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* The Tall Man from the ''[[Phantasm (Film)|Phantasm]]'' movies can quite easily pass for a (admittedly somewhat creepy) human - he's anything but.{{context}}
* The Harvesters in ''[[The Deaths of Ian Stone]]'' are an odd case. They're [[Physical God|essentially the gods of their setting]], and it's stated they made [[The Multiverse]] just to farm humans for their [[Emotion Eater|tasty, tasty fear]]. Their power over their surroundings is difficult to overstate, and their natures seem incomprehensible to humans—but their ''motivations'' are [[Horror Hunger|instantly recognizable to any junkie]], and they can be as petty and flawed as any human. {{spoiler|Two of them prove they can be as noble, too, and even [[Interspecies Romance|as loving]].}}
* ''[[A Nightmare On Elm Street]]'':
** Freddy Krueger probably counts -
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* In ''[[Dagon]]'', {{spoiler|Paul}} is one.{{context}}
* {{spoiler|Judge Doom}} skirts between this trope and [[Stealth Pun|flat]] out [[Eldritch Abomination]] in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]''. On the one hand, yes, he is humanoid, much thanks to being played by {{spoiler|Chrisopher Lloyd}}, but there's always something [[Uncanny Valley|uncanny]] about him - when he finally reveals his true nature as {{spoiler|a Toon}}, though, all bets are off.
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* In ''[[The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl]]'', the latter could be seen as a more benevolent version of this trope, as she's sort of a living, sentient pool of lava that can assume the shape of a teenage girl.
* The Coachman from ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]'' looks fairly human... side from the fact that he's got four fingers instead of five. [[Nightmare Face|And his face can contort into a hideous demonic visage.]] And somehow, he's got the means to turn the little boys he takes to Pleasure Island into donkeys. Some think he's one of [[The Fair Folk]] (quite possibly an [[Evil Counterpart]] to the Blue Fairy), others think he's [[Satan|the Devil himself]], but most viewers are in agreement that whatever he is, he isn't human.
* The titular monster of [[John Carpenter]]'s ''[[The Thing (1982 film)|The Thing]]'' is certainly capable of shifting into one, what with having the ability to mix-and-match the genetics of every other creature it's ever come into contact with before. Given a host and [[From a Single Cell|''one cell'']], within hours it can recreate itself to a substantial threat. Blair found this out the hard way when studying the Thing, which had already assimilated several dogs and at least one of the other researchers at that point - it's (deliberately) ambiguous as to whether Blair was assimilated and his guise then used to wreak havoc, or he genuinely went mad.
{{quote|'''Blair's input into computer:''' If intruder organism reaches civilized areas...
'''Computer's output:''' Entire world population infected 27,000 hours from first contact.}}
* In the Finnish horror-comedy ''Rare Exports'', [[Bad Santa|Santa Claus]] is depicted as one. That creepy guy from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pH9IyqTk1E&feature=related trailer] {{spoiler|is just one of his elves. The ''real'' Santa is... creepier. Because he's based on the old Finnish tradition, Nuuttipukki. Nuuttipukki took Christmas away, scared children, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|performed at people's houses in exchange for booze]]}}.
* Death from the ''[[Final Destination]]'' franchise is an inhuman, primal force of nature that occasionally takes the form of a mortician to spill its secrets to its future victims. It does this because you can never truly defeat it, and it knows this: It's omniscient and omnipresent, always lurking in the shadows with full knowledge of how everyone on Earth will die, and if anyone avoids the fate it had in store for them, all they accomplish is pissing it off and ensuring that their new death will be even more horrific than the one it had initially planned. And when it moves in for the kill, the laws of reality get thrown out the window as structures and vehicles suddenly fall into ruin, animals behave strangely, and seemingly safe rooms and areas [[Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts|become overly complex Rube Goldberg deathtraps]].
* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' has Calypso, the goddess of the sea whose favored form seems to be a vast swarm of crabs - her most favored form after that is the ever-mercurial black hoodoo and voodoo practitioner, Tia Dalma.
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