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Sometimes, an inanimate object such every bit a painting or statue might inexplicably change off photographic camera. For instance, in i shot a statue of a human being may exist smile, and in another shot the statue volition be frowning. This can be used as a Funny Background Event, but is often used in horror, and tin mayhap be a source of Paranoia Fuel.

Sub-trope of Anomalous Art and Spooky Painting, perhaps a Sister Trope to Offscreen Reality Warp. May overlap with Expressive Accompaniment. See too Portrait Painting Peephole.

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    Anime and Manga

• In Delicious in Dungeon, the first living painting the party encounter is a portrait of a woman whose optics follow them from panel to panel.
• In GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Form, Awara has made one, admitting tear-off rather than actually supernatural.

  Awara: When you hang this on the wall, it looks like a normal painting... but if ya tear it abroad from the bottom page by folio, like this... the Mona Lisa in the painting starts to move little by little... until she eventually creeps up ta ya.
  Homura: Is everyone interested in making pleasant art!?

• In Natsume'south Book of Friends Natsume buys a painting of some trees at a swap meet that sinks roots into his walls, gains a silhouetted effigy and starts draining his life free energy afterward he brings it home.

    Comic Books

• The Don Rosa Donald Duck story The Magnificent Vii (Minus Four) Caballeros features a statue who is quite affronted at the thought of sharing Junior Woodchuck information with a non-woodchuck. Don Rosa quite likes these sorts of bonuses.
• One issue of the Comic-Book Adaptation of Rocky and Bullwinkle had a pawn shop in whose window was displayed a bust that seemed to grin one moment and scowl the adjacent. It turned out to be connected to the auction in that story.
• In an issue of The Vault of Horror, a story called "Southern Hospitality" features a painting of an old Southern admirer who stabs the adversary through the eye with the sword he's holding.

    Fan Works

• Dungeon Keeper Ami features this in an interesting way. When her dungeon is under direct assail past the nighttime god Crowned Death things get-go falling autonomously or warp in eerie ways equally his rot-everything power infects them. Strangely, it is noted that parts of her Dungeon nether observation are more reluctant to succumb to the event.
• The children's drawings in Something Ever Remains tend to practise this.

    Films — Animated

• The Swell Mouse Detective: Basil has a painting of Ratigan on his wall. When Basil explains who Ratigan is, he finishes by announcing his name loudly, in which lightning strikes and the painting then has a large grin.
• As a Freeze-Frame Bonus in Lilo & Stitch, a poster in Nani's room has a surprised expression for a few frames after Stitch hits Jumba with a VW Beetle.
• In the "Magnetic Rose" segment of anthology film Memories, Miguel sees a picture of Eva being kissed by her fiancé, Carlo, becoming jealous at the sight of it. As he and Heintz leave the room, Miguel has replaced Carlo in the photograph.
• Thomas and the Magic Railroad: Mr. Conductor tries on the top hat hanging in Sir Topham Hatt'south office. When he does, the Uncle Sam Wants You affiche of Sir Topham changes expressions.
• A Freeze-Frame Bonus in the opening to The Hunchback of Notre Dame has the Virgin Mary statue's eyes snap open later a lightning strike.

