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** In yet another, some sleazy executives make a getaway from Homers' farm, where he grows addictive tomatoes laced with nicotine, in a helicopter, soon after the farm is devastated by crazed farm animals addicted to the product. One of these, a pig, is hiding in the back seat.

* In ''Film/HotFuzz'' [[spoiler:the last villain gets this surprise from a swan attack in the back seat.]]

Perhaps it's because there's some idea of a car as a safe place, but attackers in TV regularly hide in your backseat, waiting to attack when you enter the car. Whether it's [[KnifeNut psychos with knives]], [[ProfessionalKiller hitmen]] with fiberwires, flesh eating monsters or mysterious spies with secret information, the intrusion of personal space is creepy if not outright terrifying. It's nearly never noticed before the victim is in their car, and no reference is made to how they got in without breaking the windows.

* ''Franchise/{{Saw}}''

** The [[Film/SawI first film]] had a variant. Dr. Gordon isn't attacked in his car immediately, but when he steps out of it momentarily to use a phone, you see the back door slowly opening...
** In a flashback in ''Film/SawII'' we see that this is how [[spoiler: Obi]] kidnapped Laura.

* A variation occurs in the ''Podcast/AliceIsntDead'' episode "Nothing to See," where the long haul trucker {{Narrator}} is troubled by persistent, loud banging in her trailer, only to check it twice, find nothing and ''still'' hear noises, [[spoiler: until the third check, where her Humanoid Abomination stalker the Thistle Man reveals himself, then makes a point of attacking her ''in a Target parking lot'' to [[ExploitedTrope display]] how easy it is, and how no one will help. The police, as it turns out, are in his pocket.]]

* An episode of ''Series/{{Millennium}}'' has a service station owner calling a woman into his office because her credit card was invalid — it turns out he'd actually seen a man hiding in her back seat. That killer was also striking in the manner of {{Urban Legend}}s.

* The classic UrbanLegend about this goes something along these lines: A woman driving alone is pursued by another car or truck, ''Film/{{Duel}}'' style, and its driver keeps flashing his headlights or high beams at her, to her increasing panic. When she finally makes it home and gets out of her car, the other vehicle parks right behind her. She runs inside and calls the police, they arrive and attempt to arrest the other driver who had stayed inside his vehicle with the lights on, keenly watching the place. [[spoiler:However, he then reveals he was only chasing the woman and flashing his lights because there was a man with a knife hiding in her backseat, who was still there right now. Every time the man stood up while she was driving, he had flashed his lights to make the man duck down again.]]

* The classic UrbanLegend about this goes something along these lines: A woman driving alone is pursued by another car or truck, ''Film/{{Duel}}'' style, and its driver keeps flashing his headlights or high beams at her, to her increasing panic. When she finally makes it home and gets out of her car, the other vehicle parks right behind her. She runs inside and calls the police, they arrive and attempt to arrest the other driver who had stayed inside his vehicle, keenly watching the place. [[spoiler:However, he then reveals he was only chasing the woman and flashing his lights because there was a man with a knife hiding in her backseat, who was still there right now. Every time the man stood up while she was driving, he had flashed his lights to make the man duck down again.]]

* The classic UrbanLegend about this goes something along these lines: A woman driving alone is pursued by another car or truck, ''Film/{{Duel}}'' style, and its driver keeps flashing his headlights or high beams at her, to her increasing panic. When she finally makes it home and gets out of her car, the other vehicle parks right behind her. She runs inside and calls the police, they arrive and attempt to arrest the other driver who had stayed inside his vehicle, keenly watching the place. [[spoiler:However, he then reveals he was only chasing the woman and flashing his lights in an attempt to warn her of a man with a knife hiding in her backseat, who was still there right now. Every time the man stood up while she was driving, he had flashed his lights to make the man duck down again.]]

* ''Literature/ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark'': In "High Beams", a woman is pursued by a truck driver, ''Film/{{Duel}}'' style, who keeps flashing his high beams at her. When she finally makes it home and gets out of the car, she calls the police, they arrive and attempt to arrest the trucker. [[spoiler:However, he then reveals he was only chasing the woman and flashing his high beams in an attempt to warn her of a man with a knife hiding in her backseat, who is then noticed and caught by the cops when he tries to get away using the woman's car.]]

[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* In Wrestling/{{Chikara}}, this happened to Mr. Touchdown, who left the Wrestle Factory, only to get jumped by [[EldritchAbomination Nazmaldun]]-[[DemonicPossession possessed]] UltraMantisBlack. The next time we saw Touchdown, he'd become part of Nazmaldun's [[BrainwashedAndCrazy "HeXed Men"]], which lasted until the end of the season, when the hex was broken.

** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaABlastFromThePast A Blast From the Past]]", a sea monster earlier shown to arrive and roam the island hides in the back of Chef's jeep when he looks for Shawn. The monster does not attack either, because it's actually Amy and she only seeks to harm Samey.

* The Judge Reinhold film ''Film/BabyOnBoard'' subverted this when the lead character, a cabbie, returns to his taxi after getting some coffee only to have a man with a gun pop up from the backseat. The thug demands money, and the cabbie asks to put his coffee down first. As he does, [[GenreSavvy he presses the button that deploys pepper spray from the roof of his car]]. Cue the thug staggering out of the car [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome while the cabbie calmly hands him eye drops and tell him it'll wear off in a few minutes]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=EhkC-xLi5DI This short video.]]

%%* In one ''Series/MrBean'' episode, a Doberman sneaks into Mr. Bean's car.