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| 5 | [[caption-width-right:350:''Everything'' is deadly in fiction![[labelnote:images]]Clockwise from top left: a ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' book, ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103729/ Attack of the Killer Refrigerator]]'', an issue of ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20201112005000/http://www.stagmags.com/L-to-M/Mans-Conquest/index.php Man's Conquest]]'', ''[[Film/TheCarsThatAteParis The Cars That Eat People]]'' (US title)]][[/labelnote]] |
| 6 | |
| 7 | ->'''Creator/StephenKing:''' For my 307th book, uh... this couple is attacked by... uh... ''[looks at a desk]'' a lamp monster! Oooooooo! \ |
| 8 | '''Editor:''' You're not even trying anymore, are you?\ |
| 9 | '''King:''' ''[waving a desk lamp]'' Rawr! Rawr!\ |
| 10 | '''Editor:''' ''[sighs]'' When can I have it? |
| 11 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' |
| 12 | |
| 13 | If you can think of something, there's probably a horror b-movie about it trying to kill a bunch of people. You name it. [[{{Snowlems}} Snowmen]], [[BadHumorTruck ice cream men]], [[BadSanta Santa Claus]], [[DepravedDentist dentists]], [[MonsterClown clowns]], [[CreepyDoll dolls]], [[BooksThatBite books]], trucks, boats, [[VaginaDentata vaginas]], [[EvilElevator lifts]], chairs, [[AIIsACrapshoot computers]], [[TheMostDangerousVideoGame video games]], clocks, toilets, [[ViciousVac vacuum cleaners]], laundry machines (three of these, actually), condoms, [[HairRaisingHare rabbits]], [[RodentsOfUnusualSize rats]], [[KillerRobot robots]], [[FeatheredFiend birds]], [[BeeAfraid bees]], ticks, [[ThreateningShark sharks]], barracudas, flying fish, eggs, tires, tomatoes ([[Film/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes four-movie series]] with a remake in the works), pieces of dry toast, leprechauns, [[Literature/TheDayOfTheTriffids triffids]], frogs, snails, puppy dog tails... and anything that you're not usually scared of. |
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| 15 | At the very least, if there's not a horror movie based around it, there's surely a horror short story or episode of an anthology horror series about it. Often, the titles of such films will be quite [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin self explanatory]] and if it's a killer animal, there's about a 70% chance that it'll also be giant. If it grows too large, it becomes AttackOfThe50FootWhatever. |
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| 17 | Compare EverythingTryingToKillYou and TerrifyingPetStoreRat. Depending on the object/animal, can overlap with NightmareFuel or ParanoiaFuel. Depending on the execution, can overlap with {{Narm}} instead. Also can overlap with OurMonstersAreWeird if the object is esoteric enough. When the "killer" is an inanimate object, it overlaps with ParanormalMundaneItem. For less exciting RealLife examples, see MyLittlePanzer and NoProductSafetyStandards. |
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| 19 | ---- |
| 20 | !!Examples: |
| 21 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 22 | |
| 23 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 24 | * Unlike the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Day]] from previous seasons, the Daimons/Heart Snatchers from ''[[Anime/SailorMoon Sailor Moon S]]'' were normal objects infected with a Daimon egg/pod and transformed into [[MonogenderMonsters feminine monsters]]. Said objects included a sport car, a vacuum cleaner, a violin, a train, a script for a TV show, a star projector (this episode was skipped during the show's first run on Creator/CartoonNetwork due to the resulting daimon resembling [[https://sailormoon.fandom.com/wiki/U-Chouten#Gallery a scantily clad carnival dancer]]) just to name a few. This is especially true for Kaolinite's daimons; while her successors, Eudial and Mimete, first bring the objects to their lab to infect with daimon, Kaolinite takes to the field and infect any object lying in plain sight, such as a tree and a swimming pool. |
| 25 | * ''Anime/PrettyCure'': The [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Day]] are invariably possessed objects transformed into rampaging beasts whom the heroines fight, defeat and purify, albeit there are cases of animals and even people being possessed. As such, anything that can be turned into a killer beasts ''will'' be turned into a killer beast, with [[WhenTreesAttack tree based monsters]] being the most common, appearing at least once per season. |
| 26 | [[/folder]] |
| 27 | |
| 28 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 29 | * ''ComicBook/HackSlash'': [[spoiler:Parasitic twin foetuses]] and cartoon chipmunks bring in some variety from the normal slashers and serial killers — who are all pretty weird in of themselves. |
| 30 | ** There was also the story about the high-tech snowblower that "ate" pets. |
| 31 | * A [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] comic story had the ComicBook/MartianManhunter facing off against the [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Orchestra Of Doom]], a group of maliciously sentient musical instruments that cause chaos with their MagicMusic and [[spoiler:turned out to be vulnerable to [[WeaksauceWeakness "Last Rose Of Summer". As in the song.]]]] |
| 32 | [[/folder]] |
| 33 | |
| 34 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 35 | * ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': |
| 36 | ** Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster [[{{Snowlems}} Snow Goons]]! (see the page pic) |
| 37 | ** Calvin's bike is also out to get him. |
| 38 | ** And his baseball. |
| 39 | ** His book once ate his homework and then attacked him, but he survived by breaking its spine. |
| 40 | ** He's also had at least two run-ins with killer piles of autumn leaves. |
| 41 | ** Once even his dinner came to life, grasped his fork, and tried to eat him. |
| 42 | * ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' has touched on this trope in several strips, including "Scene from the film ''Giraffes IV'': This time, they're not just looking for acacia leaves." Another one that actually could be scary was "Night of the Crash Test Dummies", which showed crash test dummies shoving people into a crash test car and about to activate it. There was also ''Return of the Nose of Dr. Verlucci'', which seems to be some kind of revenge-from-beyond-the-grave movie about a killer nose ("Egad! It's the severed nose of Dr. Verlucci -- returned from the grave on the anniversary of the night we all betrayed him!"), and another one where worms go to see a [[FeatheredFiend killer bird]] movie called ''Beak 2'' ("Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the topsoil...") |
| 43 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' approached this trope with Charlie Brown's nemesis, the kite-eating tree. |
| 44 | ** Also there was that time in March of 1965 when Lucy was attacked by [[http://peanuts.wikia.com/wiki/March_1965_comic_strips Linus's blanket.]] |
| 45 | [[/folder]] |
| 46 | |
| 47 | [[folder:Fanfiction]] |
| 48 | * ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' features several electronic appliances (along with [=TVs=] and telephone poles) all trying to kill the titular protagonists courtesy of [[{{Technopath}} Electro.]] |
| 49 | * ''Fanfic/PokeBattles'' has this as a fairly prominent element, with AOL attacking in the second battle and trees inexplicably being particularly fearsome opponents. Other things likely to want to fight include doors and anything related to a computer. |
| 50 | [[/folder]] |
| 51 | |
| 52 | [[folder:Film — Animated]] |
| 53 | * Taken to the next level with man-eating hamburgers in this animated short, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARoLPibWAIk "Hambuster"]]. |
| 54 | * ''WesternAnimation/MonsterHouse''. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It's right there in the title]]; a group of kids investigate a HauntedHouse they believe to be alive. |
| 55 | * Creator/BillPlympton did a short called ''Shuteye Hotel'', which was about a [[spoiler:killer pillow that bites off the head of anyone who sleeps on it]]. |
| 56 | * ''WesternAnimation/TwiceUponATime'' has a sequence where Ralph and Mumford are exposed to a nightmare bomb and dream of getting attacked by killer office supplies. |
| 57 | [[/folder]] |
| 58 | |
| 59 | [[folder:Film — Live-Action]] |
| 60 | !!!'''In General:''' |
| 61 | %%* The natural insanity of humankind is perhaps exemplified by the fact that there is actually more than one movie about psychotic ice cream men. Website/SomethingAwful [[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/movie-reviews/mr-ice-cream.php reviews]] [[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/movie-reviews/ice-cream-man.php two]] of them. Both are somehow even ''more'' idiotic than they needed to be.%%Hotlinks are not examples |
| 62 | * Killer Kitties: |
| 63 | ** ''Film/{{Strays|1991}}'' (1991) |
