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Ominous Music Box Tune
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For added atmosphere, play the music from one of thesetracks while reading on. A music box tune that sounds a bit off. It may have an overly cheery or depressing sound to it or the tune just seems to be completely out of place. Either way, the effect is just creepy, and there is something not quite right about it. Something not quite right at all. Shows up in horror movies and TV shows occasionally. Due to real dolls often having music boxes, this trope is often paired with the Creepy Doll. Compare Rousing Lullaby, a lullaby that is not meant to be relaxing, along with Ironic Nursery Tune, Creepy Circus Music, and Creepy Children Singing, where creepy songs and nursery rhymes are played in the background to add tension and fear to a scene. Similar to the Uncanny Valley, in that the tiny bit that's "off" is what makes it feel very wrong. For Doom the Bell Tolls and Xylophones for Walking Bones are about similar instruments used for creepiness, but aren't necessarily associated with lullabies. For a tune which has the general sound of a music box but isn't actually played on one, see Music Box Intervals. Contrast Nostalgic Music Box, which is meant to be sad instead of scary. |
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One Aladdin: The Series episode featured Mirage, the incarnation of evil, using a magical music box that put the entire city under a sleep charm. The tune is quite nice, but also creepy at the same time. | |
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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow feature a level inside a music box, with eerie music inside it. | |
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From the official soundtrack of Puella Magi Madoka Magica we have "Conturbatio", Sayaka's first Leitmotif. | |
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The Five Nights at Freddy's series have quite a few, not surprising, since the games mainly take place at children's restaurants. Freddy Fazbear's Leitmotif in Five Nights at Freddy's is a creepy music-box version of "Les Toreadors" from Carmen. Players WILL come to dread that sound. In Five Nights at Freddy's 2, the player must keep winding a music box that plays "Grandfather's Clock" in order to keep an animatronic Puppet from moving from its place. Forget to wind it and you'll learn to dread "Pop Goes to Weasel" in a hurry... Five Nights at Freddy's 3 has music box renditions for Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" and Schubert's "Ständchen/Serenade" for the Golden Freddy and Shadow Bonnie minigames. The bad ending and Happiest Day minigame meanwhile, feature a rendition of one of Brahms' Sixteen Waltzes. Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location has Ballora's theme tune, Crumbling Dreams, though it veers more into Nostalgic Music Box. Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach has gift boxes which require you to wind them to open them, playing a tune. While nothing bad happens, it can sound out of place in a setting where everything (but Freddy) is out to get you. |
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Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location has Ballora's theme tune, Crumbling Dreams, though it veers more into Nostalgic Music Box. | |
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In Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, there are some jack-in-the-boxes in the Haunted Towers' Rumpus Room that play a music box version of the "Library Piano" music before popping out and doing an Evil Laugh. | |
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The Disgaea games have a "music box" version of Dark Whisper, which plays on the title screen. If nothing else, it's a lot more serene than most of the music one normally hears in the games. | |
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Vampire Knight: Maria Kurenai's theme. One could also count the music box version of "Still Doll" (the ending song)as well. |
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TinkerQuarry: The True Final Boss's Battle Theme Music is a distorted music box arrangement of "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy". | |
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In The Conjuring the eerie tune is provided in-universe by a circus themed music box. | |
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As if there wasn't enough horror motifs in the 1999 remake of The Haunting (it already had Creepy Circus Music), there was also a music box tune which Eleanor was humming almost from the beginning of the movie (suggesting even then that she was already being drawn to the house). She later finds the actual music box in the nursery of Hill House. If it isn't too blasphemous to consider, one might wonder if this is meant to be the tune for the song "Carpe Diem" from the Shirley Jackson novel. note Actually a poem that William Shakespeare wrote for Twelfth Night. | |
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The Taking has Molly's collection of music boxes, which play of their own accord when the Leviathan passes overhead. Nothing seems to be unusual about what the music boxes are playing, but the sound of all of them playing at once is described as discordant and unsettling. | |
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Umineko: When They Cry has a few as well. The ones that stick out most are "worldend solo" and "Wingless." | |
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A lot of the songs from the movie adaptation of Coraline: "Mechanical Lullaby", "Dreaming", the song playing during the end credits, "Exploration", "The Supper", "The Mice Circus" and "Cocobeetles", to name a few. | |