    Films — Alive-Activity

• In Airplane!, the inflatable "Otto" pilot doll changes expression several times. And the Angel on the dashboard covers her eyes in fear when they're about to land.
• The Arrangement: Done with photographs, every bit but ane of several surreal furnishings in the movie. Florence stumbles across some hidden photos of Eddie and Gwen cavorting at the beach. She tears them up and then flings them down on Eddie's desk. The images in the pictures are then shown to motility. (The movie doesn't definitively say whether or not Eddie is a wizard.)
• The film version of Take hold of-22 has a scene in Major Major's office, which has a photograph of FDR on a wall. As Major Major talks with Sgt. Towser, he paces in circles around the room, causing the photograph to disappear from view and and so reappear, replaced in succession with pictures of Churchill and Stalin.
• The one-time man'southward headstone portrait in Cemetery Man changes expression from serious (at first) to smug (when Francesco realizes that She is the old guy'south widow) to anger (when She and Francesco are having sex on his grave).
• Cloud ix: When Kayla accidentally destroys the Summit Valley billboard, the smiling expressions of the 3 people on information technology change to them shockingly looking at the hole.
• In The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow, an Occult Detective examines a photo of 4 figures at a camp for evidence of paganism. The camp photo first appears only examined in detail, then the camera zooms in to a degree and angle impossible to reach if the photograph remains two-dimensional, craning to reveal the reflection in a car's sideview mirror equally though the viewer had stepped within the photograph rather than looked at it. From that point onward, elements change through the grade of various boundless zooms, with facial expressions contradistinct, limbs positioned differently and other figures revealed in reflected surfaces and hidden behind trees. The film is vague as to how much the changes correspond the investigator piecing the story together, and how much is the explicit manifestation of the paranormal.
• Ghostbusters Two: Vigo'south painting does this a couple of times in addition to his more over-the-meridian stuff.
• Mild instance: A point in the Harry Potter universe is that people in paintings, photographs and the like can really motion, fifty-fifty out of frame. So it's not inexplicable or off camera, but it still gets creepy when you lot see Umbridge's office hanging full with pictures of cats, meowing and moving.
• Played for Laughs in Hopscotch. Kendrig is beingness hunted by the CIA because he's writing a book exposing their dirty tricks. In a Refuge in Audacity, he hides out in the summer house rented by his CIA boss. A scene has Kendrig typing out the manuscript and addressing a photograph of his boss on the desk, which changes from a grinning to a frown.
• House of the Witch: The kids find a collection of framed photos on the fireplace mantle of the entrance hall in the house. One of them takes a photograph off the mantle to become a closer look at it. During the inspection, the faces in the photoes become freaky with solid white eyes, scaring the holder and making them drop the photo on the floor.
• The painting in the hotel foyer from In the Mouth of Madness does this, showing a couple going for a romantic walk along the river degenerating into tentacled beasts.
• Mrs. Munson talks to her dead hubby'southward portrait in The Ladykillers (2004) by the Coen brothers, and while the portrait never talks back, it does react to the events around it (near plain with an expression of surprise at an explosion, and a satisfied smirk at a Karmic Expiry).
• In The Human being with Two Brains, Steve Martin asks his late wife (by talking to her portrait) for her blessing to marry an incredibly hot new wife. The painting starts spinning while you lot hear her moaning "No. No. NO. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO". When it stops, Martin says "Anything. Any trivial sign at all." He really wants Turner.
• In MouseHunt, the portrait of the old owner of the string factory subtly changes expressions, nigh notable when his son has Sex activity with the Ex in the function with the portrait watching in lewd appreciation.
• Münchhausen: Non played as creepy, but as part of the lite comic fantasy setting. In the opening scene, a portrait of the Baron winks at the photographic camera. When the Baron admires Cagliostro's portrait of a nude adult female equally seen from backside, Cagliostro has the woman in the portrait turn to face them. And at the end, a portrait of the Baron comes alive and blows out a servant's candles.
• In 1, Two, 3, Jimmy Cagney is throwing a wild bash for iii Russian commissars in the Russian zone in Berlin. While the music is playing, his hot secretary/mistress is dancing on a table and people are stomping, a behemothic moving-picture show of Khrushchev slips out of its frame revealing the picture of Stalin information technology is covering.
• Played for Laughs in Mel Brooks' Robin Hood: Men in Tights with the sheriff's cardboard cutout.
• In Sullivan'due south Travels, a the portrait of the wife'southward husband changes expression throughout the scenes as it watches his wife flirt with Sullivan.
• Tales from the Hood: The wall painting of Miss Cobbs (the voodoo priestess) in Metzger's firm changes when the killer dolls are released one by ane, with bare shapes appearing in their place.
• In Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Laura Palmer describes her feelings of loneliness and isolation past saying that "the angels won't save yous because they've all gone away." In a after scene, she glances at a painting of an affections serving food to some children... and the affections suddenly vanishes right before her eyes. Information technology returns in person after Laura is murdered, to comfort her and, presumably, guide her to some kind of afterlife.
• A very minor case in Young Frankenstein. A scowling portrait of Victor Frankenstein is highly visible in Fredrick'due south room. When Frederick finds his grandpa's instructions and decides to keep his work, a lightning-illuminated shut-upwards shows the portrait looking very pleased. Related is the joke of Igor'south hump moving from ane shoulder to another.