| 64 | ** ''Film/TheUncanny'' (1977) |
| 65 | ** ''Film/BlackCat1981'' (1981) |
| 66 | ** ''Film/EyeOfTheCat'' (1969) |
| 67 | ** ''Film/{{Uninvited|1988}}'' (1988). It's about a mutant cat that hides inside another cat and it is played by a handpuppet. |
| 68 | ** ''Film/TheNightOfAThousandCats'' (1972) |
| 69 | * There's actually three slasher films about evil baseball players - ''The Catcher, Billy Club'' and ''Devon's Ghost: Legend of the Bloody Boy''. |
| 70 | !!!'''By Movie:''' |
| 71 | * ''Film/{{Absentia}}'' is about an evil underpass - [[spoiler: though more specifically, the entity - likely [[AllTrollsAreDifferent a troll]] - that lurks beneath it]]. |
| 72 | * The later ''Franchise/{{Amityville}}'' films featured such things as evil lamps, mirrors, and dollhouses. |
| 73 | * ''Film/AttackOfTheKillerDonuts'' |
| 74 | * ''Attack of the Killer Refrigerator'' and, in a similar vein, a film titled simply ''The Refrigerator''. It's so corny, it's SoBadItsGood, it's the fridge from hell's logic! |
| 75 | * Given some of the other examples on this page, the 1978 horror movie spoof ''Film/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes'' seems almost sensible in comparison. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3uIKzgcDxo ATTAAAACK OF THE KILLER TO-MAY-TOES!]] |
| 76 | * ''Attack of the Sabertooth'' Oh no! A crazy saber-toothed cat is running amok in the forest! Even more oh no! They somehow convinced John Rhys-Dalvies to do this movie! |
| 77 | * Parodied in Brazilian movie ''Bacalhau'', a ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' spoof about a killer codfish. |
| 78 | * Japanese film ''Battle Heater'' is about the rampage of a small electric space heater. |
| 79 | * ''Film/Beast2022'' is about a rogue lion attacking and trapping a recently widowed father played by Creator/IdrisElba and his daughters who are on holiday in Africa. |
| 80 | * The 2016 film ''Film/BedOfTheDead'' is also about a killer bed. |
| 81 | * Creator/AlfredHitchcock's ''Film/TheBirds'' is an early example. |
| 82 | * ''Film/BlackSheep2007'', a horror movie about killer ... wait for it ... sheep. Though this one is a Horror/Comedy. |
| 83 | * The 1989 horror-comedy ''Blades'' involves killings at a country club that turn out to be caused by a killer lawnmower. |
| 84 | * ''Film/BloodLakeAttackOfTheKillerLampreys'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. |
| 85 | * ''Film/TheBrain1988'' -- about a giant killer brain. Really. That's not the only killer brain film. We also have ''Film/TheBrainFromPlanetArous'' and ''Film/FiendWithoutAFace''. |
| 86 | * ''Film/TheBrassTeapot'' is about an evil magical teapot. It’s implied to have brought down nations and empires. |
| 87 | * ''Film/TheCar'', which features a custom-built devil-possessed automobile on the loose. |
| 88 | * ''Film/CarousHell'' has a killer carousel unicorn. |
| 89 | %%* ''Film/TheCarpenter''. |
| 90 | * Probably the quintessential "killer toy" movie is ''Film/ChildsPlay1988'', which earned six sequels. |
| 91 | * ''Film/{{Christine}}'' has a genuinely frightening killer car. |
| 92 | * ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'' features killer cockroaches in one scene. |
| 93 | * 1977's ''Film/DayOfTheAnimals'' - Probably the KING of this trope! There are wolves, dogs, rats, snakes, hawks, owls, mountain lions, and bears! Oh my! |
| 94 | * There was a similar film called ''Film/DeadlyEyes'' back in the '80s, where mutated rats attack random people in a city. |
| 95 | * From Noboru Iguchi, ''Film/DeadSushi''. Bunch of killer sushi. |
| 96 | * The 1977 film ''Film/DeathBedTheBedThatEats'' was about... guess what? A killer bed. |
| 97 | * ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095952/ Dial: Help]]'' has killer telephones. |
| 98 | * ''Film/{{Duel}}'' a 1971 made for TV movie directed by Creator/StevenSpielberg about a terrified motorist stalked on a lonely and remote road by a grimy and rusty 1955 Peterbilt 281 tanker truck. Spielberg intentionally made the truck driver a mostly unseen character so the audience would see the truck as the true antagonist. Remade in 1981 as ''Film/RoadGames'', although in this version the killer van driver is caught at the end and sent to jail. |
| 99 | * ''Film/EmpireOfTheAnts'', about ants that have been mutated into giant, flesh-eating monsters by radioactive waste. |
| 100 | * The beginning of ''Film/ErnestRidesAgain'' sees power tools in a construction yard coming to life and attempting to attack Ernest after he idly wanders in with his metal detector. No explanation for how this happened is ever given. |
| 101 | * ''Film/TheFoodOfTheGods'' and [[Film/FoodOfTheGods2 its sequel]]. The first included giant wasps and rats attacking people on an island. The second featured giant rodents as well only they ran wild in a city, attacking everything they could find. |
| 102 | * ''Frog-g-g!'' - also about frogs, but played humorously with a mutated frog having sex with female humans. |
| 103 | * ''Film/{{Frogs}}'' (kinda stupid since most of the victims meet their demise from animals other than frogs - turtles, lizards, snakes, spiders, alligators, birds, crabs and butterflies!) |
| 104 | * ''Exte: Hair Extensions'' is a film directed by Creator/SionSono where haunted hair (made into, as the title suggests, hair extensions) ends up killing several people. |
| 105 | %%* ''Film/TheGarbageMan''. |
| 106 | * ''Film/TheGiantClaw''. Earth is attacked by a '''Giant Antimatter Space Buzzard'''. |
| 107 | * ''Film/TheGingerdeadMan'' involves a serial killer coming back as a homicidal animated cookie. |
| 108 | ** It had a crossover with another series like this, ''Evil Bong''. No, really. |
| 109 | * In the Japanese MindScrew horror movie ''Film/{{Hausu}}'' everything from a piano to pillows to a lampshade, to [[GeniusLoci the title House,]] all because the ''Auntie'' eats young female virgins to keep herself young while she waits for her boyfriend to come home from WWII. The little problem? [[spoiler:He ''died'' in the war. She received the news but didn't believe it.]] |
| 110 | * ''Film/IBoughtAVampireMotorcycle''. A shape-shifting, murderous motorcycle terrorizes [[http://uk.imdb.com/name/nm0607403/ Bob the Builder]] in Birmingham in this 1990 [[SoBadItsGood B-movie]]. Not quite ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in that the title motorbike is actually a demon-possessed Norton Commando, but still awesome. |
| 111 | * ''Film/{{Isolation}}'' involves a mutated dairy cow. A twisted, parasitic, inside-out mutated dairy cow. |
| 112 | * The infamous ''Film/JackFrost1997'' movies about a snowman whose snow is infused with the DNA of a murderer. Includes a scene where the titular snowman [[spoiler:rapes and kills a woman in the shower with his carrot]]. |
| 113 | * ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', and its sequels. A Giant [[ThreateningShark great white shark]] starts killing swimmers at the resort town of Amity. Eating people whole even. The Mayor tries to cover it up, but as the situation gets more and more dangerous a team looks into it and start hunting the shark. The sequels introduce new sharks, and the final film has a shark targeting the Ellen Brody character's family as "revenge". |
| 114 | * ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'' was a movie about both a killer boardgame and a killer jungle where everything's trying to kill you. ''Jumanji'' got a semi-sequel of its own, ''Film/{{Zathura}}'', which recycled the killer boardgame theme in space. |
| 115 | * ''Film/{{Killdozer}}''. Yes, an evil killer bulldozer. Sounds like the perfect date for ''Christine''. It gets its evil via [[HauntedTechnology alien-life from another galaxy]]. |
| 116 | * ''Film/KillerCondom'' - And the condoms were designed by Creator/HRGiger, creator of the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}''. Confused yet? |
| 117 | * ''Film/KillerKlownsFromOuterSpace'' — try saying the title with a straight face. This one was deliberately a spoof of horror movies, however. It has developed a strong cult following. |
| 118 | * ''Killer Mermaid'' (aka ''Nymph'') is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. |
| 119 | * ''Killer Piñata''. The titular possessed piñata is even referred to as [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative "the deadliest pinata of all"]]. |
| 120 | * ''Film/TheKillerShrews'': Which looks even sillier than it sounds, since it's so obvious that the 'shrews' are actually Collie dogs in bad makeup. |
| 121 | * 1977 saw ''Film/KingdomOfTheSpiders'', with William Shatner fighting billions of homicidal poisonous but normal-sized tarantulas. Normally, they are [[GiantSpider giant]] when they do such things. |
| 122 | * The ''Film/{{Leprechaun}}'' horror movie franchise, Lucky Charms commercials GoneHorriblyWrong. |
| 123 | * The film ''Film/DeLift'' is centered around a killer elevator ("For God's sake, take the stairs"). |
| 124 | * ''Lightning Strikes'': The [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci-Fi Channel]] presents killer lightning. |
