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{{trope
[[File:Madam leota.jpg|thumb|400px|link=The Haunted Mansion|Creepy.]]
One of the scariest things you can see on film is something you know is ''not'' alive acting as if it is; statues move, eyes of dolls pop open, parts of the architecture animating of their own accord. This can happen as someone is watching it, or out of the corner of the eye, ceasing as soon as the character looks right at it. It doesn't matter, it is more than enough to send some unstable souls over the edge into madness (followed quite often by death).
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== [[Film]] ==
* In the 1999 remake of ''The Haunting of Hill House'', not only does the ghost of Hugh Crain cause his house to come alive in various ways, but in one particularly [[Anvilicious]] scene, a pair of stained glass windows in Eleanor's bedroom are seen to turn into colossal, glaring [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|red eyes]].
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** Another ''[[Doctor Who]]'' example: The statues in ''Blink''. {{spoiler|The way they move between the strobes of light, caught in new and more hideous poses as the sequence progresses so you can see they're alive but you can't ''see'' they're alive}}, well... It's not nice.
** In fact, the [[Trope Namer|Trope Name]] comes from the Doctor commenting on the eyes in the walls of a hallway in ''The Rebel Flesh''.
== [[Theme Parks]] ==
* A headstone for a woman named Leota, found right next to the entrance of [[The Haunted Mansion]] at [[Disney Theme Parks|Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom]], has what appears to be a bronze relief of a woman's face, with eyes closed, on it; if one watches it for long enough, her eyes open, her head moves, and she looks around before closing her eyes and going still again. See the page image.
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