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First Encounter Assault Recon: Alma's music box. | |
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Bloodborne has "A Lullaby for Mergo", which crops up a few times throughout the game: the music box Gascoigne's daughter gives you, the second part of the ending credits, and the fight against Mergo's Wet Nurse. | |
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In Time After Time, Jack the Ripper has a cameo on a chain that contains, along with a mystery woman's photo, a tiny music box as accompaniment to his activities. | |
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) has a scene where Barbra finds a music box and plays it, to this effect. | |
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In Ib, the themes for Ib herself and Mary are both music boxes (Ib's theme is generally accepted as the main theme). Ib's is very solemn, bordering on sad, whereas Mary's feels very playful but lonely. You'll see where that goes. | |
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D.Gray-Man: Road Kamelot's song, which she sings whilst she makes Marshall Yeegar relive his worst memory over and over and over. | |
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The song "Mr. Tinkertrain" by Ozzy Osbourne, which is about a sexual predator who preys on children, opens with a creepy music box tune. | |
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Night of the Living Robot: A slow music box rendition of "Mr. Sandman" is played over the title screen, which is completely dark save for a moonlit window and a jack-o-lantern. | |
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In Earthbound Beginnings, the first of the 8 Melodies is a music box hidden in your sister's formerly possessed naked baby doll. | |
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Community uses it in the flashback sequences in the western-themed episode "A Fistful of Paintballs", as a reference to the flashbacks and music in For a Few Dollars More. | |
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The Red Queen's theme from Resident Evil (2002) was written to sound like a sweet child's waltz. As the movie continues, her theme becomes increasingly dark and menacing as she shows her murderous colors to the group. | |
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Throughout The Innocents, Flora's music box plays the tune O Willow Waly, the lyrics of which are sung by Flora at the very beginning of the film. | |
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The theme song of Dead Friend (aka The Ghost). | |
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Mad Father uses a curious little piece that starts out as one, but introduces more depth to the music as it goes on, until finally stopping at its climax and restarting at the original hollow music box tone. It's used for the title screen, but that's pretty much it. The same track is also used in Ib. | |
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In Lethal Company, the Jester is a walking jack-in-the-box which will eventually wind itself, playing "Pop Goes the Weasel." Once it finishes, its giant skull-face head comes out and it will chase down any worker still inside the Facility and kill them, getting faster as time goes on. | |
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"Return To Innocence Lost" by The Roots uses an eerie music box tune in it's backing music. The effect is meant to be sad rather than scary though; the song is about the child of an abusive drug-addicted father growing up to become an addict himself and eventually dying at a young age from a gunshot wound. | |
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The "Julia" theme from Cowboy Bebop is very reminiscent of a music box up until the penultimate episode where it's sung briefly. It's even shown being played on a music box in an episode. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Crime of Innocence, Rei I, M-4 piano, The passage of emptiness, Jesu: Joy of Man's Desiring (which is played in the DVD menu). | |
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Super Paper Mario uses this trope fantastically for its final boss fight with The Ultimate Show, starting off with a slow music box and having the broken music box sound come back throughout the song. As if fighting Luigi forcibly turned into a Villainous Harlequin Eldritch Abomination wasn't creepy enough! | |
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Lacie from PandoraHearts has shades of this. One is also used in episode 10. | |
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A sample of a music box version of "Rock-A-Bye Baby" is used near the end of the song "Bosnia", by The Cranberries. | |
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In Five Nights at Freddy's 2, the player must keep winding a music box that plays "Grandfather's Clock" in order to keep an animatronic Puppet from moving from its place. Forget to wind it and you'll learn to dread "Pop Goes to Weasel" in a hurry... | |
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Five Nights at Freddy's 3 has music box renditions for Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" and Schubert's "Ständchen/Serenade" for the Golden Freddy and Shadow Bonnie minigames. The bad ending and Happiest Day minigame meanwhile, feature a rendition of one of Brahms' Sixteen Waltzes. | |
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"Clockwork Melody" and "Clockwork Sorrow" from the fifth Homestuck album are versions of the "Endless Climb" song played that come across as this. "Clockwork Contrivance," too, to a much lesser extent. Rose gets one with a mournful violin right after she goes grimdark. |
