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[[File:TheHandsResistHim.jpg|frame|I ''knew'' I should have gone with the dogs playing poker.]]
Paintings, before the advent of the humble [[Spooky Photographs|photograph]], were the best thing to hang on your wall to provide a little culture, beauty and ''I swear that one just moved!''
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In the horror manga ''[[Tomie]]'', a painter falls in love with the title character and produces at least one Spooky Painting.
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* Inversion: There's an Eastern tale about boy who (unknowingly) spends the night in a cursed deserted monastery in which every night a Giant Demon Rat appeared and killed whoever slept inside; Since he loved to paint cats, he had spent all day painting them all over the walls of the monastery before going to sleep, that night, he wakes up hearing terrible screeching noises that are suddenly silenced, the next morning he finds the Giant Demon Rat dead in a pool of blood, the shock of the finding prevents him from realizing right away that the paws of the cats he painted the day before were also stained with blood...
* Used in [[Disney Theme Parks|Disney's]] [[The Haunted Mansion|Haunted Mansion]] attractions around the world. Several paintings depict seemingly innocent scenes - a woman reclining on a couch, a ship at sea, a knight on a horse, to name a few - that change to horrific versions when lightning flashes outside nearby windows - the woman becomes a snarling tiger, the ship rides through a storm with tattered sails, and the knight and horse become skeletons. There are also a few that were originally installed at Walt Disney World that had eyes that would follow the riders, but the moving-eye effect (as well as most of the portraits) seems to have been removed during a 2007 overhaul of the ride, leaving the paintings static (although still suitably creepy in their design).
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* There are some paintings that appear to follow you with their eyes.▼
** Even without the obligatory "curse" backstory, "The Hands Resist Him" (above) is pretty damn creepy.▼
*** So creepy in fact, the developers of [[Scratches]] thought it would be funny to throw it into the game!▼
*** The inspiration for the painting makes it less creepy. The boy is the artist, and the girl is meant to protect him from the hands outside.▼
** Many of [[wikipedia:Goya|Goya's]] works are like this. He was part of the Romantic movement, in which paintings that captured a moment of the "sublime" - the ''old'' meaning of "sublime", which contained both awe and fear - were popular. Even his early works seem to have something quietly ''off'' about them; something he painted for a textile corporation had children playing, and one of them has a rather sinister smile. Later, Goya had a mental breakdown, reflected in his paintings. The most disturbing one, by most estimates, is [[wikipedia:Saturn Devouring His Son|Saturn Devouring His Son]].▼
** Almost every painting by [[Hieronymus Bosch]] belongs on this page.▼
** The painting "The Nightmare" by [[Henry Fuseli]]. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightmare )▼
** The painting "The Crying Boy" has several copies and several of them have survived house fires without any damage done to them. This lead many people to think that it was "cursed". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crying_Boy )▼
** "[http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestand:Wiertz_burial.jpg The Premature Burial" by Antoine Wiertz.]▼
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* One episode of [[Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated]] features an auctioneer trying to sell off what he dubs a "spooooooooky painting". No one seems interested in it but the monster of the week.
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* There are some paintings that appear to follow you with their eyes.
▲** Even without the obligatory "curse" backstory, "The Hands Resist Him" (above) is pretty damn creepy.
▲*** So creepy in fact, the developers of [[Scratches]] thought it would be funny to throw it into the game!
▲*** The inspiration for the painting makes it less creepy. The boy is the artist, and the girl is meant to protect him from the hands outside.
▲** Many of [[wikipedia:Goya|Goya's]] works are like this. He was part of the Romantic movement, in which paintings that captured a moment of the "sublime" - the ''old'' meaning of "sublime", which contained both awe and fear - were popular. Even his early works seem to have something quietly ''off'' about them; something he painted for a textile corporation had children playing, and one of them has a rather sinister smile. Later, Goya had a mental breakdown, reflected in his paintings. The most disturbing one, by most estimates, is [[wikipedia:Saturn Devouring His Son|Saturn Devouring His Son]].
▲** Almost every painting by [[Hieronymus Bosch]] belongs on this page.
▲** The painting "The Nightmare" by [[Henry Fuseli]]. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightmare )
▲** The painting "The Crying Boy" has several copies and several of them have survived house fires without any damage done to them. This lead many people to think that it was "cursed". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crying_Boy )
▲** "[http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestand:Wiertz_burial.jpg The Premature Burial" by Antoine Wiertz.]
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