History Main / PeekABooCorpse

* ''Film/CityWarriors'': After the prologue, a policeman near Victoria Harbor accidentally fell into the waters and had to be dragged out because he caught his leg on something - that something being a decomposing body inside a net, which belong to a woman who attempts fleeing a local HumanTrafficking ring without success.

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* A [[TheFunInFuneral comedic variation]] in "Sitting up with the Dead" by Music/RayStevens: Family and friends are at a wake for a dead uncle (in the middle of a dark and stormy night, of course), when the uncle's severe arthritis overcomes the restraints that were holding him down in the casket, to the great surprise of everyone present.
--> That lightning flashed and that thunder clapped, and that chain 'round old Uncle Fred went "snap", rattled and fell to the floor with a thump, and Uncle Fred just sat right up! [[ScreamingWoman *Ahh!*]]

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* Used in Creator/GlenCook's Literature/GarrettPI novel ''Sweet Silver Blues'', when a dried-up corpse falls out of a catacomb niche and spooks the heroes. Subverted in that [[spoiler:it fell out because a vampire-spawn was hiding behind the corpse, and had pushed it aside in order to attack!]]

* This mostly seems to happen to the Bursar in Literature/{{Discworld}}, who has found unexpected corpses in his wardrobe (in ''Hogfather'') and lying in his bed wearing a nightcap (implied in ''The Discworld Companion''). Granted, the latter incident was a student prank rather than a crime scene (and the corpse itself was long-dead, embalmed and a well-known feature of the university- possibly a parody of Jeremy Benthem, whose preserved corpse really is on public display- as per his own will- at University College, London).
** Subverted in ''Maskerade'', when a suspicious-looking double bass case is anxiously opened by the opera house's manager, and found to contain the mutilated, broken-necked remains of ... a double bass.
* OlderThanSteam: This happens memorably to Literature/{{Bluebeard}}'s wife in the 1697 FairyTale. Well, he ''did'' [[SchmuckBait tell her not to look]]....

* In ''Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad'', the closet door opens by itself and Albert Edward Robinson Rosepettle III tumbles out in full rigor mortis at the most embarrassing time for Jonathan and Rosalie.
* The one-act BlackComedy ''Busy Bodies'' by Pat Wood is centered around this trope. A couple hire a hitman to kill their wealthy aunt, but he's killed in an accident just before she arrives so they have to hide the corpse in various places, which she keeps discovering (and promptly fainting, giving them an opportunity to move the corpse again).

* ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'': One example occurs on the level 343 Guilty Spark during the cutscene before you first encounter the Flood, complete with a ScareChord in the music.

* ''VideoGame/PoliceQuestIVOpenSeason'' has one of these right at the start. While you're checking out the crime scene, you open a not-too-special looking dumpster and bam, you get a ScareChord and a corpse closeup thrown in your face. Near the end of the game, there's a severed head in the BigBad's refrigerator.

* In ''VideoGame/ClockTower'', Jennifer can find Laura's corpse either in a shower (complete with Scissorman) or in a suit of armor. She can also find a corpse in a cupboard, which can come to life and attack her in the PSX version.
* ''VideoGame/{{Kuon}}'' loves this trope. Bits of half-eaten corpses (or whole zombies if you're lucky) seem to appear everywhere, round corners, in boxes and closets, or sometimes falling out of the air to land right on top of you.
* The disturbing suffocation-based end sequence of ''VideoGame/NancyDrew: Secret of the Scarlet Hand'' employs this trope to frightening effect. [[spoiler:It's not the discovery of the corpse, which is somewhat expected, so much as the fact that Nancy is quite unexpectedly immediately shoved into it.]]
* Happens twice in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', though the first is optional. During the Tanker chapter, opening one of the lockers later on reveals the corpse of a dead crew member which promptly falls in front of Snake. The second time happens during [[ThatOneLevel the flooded Shell 2 Core section]] when Raiden opens the second-to-last door and the corpse of [[spoiler:Peter Stillman]] floats past him, as a nice little CallBack to [[spoiler:his death at the hands of Fatman]].
* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'' is full of ''walking'' dead but Isaac still freaks out when a body falls out of a vent..and lands on him.
* ''VideoGame/{{Doom 3}}'' enjoyed this heavily, having bodies fall out of vents or fly across rooms with no warning, often designed to spook the player and make them waste ammo on a non-threatening body. The most prominent is towards the beginning where after grabbing a PDA, a body on a rope swings from the ceiling in front of the player. In addition to falling out of closets and vent shafts, they are occasionally seen being levitated or otherwise manipulated by the demonic forces.
* In ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'', a player searching through desk cabinets for a quest item may instead have a small stockpile of human skulls spill out.
* In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3'', at one point Samus opens a door on the wrecked and abandoned GFS Valhalla, at which point a the corpse of a deceased soldier is standing on the opposite side to greet her, then immediately crumbles to dust.
* ''VideoGame/MadFather'': When Aya learns the AwfulTruth in the TrueEnding, she backs into a tank covered in a sheet, and accidentally pulls the sheet off, to reveal [[spoiler:her mother's corpse. She already knew her mother was dead, but she sees this literally moments after learning that her father murdered her, rather than passing away from a fit of illness]]. Pretty much all of the JumpScare moments not involving [[spoiler:a certain chainsaw-wielding father]] are this.
* ''VideoGame/HauntingStarringPolterguy'': Poltergeist Polterguy can summon a lot of them in various spots (e.g. the shower), they come with a surprising level of blood.

