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In the horror genre, windows are not the safest thing. They're mostly [[Soft Glass|thin breakable glass]], often big enough to let monsters and crazed madmen use it as an improvised entrance and make for a nice spot to grab unsuspecting victims to their doom. Barricading windows can be hard work if there are too many of them and more often than not whatever is trying to get through, will.
 
Compare [[Super Window Jump]], [[Destination Defenestration]] and [[Window Pain]], in which windows are used for for improvised entrances, deliveries and exits, rather than monsters using them.
 
Regardless of popular opinion, this has nothing to do with [[Microsoft Windows]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In ''[[Main/Tintin/Recap/The Seven Crystal Balls/Recap|RecapThe Seven Crystal Balls]]'', two of the members of the Sanders-Hardiman expedition fall victim to crystal balls hurled through their windows. Professor Cantonneau is attacked this way just as Tintin tries to warn him not to go near the window. Dr. Midge is then placed under police guard, but [[The Guards Must Be Crazy]] and turn away from the window just long enough for another glass-shattering attack to happen.
 
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]''. Most notably when {{spoiler|David}} foolishly stands with his back right against a window, and (predictably, [[Asshole Victim|considering his recent actions]]) the zombies break through and pull him out to eat him.
* ''[[Tremors]] 2'', several times.
* In the original ''[[A Nightmare Onon Elm Street]]'', {{spoiler|the last scare of the movie as Freddy snags the heroine's mother through the front door window.}}
* The ''[[Friday the 13 th13th (Filmfilm)|Friday the 13 th]]'' movie series '''loves''' this.
** The very last scare of ''Part 2'' was Jason busting through the window in slow motion in a hallucination the [[Final Girl]] had.
* In ''[[In the Mouth of Madness (Film)|In the Mouth of Madness]]'', a lunatic crashes through a cafe window with an axe in an attempt to kill Sam Neill's character.
* Subverted in ''[[Independence Day]]'': the monster smashes into the window but it doesn't break.
** And then promptly Inverted.
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* In ''[[The Descent (Filmfilm)|The Descent]]'', Sarah gets impaled in the head by a steel beam crashing through the window. But don't worry, it was [[All Just a Dream]].
* The killer in ''[[The Toolbox Murders]]'' gets to do this.
* ''[[Feast (Film)|Feast]]''
* ''[[Fourteen Oh Eight (Film)|1408]]'' has way too much fun with this trope.
* ''[[The Fog]]'' (1980). Zombies break through stained glass windows in a church to attack the protagonists.
* In the original Romero ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]'' the hero is trying desperately to board them up while zombies reach through the broken glass for him. Great tension and suspense builder.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode where they throw a coming-home party for Buffy, they end up getting attacked by various monsters (of course), many of whom attack through the windows.
** After Xander acquires carpentry skills, he lampshades the frequency of this occurrence, saying he wonders why he even bothers fixing the frames.
 
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