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In Don't Starve, a pair of shadowy hands will reach towards your campfire at night and snuff it out if your Sanity Meter is too low. Said hands are accompanied by spooky music box music. | |
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The theme from Candyman is this. | |
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One Missed Call has this as a cell phone ring tone and a teddy bear that plays it. | |
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Given the eerie nature of the series, a few of the songs Higurashi: When They Cry are like this: Kikai, Henka, Hayashi, Giwaku, Hyoui, Tatari, the main theme (not the opening song), etc. The main theme is accompanied by a very distinctive, creepy, subdued sort of wailing, but it may takes one or two times through the series before you notice it's actually Hanyuu's Verbal Tic, with the morbid creepiness turned up. No, seriously. | |
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A extremely creepy one plays from just off screen in the film Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker. Even more disturbing considering what the Joker did to Tim, and that he has created a perverse "family" out of himself, Tim, and Harley... | |
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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence has an entire sequence set inside a very creepy Mind Screw mansion, all accompanied by the world's biggest music box ("The Doll House" versions 1 and 2). The score composer Kenji Kawai said in an interview that he wanted it to sound like you were inside said music box — and he most certainly succeeded. In the Making Of extras on the DVD, it's shown how they did it: they had a company specializing in music boxes make them a huge one to play the tune, and then took it into some empty mine shaft to record it. Sure, they could have just electronically added the echo, but it just wouldn't have been authentic enough. | |
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Jack Off Jill uses one of these at the beginning of the song "Choke." | |
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The announcement of the Cell Games in Dragon Ball Z Abridged is finished off with an incredibly creepy remix of Cell's theme from the Bruce Faulconer soundtrack. Made even more chilling by the fact that it's used to accompany the following line: | |
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Harry Potter has Hedwig's Theme. Even though it is never heard from a music box, the instrumentation is heavily reminiscent of one. | |
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The music box in the hotel lobby in Silent Hill 2. | |
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Avenged Sevenfold's "Nightmare" | |
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In the Big Finish Doctor Who Cross Through The Worlds of Doctor Who, The Constant is a music box that plays "Ding-Dong-Dell". In the first story it's a beloved possession of Mind Control villain Mr Rees, and disconcerts Jago and Litefoot so much they suspect it's the source of his powers. They're wrong; it's the only thing he has of his late mother's, and also reminds him of mind-controlling cats (and his father) to jump in a well. In the subsequent stories following his "death", it's become a Soul Jar. | |
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In Silent Hill: Promise Vanessa finds a music box on the roof of the hotel that plays a tune she recognizes. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender has this for background music at times. Used more prominently (and creepily) in "The Puppetmaster." A music box played in the background when Katara showed everyone the picture of "Baby Zuko," but it trailed off when Zuko revealed who it really was. |
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In Storm Hawks, when Cyclonis is looking at an old picture of herself, a Nostalgic Music Box is playing, but it shifts to an ominous tune as the camera pans to her sinister-looking grandmother, who is also in the photo. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess all have this kind of tune: the theme for the Stone Tower Temple, Song of Healing, Twilight Hyrule, etc. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask has a music box in Ikana Canyon, which is used to ward off Gibdoes from a scientist's house when the waterwheel turns. The sound of the strangely cheery sound is strongly contrasted with the drab, dead-looking location filled with undead creatures. The tune eerily fits perfectly when played over a similar piece from the Big Boo's Haunt level of Super Mario 64, another music box-style tune, creating one multi-layered Ominous Music Box Tune. |
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Arrogation: Unlight of Day have the first (of many) Jump Scare moments from the game, a musical box in an abandoned house suddenly playing music - before broadcasting an ominous message telling you you're cursed. | |
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There was a tune like this in the Are You Afraid of the Dark? episode "The Tale of the Dark Music" when the Creepy Doll shows up. There were a more tunes like these in other episodes as well. | |
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Davey Jones' music box in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. It was supposed to be romantic — because of Davy Jones and Calypso/Tia Dalma, but the effect was kind of ruined when they did that crazy-evil organ arrangement while the fish-pirates were scrubbing the deck. This is also an instance of the planet wide cinematic regulation which says that wistful music-box melodies must slow and eventually stop just before the final note. |