| 125 | * ''Film/TheMad'': Both Attack of the Killer Beef Patties and [[ZombieApocalypse zombies]] (the people who ate said patties when they were made into hamburgers)! It's a horror comedy. |
| 126 | * ''Mae bia'' - Thai film about a family attacked by a deadly cobra. |
| 127 | * ''The Mailman'' ("Pray you're not on his route!") |
| 128 | * ''Mammoth'' - A meteor, bearing an alien, crash lands on a museum and resurrects the bones of a Mammoth. It rampages around and kills people by stepping on them. Beware his soul-sucking trunk of doom! |
| 129 | * ''Film/TheMangler'' (based on a short story published in the collection ''Literature/NightShift''), a killer laundry machine. |
| 130 | * Inhumanwhich features a giant, carnivorous sandwich |
| 131 | * ''Film/MansBestFriend'' is a film about a killer mutant puppy. A ridiculously cute one, at that. |
| 132 | * ''Film/MaximumOverdrive''! Practically every mechanical object known to man turns on their creators after earth passes through the tail of a mysterious comet... or was it the flying saucer that the military shot down in the epilogue? Apparently the test screen of a scene of a boy getting ran over by a steamroller actually made Creator/GeorgeARomero throw up. Later remade under the story's original title ''Literature/{{Trucks}}''. |
| 133 | * ''Film/{{The Mildew from Planet Xonader}}''. Need we say more? |
| 134 | * The giant snail creatures from ''Film/TheMonsterThatChallengedTheWorld''. |
| 135 | %%* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jon8a3j2elU Monsturd]]'', followed by its sequel ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpzDxhNCwQY RetarDEAD]]''. |
| 136 | * The killer roach flick from the '80s called ''The Nest''. |
| 137 | * ''Film/NightOfTheLepus''. It's a movie about '''Giant Killer Bunny Rabbits.''' And they're adorable real bunnies jumping around in little sets, and then closed-up for maximum dramatic effect. You've never witnessed terror until you see a furball gnawing ketchup. |
| 138 | * A short parody of ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'' called... ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktD27xVIncg Night of the Living Bread]]''. |
| 139 | * ''Nightwing'' has killer vampire bats running amok on the Hopi Reservation. |
| 140 | * ''Film/TheNun'', about a demon disguised as [[NunsAreSpooky a nun]]. |
| 141 | * ''Film/{{Oculus}}'' is about a haunted mirror. The mirror causes hallucinations that are indistinguishable from reality to make people injure themselves or others, for example, causing a man to tear off his fingernails by making him think he was removing Band-Aids from them. The mirror itself cannot move and protects itself by making people see it in the wrong place if they try to attack it. |
| 142 | * ''One-Eyed Monster'' is a film about a killer penis. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=933FExsfU3c We wish we were making this up]]. |
| 143 | * ''[[Film/OrcaTheKillerWhale Orca: The Killer Whale]]'' - Our adorable Shamu turned vengeful and bloodthirsty. Bonus points for "Killer Whale" being the ''actual'' name of the animal in question. |
| 144 | * ''The Paper Boy'' ("He's bad news!") Surprisingly unrelated to the aforementioned film ''The Mailman''. |
| 145 | ** And now there's ''Rosewood Lane'', another evil paper boy flick. |
| 146 | * ''Paper Jam'' is a short film about killer printers. You read that right. |
| 147 | * For attacks of man-eating piranhas see the movie ''Film/{{Piranha}}''. |
| 148 | * For normal sea-life transformed into vicious carnivorous killers, look no further than the Italian movie ''Plankton'' (1994) (a.k.a. ''Creatures from the Abyss'', a.k.a. ''Sea Devils''), where feeding on plankton poisoned by toxic waste has mutated fishes so that they can jump out of the water and eat sailors and a bunch of dumb tweens on a yacht. Nom, nom, nom. |
| 149 | * ''Film/PoultrygeistNightOfTheChickenDead'': Played for all the squick, potty humor, gorn, and black comedy it's worth. |
| 150 | * The Japanese horror film ''Film/{{Premonition}}'' (unrelated to the Sandra Bullock-starring psychological drama of the same name) is about a killer ''newspaper''. The newspaper predicts peoples' deaths before they happen by way of the obituary section. The trailer alone was so disturbing that a mother wrote in to a local, uh, newspaper, complaining that the trailer should not have been screened on jumbotrons in the middle of crowded streets. She was probably very right. |
| 151 | * A killer electromagnetic pulse causes appliances in a suburban neighborhood house to [[HomicideMachines go all homicidal]] in ''Film/{{Pulse}}''. The creep factor is way up, especially due to the shower scene, because none of the appliances really seem to be doing anything unexpected. It's actually quite plausible that your sink wouldn't stop running, or that your water heater would get broken and the temperature would rise to scalding, or that the washing machine/TV could give you a fatal shock. |
| 152 | * Somewhere in the region of 50% of Full Moon productions; they're most famous for milking the ''Film/PuppetMaster'' series (killer puppets) for all it's worth. |
| 153 | * ''The Rats'' (2002). A clan of evil rats overtakes a Manhattan department store and threatens to overrun the city |
| 154 | * ''Film/{{Razorback}}'' is a 1984 film about a large man-eating feral pig rampaging through the Australian Outback. |
| 155 | * ''Rectuma''. It's about a giant [[AssKicksYou ass]], and we don't mean a donkey (though that would also be strange). |
| 156 | * ''Film/TheRedShoes2005'' - South Korean horror movie about evil, possessed high heel shoes. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5CWrXqVE8c&feature=related See here.]] Possibly related to the fairytale of the same name. |
| 157 | * ''Film/ResidentEvilExtinction'' has flocks of killer zombie crows! We'd call it a "TakeThat" but it's more akin to ''Film/{{Laserblast}}'' taking its potshot at ''Franchise/StarWars'': picking on someone WAY out of their weight class. |
| 158 | * ''Film/RoadTrain'' (''Road Kill'' outside Australia) A movie about a spirit/demon possessed road train (a truck with multiple trailers) roaming the Australian Outback and demanding blood for fuel. |
| 159 | * Quentin Dupieux's ''Film/{{Rubber}}'': A film about an angry car tire (no, really) with deadly psychokinetic powers, rolling down the desert exploding the heads of anyone it doesn't like. MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext. |
| 160 | ** Since then he made ''Film/Reality2014'', which is about a director who plans to make a film about killer tv sets. |
| 161 | * ''Film/TheSand''. Although to be fair, there is actually a giant alien jellyfish under the sand, but what we actually see is people getting sucked into the sand, so. |
| 162 | * ''The Shaft'': A killer elevator. |
| 163 | * ''Film/ShakeRattleAndRoll'' is a Filipino horror AnthologyFilm, whose second segment is about a killer refrigerator. The segment would later be remade as a feature film, ''Pridyider''. |
| 164 | * ''Film/{{Sharknado}}'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY combines this with]] DisasterMovie in [[SoBadItsGood a premise so preposterous]] that no one will be afraid of the dark, or water, or wind, as a result of it. |
| 165 | * ''Film/{{Slaxx}}'' has a pair of jeans that are possessed by a ghost [[spoiler:of an Indian child laborer]] and killing people. |
| 166 | * ''Film/{{Slugs}}'' has man-eating slugs mutated by toxic waste. |
| 167 | * ''Film/SnakesOnAPlane'' follows this trope. |
| 168 | * ''Film/{{Squirm}}'', with its masses of biting worms. |
| 169 | * ''Film/StayAlive2006'' is just one of many movies about killer videogames. One wonders how such a game gets out of beta testing... |
| 170 | * Horror AnthologyFilm ''Strange Events'' includes a segment called "The Toothbrush", about a killer electric toothbrush. |
| 171 | * ''{{Franchise/Terminator}}'': The first three movies are about a mother and/or son being hunted by a killing machine (literally) sent back in time to eliminate the protagonists and change the future. |
| 172 | * The demonic turkey from ''Film/{{ThanksKilling}}''. |
| 173 | * ''Film/{{Ticks}}'', horror movie where cat-sized ticks in a forest jump on people and cause BodyHorror. |
| 174 | * The Creator/BurgessMeredith film ''Film/TortureGarden'' featured a sequence about a killer piano. |
| 175 | * ''Film/{{Videodrome}}''. [[SnuffFilm Snuff television]] gives you tumours! |
| 176 | * ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161988/ When Cars Attack]]'' is a {{Mockumentary}} about, well, killer cars. |
| 177 | * ''The Wig''. When it comes to horror, there really is no limit on what the subject could be. |
| 178 | * Due to the PCP in the city's water supply all manner of animals have gone crazy in ''Film/WildBeasts'', mostly big cats from the local zoo. |
| 179 | [[/folder]] |
| 180 | |
| 181 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 182 | !!!'''In General:''' |
