History Main / VertigoEffect

* There's one on Ralph Fiennes inside the "soundproof" booth in ''Quiz Show'', at a particularly anxious moment.

* Night of the Creeps: When Detective Cameron tells the sorority girl to lock the doors.

* Michael Jackson's moment of transformation in the ''Music/{{Thriller}}'' video.

The effect can actually be repeated in real life. If one stands in a tunnel with the horizon in view and walks forward, the horizon will appear to move further away while the tunnel shrinks closer. This is due to mathematical concept of parallaxing.

* ''Film/THeIncredibleHulk'': Two vertigo effects right after another appear showing Ross and Blonsky's reactions when Banner turns into the Hulk on the college campus.

* The opening shot of Jean-Pierre Melville's ''Film/LeSamourai'' is a VertigoEffect shot of a man lying down on his bed, smoking. Unlike most examples, however, the shot is jerky and uneven, representing the man's loneliness and mental instability.

* A notable version of this happens in the movie ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}'' during the ghost's assault on the family at the end of the film. The mother gets thrown out of the house at one point and then battles her way back in to save her children. As she's running down the hallway to the children's bedroom, a VertigoEffect begins which soon turns into a full-blown special effect in which the hallway itself starts becoming stretched and distorted. The more the mother runs, the longer the hallway becomes and the further away she gets from her children's bedroom door. She eventually catches up to it by running at full speed.

* Used in a ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode. Aliens are affecting the crews' sleep, preventing them from getting real rest. At one point Captain Picard sees the turbolift ceiling experience the VertigoEffect, showing how his perceptions are being affected.

** Used interestingly in a cutscene from a fan-made level: the camera enters a large room, then uses the VertigoEffect before it begins to pan around, giving the impression that the room has doubled in size.

* A notable version of this happens in the movie ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}'' during the ghost's assault on the family at the end of the film. The mother gets thrown out of the house at one point and then battles her way back in to save her children. As she's running down the hallway to the children's bedroom, a VertigoEffect begins which soon turns into a full-blown special effect in which the hallway itself starts becoming stretched and distorted. The more the mother runs, the longer the hallway becomes and the further away she gets from her children's bedroom door. She eventually catches up to it by running at full speed.

* Used in the Bollywood movie Bollywood/{{Rangeela}} ("Bollywood Dreams") -- possibly as a nod to Spielberg, whom the in-movie director character admires.

* Used in an episode of ''Series/{{Casualty}}'' many years ago when Brenda Fricker's character realises that she has told a girl's parents that she has survived an explosion when, in fact, there has been a mixup and she is actually dead.

* A huge, hilarious version is used to comic effect in ''Film/TheMask''.

* It is used in ''Series/TheWitcher'' before Ciri enters Brokilon Forest.

Compare WhooshingCredits. Contrast RampingShot, a simpler quick zoom-in from wide shot to closeup.

** It also accompanies the BulletTime effect (except when zoomed into a scope, for obvious reasons). In ''Mass Effect 2'', this was mostly power-driven, but it occurs at several plot-mandated moments of ''Mass Effect 3'', such as [[spoiler: the final round of the BossBattle on Rannoch, where the Reaper leeeeeans in and stares Shepard down, and it turns into a quickdraw contest between Shep's markerlight and the Reaper's FrickinLaserBeam]].

Goes by many names, including optical compression, tracking zoom, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_zoom dolly zoom]], Hitchcock zoom, contra-zoom, trombone shot, and push-pull zoom.

* This effect is used to zoom in on Roman's horrified face when he and Niko get kidnapped in ''Grand Theft Auto IV''.

* ''Film/{{Jaws}}'', when Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) reacts on the beach to the Kitner boy being attacked by the shark.

* ''Disney/TheLionKing'', when Simba sees the wildebeest stampede charging right at him.
* In ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'' there is a dolly zoom on Mother Gothel after Eugene [[spoiler:cuts Rapunzel's magic hair with a mirror fragment, which leads to Gothel's death]].

** In the segment "Hungry are the Damned" from the first "Treehouse of Horror", this kind of shot is used when Lisa first sees the flying saucer.

* Used by Creator/PeterJackson in both ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings: The Fellowship of the Ring'' (when Frodo senses the arrival of the Black Rider in the Shire) and ''The Return of the King'' (Frodo's first look into Shelob's lair).