History OffscreenTeleportation / LiveActionFilms

* Apparently if you ever become a [[HybridMonster vampire/werewolf hybrid]] this is one of the primary powers you will receive, according to ''Film/{{Underworld}}''.

* ''Film/JurassicPark'':

* Used to terrifying effect in ''[[Film/TheRing Ring 0: Birthday]]'', the {{Prequel}} to the Japanese ''Film/{{Ringu}}'' movies. Even though she still has a living, breathing body (well... [[BackFromTheDead kind of]]) Sadako can project herself across relatively long distances to corner her prey. Justified in [[Film/TheRing the American remake]], where Samara's unique nature and "video glitches" grant her true teleportation.

* ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'':
** In ''Film/BatmanBegins'', when Batman appears to Rachel for the first time on the train platform after rescuing her from the "mugger." And he comes and goes several times around Gordon in both movies.
** In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', while the Joker is threatening Rachel, Batman appears out of nowhere in the middle of a crowded party surrounded by the Joker's goons. Indeed, one of Batman's few supernatural powers seems to be the ability to teleport whenever anyone turns his back for one second.
** Lampshaded in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', when Selina Kyle disappears in front of Batman, prompting the latter to quip, "So ''that's'' what it feels like."
* Used to terrifying effect in ''[[Film/TheRing Ring 0: Birthday]]'', the {{Prequel}} to the Japanese ''Film/{{Ringu}}'' movies. Even though she still has a living, breathing body (well... [[BackFromTheDead kind of]]) Sadako can project herself across relatively long distances to corner her prey. Justified in [[Film/TheRing the American remake]], where Samara's unique nature and "video glitches" grant her true teleportation.
* At the climax of ''Franchise/StarWars'', the ''Millennium Falcon'' swoops in and saves Luke's bacon. ''How'' exactly did Han fly a cargo freighter close enough to shoot one of Darth Vader's wingmen, without any of the other TIE fighters or gunners on the Death Star noticing him?
** Doesn't the bright flash behind the Millennium Falcon mean it had just popped out of hyperspace right there? That still might be effectively offscreen teleportation, but a legit kind.
** And Star Wars does it again in ''Film/TheForceAwakens''. [[spoiler: Rey and Chewbacca escape the exploding superweapon, wounding and leaving Kylo Ren behind as they run away and into the woods. Suddenly their way is blocked by Kylo Ren, his lightsaber ready for action. Considering Kylo Ren's parentage, this seems to be a family trait.]]
** Also happens earlier in the film. Finn is fleeing Rey through Niima Outpost, when she suddenly appears around a corner in front of him and knocks him flat.
* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Film/{{Vidocq}}'', where the Alchemist not only teleports offscreen but also manages to change position in absolutely impossible movements. However, this is consistent with the impossible nature of the Alchemist, who even manages to have two left arms in one scene.
* Simultaneously {{Justified|Trope}} and {{Averted}} in ''Film/VanHelsing'' with Dracula as apparently super speed is one of the powers you get as top vampire.
* The title character in ''Film/TheGoodWitch'' likes this one.

* Many zombie movies, films, and TV shows somehow manage to have shambling, shuffling moaning zombies sneak up behind people, even when the people in question should be able to see them easily. [[RuleOfPerception Yet they somehow don't until the camera does]]. They are apparently able to move much faster than regular people, but ''only'' offscreen.

* Heavily used in B-movie ''Zombie Lake'' to wave away the difficulty of zombies catching up to their victims.
* ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'' was possibly the ''first'' movie to use this deliberately, and to great effect. Leone specifically shot the movie with the idea that [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall the characters could only be aware of what the camera saw.]] The most noticeable moments are probably Angel Eyes managing to sneak up on the other two in an empty graveyard, and when Blondie and Tuco walk into ''the middle of a Union encampment'' without noticing.
* In ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter'', Harry Powell is truly impossible to shake off. You think you've lost him, he should be miles away, and wouldn't you know it, there he is along the horizon, trotting along on his horse and [[SoundtrackDissonance belting out gospel]]. Asks one character, [[LampshadeHanging "Don't he never sleep?"]]
* Subverted in the ''Film/{{Scream}}'' films, the killer appears to be able to do this but is really [[spoiler:two killers working as a team]]. ''Film/{{Scream 3}}'', however, has a killer who can do this and is [[spoiler:working alone so shouldn't be able to,]] a clear case of {{Sequelitis}}. It was supposed to [[spoiler:have two killers (Angelina was supposed to be the other one)]], but a bit of ExecutiveMeddling fixed that.
* Played with in the movie ''Film/BehindTheMaskTheRiseOfLeslieVernon'', in which a documentary crew essentially follows around a rookie horror-movie villain. (it turns from deconstruction to straight out horror when they realize he ''means it''.) Throughout his preparations it is shown that this move is just a combination of careful planning and cardio. Among other things, Vernon is shown as a student of stage magic and devoted to his cardio workout. At one point, he bets the interviewer (who lettered several times in track) that he can catch her in a footrace by walking slowly. The scene shows him ''sprinting'' when her back is turned, reading when she's going to look back at him, and dropping to a walk in time. The motion of looking back in surprise while running full-tilt causes her to do the traditional horror-movie fall-over.
* Possibly played with in ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', when Creator/JohnCleese's Lancelot is seen running towards the camera from the other side of a field. The camera switches between this scene and two guards watching several times with Lancelot getting no closer every time it looks at him (in fact, every shot of Lancelot is the same piece of footage, replayed) then suddenly when the camera is on the two guards, Lancelot runs in from offscreen and stabs them.
* In ''Film/AHardDaysNight'', this may be the only way to explain the climax of John's bathtub scene.