| 183 | %%* A mediocre local writer in Singapore wrote a short story about ''killer hamburgers''. Pissed at the protagonist because ''[[FelonyMisdemeanor he switched his favorite food from burgers to fried chicken]]''. At the end of the story, they MindControl him [[AssPull in an unspecified manner]] in a form of AndThenJohnWasAZombie.%%%We need the name of the story%%% |
| 184 | * "Animal attack" stories were one of the key subgenres of the [[TwoFistedTales Men's Adventure Magazines]] of the 1960s and '70s. Some of these picked the typical dangerous animals, like [[PantheraAwesome big cats]], [[ThreateningShark sharks]], or [[BearsAreBadNews bears]]. Others instead focused on more improbable threats like [[OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious cryptids]], LivingDinosaurs, or small, harmless animals. The most famous of these - and possibly the most famous Men's Adventure story of all time - was "Weasels Ripped My Flesh" (from the magazine ''Man's Life''), in which a farmer's efforts to protect his ducks get him torn almost to shreds by {{wicked weasel}}s. |
| 185 | !!!'''By Author:''' |
| 186 | * Creator/StephenKing seems to be the master of this: |
| 187 | ** The short story "Literature/{{Trucks}}" in which trucks become sentient and attack their creators. Twice adapted for film, as ''Maximum Overdrive'' and again under its original title. |
| 188 | ** ''Literature/{{Christine}}'', the infamous story of a homicidal (and rather possessive) car. |
| 189 | *** And ''Literature/FromABuick8'', which is about another evil car. Only this one isn't so much possessed as it is... [[EldritchAbomination wrong]]. |
| 190 | *** And let's not forget the short story ''Mile 81'', which is about another evil car. [[spoiler:A car from space that eats people and is vulnerable to light.]] |
| 191 | ** ''Literature/TheMangler'', which was spun off into a trilogy of movie adaptations - that's right, ''three'' movies about a killer laundry press. It's immobile, too, so it comes down to people being stupid enough not to learn to keep from walking up to the damn thing. Although the original short story implies [[spoiler:the thing does become mobile, in a TwistEnding]]. |
| 192 | ** In various Creator/StephenKing short stories, he has had people attacked by novelty chattering teeth, paintings, a toy monkey, evil toads... If it can be seen as even vaguely creepy by anybody in the Western world, chances are it's killed somebody in a Creator/StephenKing story. |
| 193 | ** In ''Literature/TheTommyknockers'', there are myriad Killer Whatevers, which are ordinary devices adapted into death-dealers by the residents of Haven, in order to protect themselves from the outside world. These include a brush-trimmer, smoke detectors that fly like Frisbees and emit deadly ultrasonic sound, televisions that shoot fire, and a lumbering 600-lb. Coke machine which crushes a man's skull and breaks his back. |
| 194 | ** King also wrote the screenplay to ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'', listed above under Film. |
| 195 | * Creator/HPLovecraft's works: |
| 196 | ** "Literature/TheCatsOfUlthar". BadPeopleAbuseAnimals and then get their JustDesserts. |
| 197 | *** The cats return in ''Literature/TheDreamQuestOfUnknownKadath'' to help the protagonist [[BigDamnHeroes out of a tight spot]]. Violently. |
| 198 | ** In ''Literature/TheColourOutOfSpace'', one of his best-regarded stories, is about an unearthly [[FictionalColor Fictional Colour]] that CameFromTheSky on a meteorite, bringing a deadly [[TheCorruption corruption]] with it. |
| 199 | * Creator/JohnWyndham: |
| 200 | ** ''Literature/TheDayOfTheTriffids''. In the film version, the only thing that gives the ''immobile killer plants'' a fighting chance is the fact that the meteor shower on which they arrive also blinds nearly everyone on Earth. In the original novel, it's a bit more sensical, as they were, when fully-grown, just barely mobile... and the focus wasn't on them, but on the [[CosyCatastrophe reaction of the survivors to the apocalypse]] to which the plants contributed, and the humans' attempts to cope. They didn't invade -- people were farming them for their commercially-useful oil, then the strange blindness-causing meteor shower eliminates the ability to keep them from being a danger, and they started rampaging. It's still a good movie, though. |
| 201 | ** ''Web'', the inspiration for/prequel to the ''Arachnophobia'' movie(s), involves an island full of mutated spiders that are: a) more poisonous; b) have fangs/mandibles that are stronger and sharper than normal; c) more intelligent and d) have a rabidly cannibalistic, yet simultaneously highly co-operative society that apparently crosses species barriers. Oh, and some of them are as big as dogs. |
| 202 | !!!'''By Work:''' |
| 203 | * Parodied in ''Literature/TheAreasOfMyExpertise'' when the author proposes that someone make a movie with the simple premise of ALL ANIMALS VS. ALL HUMANS. He assures the reader that the scene with the killer [[PuzzlingPlatypus platypus]] alone will be worth the price of admission. |
| 204 | ** In the sequel, ''Literature/MoreInformationThanYouRequire'', he learns that screenwriter Mike Sobel has sold a script with this exact premise (although it seems to have fallen into DevelopmentHell since the book's publication), and asks if he can be cast in a cameo role as "The Man Who Gets Venomous-Foot-Spurred To Death By the Platypus." |
| 205 | --->IT'S ONLY FAIR. |
| 206 | * There is actually a book called ''Attack of the Killer Potatoes'', according to [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]]. The [[Film/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes tomatoes]] should sue. |
| 207 | * ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' has a somewhat lighter take on this concept. SpoiledBrat Veruca's attempt to steal one of the Nut Room's squirrels results in all 100 of them swarming her and tossing her down a rubbish chute, and when her parents try to rescue her the squirrels kick them down it too. This is a potentially deadly fate since said chute ends in an incinerator, but the humans do survive -- besides, Veruca and her parents aren't the most sympathetic potential victims anyway. In certain adaptations the squirrels qualify as RodentsOfUnusualSize to boot: in the 2010 opera ''Theatre/TheGoldenTicket'' they're human-sized. In [[Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory the 2013 musical]], while most of them are normal-sized, there are several large ones (big enough to have Oompa-Loompa riders) that emerge to confront Veruca. |
| 208 | * ''Literature/DemonicHousehold'': A lot of stories in the anthology feature killer household objects in one way or another. There's a swarm of electrical power cords in "Cords", a killer tea set in "Shattered Love", a killer garbage disposal in "Gamma Ray's GD Sink", a killer oven in "Just Desserts", a demon-possessed computer mouse in "It's Just a Little Mouse", and a killer egotistical sofa in "Sofa King Tired of This". The title of "Killer K-Cups" is also a reference to this trope, although the story's villain is a more conventional [[spoiler:demon]]. |
| 209 | * Some of the grimoires turn people into other tomes (thus killing them) in Pratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''. |
| 210 | ** There's a short story in one of the Alfred Hitchcock story collections that uses that plot. |
| 211 | ** Terry Pratchett also used a swarm of "killer" rats, with the rat-king in ''Literature/TheAmazingMauriceAndHisEducatedRodents''. The titular rodents themselves (as well as Maurice, a talking cat) are all good guys, though. |
| 212 | * In John Byrne's ''Fearbook'', a catalogue that arrives in the mail convinces people to kill others or themselves. |
| 213 | * Discussed in "Literature/GenreSavvy", where two horror movie buffs talk about what animals native to the Mojave Desert could become the Killer Whatever; Edgar has a [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever giant rattlesnake]] on his mind, Charlotte suggests killer roadrunners, then they combine them into the crossover of ''Killer Roadrunner vs. Giant Rattlesnake''. |
| 214 | * ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' books had dummies, lawn gnomes, egg monsters, snowmen, and a small sponge-like creature found underneath a sink. |
| 215 | * ''Literature/DeGriezelbus'': In one of the stories, a SadistTeacher punishes his students by sitting them down in a big, soft chair and hitting the chair with a ruler since he cannot physically punish them. Eventually, the chair [[TheDogBitesBack becomes so fed up]] with the teacher that it eats him. |
| 216 | * "Literature/LeiningenVersusTheAnts" is arguably a part of this genre. |
| 217 | * The short story "Lonely Train A-Comin'" by William F Nolan (later expanded into the novel ''Helltracks'') is about a man hunting what he thinks is a serial killer wandering isolated railway lines, seeking revenge for the death of his sister. It finally turns out that what he's hunting is a man-eating steam train that somehow developed organic parts and a taste for blood. |
