History Main / OminousKnocking

** The knocking occurs again when Shirley and Theo are older. Shirley hears knocking at the door and assumes it's trick-or-treaters. She leaves a bowl of candy outside and shuts the door. It happens again, and she runs onto the porch to yell at whoever is there. Instead, she sees Theo, who is confused. They enter the house again and an argument ensues, then the knocking begins again. They hear loud knocking all around the house, just like what they experienced as children in the Hill House.

* ''Series/TheHaunting ofHillHouse'':

* ''Series/TheHauntingofHillHouse'':

** As children one night, Shirley and Theo experience loud knocking on the walls surrounding them. They cower in fear on the bed until their Dad comes in.

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* In one of the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' books, the main character acquires a magic typewriter and starts RewritingReality. Setting the scene for a horror story, he writes that [[ItWasADarkAndStormyNight there's a storm]], so it starts storming. When he writes that there's an ominous knock on the door, the same thing occurs... but nobody's there. He didn't write that anything in particular was behind the door, after all.

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* ''Film/MayIPleaseEnter'': The Cowboy bangs on the door of the house he wishes to enter, and the moment lasts just long enough to become unsettling; despite that the audience is aware of who's at the door, they aren't aware of who is on the other side, or what the Cowboy actually wants to do inside the house.

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* What the titular villain does in ''VideoGame/DarkFall: The Journal''. It would knock on someone's door and whisper their name, which many of the Dowerton Hotel's guests fell victim to answering, [[spoiler: as well as your brother, Pete Crowhurst, which is what drove you to visit the hotel in the first place]]. To drive it home, sometimes the Dark Fall will randomly knock on a door while you're looking around or reading notes ''about the very same events''.

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* ''WebVideo/GeminiHomeEntertainment'': In "Camp Information Video", someone knocks on the cabin's door... and we're told not to answer it. [[spoiler:We're later shown a montage of camp staff who did -- and they're now [[PuppeteerParasite "Vessels"]].]]

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* In ''WebOriginal/TheSunVanished'': This happens several times:

* In the opening scene of ''Film/{{Sputnik}}, the two cosmonauts hear ''[[NothingIsScarier something]]'' crawling across the hull of their spacecraft to the entry hatch...

* In the opening scene of ''Film/{{Sputnik}}, the two cosmonauts hear ''[[NothingIsScarier something]]'' crawling across the hull of their spacecraft to the entry hatch before we CutToAnotherScene.

* ''Series/TheNightGallery'''s PilotEpisode. In the first segment "The Cemetary", two men are frightened to death when they believe a corpse has risen from the grave, walked to the house they're in and knocked on the front door. The first time it's a trick. The second time it's real.

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* In ''[[http://mielofon.ru/tvor/proza/proza/las01.htm Alice (The Non-Return)]]'', an ''Literature/AliceGirlFromTheFuture'' fanfic, the characters hear someone knocking on the door (while everyone else who lives in the apartment has keys and there's a doorbell anyway) and grow increasingly unsettled and scared. One of them suggests calling the police, but another points out that "Help! Someone knocked on our door!" won't be taken seriously. [[spoiler:It turns out it's their good friend Alice, but with news of a catastrophe and a horrible murder]].
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* In ''Animation/WhenTheNewYearTreesLightUp'', the forest animals' celebration is interrupted by loud and insistent knocking, and the animals jump to the conclusion it's the wolf out to get them. [[spoiler:It turns out to be a hare who was late because she found two lost toy animals in the woods]].
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* In ''Series/Warehouse13'', A message was sent to Warehouse 13 saying "Knock Knock" before the lights went out and suddenly the door knocks. A new character has appeared: It's [[spoiler:Claudia Donovan]]
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* In ''WebAnimation/{{Chadam}}'', we are first introduced to the titular character sitting alone in his house, when the sudden knocking at his door puts him into a state of dread and paranoia, which in turn makes the audience also feel tension at who is behind his door. MoodWhiplash occurs when it turns out to just be the young daughter of his friend, come to give him a picture she drew.
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** In another case, a video was uploaded of the protagonist answering the door; though the video was completely dark, the constant knocking was heard, following by the person at the door claiming the sun came back. In a following tweet, it was claimed that this person began to start banging again... on the window, with their ''head.''
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MoodWhiplash follows if the person on the other side is innocent and trustworthy; more horror and mystery will ensue if it's discovered that there's ''nobody'' at the door. In most cases, though, the person at the door will be someone dangerous and untrustworthy, or at the very least, unwelcome.

* In one of the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' books, the main character acquires a magic typewriter and starts RewritingReality. Setting the scene for a horror story, he writes that [[ItWasADarkAndStormyNight there's a storm]], so it starts storming. When he writes that there's an ominous knock on the door, the same thing occurs... but nobody's there. He didn't write that anybody in particular was behind the door, after all.

* In one of the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' books, the main character acquires a magic typewriter and starts RewritingReality. Setting the scene for a horror story, he writes that there's a storm, so it starts storming. When he writes that there's an ominous knock on the door, the same thing occurs... but nobody's there. He didn't write that anybody in particular was behind the door, after all.

->''"The last man on Earth sat alone a room. There was a knock on the door."''

->''"The last man on Earth sat alone a room. There was a knock on the door."''\\

* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E9Hide Hide]]", sinister knocking sounds are cited as one of the signs that Caliburn House is haunted. The knocking turns out to come from the Doctor himself as he tries to navigate the house within a parallel universe that is displaced in time.

* Happens several times in ''Literature/HowlsMovingCastle'' – justified, since after Sophie is scared half to death by a living scarecrow at the door, she gets alarmed every time someone knocks in fear of seeing the scarecrow again. Then the Witch starts an open war with the castle's inhabitants, and Sophie and Michael often get frightened ''she'' might start knocking on the door. [[spoiler:All the knocking-related alarms turn out to be false]].