* ''Film/ThePrestige'':
** Subverted at one point, when Angier is tailing Borden, another magician. Borden crosses a street and a carriage passes between them... and Borden's still there. Played straight quite frequently, but then, they ''are'' magicians.
** Another instance that is averted by waiting until the end of the movie for the reveal, occurs towards the beginning of the film when Borden drops Sarah off at her door and walks away, and she goes in, and he's suddenly in her kitchen making her tea. Once it's revealed that Borden [[spoiler:has an identical twin]], it makes sense: [[spoiler:the twin broke in beforehand]].

* The Psychlos use this in the movie version of ''Film/BattlefieldEarth''.
* Employed quite a bit by the giant snake in B-movie ''Boa''.
* Played with in ''Film/ScaryMovie'', in which the main character sees the masked killer outside her classroom. As she looks away, the killer is shown frantically rushing to get behind the tree he was standing next to before she looks back again in order to invoke the feel of the trope.
* The director for ''Film/EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind'' tried to use [[PracticalEffects practical camera effects]] whenever possible. One scene has Jim Carrey on both sides of the room at the same time. He had to run behind the camera and put a stocking cap on several times as the camera panned back and forth.
* ''Film/PansLabyrinth'' is guilty of this. [[spoiler: When Mercedes and Ofelia are escaping the encampment, Mercedes somehow doesn't notice Captain Vidal and his entire squad of over fifty men sneak up behind them in barely the time it took her to turn her head.]] The eponymous Faun is also capable of just appearing out of nowhere, although this is heavily implied to be some type of magic.
* ''Film/JurassicPark'':
** Exemplified by the ninja Tyrannosaur who can't walk around outside without much roaring, stomping, and earth-shaking but suddenly appears inside a building at the climax of the film. Happens again with the even larger Spinosaurus in [[Film/JurassicParkIII the third film]]: the only reason people realize it's there is that they hear the musical ring tone from a satellite phone it had earlier eaten.
** And exactly how does the Dilophosaur even get into Nedry's car, or know that it's supposed to be there? All the doors except the one next to Nedry are shut. Unless we assume that it hopped around the car, opened the door, climbed in, shut the door after itself, and then waited patiently for Nedry to get in and shut the door, trapping himself. Maybe the velociraptors weren't the brains of the outfit after all.
* Justified within in the ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' movies: not only can Davy Jones and his minions do this, but they can also walk ''through'' bits of his almost sentient ship due to the bond they all share with it. Averted when they move off of the ''Flying Dutchman,'' when they're actually shown to walk right through a wet surface and out of another wet surface somewhere else. ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest Dead Man's Chest]]'' has fun with this when we first see Davy Jones just after this rule is suggested, small and far away through Jack's eyeglass; as he lowers the spyglass, we quickly see Davy Jones again, standing in the same way, but now right in front of Jack on the (wet) deck of the ''Black Pearl''.
* Used by the shark in ''Film/JawsTheRevenge'' to reach the Bahamas from Massachusetts in under three days. Well, it is a VoodooShark...
* The killer in ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'' uses his [[MisappliedPhlebotinum vast supernatural powers]] of almost getting killed and being off-screen not only to teleport, but to wander slowly around killing people all day in public without attracting the slightest notice from anybody he hasn't stuck something sharp into, and to magically fill a locked car trunk with crawling crabs and other sea-life, then empty it again, in about five minutes in broad daylight while the other characters (and the camera) are looking away. Ironically, teleportation officially becomes one of his powers in the [[Film/IllAlwaysKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer third movie]], where he actually is undead. At one point he slashes the tires of FinalGirl's bike when she looks away for maybe a second or two.

* A non-villain example in ''Film/YoungFrankenstein''. During final preparations to reanimate the monster, Igor is up on the roof.

* ''Film/AxeMurderingWithHackley'': Hackley, being a StockSlasher {{Expy}} of Jason Vorhees, is capable of doing this. Early in the movie, we see a guy running from Hackley, who winds up in his victim's path when the camera cuts away from him.

* The movie ''Film/ResidentEvilApocalypse'' is guilty of this. Small mobs of zombies will appear right behind a protagonist where no zombies had been before. It's especially annoying, considering that these zombies cannot move stealthily at all, and one should be able to hear a group of them shuffling, shoving, and moaning as they approach. In addition, good guys and bad guys surprise each other by instantaneously appearing in the cramped confines of the same helicopter at different times, despite the impossibility of sneaking in undetected.
** Every single ''Film/ResidentEvil'' movie is guilty of this, going as far as having them appear in rooms that have no visible entrance other than the one the character used. Possibly, this could be chalked up as a reference to the games.
** Many zombie movies, films, and TV shows somehow manage to have shambling, shuffling moaning zombies sneak up behind people, even when the people in question should be able to see them easily. [[RuleOfPerception Yet they somehow don't until the camera does]]. They are apparently able to move much faster than regular people, but ''only'' offscreen.

* In ''Film/ShredderOrpheus'', when Orpheus navigates the Underworld parking garage, Hades is seen at a distance lighting a cigarette. As Orpheus approaches, Hades appears beside him as he passes a pillar.