| 218 | * ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' has the Ents, [[WhenTreesAttack sentient (and ambulatory) trees]]. They're good guys, but you definitely don't want to be on their bad side. The Huorns (trees that have become a bit ent-like, or ents that have become more tree-like, it seems to work both ways) are possibly even more dangerous, since they're less alert and easier to anger. And of course there's Old Man Willow. |
| 219 | * OlderThanRadio: "The Malice of Inanimate Objects" by Creator/MRJames suggests that small accidents with everyday items (mentioning: the collar stud, the inkstand, the fire, the razor, the extra step on the staircase, the needle, the egg, the duck, the cat, the millstone...) are the result of the angry dead trying to exact revenge on the living. The particular example most of the story is dedicated to is a killer razor blade. |
| 220 | * ''Literature/RatmansNotebooks'', its two film adaptations, and the first film's sequel are all about killer rats. |
| 221 | * ''Literature/TheRing'': Killer videotapes! (Okay, it's a ghost ''using'' a videotape, but...) |
| 222 | * The Creator/RagnarokPublications horror novel ''Literature/{{Tuskers}}'' is about the aporkalypse. Yes, a small town gets destroyed by an army of sentient javelinas (i.e. boar). |
| 223 | * "The Twonky" by Lewis Padgett (joint pseudonym of Creator/HenryKuttner and Creator/CLMoore) is about a killer ... well ... ''twonky'', which is a future appliance that looks like a console radio (and performs the functions of one, until it starts refusing to play certain music that it considers "harmful.") When the owners don't take well to its re-education attempts, things escalate. |
| 224 | * In the political satire ''The Year of the Angry Rabbit'' by Russell Braddon, rabbits are infected with a highly toxic (to humans) strain of myxomatosis. Rather than trying to wipe them out, however, the Australian government is more than happy to possess the most feared biological weapon in the world. Inspired the movie ''Film/NightOfTheLepus'' (which turned out nothing like the book). |
| 225 | [[/folder]] |
| 226 | |
| 227 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 228 | * Both ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'' and ''Series/Goosebumps1995'' had suspiciously similar stories about killer cameras, and got two of the actors to play the same roles in both adaptations. Both were more than likely inspired by ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E10AMostUnusualCamera A Most Unusual Camera]]". |
| 229 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' has a guy killed by an evil slot machine ("[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E17TheFever The Fever]]") and killer home appliances plus a killer car ("[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E4AThingAboutMachines A Thing About Machines]]"). |
| 230 | * In-universe example in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': Penny works in a series of movies about a killer/rapist gorilla named ''Serial Apist''. |
| 231 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' had [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E9ThePuppetShow a killer puppet]] [[spoiler: except he was a good guy, a cursed demon hunter]] and [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E12BadEggs killer eggs]]. The spin-off show ''Series/{{Angel}}'' also had [[Recap/AngelS05E14SmileTime killer puppets]]. |
| 232 | * ''Series/TheChronicle'' has an episode ("Let Sleeping Dogs Fry") where electrical devices in a town start killing people. [[spoiler:Turns out they were possessed by the ghost of a dead poolboy, who was out for revenge.]] |
| 233 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'' has a long and colourful history of people getting killed by ridiculous crap: |
| 234 | ** One of the most [[OurMonstersAreWeird enduringly insane]] traditional monsters would be the Yeti from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E2TheAbominableSnowmen The Abominable Snowmen]]" — giant killer robotic Yeti controlled by floating metal spheres in their backs which themselves are controlled by a sort of Lovecraftian pyramid. Then, in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebOfFear The Web of Fear]]", they get stuck in the London Underground, making them even more ridiculous. |
| 235 | ** Killer seaweed ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E6FuryFromTheDeep Fury from the Deep]]").[[note]]This one wasn't even original — writer Victor Pemberton recycled it from a previous radio drama he'd written.[[/note]] |
| 236 | ** The Nestene Consciousness encourages this, due to being an abomination with the ability to convert ''any items made out of plastic'' into murderous Autons: |
| 237 | *** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace Spearhead from Space]]": Attack of the killer 1970s shop window mannequins! |
| 238 | *** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E1TerrorOfTheAutons "Terror of the Autons"]] has killer inflatable chairs, killer plastic daffodils, killer BrandX [[AllTrollsAreDifferent Troll]]-dolls, killer advertising eyesores... Creator/RobertHolmes cited his inspirations for the story as the preponderance of cheap disposable plastic fad items that began to really take off in the '70s, and realising you would only need four inches square of plastic sheet to suffocate someone. |
| 239 | *** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose Rose]]" features killer 2005 shop window mannequins and involves a main character getting consumed by a man-eating wheelie bin. |
| 240 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E6TheSeedsOfDoom The Seeds of Doom]]" features a 'plant revolution' in which people get killed by kale, suffocated by hedges, whipped by trees, and drowned by malevolent pondweed. |
| 241 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]" has a killer ventriloquist's dummy. |
| 242 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E3TheStonesOfBlood The Stones of Blood]]" has killer, blood-drinking rocks moving around and killing villagers. |
| 243 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion "The Christmas Invasion"]] has the protagonists come under threat from a Christmas tree. |
| 244 | ** Killer televisions ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E7TheIdiotsLantern The Idiot's Lantern]]") |
| 245 | ** Killer drawings ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E11FearHer Fear Her]]") |
| 246 | ** Killer statues ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink Blink]]") |
| 247 | ** Killer diet pills ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E1PartnersInCrime Partners in Crime]]") |
| 248 | ** Killer shadows ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E8SilenceInTheLibrary Silence in the Library]]") |
| 249 | ** Killer satnavs ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E4TheSontaranStratagem The Sontaran Stratagem]]") |
| 250 | ** Killer Wi-fi ("[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E6TheBellsOfSaintJohn The Bells of Saint John]]") |
| 251 | ** Killer cloth, technically called "Remnants" ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E2TheGhostMonument "The Ghost Monument"]]) |
| 252 | ** Killer bubble wrap ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E7Kerblam "Kerblam!"]]) |
| 253 | * The spoof horror show ''Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace'' has a telekinetic attack by various implements, including an attack by a whisk. A later episode has an attack by a killer set of bagpipes. |
| 254 | * An episode of the early 90s American horror show called ''Series/{{Monsters}}'' had an artist who owned a killer bed that ate his dates when he took them home, until he met a girl who had a killer fridge in her apartment, which then ate him. Played completely straight. |
| 255 | * An episode of ''Series/{{Haven}}'' called "Love Machine" involves machines and appliances turning killer. [[spoiler:The cause of this turns out to be a Troubled mechanic who is unaware of his "uniqueness".]] |
| 256 | * In the episode "Alien Appliance Outbreak" of the ''Series/IWasASixthGradeAlien'' TV series, Pleskit tampering with the vacuum somehow causes all of Tim's household appliances to come to life and attack. |
| 257 | * ''Series/MonsterWarriors'' had to deal - among other things - with a giant carnivorous butterfly that hypnotised people with its beauty, a living and very hungry blob, living radioactive junk ([[DoubleEntendre not that kind]]), giant (again) cockroaches, predatory vines, an army of giant frogs... Well, what do you expect from the show with a deranged and {{Brainwashed}} By Aliens ex-B-Movie director as a villain, anyway? |