* ''VideoGame/Road96'': During a sequence where the hitcher is in Jarod's motel room, they need to hide in a wardrobe when a cop knocks on the door. Once in the wardrobe they look to the left and come face-to-face with the corpse of a cop which promptly falls on top of them.

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* ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'': In "Neighbors", while looking around Warren and Faye's trailer, the bears find a bear skeleton inside a closet. It's later explained as actually fake and a reference for Warren and Faye's bear sculptures.

* Creator/TexAvery's MGM short ''WesternAnimation/WhoKilledWho'' has the detective open a random door, only to see the bound and gagged body of a butler fall out...and then another...and then another...[[OverlyLongGag and then another]]...the cascading domino of bodies only stops for a moment for one of the corpses to stop and remark [[LampshadeHanging on how many of them there are]], and the bodies just keep on falling. Another random door in the house contains a genuine ghost, which terrifies the detective so much he physically shrinks. This actually gets a shoutout in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BountyHamster'', with robots in place of corpses.
-->'''Random Corpse:''' Ah yes! Quite a bunch of us, isn't it?

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode "Joyride", the Jokerz conduct an initiation that involves taking the new member to a mineshaft containing a skeleton... which is dressed in the remnants of a purple suit and boutonniere, suggesting that it is the corpse of the original Joker[[note]]which, according to ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' was buried by Batman and Batgirl "deep beneath Arkham".[[/note]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' has one episode where Sonic and Tails open a door to find a skeleton inside. Understandably, the two start screaming.

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* In ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', the hapless Richard Dreyfuss happens upon a particularly nasty example in an underwater wreck. (This one Spielberg reshot specifically to be as much of a JumpScare).
* ''Franchise/JurassicPark'':
** In [[Film/JurassicPark the first film]], Ellie Sattler has just escaped the raptors when she feels Ray Arnold's arm on her shoulder. Nope, just his arm.
** In ''Film/JurassicParkIII'', Amanda Kirby gets hit with the skeletal corpse of Ben Hildebrand, her boyfriend, still attached to the parachute he was parasailing with.
* ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' features a scene at the beginning where Franchise/IndianaJones, rushing to escape a CollapsingLair, runs straight into his traitorous -- and now {{karmic|Death}}ally {{impaled|WithExtremePrejudice}} -- former guide, Satipo, [[TooDumbToLive who forgot about the trap they discovered moments earlier]]. Another scene later when Marion attempts to escape from a crumbling Egyptian tomb only to find herself with mummies with snakes coming out of their faces.
* ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}'' featured, among other things, the mother of the family being assaulted by corpses in the unfinished backyard pool. Later on, the entire family had to escape from a house where corpses in coffins were literally popping themselves up out of the floor and blocking their way. One even tossed itself onto the windshield of their departing car for good measure. And those skeletons were ''real''.
* ''Franchise/FridayThe13th''
** Most movies climax with multiple Peek-A-Boo Corpses, in the form of previous victims, all popping up at once to terrorize the FinalGirl.
** ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVANewBeginning'' goes through the extra effort by having a corpse thrown through a window just scare the next intended victim.
* ''Film/TheRing'' has plenty. If the one in the closet doesn't get you, the one in the chair will.

