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{{trope}}
Remember when your parents wanted to keep the floors in the house looking nice and clean so they'd remind you to wipe your shoes off before you came in?
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This trope is typically used to increase suspense. Therefore it happens in horror or drama themed works.
[[Foot Focus]] typically comes into play here. If the footprints appear to have been made by a werewolf or some other sort of beast then it's [[Human
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* A version happens in the first ''[[Kara no Kyoukai
* In the opening sequence of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
* ''[[Elfen Lied]]'': Lucy in the beginning of the first episode {{spoiler|where she's naked and walks through the pools of blood of the people she slaughtered}} and in the second episode when she's fighting Bandou.
** In the tenth episode {{spoiler|after she kills Kouta's father and sister}}, she's seen standing in a pool of their blood.
* This also occurs in ''[[
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Done subtly on the first page of ''[[Watchmen (
== Film ==
* ''[[The Ring]]'' did this with Samara after she came out of the television, in the form of water from an old well.
* Played entirely straight in ''[[The Last Samurai]]'', when Tom Cruise walks in the Japanese house with his boots on, and he realizes when he sees his host cleaning the muddy footprints behind him that this just ''isn't'' done.
* In the movie ''[[
* Played for laughs in ''[[Scary Movie]] II''. The characters find a trail of bright red footprints leading down the hallway, prompting one of the male characters to comment "Ew! Someone's on the rag!"
* This happens in the ''Fathers Day'' segment of ''[[Creepshow]]''.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* ''[[Silent Hill]]''. Several of the games, if not every one of them. The first game and some of the others actually measure how far your trail of monster-blood footprint is.
** In [[Silent Hill 3]], there are disembodied bloody footprints acompanied by the sounds of a crying young girl that lead you past a few obstacles and help you find hidden areas. No explanation is given for this.
* Scrying in ''[[Clive
* ''[[Doom]]'' 3 pulls off one scare by having bloody footprints appearing out of nowhere as something invisible walks away from you towards a locked door.
* ''You'' do this in ''[[Second Sight]]'' if you step in blood, and the [[Mook
* In ''[[Kuon]]'', if your character walks through a pool of blood they will trail bloody footprints for a while afterwards.
* The Footprint Passages in ''[[Yume Nikki]]''. This being a [[Surreal Horror]] game, there's no explanation, but it's still creepy.
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