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In most horror movies, if it's not strings, it's probably a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAys8oqAAV0 waterphone].
Usually part of a [["Psycho" Shower Murder Parody]]. See also [[Scare Chord]].
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** The whole soundtrack, really.
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in an episode of ''[[Parker Lewis Can't Lose]]'': A man in a trenchcoat looks at a journal saying "The Chameleon escapes!", then orders a string quartet (which wasn't there before) to play a chilly music.
* ''[[
** Whereas the Daleks get the [[Ominous Latin Chanting|Ominous Hebrew Chanting]], the Cybermen get the Psycho Strings. The same sound effect was used for the Family of Blood.
** The Master gets his own distinctive [[Psycho Strings]] theme, which is four loud drum beats.
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* Sonata Arctica use this at one point in "Juliet".
* Avant-garde metal band Unexpect use Psycho Strings a lot, but most notably on "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLP7hQkCIyU Silence 011010701]".
* "O Green World" by [[Gorillaz]] opens with a sort of deranged banjo-plucking solo. The entire song may be a deliberate [[Shout
* "Opheliac" - the album, not the song - by Emilie Autumn is full of creepy notes on electric violin.
* The Soviet composer [[Dmitri Shostakovich]] was fond of using these for [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|political commentary]]. For instance, the [[Executive Meddling|Party-mandated]] Fifth Symphony's grandiose, triumphant finale is rather undermined by the string section sawing away in the background, rendering the whole thing rather hollow, creepy, and artificial. [[Stealth Parody|Not that anybody important noticed.]]
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* The opening of "One Winged Angel" from ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', as well as Exdeath's theme from ''[[Final Fantasy V]]''.
* Used throughout ''[[Drakengard]]'' to great effect. The composer favored repeated [[Psycho Strings]] to set the mood in some cutscenes.
* If Laura Bow has a shower in ''The Colonel's Bequest'', [[Shout
** Also occurs in the second game, ''The Dagger of Amon Ra'', whenever she finds the corpse of a murder victim.
*** The second game also has it as the first thing you hear while Laura is chased by the killer.
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* Used in the ''[[Spongebob SquarePants]]'' episode "Bummer Vacation" in which Sponge Bob's sitting in Patrick's house after being forced by Mr. Krabs to take a vacation and hiring Patrick as his temporary replacement. When Patrick finds him, Sponge Bob looks (and acts) completely insane, complete with [[Psycho Strings]].
** Used in the episode "Squeaky Boots" when Mr. Krabs goes insane with guilt after stealing rubber boots he gave to Spongebob.
* In ''[[Star Wars Clone Wars]]'', [[Hero
* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar the Last Airbender]]'', several of the scenes in the series finale, featuring {{spoiler|Azula's [[Villainous Breakdown]]}}, are accompanied by these.
* [[Kim Possible]] does it twice, once with Bonnie taking a shower as a homage to [[Psycho]]'s famous scene, and again when music from the film plays after Ron falls off his bike and water comes from his head.
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