    Literature

By Author:

• Stephen Male monarch supplies a couple of examples:
  • Rose Madder has a irresolute painting in which that's not the weirdest thing about it.
  • The Road Virus Heads North gets steadily nastier as the changes continue.
  • Billy Summers: While Billy is using a cabin close to where the Overlook Hotel used to be as his writing room, he notices how a moving picture of the hedge animals that used to exist exterior the hotel keeps changing, with the animals moving positions or getting closer to the camera. Much like how the actual hedge animals did in The Shining''.

By Piece of work:

• The Bigend Books have an example in the hotel Hollis stays while in London. It's actually several paintings the staff keeps swapping.
• The holographic cover of Mickee Madden'south Everlastin' inverts this trope: it shows a man standing next to a painting of a woman in a field simply it's the man and not the painting who changes, fading in and out on the embrace to indicate that he's actually a ghost.
• In Bram Stoker's short story "The Judge's House," the dusty former painting on the dining room wall turns out to describe—surprise!—the business firm'southward former owner. Until one dark and ^notation surprise! stormy dark, when the pupil renting the house sees that the painting is empty...
• The Mezzotint, past M. R. James, is about a mezzotint engraving which depicts a supernatural creature gradually creeping into an English manor, and making off with the family's merely heir.
• An iconic example is The Movie of Dorian Grayness. The eponymous portrait changes when no 1 looks at it, and its first change is a subtle alteration in the expression. Most of the remaining changes are more obvious. The grapheme depicted by the portrait doesn't alter at all—in appearance, anyway.
• The Power of Five: There's ane in Jane Deverill'south house in Raven's Gate. It'south supposedly of her distant ancestor...
• The portrait of Julia Stone in Due east. F. Benson'south "The Room in the Tower" is creepy even before the reader discovers that the whole painting tin can motility effectually, and it houses the at present-united nationsdead Julia Stone.
• In The Witches, one of the children is cursed to live in a painting. No i ever sees her motion, but she lives her entire life in the painting, even aging gradually into an old woman, and then disappearing birthday.

    Live-Action Idiot box

• Doctor Who:
  • "Fear Her": Creepy Child Chloe Webber, possessed by an alien, has the ability to trap people in her drawings. The people in those drawings sometimes motility around.
  • The Weeping Angels, commencement seen in "Blink", are creepy moving statues.
    • In an extension of this, "The Time of Angels" reveals that "captured images" of the Weeping Angels become Angels themselves.
• An episode of Mysterious Ways had a crying stained glass window as its miracle of the week.
• In the airplane pilot episode of Dark Gallery, the outset segment "The Cemetary" features one. After murdering his ailing uncle, the nephew realizes that his uncle'south painting of the family cemetary (where the uncle is cached) is irresolute every time he sees it, and it's showing his uncle rise from the grave...The butler, who both wants to avenge his old master and take the inheritance from the nephew, is gaslighting him with multiple paintings to bulldoze him crazy. It works, and the nephew falls down the stairs to his death in the grip of insanity. As the butler gloats in triumph some time after, he watches in horror every bit the painting starts changing on its ain correct before his eyes. Information technology's showing the nephew rising from the grave...
• The Picture of Dorian Gray was parodied in ane sketch on Spitting Image: equally Tony Blair moved his political party to the right, his portrait inverse to bear witness him wearing a blood-red tie and taking advice from merchandise union leaders.
• In the Supernatural episode "Provenance", things in a haunted painting movement and change, although events in real life evoke a reaction in the painting.
• One of the pranks in an episode of Trigger Happy Television receiver featured a person disguised as a statue in a park who would sneeze every so oftentimes when people came near.
• The Twilight Zone (1959): "The Dummy" features a ventriloquist who notices while shaving in front of a mirror that his Demonic Dummy keeps on changing the tilt of its head every time he glances at it in the mirror. Then he looks directly at the dummy, and information technology winks at him. He responds past throwing something at it, causing its face up to seemingly intermission.
• The Twilight Zone (1985): In "The Hunters", Dr. Klein studies the paintings institute on the walls of the recently discovered prehistoric cavern. After a week, she notices that ane of them has changed. According to a photo, a figure who was previously on the right of a delineation of a formalism altar is now on the left. She assures the sheriff that she can tell that the paintings are 18-carat considering of her extensive experience in the area. That night, Dr. Klein realizes that all of the figures have disappeared from the walls, having entered the real world. One of them kills her with a spear. When the sheriff enters and discovers her trunk, he sees that the figures moving on the walls before his eyes. Dr. Klein'south trunk then disappears from the cave and a figure representing it appears on 1 of the walls. In order to defeat the threat posed by the ghosts of the prehistoric hunters, the sheriff washes the figures away.
• In ane episode of Warehouse thirteen, Pete, Myka and Claudia were stuck in a house where the changes they made in the room changed the painting of that same room. And vice-versa.