* [[spoiler:Norman Bates's, ah, mummy]] in ''Film/{{Psycho}}''.
* ''Film/TyrannosClaw'' have the main characters hiding in a cave from some hostile tribespeople, assuming they're safe... until they see a maggot-infested, rotting corpse in a corner. And more bodies in the same area. Turns out they're inside the lair of [[RodentsOfUnusualSize a gigantic prehistoric rodent]].
* ''Film/TheOrphanage'' gives us plenty of warning that [[spoiler: Benigna]] is going to look pretty messed-up after being hit by a bus, so why is this revelation so disturbing?
* ''Film/EvilDead2''. Ever get ''attacked'' by the Peek-A-Boo Corpse?

* One of these very briefly (ahem) pops up in ''Film/TheWickerMan1973'' when Sgt. Howie is searching the mortuary. Then again, what do you expect to find in a coffin? Of far more interest is [[ChekhovsGun the fact that it's only got one hand]].
* That [[BodyHorror hideously mutated]] corpse from ''Film/TheThing1982'' gives us the slow-motion version of this trope when the camera finally focuses on it.
* ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'': The trailer ''Thanksgiving'' parodies this trope, with two kills in a row resulting from a sudden beheading that's suddenly revealed when a character looks up.
* ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'':
** ''Film/{{Halloween 1978}}'' of course did this multiple times where Laurie is exploring a house, she find one body then walks into something which prompts another peek a boo corpse to pop out.
** Done in ''Film/Halloween5TheRevengeOfMichaelMyers'' when the nine-year old main character finds the body of [[spoiler:her adopted sister Rachel]].
** In ''Film/HalloweenResurrection'' a reality TV show is held inside the Myers house, and the TV crew have set up a number of fake peek a boo corpses to scare the contestants. Then real peek a boo corpses start turning up to the disbelief of everybody.
* In ''Film/SuddenDeath'', Darren opens a closet door to find the corpse of a woman hanging on the door, with a bullet in her brain.

* There's a great scene in ''Film/AmericanPsycho'' when Christie is attempting to escape the lethally insane Patrick Bateman and she runs into several corpses all over his apartment.
* [[spoiler:Max Shreck]]'s final appearance ([[spoiler:as a black-charred skeleton after taking a direct tazer shot to the lips]]) in ''Film/BatmanReturns'' may partially qualify, as it is something of a "Gotcha!" moment. (Full credit denied since Batman ''was'' technically looking for [[spoiler:him/his remains]] during the preceding moments.)
* In ''Film/TheGoonies'', Chunk finds a freezer full of ice cream in the basement of the Fratellis' hideout. Gradually the others notice something behind him, or rather someone who happens to be dead and promptly falls on the heroes. "It's a stiff!"
* This happens with a plague victim in ''Film/TheSeventhSeal''.
* In ''Film/GhostShip'', Maureen opens a closet door to find [[spoiler: the hanged, desiccated corpse of Katie, the young ghost girl. Mind, Katie was revealing what had happened on the ship (mass murder in a variety of gruesome and cruel ways)]].
* ''Film/TheMummy1999'':
** In the beginning of the movie, Jonathan Carnahan pulled this trick on his sister, Evelyn.
** Played with when Rick, Evelyn, and Jonathan finally open up the {{s|ealedEvilInACan}}arcophagus, cue the explosion of dust, momentary scare chord, and the corpse snapping out at the trio. Evelyn screams for a second, before sighing, "Oh, I ''hate'' it when they do that!"
* Invoked in-universe in ''National Lampoon's Class Reunion'', where the killer sets a Peek-A Boo Corpse on a rope swinging across the auditorium's stage like a pendulum, thus freaking out the attendees ''en masse''.
* In the "Black Hair" segment of the Japanese horror film ''Kaidan'', the samurai makes an unfortunate discovery after a passionate night with the wife he had abandoned.

