nubaria.]]

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* Played with in ''Film/{{Nope}}'': [[spoiler:"Jean Jacket," the organism which serves as the film's main antagonist, certainly ''looks'' the part; it initially appears to be a classical FlyingSaucer, but it proves to be a living creature made out of a strange canvas-like material, and when threatened it is capable of unfolding into something that can only be described as a cross between a gigantic jellyfish and a biblically accurate angel. It also constantly emits an EMP field that shuts down all electronics in the vicinity while it's present, is capable of generating a perfectly static cloud around itself, and feeds by sucking animals or people into the "mouth" in the bottom of its body and slowly digesting them over the course of what's implied to be ''days''.]] The catch is, [[spoiler:in terms of ''behavior'', it couldn't be further from this trope; beyond its bizarre appearance and abilities, the "alien" really is nothing more than a hungry wild animal prowling the area it's claimed as its territory, and the main characters are able to manipulate it, and eventually capture proof of its existence, by applying their own animal training expertise. In addition, it's fact, Jean Jacket's species has been established InUniverse to have evolved on Earth, and is classified as belonging belongs to its own unique the fictional phylum called Nubaria.]]
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* Played with in ''Film/{{Nope}}'': [[spoiler:"Jean Jacket", the alien entity which serves as the film's main antagonist, certainly ''looks'' the part; it initially appears to be a classical FlyingSaucer, but it proves to be a living creature made out of a strange canvas-like material, and when threatened it is capable of unfolding into something that can only be described as a cross between a gigantic jellyfish and a biblically accurate angel. It also constantly emits an EMP field that shuts down all electronics in the vicinity while it's present, is capable of generating a perfectly static cloud around itself, and feeds by sucking animals or people into the "mouth" in the bottom of its body and slowly digesting them over the course of what's implied to be ''days''.]] The catch is, [[spoiler:in terms of ''behavior'', it couldn't be further from this trope; beyond its bizarre appearance and abilities, the alien turns out to be nothing more than a hungry wild animal prowling the area it's claimed as its territory, and the main characters are able to manipulate it, and eventually kill it, by applying their own animal training expertise.]]

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* Played with in ''Film/{{Nope}}'': [[spoiler:"Jean Jacket", Jacket," the alien entity organism which serves as the film's main antagonist, certainly ''looks'' the part; it initially appears to be a classical FlyingSaucer, but it proves to be a living creature made out of a strange canvas-like material, and when threatened it is capable of unfolding into something that can only be described as a cross between a gigantic jellyfish and a biblically accurate angel. It also constantly emits an EMP field that shuts down all electronics in the vicinity while it's present, is capable of generating a perfectly static cloud around itself, and feeds by sucking animals or people into the "mouth" in the bottom of its body and slowly digesting them over the course of what's implied to be ''days''.]] The catch is, [[spoiler:in terms of ''behavior'', it couldn't be further from this trope; beyond its bizarre appearance and abilities, the alien turns out to be "alien" really is nothing more than a hungry wild animal prowling the area it's claimed as its territory, and the main characters are able to manipulate it, and eventually kill it, capture proof of its existence, by applying their own animal training expertise.expertise. In addition, it's been established InUniverse to have evolved on Earth, and is classified as belonging to its own unique phylum called Nubaria.]]

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* The Heart of Atlantis in ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' is a gigantic hovering crystal that feeds on the emotions of dead Atlanteans, making it conscious, or in the words of the King, alive but only "in a way". It is largely benevolent, protecting the city and giving the Atlanteans long life and supernatural powers as well as powering their technology, but will also absorb and potentially kill members of the royal family to protect itself, and is responsible for sinking Atlantis beneath the sea when the King displeased it by using its power as a weapon of war.



* [[OurAngelsAreDifferent The Angel of Death]] from ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'', the last and most horrifying of the plagues of Egypt. It appears as [[AngelicAbomination a mass of glowing smoke that emerges from what appears to be a dimensional portal]] and kills the firstborns of Egypt with a touch that steals away their breath.



* The Heart of Atlantis in ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' is a gigantic hovering crystal that feeds on the emotions of dead Atlanteans, making it conscious, or in the words of the King, alive but only "in a way". It is largely benevolent, protecting the city and giving the Atlanteans long life and supernatural powers as well as powering their technology, but will also absorb and potentially kill members of the royal family to protect itself, and is responsible for sinking Atlantis beneath the sea when the King displeased it by using its power as a weapon of war.
* [[OurAngelsAreDifferent The Angel of Death]] from ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'', the last and most horrifying of the plagues of Egypt. It appears as [[AngelicAbomination a mass of glowing smoke that emerges from what appears to be a dimensional portal]] and kills the firstborns of Egypt with a touch that steals away their breath.



* Whatever it was that was impersonating [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] during ''Film/WesCravensNewNightmare''. Its description in the film is really vague, except that it's ancient, enjoys hurting people, and can only be [[SealedEvilInACan contained]] when a story captures its essence (which Freddy seemed to do). Minus the last part, it sounds a lot like [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Nyarlathotep]].


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* ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet'': The "monster from the id" manifesting the unconscious evil desires of a [[TheSingularity vanished race]] as an ephemeral, super-powered crab-like plasma thing.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfKells'' has Crom Cruach, a massive, Ourobouros-esque serpent, made of [[LightIsNotGood light]], referred to as [[GodOfEvil The Dark One]], a being who's eyes can reveal unfathomable patterns and knowledge. [[AntiClimaxBoss It's beaten by a boy with a piece of pink chalk.]]



* The animated film ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfKells'' has Crom Cruach, a massive, Ourobouros-esque serpent, made of [[LightIsNotGood light]], referred to as [[GodOfEvil The Dark One]], a being who's eyes can reveal unfathomable patterns and knowledge. [[AntiClimaxBoss It's beaten by a boy with a piece of pink chalk.]]
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** The titular monster in ''Film/TheThing1982'' is a {{Starfish Alien|s}}, so bizarre with no definite form that it can't be called anything ''other'' than "The Thing."

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** The titular monster in ''Film/TheThing1982'' is a {{Starfish Alien|s}}, so bizarre with no definite form that it can't be called anything ''other'' than "The Thing."" It ''seems'' to stick to netly biological rules, but the biology involved is entirely alien to what we know on Earth even if some parts of it can be figured out. If it has any goals, it also never reveals them, though we're left to assume one of them (or a step) is to assimilate all biomass on the planet into itself.

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