    Music

• In Daft Punk'due south official audio version of "Get Lucky" on YouTube, they use the anthology embrace of the group playing their instruments and dancing in front of the setting sun. At the 2:xx mark, they suddenly beginning dancing and playing their instruments, then stop 15 seconds later, simply in slightly different poses than they had at the start of the video.

    Video Games

• In Five Days A Stranger:
  • There is a painting in the dining room of Roderick Defoe. Each twenty-four hour period, the man in the painting gets older and older. By 24-hour interval four, information technology'southward a corpse. By 24-hour interval 5, the painting is blank except for a blood splatter.
  • Some other example is the landscape painting in a dissimilar room. Every then often, a dark, vaguely-human effigy appears on the horizon. It'due south subtle enough that most people don't detect. The painting was done by Matthew Defoe, one of the commencement deaths linked with the manor'southward past. Its origin is explored further in Trilby's Notes.
• Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak features 1 of these on the archway wall of Boo Mansion.
• Amnesia: The Dark Descent: Paintings constitute in Castle Brennenburg alter depending on the player character's sanity. Under normal weather, the portrait of Businesswoman Alexander depicts him equally an sometime long-haired gentleman; if the player'due south sanity is low, then the portrait's face becomes melted and monstrous - possibly revealing Alexander'southward truthful face. The castle's other paintings too appear to change depending on your sanity level; this usually manifests equally baloney in the figures' faces and the addition of skeletons in the scene. This makes for excellent Paranoia Fuel, just like everything else in the game.
• Pretty much all of the paintings in Ib, considering it's all about a Creepy Changing Creative person.
• Played for horror in Clive Barker'due south Undying where, near the beginning of the game is a big painting of all the Covenant children. Using the Scrye spell on it makes anybody except Jeremiah turn into their demonic forms on the moving picture, the exact same forms you have to bossfight 1-past-one after in the game. As for Jeremiah, he's but decapitated in the moving-picture show... foreshadowing the exact manner in which he dies. Both times.
• In Batman: Arkham Asylum, there is the visitor center. A hall, seen entirely in first person, with no access to detective mode , which leads to a window through which you tin can only come across a mannequin dressed like the Joker with a TV for a head, showing messages by the Joker himself. Creepy enough? Each time you plough and expect back at information technology, it changes poses! Of class, that happens considering that'southward no mannequin, simply the REAL Joker sitting there just to mess with you lot
• In Ai To Yuuki To Kashiwamochi, the opening game screen changes slightly every time you play the game. At showtime it'southward simply Yuki, Ai's beau, inching closer to take her hand. Then the sweets on the screen begin changing into medical supplies. And then Ai gets a frightened look on her face every bit Yuki begins gradually dragging her off the screen. Then Yuki's human being appearance changes to that of a skeleton. Then the screen goes completely blank with both Yuki and Ai gone...
• In the Erstwhile Chateau in Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, there is a room with a painting that looks normal if you look at it up close, only stares at you with glowing red optics if y'all await abroad from it. In the remakes, it will also laugh or moan.
• In The Sims three, with the "Supernatural Expansion" yous can buy paintings that change during nighttime. Such as a immature adult female turning into an old hag, a face of a homo which turns into a skull, and so on.
• In Super Castlevania Four in the gallery level in that location are 2 types of paintings that are notable. Both of similar looking old woman. One if you pass it, it volition mumble something inaudible which summons bats to assail you. The other volition achieve down and try to grab y'all. Unless you attempt to pass them they both seem like perfectly normal paintings.
• A game on the official website for Garfield chosen Scary Scavenger Chase had a painting in ane of the early rooms that depicted a man sitting in a chair, but the picture shows too piddling to know who information technology is. Upon revisiting the screen you may find that the painting was reversed, mirrored, or flipped upside down, or eventually, only an empty chair.
• In Paranormal, paintings and murals effectually Mattel'southward haunted business firm swap positions or transform into much scarier images betwixt 1 night and the next.
• In one of the demo trailers for BioShock Infinite, one of the paintings in a bar that Booker DeWitt goes into to escape Saltonstall's avalanche of cannon fire inexplicably changes. In the final release of the game, one of the statues in Columbia changes appearance right in broad daylight.
• Antichamber: The entire game. Many things change ever-then-subtly (or maybe not-and so-subtly) when you look at them a certain number of times, when you look at them for a certain menstruation of time, when you lot're looking at them from a certain bending, or even when you're not looking at them at all!
• In the Rex's Quest III AGD remake, if you talk to the painting of Manannan...