| 258 | * An animated sketch on ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' introduces the Killer Cars, which [[BehindAStick hide behind poles]] and ''jump'' on unsuspecting pedestrians. The cars are defeated "thanks to [[NuclearMutant the miracle of atomic mutation]]" by an [[MegaNeko enormous bipedal cat]], which displaces them as the town's reigning terror. This monster is then defeated by a giant hand. Animator Terry Gilliam intended this sequence to be a [[SatireParodyPastiche parody]] of 1950s monster movies. |
| 259 | ** Another of the show's animations has a house roaming about the countryside, gobbling people up through its doors, until it is found by "The House Hunters" ("These are house droppings... fresh ones, too!") who [[spoiler:slap a Condemned notice on it, causing it to collapse]]. |
| 260 | ** A sketch in another episode revolved around killer sheep. |
| 261 | ** The Science Fiction sketch has killer ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blancmange blancmanges]]'' from Outer Space, which [[FateWorseThanDeath turn people into Scotsmen]] [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext as part of a convoluted scheme to win the Championships at Wimbledon]]. |
| 262 | ** The vicious gangs of "Keep Left" signs from the "Hell's Grannies" sketch. |
| 263 | ** The [[ShowWithinAShow film-within-a-show]] from the "Scott of the Sahara" sketch includes a giant killer penguin and a man-eating roll-top desk for no apparent reason. |
| 264 | ** The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog from ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' which rips peoples ''necks'' out, causing their heads to simply fall off. |
| 265 | * ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' has some truly bizarre monsters at times - it comes with having to do a new one every episode over years and years and years. Killer {{rhino|Rampage}}s and [[HumongousMecha robots]]? Standard fare. But go long enough and you get [[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Generation_9_Noz_Bot_Attack_System killer spray bottles]], [[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Bus_Org_%28Wild_Force%29 killer buses]] ("Everyone who's ever stuck gum under one of my seats is going to PAY for it now!!") [[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Lawnmower_Org_%28Wild_Force%29 killer lawnmowers]], [[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Beamcaster killer radios]] (several!), [[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Chunky_Chicken killer chickens]], [[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Lanterra killer lanterns]], [[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Lipsyncher lipsticks]] ,[[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Brick_Bully walls]], [[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Pachinko_Head roulette wheels]], [[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Babe_Ruthless baseball players]], [[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Bowling_Org_%28Wild_Force%29 bowlers]], [[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Fighting_Flea fleas]], [[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Top_Hat hats]], [[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Blazinator fire trucks]], [[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Pumpkin_Sorcerer pumpkins]] (''rapping'' [[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Pumpkin_Rapper pumpkins!)]]... there's nothing that ''hasn't'' battled a Megazord in the middle of town yet! Including [[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Tomato_Great_King tomatoes]]. |
| 266 | * Parodied in a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' skit titled "Attack Of The Masturbating Zombies". |
| 267 | * ''Series/TheXFiles''' episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS03E18TesoDosBichos Teso Dos Bichos]]" is the attack of the Killer Kitties. Sewer cats prove quite deadly in large numbers. |
| 268 | * ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' featured a number of movies like this, to the point where, in the ''Film/EarthVsTheSpider'' [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E13EarthVsTheSpider episode]], Crow started writing his own movie screenplay for something called ''Earth vs Soup'', in which a GreasySpoon's careless storage of uranium-235 in a soup pot turns a batch of California cornucopia vegetable jubilee into something resembling a BlobMonster that "slithers on all fours" ("What, you think soup is a biped?"). Posters for ''Earth vs. Soup'' became a popular subject for FanArt. |
| 269 | ** A few of Crow's rejected concepts include ''Earth vs. The Giant [[Music/ThePlasmatics Wendy O. Williams]]'', ''Earth vs. A Muffin'', and ''Earth vs. Peter Himmelman''. |
| 270 | [[/folder]] |
| 271 | |
| 272 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 273 | * Music/TomSmith's "Sheep Marketing Ploy" pitches a series of horror movies about Fenton the Death Sheep From Hell. |
| 274 | * "Return of the Giant Hogweed" by Music/{{Genesis|Band}}. |
| 275 | * Music/TheyMightBeGiants' song "The Summer Breeze", in which the narrator relates a scary story his cousin told him, about a killer car that [[TerrorAtMakeOutPoint "killed a number of couples kissing down by the oceanside"]]. |
| 276 | [[/folder]] |
| 277 | |
| 278 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 279 | * ''Podcast/FindUsAlive'': The Dash Two monsters, which mutate from harmless plants or insects such as lemon trees and ants. |
| 280 | [[/folder]] |
| 281 | |
| 282 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 283 | * ''Radio/SonOfCliche'' featured a parody of B-list horror movies called ''Attack Of The Killer Italian y-fronts'', in which the world is terrorised by underpants which, once donned, develop evil sentience and "start holding on too goddammed tight". This was later rewritten as a plot in an episode of ''Series/RedDwarf'', also created by the same writers. |
| 284 | [[/folder]] |
| 285 | |
| 286 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 287 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' gets a lot of mileage from this: |
| 288 | ** There is an adventure that has a "library that turns patrons into books" plot. This plot also shows up in ''TabletopGame/JAGSWonderland''. |
| 289 | ** Cats crop up again in 3rd Edition housecats, which can, it has been famously pointed out, kill 1st level commoners. |
| 290 | ** You have monsters that pretend to be the floor, monsters that pretend to be the ceiling, monsters that pretend to be walls, and mimics can pretend to be whatever the hell they feel like. It is entirely possible for an apparently unoccupied room to cause a TotalPartyKill even without traps or invisibility. |
| 291 | ** Cloakers are weird manta ray-like flying aberrations that look ''exactly'' like a hung-up cloak when they cling to walls, right down to claws that resemble a cloak-clasp and twin rows of eyespots that look like buttons. No word on whether killer boots (booters?) or hats (hatters?) are also available to complete the killer-accessory ensemble... |
| 292 | ** Killer rats showed up as a sentient rat hive-mind called the Us. |
| 293 | ** The spell ''Animate Objects'' lets player characters create their own killer objects. (The rules for these only really cover combat.) |
| 294 | ** One module had you attacked by a Gazebo, obviously from someone fed up of people attacking one without realising what it is. |
| 295 | * A Gazebo is also a monster in ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}''. There are some other bizarre enemies in Munchkin that probably qualify as Killer Whatevers, like [[BeeAfraid Zom-Bees]], a Baseball Bat (it's not [[BatterUp a sentient baseball bat that's trying to kill you]], it's [[{{Pun}} a baseball with bat wings]]) and a Thesaurus, which causes you to become deceased, moribund, lifeless, exanimate, and ''dead''. |
| 296 | [[/folder]] |
| 297 | |
| 298 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 299 | * ''VideoGame/AgentUSA'': Attack of the Killer Television. |
| 300 | * ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'': Alfred Hitchcock's avian menace-''with a motive!'' |
| 301 | * ''Apple Panic,'' a ''VideoGame/SpacePanic'' clone by Creator/BroderbundSoftware, had apples trying to kill you. |
| 302 | * An advertised but not released game for the ZX Spectrum was going to be called ''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Attack of the Mutant Zombie Flesh-Eating Chickens from Mars.]]'' |
| 303 | * ''VideoGame/ArmoryAndMachine'' has an enemy that's a sentient Giant Hogweed, which tries to destroy your fighters with corrosive venom. There's also the Pebble Swarm enemies, swarms of floating pebbles trying to destroy your fighters. |
| 304 | * Invoked in ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' with the horror novel-loving gravedigger Mort, who is apparently writing his own horror story... titled "The Grog that Drank People". |
| 305 | * The ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' series has this in spades, with everything from platypi to skewered bell peppers to pots and books. |
