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-->'''Bill Pullman''': "Is that glass bullet-proof?"\\

*** "Is that glass Bullet Proof?"
*** "No Sir!"
*** *cue the dakka*

* ''TheFog'' (1980). Zombies break through stained glass windows in a church to attack the protagonists.

* ''{{Dreamscape}}''. While Alex and the boy Buddy are in the house, the snake man breaks in through a window and attacks Buddy.

* ''ResidentEvil'', and {{Capcom}} horror games in general have things breaking in from windows.

* ''ShaunOfTheDead''. Most notably when [[spoiler:David]] foolishly stands with his back right against a window, and (predictably, [[AssholeVictim considering his recent actions]]) the zombies break through and pull him out to eat him.

* In the original ''ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'', [[spoiler: the last scare of the movie as Freddy snags the heroine's mother through the front door window.]]

* The very last scare of ''FridayThe13thPart2'' was Jason busting through the window in slow motion in a hallucination the FinalGirl had.

* In the original ''ANightmareOnElmStreet'', [[spoiler: the last scare of the movie as Freddy snags the heroine's mother through the front door window.]]
* The ''Film/FridayThe13th'' movie series '''loves''' this.
** The very last scare of ''Part 2'' was Jason busting through the window in slow motion in a hallucination the FinalGirl had.

* The Rail Tracer from ''{{Baccano}}'' kills several mooks by pulling them out the windows of the train.

* ''ShaunOfTheDead''. Most notably when [[spoiler:David]] foolishly stands with his back right against a window, and (predictably, [[AssholeVictim considering his recent actions]]) the zombies break through and pull him out to eat him.

* The ''Film/{{Friday The 13th}}'' movie series '''loves''' this.

* Subverted in ''IndependenceDay'': the monster smashes into the window but it doesn't break.

* In the ''Series/{{Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}'' episode where they throw a coming-home party for Buffy, they end up getting attacked by various monsters (of course), many of whom attack through the windows.

* In ''InTheMouthOfMadness'', a lunatic crashes through a cafe window with an axe in an attempt to kill Sam Neill's character.

* In ''Recap/TintinTheSevenCrystalBalls'', two of the members of the Sanders-Hardiman expedition fall victim to crystal balls hurled through their windows. Professor Cantonneau is attacked this way just as Tintin tries to warn him not to go near the window. Dr. Midge is then placed under police guard, but the police in question are Thompson and Thomson, and they try to guard everything but the window.

* In ''TheDescent'', Sarah gets impaled in the head by a steel beam crashing through the window. But don't worry, it was AllJustADream.
* The killer in ''ToolboxMurders'' gets to do this.
* ''{{Feast}}''

* In ''[[{{Tintin}} The Seven Crystal Balls]]'', two of the members of the Sanders-Hardiman expedition fall victim to crystal balls hurled through their windows. Professor Cantonneau is attacked this way just as Tintin tries to warn him not to go near the window. Dr. Midge is then placed under police guard, but the police in question are Thompson and Thomson, and they try to guard everything but the window.

* ''[[FourteenOhEight 1408]]'' has way too much fun with this trope.

* Lampshaded in ''{heMist''; everyone is inside a supermarket, and once they realize that there actually ''is'' something God-awfully horrible out there, someone points out that the entire front side of the building is a row of windows. The next few minutes consists of the hold-outs piling up everything they can to block the windows off, with only a relatively small bit of the tops exposed.

* Lampshaded in ''{{TheMist}}''; everyone is inside a supermarket, and once they realize that there actually ''is'' something God-awfully horrible out there, someone points out that the entire front side of the building is a row of windows. The next few minutes consists of the hold-outs piling up everything they can to block the windows off, with only a relatively small bit of the tops exposed.

* In the ''{{Buffy}}'' episode where they throw a coming-home party for Buffy, they end up getting attacked by various monsters (of course), many of whom attack through the windows.

* An early PennyArcade strip features the line "'Survival Horror' is a fancy way of saying 'Monsters will come through windows'."

* The ''{{Friday The 13th}}'' movie series '''loves''' this.

!!Examples

* ''ShaunOfTheDead''

* ''Dreamscape''. While Alex and the boy Buddy are in the house, the snake man breaks in through a window and attacks Buddy.

Compare SuperWindowJump and WindowPain, in which windows are used for for improvised entrances, deliveries and exits, rather than monsters using them.

* In the ''{{Buffy}}'' episode where they throw a coming-home party for Buffy they end up getting attacked by various monsters (of course), many of whom attack through the windows.

* Subverted in ''IndependenceDay'', the monster smashes into the window but it doesn't break.

* The ''FridayThe13th'' movie series '''loves''' this.
** The very last scare of Part 2 was Jason busting through the window in slow motion in a hallucination the FinalGirl had.