Scenes of a monster floating outside a window.

June 20, 2007 5:28 PM

I'm looking for instances (either from movies or tv) of vampires or any other undead-type monsters menacingly floating outside someone's window. I'd like to see clips or pictures of such a scene if you got em. Also, if you have any examples from books, video games or anything else, I'll take those too.

I can recall a couple of examples of this - 1) The Simpsons Halloween episode where vampire Milhouse and a bunch of other characters are floating outside Bart's window. I think this is a reference to a similar scene in Lost Boys but I can't be sure. 2) There was a scene like this in Creepshow. (btw, if anyone has a screencap of that, I'd like to see it) Thanks!

posted by puke & cry to Media & Arts (27 answers total)

I think there was a scene or two in Salem's Lot of just such a thing.
posted by TheGoldenOne at 5:30 PM on June 20, 2007

There's a scene in the Buffy episode "Hush" when the Gentlemen (really creepy monster guys) suddenly float past a window and your HEART LEAPS OUT OF YOUR BODY FROM FRIGHT.
posted by web-goddess at 5:33 PM on June 20, 2007

In the Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror IV, the vampire segment, Bart floats outside Lisa's window. SNPP says it's a nod to Salem's Lot.
posted by Xelf at 5:36 PM on June 20, 2007 [1 favorite]

(woops, I should read the [more inside] shouldn't I? :P)
posted by Xelf at 5:38 PM on June 20, 2007

Response by poster: Well, that's welcome since I seem to have completely misremembered everything about that.
posted by puke & cry at 5:39 PM on June 20, 2007

Not exactly what you're looking for but pretty damn close: Bat hovers outside window turns into vampire in the Bela Lugosi Dracula.

And the Salem's Lot scene has become iconic because it was pretty freakin scary, especially for a TV movie.
posted by jeremias at 5:51 PM on June 20, 2007

Lost Boys
posted by poppo at 5:53 PM on June 20, 2007

This question made me immediately think of this Far Side cartoon.
posted by cog_nate at 5:56 PM on June 20, 2007 [1 favorite]

In the Wizard of Oz the wicked witch flies by Dorothy's window when the house is inside the tornado,
posted by extrabox at 6:08 PM on June 20, 2007

Wasn't there a scene in the original Buffy movie (starring Kristy Swanson and Luke Perry!) where the newly-vampirified Paul Reubens was floating outside Luke Perry's window? (Unfortunately unlike "Hush" nothing like your heart leaping out of your body happens.)
posted by harkin banks at 6:11 PM on June 20, 2007

It's not Paul Reubens, harkin, it's Luke Perry's buddy. Reubens does get the greatest death scene in film history in that flick, though.
posted by waxbanks at 6:15 PM on June 20, 2007

I heart Hush.
posted by greta simone at 6:37 PM on June 20, 2007

I think there's a scene in "The First Power" where a possessed homeless person levitates in front of a window.
posted by PFL at 7:15 PM on June 20, 2007

Herk Harvey appears outside the window of a moving car in Carnival of Souls.
posted by futility closet at 7:16 PM on June 20, 2007

Those freakin' Burger King ads with the dude from V for Vendetta floating outside the woman's window are pretty damn monstrous if you ask me.
posted by bink at 7:43 PM on June 20, 2007

There is a scene in Lady in White where a ghost or something floats outside a child's bedroom window and it scared the shit out of me when I was younger.
posted by Falconetti at 8:22 PM on June 20, 2007

In Black & Blue Magic, which is a children's book by Zilpha Keatley Snyder... this boy is given magical wings. He lives in a boarding house and one of the boarders is chasing after the man he wants his mother to marry, so he puts on a Halloween mask and flies outside her window at night to try and scare her into moving. But when she comes to the window she's wearing a beauty mask type deal, and scares him even more then he scares her. Then when she runs into the hallway screaming that she saw a monster outside her window, everyone thinks she's just seen her own reflection.
posted by anaelith at 8:26 PM on June 20, 2007

There's a creepy scene in Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury, in which the Dust Witch comes floating in a hot air balloon to mark the boys' houses. I can't recall if this scene made it into the movie.
posted by Squeak Attack at 8:31 PM on June 20, 2007

Danny Glick: [vampirized Danny is at Mark's window] Open the window. Open the window, Mark. Open the window, Mark. Please! Let me in! It's OK, Mark, I'm your friend. *He* commands it!

IMDB LINK
posted by CoinOp at 8:54 PM on June 20, 2007

Thank you all for the frightening screencaps.

Off to bed shaking in the fetal position--Good night!
posted by themadjuggler at 8:58 PM on June 20, 2007

Dario Argento's SUSPIRA has an effective shot of a witch outside a ballerina's window at the beginning of the opening set piece/murder. This film is probably the best horror film ever made about witches...

What's shocking is that the ballerina looks out the window into pitch blackness, and a pair of demonic eyes suddenly appear outside the window.

The eyes are pretty creepy, but you should see the film to get the full effect

Hope this helps...
posted by cinemafiend at 9:14 PM on June 20, 2007

If you're interested in a different sort of window, there's an odd, menacing thing outside an airplane's window in "Terror at 20,000 Feet", which was a Twilight Zone episode featuring William Shatner as the terrified passenger that no one else on the plane would believe, probably because of the passenger's stilted acting.

Here's a photo from the ep showing the monster in the window.
posted by pandaharma at 11:08 PM on June 20, 2007

Response by poster: That was a good episode, but I prefer John Lithgow's performance in Twilight Zone: The Movie.
posted by puke & cry at 12:09 AM on June 21, 2007

In this season's Doctor Who episode The Shakespeare Code, a witch character does some hovering, both inside the Globe Theater and outside a window. You can see glimpses in the episode trailer on that page. Of course, this being Doctor Who, she isn't undead -- just from another dimension. The usual.
posted by dhartung at 2:00 AM on June 21, 2007

Does the tree tapping on the window in Poltergeist count for anything? Because I found that terrifying as a kid.
posted by Sticherbeast at 10:31 AM on June 21, 2007

Two similar movie scenes which might qualify:

1. The Green Goblin in the first Spiderman movie, blows out Aunt May's bedroom wall with a bomb and hovers over her on his glider

2. William Shatner gets a disturbing visitor in The Twilight Zone's "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" when a gremlin appears outside his window...
posted by UnclePlayground at 12:47 PM on June 21, 2007

wow... i TOTALLY did not see pandaharma and puke's contributions. sorry about the duplicate...
posted by UnclePlayground at 12:49 PM on June 21, 2007