Dead Man's Chest: Difference between revisions

 

== [[Film]] ==

* The [[Alfred Hitchcock]] film ''[[Rope]]'' (two killers strangle a victim, hide the body in a chest and then serve a cold supper to the victim's friends and family off the lid of the chest)

** This might well have helped inspire the infamous dinner scene in ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]''.

* In ''[[Young Frankenstein]]'', Frankenstein and Igor are trying to hide a body in a wagon, but the arm is still sticking out when someone comes along. Frankenstein places himself in such a way as to pretend the arm is his, and [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* The first scene of ''[[Keeping Mum]]'' depicts sweet, polite Rosie Jones setting out on a journey by train - while her large case in the luggage compartment ''seeps blood''. (It turns out, though, that her case doesn't contain a body, just ''pieces'' of one!)

* In ''[[Ginger Snaps]]'', the protagonist sisters hide the body of a girl who, while wasn't murdered, slipped in their kitchen and died of severe blunt trauma to the head. They stuff it in the fridge (though it's [[Captain Obvious|not an example]] of [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]).

* In Fernandel's movie ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040114/ L'armoire volante]'', the protagonist's aunt gets frozen to death during a moving journey, so the workers put her body in a wardrobe closet among the moved furniture. This closet, however, gets lost and [[Hilarity Ensues]] as the protagonist chases and searches the closet all over the country.

* ''[[Arsenic and Old Lace]]'' includes a window seat in which different bodies were placed for different reasons.

* The cheesy [[Exploitation Film]] ''[[Axe]]'' shows a young woman kill an attempted rapist with a straight razor and stuff his body into a trunk.

* In [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s "The Tell-Tale Heart", the body is dismembered and hidden under the floorboards. There's no ''actual'' clue that would give the location away to the police, who are about to leave on peaceful terms when the narrator begins to hallucinate that he can hear the corpse's heart beating....

** And The Black Cat, wherein a murder is given away by his own pride and a karmic pet he buried with his wife.

* ''The Warlock's Hairy Heart'' (in JK Rowling's ''Tales of Beedle the Bard'') has a warlock storing away his heart to protect himself from love.

* In the [[Ellery Queen]] short story "The Three Rs" (in the ''Calendar of Crime'' collection), it is made to appear that the victim's body has been placed in his trunk, covered in quicklime and shipped off to his summer cabin.

 

* The ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'' episode "The Kipper and the Corpse" features Basil stuffing the dead body of a guest into things.

** And some [[Butt Monkey|hapless guest]] into the things the corpse has also been shoved into.

** Another episode involves a bouncer stuffing an annoying homeless man inside a duffel bag, and dumping him (to his death) down a hill. The Nevada desert heat, as well as several months of decomposition, give the cadaver the consistency of [[Nightmare Fuel|chunky soup]]. Nevermind the stench, the bag ''sloshes'' when moved.

** And yet another body was disposed of in a sealed barrel, leading to the corpse turning into [[Squick|soapy goo]].

** ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'' has also had at least one case of Dead Baby In a Cooler.

* ''[[Psychoville]]'' did this in an episode which parodies Hitchcock's ''Rope''. Minutes after serial killers David and Maureen have dispatched their latest victim, a man claiming to be a police inspector shows up at the door. He's really an actor auditioning for a role in one of the "murder mystery" acts the victim ran. [[Hilarity Ensues]] as they hide the corpse in various places around the room while trying to keep the inspector off their tail (and David having to pretend to be the victim so as not to give away that the man is dead)

* Done in a disturbingly cold-blooded fashion on ''[[Desperate Housewives]]''.

* ''[[Midsomer Murders]]'': A dismembered body is placed in a wicker hamper and left in a railway station in "Echoes of the Dead".

* In the [[Soap Opera]] ''[[Sunset Beach]]'', Tim gets stuffed into a chest temporarily after being murdered, before finally being [[Cement Shoes|buried in cement]].

* In ''[[The Mentalist]]'' epsiode "Redline", the killer stuffs the body into the trunk of a sports car when security shows up unexpectedly. The killer is unable to retrieve the body and the car ends up on the showroom floor.

* In ''[[The Last Express]]'' one of the ways to stop anyone from finding the body is to stash it in your bed, this is only a temporary solution though. You can also just chuck it out the window, but then the police will find it and search the train at the next stop.

* An important technique in ''[[Hitman]]: Blood Money''... leaving bodies just lying around is asking for trouble, and unless somebody actually sees you do it, stuffing it into a handy container will ensure that it isn't discovered 'till well after you've vacated the premises.

* ''[[Killer 7]]'' has the dead body of Harman Smith hidden in a safe in a Seattle elementary school, where Emir Parkreiner stuffed it after killing him.

** And in each of these cases, you have a ''different'' [[Cloudcuckoolander|assistant]].

** In ''Investigations'', {{spoiler|our 'chest' is a ridiculously garish suitcase.}}

* Though the ''[[Thief]]'' games don't encourage murder, living and dead bodies could be dragged to concealment. Unless you're going for [[Self-Imposed Challenge|total ghosting gameplay]], the efficient way to deal with guard patrols is to knock on the backs of their heads and move them out of view of the others. In maps with meandering patrol routes, this meant running back to move a body more than once, especially if you're not familiar with those routes yet.

* Happens to {{spoiler|Archibald Carrington}} in the second ''[[Laura Bow]]'' game. He's locked in a trunk with a bunch of flesh eating beetles.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

** If you miss the first few minutes of that episode (as this troper did), it looks as if they've got an ''actual dead body'' on their hands.