Referenced By / Repulsion

The nightmarish "hands emerging from the corridor walls" imagery seemingly entered the public consciousness.

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Film

• The most memorable homage was paid in An American Werewolf in London, which borrowed the closet mirror Jump Scare for the scene in which Jack's more decomposed-looking ghost appears.
  • Freddy vs. Jason also implemented it when Freddy Krueger attacks Mark.
• Day of the Dead (1985) homages Repulsion with a Jump Scare shot of zombie hands breaking through a wall to grab the lead actress.

Live-Action TV

• Community has the Halloween Episode "Paranormal Parentage", where hands and a face emerge from a wall.

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Music

• The music video for Lil Pump's "Next" has arms reaching out for the singer in one of the backdrops.

Videogames

• In A Plague Tale: Innocence, Amicia is having a Nightmare Sequence in which arms are reaching out for her in a tunnel.
• The Town of Light has a sequence where arms are reaching out to the protagonist in a corridor of an asylum. Watch it here.
• Detroit: Become Human has this scene in an android junkyard with android arms reaching out to Markus as he tries to find a way out.

Web Original

• This video, which was briefly featured on Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files