  Narrator: If it could talk, it would likely exist politer than the real thing.
  Painting: Don't count on it!

  • Keep in mind, the painting isn't saying this to the hero, but the player. A minor creepy version of Breaking the 4th Wall. Fifty-fifty more of a bound scare, is the fact that in the original version information technology was merely a regular painting, communicable fans of the original off guard.
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons introduced these in the i.2.0 update. Some of the paintings you can buy from Redd turn out to exist fakes, and some of those fakes turn out to be haunted and will change slightly every so often. I painting opens and closes its optics, while another goes from smiling to frowning and back once more.
• In Eternal Darkness, later each level (interpreted as Alex Roivas reading a page of the Tome of Eternal Darkness), her sanity will have decreased a bit more than and more than. A serene mountain landscape hanging on the hallway volition warp into a hellish landscape of torment when this happens.
  • It can also happen in the cathedral level; if Paul's or Peter's sanity level drops very depression, one of the pictures in the side room near the cathedral'due south archway volition turn into a motion picture of a zombie.
• Ii in Spec Ops: The Line: In one chapter there is a giant tarp with Col. Konrad's face on it stretched across a building, which you tin can meet from the first of the level. When you lot get closer to it near the finish of the level, it has changed into a mundane ad for a pre-sandstorm circus deed. In another, a double staircase you must climb is fix around a tree which is in full bloom. When you lot reach the top and turn around, all the same, the tree is completely barren. Both of these are skillful indications that your character, Cpt. Walker, doesn't have the strongest grip on reality to begin with, and foreshadows but how mentally unstable he's going to become.
• Certain posters in Five Nights at Freddy'southward will modify, and they alter more oftentimes the further y'all go in the game. Children's fan art will become crying faces (or vanish entirely, leaving 'IT'South ME' written on the walls), direction'southward posters will turn into paper articles about a mysterious Series Killer who lured children into a dorsum room and murdered them, wearing an animatronic suit, and the poster of Freddy in the left hall volition occasionally change to testify Freddy pulling his head off, or a yellow version of Freddy's face without eyes, which will trigger a slumped-over yellow Freddy suit to announced in your part, where he'll crash your game unless yous bring up the monitor again.
• The photo of the couple in Serena will change according to what/how much the protagonist has remembered. At that place'southward also a framed poem on the wall that will change depending on the current tone of what he's discovered.
• I'm On Observation Duty has anomalies that you accept to continue a watchful eye for, including some that alter the content of paintings within the houses you lot sentry. Rarely, you may be able to spot them change correct in front end of your eyes instantaneously!
• In The 7th Invitee, several paintings in the Stauf Mansion change in various ways, from 1 where a pair of hands endeavour to push through the canvas, to a picture show of a boy that talks and bares some vampire fangs at yous, and a large portrait of Henry Stauf himself which, after a puzzle of altering his face is solved, shows Stauf's head slowly warping out of the painting and trying to attack the player.
