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[[File:wolfhead_4936.png|link=Homestuck (Webcomic)|frame|[[Andrew Hussie (Creator)|"Do you have even the SLIGHTEST CLUE how many times that wolf head over there has SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME?????"]]]]
 
In media, ''every'' villain base, haunted castle, or scary old house seems to have a scary stuffed animal tucked away in a dark corner somewhere. Crocodiles, bears, gorillas, wolves, lions, owls (the huge unblinking owl eyes that seemingly follow you around the room, admit it, that's freaky)...
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== Film -- Live Action ==
* Captain James Hook in the movie ''[[Hook (Film)|Hook]]'', meets his end when the Crocodile he "had stuffed and turned into a village clock" (paraphrased) comes back to life at the end of the movie, and swallows him alive.
* In the film version of ''[[The Neverending Story (Filmfilm)|The Neverending Story]]'', Bastian is scared by the taxidermied head of a wolf.
* The house in ''[[Evil Dead]] II'' is full of creepy stuffed trophy heads. Who laugh at Ash.
* In ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]'', Barbara wanders into the house's trophy room, where the stuffed heads seriously freak her out. Although not as much as the corpse. Or the zombie. Or Ben.
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* In ''[[Road House]]'', Tinker, the only survivor among the [[Big Bad]]'s [[Mooks]], is so freaked out by the various stuffed animals surrounding him that he can't testify to the Sheriff about what happened in the climax.
{{quote| '''Tinker:''' "A polar bear fell on me..."}}
* Alfred Hitchcock filled Norman Bates' house with taxidermed birds to add to the creepiness in the film version of ''[[Psycho (Film)|Psycho]]''. It also alludes to the final fate of Mrs. Bates.
* In the ''[[Friday the 13th (Filmfilm)|Friday the 13 th]]'' remake, Lawrence tries to masturbate in the living room, but finds himself too creeped out by a big stuffed moose head staring right at him to go through with it.
* The 1994 live-action adaptation of ''[[The Jungle Book (Filmfilm)|The Jungle Book]]'' has Mowgli in a room filled with stuffed animals, and he imagines hearing them screaming, with each scream punctuated by a gunshot.
 
== Literature ==
* ''[[The Neverending Story (Literaturenovel)|The Neverending Story]]''. Bastian sees the taxidermied heads of a fox, an eagle and an owl, and later in the land of Fantastica he meets three sages with the heads of said animals.
* In ''[[The Hotel New Hampshire]]'', the family dog dies and the protagonist's older brother decides to take it on as a taxidermy project. It comes out looking far more terrifying than it's supposed to, and keeps getting found in various unexpected and startling places. At one point it keeps the protagonist from getting laid by frightening the girl; at another, it literally scares his grandfather to death.
* In the ''Fable Haven'' series, Seth has to sneak into a mortuary that had stuffed animals standing around. {{spoiler|Turns out the guy who owned the place wasn't actually evil,}} but it still scared the crap out of Seth.
* A stuffed SS Standartenfuhrer is a prized possession of Cristobal Junta, the [[Magitek]] scientist from ''[[Monday Begins On Saturday (Literature)|Monday Begins Onon Saturday]]''. [[Played for Laughs]].
* "The Mutation" in ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'' had the group going into an undersea cave and stumbling into a whole museum of stuffed humans on ships(with a few just-added Hork-Bajir in the mix as well.)
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Ned from ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' is afraid of taxidermy animals, as related in the episode "[[Pushing Daisies/Recap/S2 E4 Frescorts|Frescorts]]", but that's more because he can bring them back to life with a misplaced touch than anything to do with taxidermy being inherently terrifying. He mentions an incident of a polar bear rug coming to life and totally killing the mood.
* On ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', Danko comes home to see a taxidermied rabbit sitting on his table. He's understandably confused and creeped out, not knowing that Sylar is hiding in the shadows the next room over.
 
== Videogames ==
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