* The bug-eyed corpse with the music box in hand, which topples out of the semi in the beginning of ''Film/TheRoadWarrior''.
* ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'': [=McCoy=]'s making his way through the Regula I station when he bumps into a [[CatScare Rat Scare]]. Relieved after the initial shock, he turns around - slap-bang into a corpse, hung upside down.
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* The second victim of the giant octopus in ''Tentacoli'' is discovered when it pops out of the water and scares a guy trying pick up the fishing rod he dropped.

* In ''Theatre/WaitUntilDark'', when the baddies are first searching the apartment, Roat tells Talman to check the closet. He opens it and is startled to find the corpse of the sexy woman who was carrying the doll, in a plastic bag hanging from a hook.

* ''Film/{{Screamers}}''. When trying to sneak into a base that's been overrun by Screamers, someone pulls down an overhead grating as a ladder to the next level, only to have a decaying corpse that was lying on it fall down as well. There aren't any other bodies however as the Screamers salvage them for HumanResources.
* The opening sequence of ''Film/TheTerror'' shows the Baron descending into the crypts, and being startled by a bloody corpse that falls out when he opens a door. The scene is never explained or even referenced again in the movie.
* In the 1959 version of ''Theatre/TheBat'', Dale finds Mark Fleming's body stuffed into the secret closet behind the grandfather clock; his throat slashed.

* In ''Film/TheCatcher'', Terry and Karl are startled when they discover Billy's corpse hanging from the ceiling in the tunnels under the ballpark.

* ''Film/{{Amusement}}'': When Tabitha tries to hide in the shed, she opens a cupboard and the babysitter's body falls on top of her.
* In ''Film/Madhouse1974'', Faye is startled and shrieks in horror when she opens Paul's closet and two bodies fall out.
* ''Film/TheBurning'': When what's left of the raft is discovered, and when Todd stumbles onto Karen's body in the mine.
* ''Film/CherryFalls'': Timmy's corpse in the locker, which falls on top of Jody when she opens it.
* Early in the gritty crime film ''Film/CityWarriors'', the rotting, waterlogged carcass of a DisposableSexWorker is discovered in a bay hidden in a sack, which the police rips open without a single thought before suddenly seeing her maggot-infested skull looking back.
* ''Film/KillerWorkout'': Jaimy gets a JumpScare from a fake arm someone has hidden in her locker as a gag. Just as she is recovering from the this, the locker next to hers falls open and Rachael's corpse tumbles out.
* In ''Film/{{Shrooms}}'', Lisa and Holly have a Catfight that results in the two of them rolling down a hill. Lisa lands in a ditch at the bottom. Looking up, she sees a hand dangling over the edge of the ditch. Thinking it is Holly, she grabs the hand to yank Holly into the ditch with her. Instead, she pulls Bluto's mutilated corpse down on top of her.
* ''Film/BodyBags'': In "The Gas Station", Anne is startled when she runs into the bathroom, yanks open one of the lockers, and [[spoiler:dead Bill]]'s corpse falls out
* ''Film/Aftermath2021'': Kevin comes home and finds a note from Natalie saying she's in the bath. He goes up and sees that it's empty [[spoiler:because Natalie was being held captive in Otto's secret room]]. He sees a lump in their bed and assumes it's Natalie, so he climbs into the bed. He feels her, and pulls back to find blood on his hand. He pulls back the covers, and sees [[spoiler:Dani's corpse]].
* ''Film/CountYorga'': While Micheal is making his way through the lower regions of Yorga's manor, something catches his leg and causes him to trip. When he rights himself, he finds its the body of his friend Paul who had went missing earlier. A look at his body shows he was mutilated for his blood and left for dead.
* ''Film/DraculaHasRisenFromTheGrave'': The film has two instances:
** At the beginning, an alter boy is getting ready to clean the local church and ring the bell when he notices blood dripping from above when he pulls the rope. The local priest soon arrives just in time to hear the alter boy screaming and fleeing down the stairs, unable to tell him what he saw. The priest goes to investigate and finds blood dripping out a section of the bell. Looking further, he's startled when a shoe suddenly drops from the bell, causing him to stumble into next to the bell's rope and pull on it. Causing the body of a woman to suddenly hang down from it, with two noticeable fresh bite marks on her neck.
** Another one the same priest, now under Dracula spell, find Dracula resting in his coffin. He goes to put the lid on it, only for the body of a local barmaid, Zena, to roll over, partially vamped but dead.
* ''Film/{{Faceless}}'': After the nurse discovers Barbara locked up in the hidden cell, she attempts to flee but then stumbles across Melissa's decaying and maggot-infested head inside the cupboard in Gordon's workroom.
* ''Film/CemeteryGates'': Having fallen into the tunnels underneath the cemetery, Matt freaks out when one of the corpses drops out of its coffin and lands on top of him.
* ''Film/TheManWhoTurnedToStone'':
* ''Film/AQuietPlacePartII''. Regan enters a train carriage full of desiccated corpses and forces open the door to the driver's compartment to get a first aid box. The door won't open completely as there is something jammed behind it, so Regan stretches out her hand and grabs the box...and screams as a corpse that was presumably blocking the door falls out onto her hand. Unfortunately, her scream draws a real monster to her.
* ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''. Grant parks a car outside the Soviet embassy and drives off in another waiting car. Puzzled, the embassy doorman goes to look at the abandoned car, opens the passenger door and the corpse of a BoundAndGagged Soviet agent falls out. It's meant as a deliberate provocation to get KGB and British intelligence fighting each other.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "The Blunder Years" revolves around Homer having a repressed memory of discovering the corpse of Waylon Smithers' father when he was a teenager.