• Seeing as it'south a surrealist horror game from the point of view of a painter who's slowly going insane (or peradventure retracing an already completed descent into madness), Layers of Fear contains a lot of creative variations on this trope, to the point that the line between this and Anarchy Architecture begins to blur as everything is slowly consumed by paint. It comes to a head in the Wife ending, where just after the artist thinks he finally completed the perfect portrait of his wife, her epitome slowly warps out of the canvas and laughs at him, while changing into a deformed, charred effigy.
• The first phase of Mug Smashers have y'all beating upwards some punks outside a pub, and in the groundwork there's a beer advertising featuring a blonde woman. It's hard to detect since you lot're fighting off various mooks, simply expect closely and the woman'due south face on the ad is blinking whenever you lot take a hit.
• An easy to miss instance in Blood. Several levels feature a painting that seemingly depicts babe Jesus being held by Mary. Take the time to find it, and y'all'll meet that Mary mummifies from a immature woman and a skeleton, and so back again. Non that surprising, considering you lot only traipse through areas that are, or have been, nether the Cabal's influence.
• In Super Mario 64, the start of the first Bowser level has a portrait of Princess Peach at the finish of a long hallway, which turns into a portrait of Bowser as you get closer.
• Dr. Luis, Big Bad of South of Real, has a fondness for Francisco Goya. That would exist bad enough on its own, merely the Goya paintings alter as the protagonist delves further and further into the mansion they grew upwardly in. A highlight is the painting in the kitchen...Saturn Devouring His Son. The revelation in that kitchen distorts the painting. Information technology's also related to said painting.
• The penultimate battle in Tough Turf where yous fight The Dragon in his penthouse has a portrait in the background whose eyes suspiciously follows your movements while you fight.
• Grim Tales 11: Crimson Hollow has portraits of the Black Family to collect. When you look at them on the collectibles screen, they change from a normal portrait to a gruesome illustration of the subjects' fate and back once again.
• In A Lid in Time, there'due south a portrait in Queen Vanessa'southward Manor of a person who strongly resembles Hat Kid which starts off with no face. When you come up back to it later, it now has ii optics and a stitched mouth carved into it and the person is holding Hat Kid'due south Dweller Mask in her hand.
• Beyond Vigo, Ghostbusters: The Video Game has at to the lowest degree five of these every bit Cursed Artifacts.
• In the PlayStation game D, once the player, as Laura, has started the 2nd disc (later on the Indiana Jones-esque bedrock escape) Laura can walk over to an innocent looking painting of an indifferent-looking girl. Upon pressing the activeness button, the girl in the painting will inexplicably smile (with a non-lipped express mirth) before the painting flips to a inkling for the next in-room puzzle before it goes back to the aforementioned daughter who goes right dorsum to looking indifferent.
• In The Curse of Monkey Island, a grog advertisement in the Goodsoup hotel changes slightly every time you enter the lobby. Guybrush notices something off, merely doesn't place it until many examinations subsequently - its eye seems to follow him!
• Towards the end of Call of Cthulhu: The Official Video Game, Edward Pierce finds a portrait of himself facing away from the viewer, fatigued past Sarah Hawkins before they had ever met. As he leaves to investigate further, his body crosses over the sheet, and his fatigued self has turned to confront the viewer in one case it's uncovered again.

    Web Original

• SCP-1891 of the SCP Foundation does this to other paintings. Specifically, it'due south a painting of a stooped human. The painted human somehow moves to other paintings and gradually transforms everything depicted into machinery.
• The Magical Library in Whither has a changing book. On The Fair Folk.