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Valkyrie Profile has "Behave Irrationally" which plays whenever someone dies. Naturally, you'll hear it quite often throughout the game. | |
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In The Flash (2014), James Jesse/Trickster I's leitmotif is an eerie music box version of his theme from the '90s series. | |
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The first few notes of "Do You Know Where Christmas Trees are Grown" (a cheerful song that played in the background earlier) can be heard in a tense scene after 007 is locked in a cable car machine room in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. | |
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Fable II has the music from the music box from the beginning playing during the breakdown of the "Perfect World" part of the game, including the music becoming more and more disjointed as you run away from the bright, shiny place. | |
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Delain's "Frozen" begins with one of these. | |
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Suito Kusanagi in The Sky Crawlers has a large stationary music box in her office, that plays the movie's theme tune. It's probably a Shout-Out to the director's previous work, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, mentioned above. | |
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Rise of Nightmares for Xbox 360 Kinect features a hand-cranked musical lock that plays an appropriately creepy tune. Just don't crank too fast or slow...just don't. | |
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One of Amy Rose's levels in Sonic Adventure has her evade Eggman's robots in a theme park. A creepy music-box tune will play when she ducks into the hall of mirrors in a funhouse. | |
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Heard in Good Burger during the appearance of Heather the Psychopath (portrayed by Linda Cardellini). | |
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Taskmaster has sinister-sounding hurdy-gurdy music that links in between the games. Slightly discordant and rather unsettling. | |
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In Donkey Kong 64, the tune that plays in Frantic Factory opens with a singularly creepy music-box segment, complete with "winding up," and it returns several times throughout the tune. | |
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The music heard in Yoshi's Island DS before boss rooms. | |
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The theme from Lavender Town in the original Pokémon Red and Blue definitely feels... wrong in some intangible manner. Partly due to the chip-tune sounds used, because the same song with different instruments in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen doesn't capture the same sensation. | |
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In Pokémon Black and White, the BGM for N's Room is this. Whether it's more creepy or sad is up for debate. Pokémon Black and White 2 uses a very creepy version where the music box is now broken, thanks to the destruction of the castle. | |
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The final notes of the Dollhouse Instrumental Theme Tune sound like a music box in minor key. Appropriate, given the title. | |
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The remix of the Luigi's Mansion theme in Super Smash Bros. Brawl features an Ominous Music Box at the beginning, before the Ominous Pipe Organ comes in. | |
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"Dolls Of Doom" in The 7th Guest, fitting with the scene that reveals dolls which have the souls of children inside of them. It loses its luster in its sequel, The 11th Hour, though, due to being played as the intro, ending, and every single time you access the Gamebook. | |
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In Scratches there is a music box in the attic whose melody starts off rather prettily but quickly turns creepy. The soundtrack also does this with "R's Theme" in the nursery. And again, near the end of the game when you examine a teddy bear in a hidden part of the basement. | |
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In Chapter 2 of Deltarune, when confronting Noelle in the hospital during the epilogue of a Weird Route playthrough, the interaction is underscored by a song referred to in the game's files as "flashback_exerpt.ogg", a minor-key music box arpeggio atop a skeletal version of Noelle's leitmotif and a droning synth string version of "THE HOLY". | |
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Alexia and Alfred's music box in Resident Evil – Code: Veronica. | |
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Pokémon: In Pokémon Black and White, the BGM for N's Room is this. Whether it's more creepy or sad is up for debate. Pokémon Black and White 2 uses a very creepy version where the music box is now broken, thanks to the destruction of the castle. N's regular overworld Leitmotif comes off as this as well. Subverted in the sequels, where his theme tune begins the same but quickly transitions into something much more upbeat, reflecting the Character Development he underwent in the last games. The theme from Lavender Town in the original Pokémon Red and Blue definitely feels... wrong in some intangible manner. Partly due to the chip-tune sounds used, because the same song with different instruments in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen doesn't capture the same sensation. |
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"The Colour Of The Sky" by Pale Saints, an already scary spoken-word track in and of itself, closes with one of these. | |