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* When preparing a funhouse in Nu-Pike Amusement Park in Long Beach California for an episode of ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'', a worker was moving a "hanged man" prop when its arm came off--revealing that it was an actual human corpse--that of 19th century criminal [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_McCurdy Elmer McCurdy]], to be exact. Nobody claimed his body when he died, and through a convoluted series of events, his embalmed corpse became a prop for various attractions for decades, to the point where people eventually forgot about the body's origins. When [=McCurdy=] was finally buried, cement was poured on the grave to keep the body from being stolen.

* When preparing a funhouse in Nu-Pike Amusement Park in Long Beach California for an episode of ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'', a worker was moving a "hanged man" prop when its arm came off--revealing that it was an actual human corpse--that of 19th century criminal Elmer [=McCurdy=], to be exact. When the body was buried, cement was poured on the grave to keep the body from being stolen.

* An episode of the detective series ''Series/SimonAndSimon'' featured a scene where the GirlOfTheWeek opened a closet in a nice, clean, unassuming house to find herself staring at a decaying, socket-eyed female corpse. Since the stench of decomposition would probably have been fairly noticeable, one might wonder why the woman wasn't more cautious about opening the door. (Yes... one ''might'' wonder... if one hadn't been so traumatized by the scene that they ducked under their bed and started to cry like this then-9-year-old editor did... Damn you, ''Simon & Simon''...)

* Creator/StevenSpielberg:
** In ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', the hapless Richard Dreyfuss happens upon a particularly nasty example in an underwater wreck. (This one Spielberg reshot specifically to be as much of a JumpScare).
** In ''Film/JurassicPark'', Ellie Sattler has just escaped the raptors when she feels an arm on her shoulder. Nope, just his arm.
** ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' features a scene at the beginning where Franchise/IndianaJones, rushing to escape a CollapsingLair, runs straight into his traitorous -- and now {{karmic|Death}}ally {{impaled|WithExtremePrejudice}} -- former guide, Satipo, [[TooDumbToLive who forgot about the trap they discovered moments earlier]]. Another scene later when Marion attempts to escape from a crumbling Egyptian tomb only to find herself with mummies with snakes coming out of their faces.
** ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}'' featured, among other things, the mother of the family being assaulted by corpses in the unfinished backyard pool. Later on, the entire family had to escape from a house where corpses in coffins were literally popping themselves up out of the floor and blocking their way. One even tossed itself onto the windshield of their departing car for good measure. And those skeletons were ''real''.

* In the Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme vehicle ''Film/SuddenDeath'', JCVD opens a closet door to find the corpse of a woman hanging on the door, with a bullet in her brain.

* There's a great scene in ''Film/AmericanPsycho'' when a young woman is attempting to escape the lethally insane Patrick Bateman and she runs into several corpses all over his apartment.