    Western Animation

• In one episode of VeggieTales, Larry the Cucumber has a paper bag mask which changes expressions based on the wearer's expression. Bob the Tomato notices information technology, and is very freaked out by information technology. It is later hinted that the mask doesn't modify considering of the wearer's emotions, but the wearer's emotions change because of the mask.
  • This likewise happens in the offset episode. Junior stares at his family photo before his mum, dad and him (in the photo) plough into franken-asparaguses causing Junior to sew together the stairs and into his room.
• In the Tex Avery drawing Who Killed Who?, a police detective looks inside a nighttime room with a flashlight. The low-cal passes a picture of a woman in a swimsuit and fur glaze. He quickly returns to information technology for a second expect, but now the woman has covered herself up with the coat.
• Early villainess Hexadecimal in ReBoot had a drama mask for a face, which could change expressions, just just when offscreen. Hex could invoke this past passing her mitt in front of her confront.
• Mr. Magoo's Christmas Ballad: While the transforming door knocker is par the grade, after the ghostly visitations end and Scrooge!Magoo leaves to visit the Cratchit house, the door knocker winks at the audience.
• When Coconuts goes to fight Sonic in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, he briefly kisses a portrait of Robotnik. In one case he's done the portrait has an expression of disgust.
• Education for Death: A Nazi-run classroom is shown to have smiling portraits of Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring and Joseph Goebbels hanging on the walls. When Hans gets in trouble for expressing sympathy for a rabbit that got killed past a fox, he looks up and sees their faces staring downward at him in disapproval. Finally, after Hans tearfully rescinds his answer and denounces the rabbit equally a weak coward that deserved to die, the Hitler portrait is grinning one time again and winks at the audition.

    Other

• The queue of The Haunted Mansion has something like this. In the queue of the Walt Disney World version, there is a headstone with the engraving of a adult female'southward face. Every and then ofttimes, the woman'southward (Madame Leota) eyes will open, dart effectually for a few seconds, and then shut. The queue likewise contains several paintings that morph into a different painting, such every bit a painting of a woman morphing into a tiger.
  • There's also the stretching gallery, where the paintings grow to reveal more than of the scene, and the Ghostly Ball sequence, which has a pair of pictures of two duelists, dorsum to back, that come to life, plow, and shoot each other.
• The allegedly cursed painting "The Easily Resist Him" allegedly had the people in the paintings frown, and one person even allegedly pulled out a gun.
• The Haw Branch Plantation in Amelia, Virginia, long rumored to be haunted, features the portrait of a young woman named Florence Wright. The portrait, which was originally painted with pastel colors, was kept in storage for twenty years, and when taken out was said to have seemingly changed color to a faded, charcoal-like gray. After the portrait was placed higher up the fireplace in the library, its color gradually returned. A psychic afterwards claimed that the portrait had been inhabited by a spirit, presumably Wright'due south, and that she restored its color afterwards it was finally put in a place she liked.
• Religious figurines and paintings are often accused of crying or haemorrhage when no one is looking.
• Party City, Walgreen's, and other stores sell these at Halloween, thank you to the magic of lenticular printing.
• An '80s issue of National Geographic (the December 1988 issue, to be verbal) had a variation on this. Its holographic cover had a whole world on information technology, but when you tilted it slightly, the earth had bits broken out of it, symbolizing the Globe as frail and in need of protection. Not exactly creepy, just definitely deeply unsettling.
• On this very site In the forums for Halloween 2012, a organisation was implemented for the forum avatars that had this consequence. When showtime viewed the avatar pictures are normal, but when you lot scroll offscreen then return to them, the moving-picture show is replaced with a random picture show of something scary. Among these include a Weeping Angel, demonic Regan, the Slender Man, and Cthulhu. There were also a few humorous ones like a sprite of Cofagrigus and a Weeping Angel with a "ಠ_ಠ" smiley for a face. Information technology was popular enough to inspire the special paradigm for this very page.
• Played for Laughs in the Miiverse trailer for the Wii U, where the Basement-Dweller's "Non-Specific Action Figure" has a painted-on expression of disapproval when showtime seen, but after the nerd beats ZombiU, he suddenly shows a thumbs-up gesture with a painted-on expression of approving without being moved.

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