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The song that plays in the opening ballroom scene of the Disney movie The Haunted Mansion (2003). The music box in the movie also has a similar tune. | |
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OFF: Not Safe, the track for the Bleak Levels. Fitting, as the enemies are demonic spirits that look like baby dolls. | |
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Hetalia: Axis Powers: Whenever England is either trying magic or talking to his supernatural (and invisible to everyone else) friends, one of these is used. One is used at the beginning of Russia's character song "Winter." One is also used in the anime during Russia and Lithuania's first meeting. Russia's theme from the World Series soundtrack, Vodka on a Snowy Night, uses this too. |
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Radical Dreamers has a music-box reprise of "Day of Summer" after each scenario's end credits. It also features a key scene of the main scenario. | |
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Final Fantasy: In Final Fantasy V, the Music Box song isn't terribly creepy, but the scene that goes with it makes it somewhat depressingly creepy. [1] Here is HC Bailly's moment; the music box starts at 4:25 Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles has a song called Mag Mell, which is the theme of a location filled with sleeping Carbuncles that you can only get to after getting past the unknown element Miasma Stream. |
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Barbarella: When Barbarella is being attacked by the Creepy Dolls, the BGM is a slowed down music box version of the movie's eponymous song. | |
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Charlie Clouser - Dead Silence, main theme. | |
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In the Otome game Hatoful Boyfriend, Iwamane Shuu is the extremely creepy doctor. He also kills you in two routes, and is responsible for your death in another. And a student, whom he boils and sends to you. His theme is Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies. | |
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"Bewildered in other eyes" by The Caretaker absolutely fits here. Considering the original sample (a song, called, ironically, "The Prettiest Little Song of All") is one of the oldest on an album about dementia, this might be the music box tune with the darkest implications on this entire list. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess all have this kind of tune: the theme for the Stone Tower Temple, Song of Healing, Twilight Hyrule, etc. | |
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Throughout Reality (2012), this is a main theme in Alexandre Desplat's soundtrack. | |
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D.N.Angel: Occurs at the end of episode 20 when Mio Hio worriedly watches as Daisuke tries to put his key shaped pendant through Riku's heart shaped pendant so that they'll be bonded forever. Also occurs in episode 26 as Dark and Krad are fighting. | |
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The tune in The Untouchables (1987), first heard as Elliot helps a woman struggling with her Baby Carriage up the stairs. The second time we hear it is at the end of the bloody shootout immediately afterward. | |
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The main theme from Ju On: The Grudge. | |
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Korn's song "Dead Bodies Everywhere" opens with this. | |
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The above Pirates of the Caribbean example seems like an homage to For a Few Dollars More, where El Indio (sexy weed-smoking Mexican baddie) is addicted to a musical pocket watch, which plays Morricone music, and he uses it every time he has a duel, or just kills someone. For the duels, he and his opponent draw when the music ends. As the flashback sequence in throughout the movie keeps extending, showing us more and more of what happened on that rainy night, you realize just how creepy this is, since El Indio got it from a woman whose husband he killed and whom he then raped, driving her to shoot herself. One of the two heroes has a matching version because it turns out the woman was his sister. |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Heard during Patrick's Break the Cutie moment in the episode "Nature Pants": "If I can't have you as a friend, I'm gonna make you a trophy!" Also, this song. |
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Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach has gift boxes which require you to wind them to open them, playing a tune. While nothing bad happens, it can sound out of place in a setting where everything (but Freddy) is out to get you. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask has a music box in Ikana Canyon, which is used to ward off Gibdoes from a scientist's house when the waterwheel turns. The sound of the strangely cheery sound is strongly contrasted with the drab, dead-looking location filled with undead creatures. The tune eerily fits perfectly when played over a similar piece from the Big Boo's Haunt level of Super Mario 64, another music box-style tune, creating one multi-layered Ominous Music Box Tune. | |
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In Kaijudo, whenever Razorkinder Puppet is summoned, one of these plays. | |
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Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles has a song called Mag Mell, which is the theme of a location filled with sleeping Carbuncles that you can only get to after getting past the unknown element Miasma Stream. | |