| 306 | * In ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'', carp is the deadliest animal ever found in water. [[LegendaryCarp Yeah, carp]]. |
| 307 | -->'''Tarn Adams:''' "[[ShrugOfGod I think I made the fish too hardcore]]". |
| 308 | ** Carp then passed the torch of "deadliest aquatic animal" on to the even more hardcore, even more ridiculous ''indestructible killer giant sea sponges''. Later, the sea sponges were toned down a little -- they are no longer indestructible -- though they are still far more dangerous then a sessile animal has any right to be. |
| 309 | * ''VideoGame/{{Mother}}'': |
| 310 | ** A number of enemies in ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'' could qualify for this trope: Killer hippies, road signs, fire hydrants, paintings, cars, cups of coffee, goats, Salvador Dali clocks.... |
| 311 | ** It says something about the game that [[ChurchOfHappyology Insane Cultists]] are some of the more reasonable enemies therein. |
| 312 | ** In ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'', the first enemy you face is a possessed lamp. |
| 313 | ** ''VideoGame/Mother3'', though it emphasizes chimera animals more, has a number of inanimate objects, like rocks and trees that can attack. |
| 314 | * The ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series tends towards this in most games, with monsters ranging from squirrels to bunnies to cacti to tablewares to children's toys to doors and walls. In [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV one game]], the ''BigBad'' was a [[WhenTreesAttack tree]]. |
| 315 | ** One of the early encounters in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' was a killer playhouse that fired miniature nukes at your party. |
| 316 | *** Said killer playhouse becomes a boss fight in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' as the Hell House. |
| 317 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' has ''killer savepoints''. |
| 318 | ** ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=c6WW1dRWyyA#t=8s did it first.]] |
| 319 | * The ''Franchise/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' series has killer animatronics at a SuckECheeses. |
| 320 | * ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' is jam-packed with this; you can fight killer canned vegetables, blobs of burnt meat, and murderous macaroni, all in the same place. Elsewhere, not only are there homicidal desks, there are ''several different kinds'' of them. Deadly pinatas, calculators, wallpaper, constellations, hedges, snowmen... [[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Races_of_the_Kingdom The list]] goes on. |
| 321 | * The first boss of ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'' is the Sea Pipe Statue, a mechanized killer water fountain that [[BigBad Fawful]] created to stop Bowser from messing with his plans. |
| 322 | * ''VideoGame/JitsuSquad'' have living ''koinbori'' flags as enemies right in the first stage. |
| 323 | * ''VideoGame/NanashiNoGame'' is about a killer 8-bit RPG. |
| 324 | * ''[[http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/a2600/image/585028.html?box=37970 Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes]]'' |
| 325 | * ''VideoGame/OverlordRaisingHell'' has Killer Pumpkins. |
| 326 | * The VGA remake of ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryII'' has the Pizza Elemental as an OptionalBoss, a giant killer pizza. |
| 327 | * ''VideoGame/RoomboFirstBlood'' is a game about a robot vacuum cleaner that viciously kills packs of burglars that break into its owner's house and then [[CleanupCrew sucks up their blood and corpses]] before its owners get home. |
| 328 | * ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' has the infamous mad piano. |
| 329 | * ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'''s short film "Expiration Date" features killer bread. Teleporting bread too much causes it to mutate into an angry sharp-toothed loaf of bread covered with spikes and green tumors. Four weapons inspired by the short consist of normal items re-skinned to be made out of or including these little monsters. [[spoiler: In the finale of "Expiration Date," the Soldier teleports a ridiculous amount of bread over the three days of the short, and ends up creating an ''enormous'' tentacled bread monster.]] |
| 330 | * The background of ''VideoGame/TokyoJungle'' has animals of all sorts, from house pets to farm animals to zoo animals, suddenly becoming more aggressive. |
| 331 | * ''VideoGame/TonicTrouble'' has killer vegetables, who even have their own headquarters. |
| 332 | * ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' has the Octo Oven, a gargantuan industrial grade bread oven armed with deadly loaves and lethal glazing guns as the first boss. |
| 333 | * ''VideoGame/YokaiHunterShintaro'' has an Oboroguruma yokai boss - a possessed sentient ''horse-carriage''. |
| 334 | [[/folder]] |
| 335 | |
| 336 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 337 | * Parodied by a ''Webcomic/FullFrontalNerdity'' [[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ffn/index.php?date=2007-01-10 storyline featuring a Stephen King RPG]]. The monster is ''[[OurVampiresAreDifferent an extradimensional radio that kills by drinking blood]]''. [[spoiler:It has to be killed through [[PayEvilUntoEvil the use of]] ''[[PayEvilUntoEvil Achy Breaky Heart]]''.]] |
| 338 | * ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' Dan is attacked by [[http://egscomics.com/egsnp/2010-02-03 living Ottomans]] (a type of ''footstool'') with teeth at a furniture store. |
| 339 | * The ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' horror spoofs "[[http://pics.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=000626 KITTEN]]" and "[[http://pics.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=021021 KITTEN II]]" feature the main characters being attack by, you guessed it, kittens. [[KillerRabbit Tiny, cute, fuzzy, satanically-spawned kittens who eviscerate people if they don't get their milk.]] |
| 340 | [[/folder]] |
| 341 | |
| 342 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 343 | * The Website/SCPFoundation has quite a lot of these, ranging from the [[PlayedForLaughs silly]] to the surprisingly horrifying. |
| 344 | ** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-743 SCP-743]] is a chocolate fountain... that replenishes itself by releasing a swarm of ants that will cut up ''any'' organic material, alive or dead, and carry it back to the fountain. It has a tendency to favor [[HumanResources humans that have consumed the chocolate from the fountain...]] |
| 345 | ** The original SCP is [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-173 173]], a bizarre-looking statue that can kill people if they aren't looking directly at it, not unlike the Weeping Angels from ''Series/DoctorWho''. |
| 346 | *** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-689 SCP-689]] is similar to SCP-173, but is much more dangerous. It able to teleport to and instantly kill anybody who has previously seen it, if it is not being constantly watched. |
| 347 | ** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-426 I, SCP-426,]] am a killer toaster and also one of the most popular pages on the site. I kill people by making them think that they are toasters so that they kill themselves trying to do things that toasters do, like I, SCP-426, am doing right now to me, the troper that wrote this [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou and to you too as you read this.]] |
| 348 | ** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1048 SCP-1048]] is a happy and adorable sentient teddy bear that likes to make copies of itself. Three of them exist, which are made of ''ears'', a uterus, and scraps of rusted metal, respectively. Directly opposite of SCP-1048, they're murderous and inflict all kinds of BodyHorror on others. |
| 349 | ** Played for laughs with [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-504 SCP-504]], a species of tomato plant that kills people for [[LamePunReaction making bad jokes]] by [[ProducePelting launching its fruit at them at high speed.]] It works with recordings, too. |
| 350 | ** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-871 SCP-871]] is a bunch of cakes that replicate endlessly if they are not eaten. |
| 351 | ** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-002 SCP-002]], the killer hotel room from outer space that contains furniture made of human materials. |
| 352 | ** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-647 SCP-647]] is a man eating cardboard box that preys on homeless people. |
| 353 | ** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-835 SCP-835]] a colony of killer coral [[spoiler: made from human flesh]]. |
| 354 | ** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-956 SCP-956]] is an evil piñata that kills children by turning their insides into candy and then bludgeoning them open like a piñata, and if a child eats the candy it makes this way, they turn into a copy of it. |
