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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]].
* A great deal of the fear dealt out by Chucky of ''[[Childs Play]]'' derives from the power of this trope, at least before the doll starts running around openly trying to kill everyone.
* An example where much more than eyes is used: ''[[Young Sherlock Holmes]]'', the scene where the knight in the stained-glass window leaps down to do combat with the poor priest. Notable because it is specifically later revealed, like other deaths in the film, to be caused by a hallucinogenic drug. What the priest saw was in fact all in his mind, but since it made him flee the church and run under the wheels of a moving carriage, he still ended up just as dead.
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Similarly, Stephen King's ''[[Rose Red]]'' featured a scene where a statue of Ellen Rimbauer in the mansion garden ''ripped off her own face'', the eyes of which then opened. The poor witness died of a heart attack soon after.
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** 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''.
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