Creepy Housekeeper: Difference between revisions

* Femalé from the remake of ''[[Cat People]]'' is hospitable, but she has a very voodoo vibe about her and is very loyal to the owner of the house {{spoiler|who is a werecat. She helps him avoid punishment for his crimes.}}

* Rachel, the housekeeper from ''Haunted Honeymoon'' - the film satirizes many of the [[Haunted House]] tropes, this one being no exception. She is also, as is often true, married to the film's [[Crusty Caretaker]], Pfister.

** And the audience is too, if her first appearance doesn't make them jump.

* Helga in ''[[The Pacifier]]''. *shudder*

* Averted in ''[[Murder By Death]]''. The housekeeper, Yetta, is new to the household, is deaf-mute and is never seen by, well, anyone (Jamesir Bensonmum, the butler who welcomes her, is blind) until she points out {{spoiler|Bensonmum's}} body. {{spoiler|It turns out she's Lionel Twain, the host, in disguise and he arranged the entire, murder-free, evening.}}

* Mrs. Danvers from Daphne du Maurier's ''[[Rebecca]]'' is pretty much the iconic example.

* Averted in ''[[Jane Eyre]]'', where Mrs. Fairfax is the most normal and wholesome person around creepy Thornfield Manor.

* Also averted with the pleasant, helpful, long-suffering Mrs. Hudson. Though it might be supposed that her neighbors think she's a bit nutty for putting up with [[Sherlock Holmes|her eccentric tenant]].

* Eunice Parchman, the housekeeper in Ruth Rendell's ''A Judgement in Stone'', is mildly creepy and off-putting, but that's probably just because she's desperately keeping a secret (her illiteracy) which will eventually drive her to murder the entire family. (And that's not even a spoiler: the book ''begins'' with the sentence "Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write." The ensuing novel is an exploration of the hundred tiny threads that lead to the murders, such as that she can't read a note written by the daughter and comes to believe that whatever's written on it is making fun of her.)

* The title character in Roald Dahl's short story ''[[The Landlady]]'' says that she has stuffed all her dead pets herself. Apparently, {{spoiler|she has done so to her previous guests as well and is about to do so to the young man who stays in her house}}.

* Dr. McRae's housekeeper in ''My Dear Enemy''.

* The housekeeper at the mansion the Impress and party escape to in [[Dave Duncan]]'s ''[[A Handful Of Men]]'' sequel quartet (''[[A Man Of His Word]]'' is the first quartet). The housekeeper talks to the ghosts and interprets and furthers their prophecies.

 

* Miss Stolz from ''[[Quantum Leap]]'': In the episode "A Portrait for Troian," the Creepy Housekeeper is used to her full potential, and we find out that Miss Stolz was actually a ghost the entire time. If that's not creepy, I don't know what is.

* Mrs. Bale from ''[[As Time Goes By]]'': Subverted, since she is secretly quite nice, just extremely strange. Lionel does, however, make a Mrs. Danvers joke at her expense. As is revealed in the wedding episode, she also has a secret crush on Rocky, her employer.

** And the [[Expanded Universe]] has Satthralope, housekeeper of Lungbarrow back on Gallifrey. She's married to the [[Genius Loci|house]] and spends most of her time sitting in her room spying on the house's inhabitants via the mirrors.

** He's hardly the scariest member of the family

*** Heck, he's the LEAST scary. Except for Wednesday in the original series, who is really sweet; she just likes headless dolls and spiders.

 

== Theater ==

 

* Jane Twisden from Charles Ludlam's ''[[The Mystery of Irma Vep]]''. Mainly a parody of Mrs. Danvers.

* Frau Lurker in ''[[The House Of Frankenstein]]'' is a very broad parody of the trope.

 

== Video Games ==

 

* Martha from ''[[Rule of Rose]]'' gives a distinctly creepy, unfriendly first impression, and the orphans in the Rose Garden Orphanage believe she's a witch. {{spoiler|Subverted as it is revealed in the epilogue that she was the only definately sane and well-meaning person in the house despite of her unpleasant demeanour, and her attempts to contact the police about the strange happenings were implied to have gotten her killed.}}