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{{quote|''"And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him."''|[[The Bible
There's a group of people held up in a building or house somewhere partying, shopping, or just minding their own business, when all of a sudden, there's some random injured and bloody guy/girl who [[Bring News Back|shows]] up giving [[Bearer of Bad News|an ominous message]] that someone/something's trying to kill them, and that it's following them. Sometimes the bloody stranger [[Almost-Dead Guy|dies before they can be specific about the threat]]. Thus the group of friends/family starts to argue and debate among themselves about what he or she could have been running from. And of course, the threat eventually shows up...
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== Film ==
* In the remake of ''[[
* Vincenzo Natali's short film ''Elevated'' had a guy come into an elevator screaming about a monster that killed everyone on his floor, and tells them they need to get out of the building.
* ''[[Assault
* Played mostly straight in the film ''[[Feast]]'' when a man, soon followed by his wife, stumbles into a bar in the desert carrying the severed head of a monster they had hit with their car and informing the patrons that there are more of them outside. And proclaims "A storm of hell is coming down on this place any second..."When asked who he is he proclaims, "I'm the man who's gonna save your ass." {{spoiler|He is then promptly killed and yanked out a window by another of the monsters}}
* The film ''[[Tales
* Arguably, ''[[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]''. The last not-a-pod-person in a small town gets to the city going on about the invasion, trying to get people to act. He gets locked up right around the time that we hear about a truck with these great big pods that somebody found on the highway...
* [[John Woo]]'s ''[[The Killer]]'' had this as the prelude to the [[Bloodstained-Glass Windows|big church shootout]] that would end the movie. {{spoiler|Sidney returns to the church with Ah Jong's money, and he's all bloody because he [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|got the living shit kicked out of him]] by Johnny and his men, who followed Sidney to the church following his escape, and when he gets shot, he has to ask Ah Jong to finish him because he didn't save his last bullet for himself and doesn't want to die like a dog. Then all hell breaks loose}}.
* ''[[The Invisible Man (
* The plot of ''[[Legion]]'' appears to {{spoiler|put a spin on this with the archangel Michael arriving at a diner shortly before an army of angels from ''Heaven'' come to assault the survivors of the Apocalypse. Started by God.}}
** Although the above spoiler sounds stupid, the movie is much worse than that.
*** Oh, [[Narm Charm|but]] [[Ho Yay|delightfully]] [[So Bad It's Good|so]].
* ''[[
{{quote| "Who were chasing you?" "My mum, my dad... They're trying to kill me. There's others too." "How many?" "Loads." }}
* "There's something in ''[[The Mist]]'' and it took John Lee." The panicked man is too busy making a [[Title Drop]] to mind his profusely bleeding nose.
* In ''[[
* The western film, ''[[Pale Rider]]'' uses the page quote as part of its narration. A subplot of the movie is whether or not the pale rider is actually a live person or a walking dead man who has come to exact his vengeance.
* In ''[[
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* In ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]'', the shot and badly wounded Captain Jacobi manages to stumble into Sam Spade's office and press the eponymous [[MacGuffin]] into Sam's hands before expiring on the office floor. Trouble quickly follows.
* Lampshaded in ''Far North'', by Marcel Theroux. A ragged, starved woman drags herself into the extremely isolated frontier town and dies in front of the grocery store. [[The Sheriff|Makepeace]] reflects that they should have known she wouldn't be the last.
* From ''[[
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== Western Animation ==
* More of a Heck's Comin' With Me: on ''[[
* This is pretty much the entire plot of the short film ''The Chubbchubbs''.
* This is the plot of ''[[The Secret of Kells]]'': Aidan of Iona shows up with the [[I Am Dying Please Take My Macguffin|Book of Kells]] and [[Horny Vikings|Vikings]] on his tail. The rest of the film is about how to finish the book before the Vikings burn the abbey.
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