* In ''Film/GhostShip'', the heroine opens a closet door to find [[spoiler: the hanged, desiccated corpse of Katie, the young ghost girl. Mind, Katie was revealing what had happened on the ship (mass murder in a variety of gruesome and cruel ways)]].

** In the beginning of the movie, the Heroine's brother pulled this trick on her.
** Played with when the three protagonists finally open up the {{s|ealedEvilInACan}}arcophagus, cue the explosion of dust, momentary scare chord, and the corpse snapping out at the trio. The Heroine screams for a second, before sighing, "Oh, I ''hate'' it when they do that!"

** In the episode "Ted", Xander opens a closet to find...[[VisualPun skeletons]]. The audience doesn't see the bodies, though.
** There was also the extreme dead guy in Aura's locker from the first episode.

* ''Film/AQuietPlacePartII''. Regan enters a train carriage full of desiccated corpses and forces open the door to the driver's compartment to get a first aid box. The door won't open completely as they're something behind it, so Regan stretches out her hand and grabs it...and screams as a corpse that was presumably blocking the door falls out onto her hand. Unfortunately, her scream draws a real monster to her.

* Happens twice in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'', though the first is optional. During the Tanker chapter, opening one of the lockers later on reveals the corpse of a dead crew member which promptly falls in front of Snake. The second time happens during [[ThatOneLevel the flooded Shell 2 Core section]] when Raiden opens the second-to-last door and the corpse of [[spoiler:Peter Stillman]] floats past him, as a nice little CallBack to [[spoiler:his death at the hands of Fatman]].

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** The very first thing you see in the Ravenholm segment is a faraway corpse hanging from what looks like a gallows. As you get closer to the body, you gradually realize that it's ''only the lower half of the corpse''--a bloody, jean-clad pelvis and pair of legs hanging from a hook, with the upper body nowhere to be seen.
** [[FanFic/HalfLifeFullLifeConsequences THE PANTS WERE DEAD]]

* The game ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest: Open Season'' has one of these right at the start. While you're checking out the crime scene, you open a not-too-special looking dumpster and bam, you get a ScareChord and a corpse closeup thrown in your face.
** Near the end of the game, there's a severed head in the BigBad's refrigerator.

* ''VideoGame/MadFather'': When Aya learns the AwfulTruth in the TrueEnding, she backs into a tank covered in a sheet, and accidentally pulls the sheet off, to reveal [[spoiler:her mother's corpse. She already knew her mother was dead, but she sees this literally moments after learning that her father murdered her, rather than passing away from a fit of illness]].
** Pretty much all of the JumpScare moments not involving [[spoiler:a certain chainsaw-wielding father]] are this.

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** The ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunny'' cartoon "Hot Cross Bunny" has Bugs attempting to hide from his pursuer inside a closet. Unfortunately, he opens the door and backs into it without seeing there's literally a skeleton in that closet. Seconds later, Bugs emerges, white from head to toe, and spouting insane gibberish (an entirely ''reasonable'' reaction to have, under the circumstances...)

* ''Webcomic/TotalUndeadDrama'': Sky goes into the Fuller Manor looking for Staci, she gets creeped out by the atmosphere and makes to leave, only to bump against a cabinet as she does so which suddenly open and Staci's body spilling from it to Sky's horror. On investigation, Sky finds [[VampireHickey two pinprick marks on her neck]] indicating a vampire got her, though Sky doesn't know that at the time.

''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' has one episode where Sonic and Tails open a door to find a skeleton inside. Understandably, the two start screaming.

** At the beginning, an alter boy is getting ready to clean the local church and ring the bell when he notices blood dripping from above when he pulls the rope. The local priest soon arrives just in time to hear the alter boy screaming and fleeing down the stair, unable to tell him what he saw. The priest goes to investigate and finds blood dripping out a section of the bell. Looking further, the body of a woman suddenly drops down from it, with two noticeable bite marks on her neck.
** Another one has a preist under Dracula spell find Dracula in his coffin. He goes to put the lid on it, only for the body of a local barmaid, Zena, to roll over, partially vamped but dead.

** Iin ''Film/HalloweenResurrection'' a reality TV show is held inside the Myers house, and the TV crew have set up a number of fake peek a boo corpses to scare the contestants. Then real peek a boo corpses start turning up to the disbelief of everybody.