The nightmarish "hands emerging from the corridor walls
" imagery seemingly entered the public consciousness.
Film
- The closet Mirror Scare has been used in An American Werewolf in London (link) and Freddy vs. Jason (link).
- Day of the Dead (1985) homages Repulsion with a Jump Scare shot of zombie hands breaking through a wall to grab the lead actress.
- Edgar Wright has stated that Repulsion was a major inspiration for Last Night in Soho, and he directly references the hands, belonging to the ghosts of Sadie's abusers crashing through the walls and floor of the bedroom to grab the protagonist during the climax, Ellie and Sandy's white mac, and both Sandie and Ellie's... repulsion with men.
Live-Action TV
- Community has the Halloween Episode "Paranormal Parentage", where hands and a face emerge from a wall.
Music
Videogames
- In A Plague Tale: Innocence, Amicia is having a Nightmare Sequence in which arms are reaching out for her in a tunnel.
- The Town of Light has a sequence where arms are reaching out to the protagonist in a corridor of an asylum. Watch it here.
- Detroit: Become Human has this scene in an android junkyard with android arms reaching out to Markus as he tries to find a way out.
- Little Nightmares II features a corridor in the Hospital which the arms of mannequin Patients burst through to grab at the player character.
Web Original
- This video, which was briefly featured on Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files