| 355 | ** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1155 SCP-1155]] is a man eating graffiti. |
| 356 | ** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1361 SCP-1361]] is a man eating MysteryMeat like lifeform. |
| 357 | ** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1609 SCP-1609]] was a harmless chair that could teleport and enjoyed being sat on, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero until somebody threw it into a woodchipper.]] Now it is the remains of a destroyed chair that teleports pieces of itself into the lungs of anybody it feels threatened by. |
| 358 | ** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/triumph This story]] is about a man gloating to an unspecified SCP about how in the Foundationverse, Killer Whatevers don't win in the end the way they [[DownerEnding frequently seem to do in horror movies]]. The writer of this story was inspired to write this after watching a lot of these films, including the movie ''Film/{{Oculus}}''. |
| 359 | * ''Blog/ToplessRobot'' had a list about ridiculous monsters called "Ten Creatures That Have No Business Starring in Horror Flicks", this included infected fetus cows from 2005's ''Isolation'', the bloodthirsty sheep from the horror comedy ''Black Sheep'', radiated deep sea worms from ''Film/DeepRising'', goblin sharks from ''Malibu Shark Attack'', giant shrews in 1959's ''The Killer Shrews'', badly CG animated beetles from ''Caved In: Prehistoric Terror'', a giant {{Slurpasaur}} style gila monster from ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ''The Giant Gila Monster'', and humongous grasshoppers from ''The Beginning of The End''. |
| 360 | [[/folder]] |
| 361 | |
| 362 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 363 | * ''WesternAnimation/AceVenturaPetDetective'': In an episode, the folks of a small town in the forest are attacked by a were-moose. |
| 364 | * The very first episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' was "When Pants Attack". Other episodes were like this, such as one where [[ItMakesSenseInContext a giant evil lima bean comes from Carl's nightmares]] or [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext an evil pizza]] that turned out to be a DreamWithinADream within a dream within a dream within a dream. |
| 365 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad!'' had a homicidial hot tub voiced by Cee Lo Green, in a parody of ''Little Shop Of Horrors''. |
| 366 | * [[WesternAnimation/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes ATTAAAAAAAAAACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES!!!]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36NgK-vJc1M No, really, they actually did make a cartoon series of it.]] |
| 367 | * There's a parody of ''Night of the Living Dead'' with the name "Night of the Living Bread"--it's an episode of a {{Claymation}} TV series called ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight'' has the two main characters going up against a mutated, ambulatory, semi-carnivorous slice of bread, which they finally beat by flinging peanut butter at it while it's standing on the edge of a cupboard so it falls onto the floor and sticks. |
| 368 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheCentsables'' had bank [=ATMs=] come to life and attack people in the episode [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Attack Of The [=ATMs=]"]] |
| 369 | * ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'': since [[BigBad XANA's]] main abilitie rely on taking control of various things on Earth in order to attack the Lyoko-Warriors, it frequently made use of this trope: [[WhenTreesAttack killer trees,]] a giant food monster, a giant teddy bear, [[DieLaughing laughing gas,]] an Franchise/{{Alien}}-like prop, killer music, gas that [[HandWave petrifies people for some reason,]] a wild boar, electrified black sludge, an airplane (to be fair, the airplane was going to be used as a guided missle), small robot dogs, spheres that look like they came from [[ShoutOut Phantasm]], a virus that spreads via cellphones... |
| 370 | * The ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' episode title, "Attack of the Killer Garage Sale". It's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Technus uses machinery from Danny's garage sale to wreck havoc. |
| 371 | * ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' episode "Mechanised Mayhem" involves a supercomputer causing all mechanised objects to become sentient and start rebelling against their owners. |
| 372 | ** Similarly, ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' has the episode called "A Revolution In Home Appliances", which has the same basic idea except the appliances are made animate by Megavolt's power. |
| 373 | * ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': The plot of the episode "Robostus" sees the titular villain turning ordinary household appliances and vehicles killer. |
| 374 | * A killer house appears in the same vein as ''WesternAnimation/MonsterHouse'' in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'' entitled "Home is Where the Horror Is". Before that ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' did it with "Mrs Faversham's Neighborhood". The EGBs have also fought possessed machines ("The Infernal Machine") and vehicles ("Ghost In The Machine"). |
| 375 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' have several episodes like this actually, including a giant Mantis, living balloons, a killer Rollerghoster, a giant geranium and, of course, the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man. They've also fought killer electrical devices ("Killerwatt"), a possessed Ecto-1 ("Follow That Hearse"), and possessed household objects of all stripes ("Loose Screws"). |
| 376 | * ''WesternAnimation/JumanjiTheAnimatedSeries'' has the title boardgame and a boardgame inside the boardgame called "Brantford: The Game" (which evokes another trope; Fill-in-the-blanks: The something), so you get a killer board game, a killer jungle, a killer city and a list of killer things in everything is trying to kill you. |
| 377 | * ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' had evil snowmen animated by water from a toxic lake, monkey ninjas, spliced animals made after a popular brand of mixed animal Cuddle-buddies, and Draken's girlfriend robots. |
| 378 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/MonsterFarm'' episode "Tractor Terror", the farm's tractor comes to life and goes on a rampage after being [[LightningCanDoAnything struck by lightning]]. |
| 379 | * ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has "Day of the Living Gelatin", where a swimming pool full of grape gelatin is turned evil by one of Doofenshmirtz's inventions. The boys also get attacked by sentient potato-human hybrids in "Lotsa Latkes". |
| 380 | * Played for laughs in the ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "Ello Gov'nor", where Rigby and Mordecai watch an old movie entitled [[TitleDrop Ello Gov'nor]], about a killer British taxi. No, really. It even gives Rigby nightmares, to boot! |
| 381 | * Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' with a fake B-movie called "The Do" (about a killer hairdo). |
| 382 | * ''WesternAnimation/SushiPack'': In one episode, a villain develops the ability to turn anything from traffic lights to a jungle gym to ''bagels'' into murderous monsters. |
| 383 | * In the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon]], household appliances (and also vehicles) become killer in "The Mean Machines" and then killer ''again'' in "Casey Jones: Outlaw Hero". |
| 384 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' episodes, WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons have dealt with killer cartoon characters (Itchy and Scratchy), a killer Krusty doll, a killer "evil" twin, killer giant advertising statues (like Lard Lad), killer cannibalistic teachers, killer bus gremlins, two killer houses (a supernatural one from ''I'', and a robot house in ''XII''), killer Homer clones, three cases of zombies (killer corpses of long-dead outlaws, zombies summoned by magic, and living humans turning into zombies from tainted hamburgers), killer blob (who happens to be a mutated Homer), killer {{golem}}, killer Transformer parodies, killer Pumpkin monsters, killer ghost celebrities, killer Jumanji parody, and a few alien invasions. There were also killer dolphins which even caught Lenny by surprise. |
| 385 | -->'''Lenny''': [surrounded by fins] [[ThreateningShark Sharks! The assassins of the sea]]! [the dolphins stick their heads out of the water] Oooh. You're not sharks. You're dolphins. The ''clowns'' of the sea. |
| 386 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Wunschpunsch}}'' episode "Appliance Alliance" sees Bubonic and Tyrannia's latest spell make the town appliances come to life and attack. |
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