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The arrangement of "Mother" in the movie Pink Floyd The Wall. | |
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In Final Fantasy V, the Music Box song isn't terribly creepy, but the scene that goes with it makes it somewhat depressingly creepy. [1] Here is HC Bailly's moment; the music box starts at 4:25 | |
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Used in Doctor Who in "Silence in the Library" as the theme for the library and the alternate world, doubling the WTF factor and giving the episode Moffat's trademark 'dark fairytale' overtone. | |
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Before you reach a miniboss in Super Mario Galaxy, a music box version of the Super Mario Bros. Underground theme will start to play. | |
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The title theme to Rob Dyke's YouTube series, "Seriously Strange", sounds like it's being played on a music box, just enough off-key to match the bizarre topics discussed in each episode. | |
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Used in CSI as the Leitmotif of the Miniature Killer, being played initially when the Killer's signature (miniature replicas of future crime scenes of the murders commited by her) was shown, later when the Killer herself appeared on-screen. | |
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Song of Horror: The plot revolves around a music box that plays a song intimately tied to an Eldritch Abomination called "the Presence". Anyone that hears it becomes a target to be spirited away by the Presence, and locations where it has been played become haunted by its manifestations, even decades afterwards. The whole plot centers around finding out about the music box, where it came from, and ultimately, how to get rid of it. | |
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Criminal Minds makes use of the very haunting "Illabye" to great effect on two separate episodes. | |
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Lordi's "Blood Red Sandman" starts with one. | |
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In Quest for Glory IV, the music box in the old man's house plays a rather mournful tune and almost certainly belonged to the man's dead wife, who you later meet as a ghost in the forest. | |
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Just about the entire soundtrack of American McGee's Alice comes off as this. | |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: When the Baudelaire children (now orphans) were brought to the ashes of their home by Mr. Poe, a creepy music box plays. Bonus points to the filmmakers for having the music be played on a visible music box jutting out of the rubble, presumably one of Violet's projects. | |
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Subverted by Umphrey's Mcgee in the intro of 'Mantis'. Once the music box intro is complete, a goofily triumphant guitar-and-drum riff abruptly comes in and sets the tone for the rest of the piece. The music box tune is subtly called back six or seven minutes later. | |
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Doki Doki Literature Club! has a very unsettling rendition of "Okay, Everyone" that plays during Sayori's Suicide. The melody alternates between a tinny, broken music box and a synthesized One-Woman Wail, to emphasize the surreal nature of the scene. | |
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Used very effectively in the pre-credits scene of Torchwood: Children of Earth Day One. | |
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Luigi's Mansion: In the first game, all of the music associated with Chauncey is played on a music box. This includes the music that plays when you unlock the door to his room, the music in the said room, the music when you are talking to him, and his battle music. The remix of the Luigi's Mansion theme in Super Smash Bros. Brawl features an Ominous Music Box at the beginning, before the Ominous Pipe Organ comes in. In Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, there are some jack-in-the-boxes in the Haunted Towers' Rumpus Room that play a music box version of the "Library Piano" music before popping out and doing an Evil Laugh. |
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Power Rangers RPM features a haunting tune whenever Dillon (Ranger Series Black) has a flashback of his past prior to the series beginning. The dark lighting in those flashbacks don't help, either. | |
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Meteos gives us the theme music for Jeljel. | |
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In Teen Wolf, season 1 episode 10, Co Captain, near the end, the background music of "Lose Your Soul" by Dead Man's Bones ft. the Silverlake Conservatory of Music Children's Choir is heard as various characters interact, all in a creepy, chilling way. The music's sinister tones fits the scenes well. | |
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"Baby Bowser's Lullaby" in Yoshi's Story. | |
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Shinigami Death Punch: The ending theme of Shinigami Death Punch! features lyrics set to a very ominous music box tune. | |
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Elfen Lied: Neji, Lilium, and especially Yureai. In fact, there's even a physical music box as part of the plot. | |
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Mystic Messenger has a very creepy music box theme that plays during eerie moments or bad endings. | |
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Averted in Ashita no Nadja, where the music box's Waltz Number 5 melody is actually a cheerful and sweet song. | |
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Planetarian opens with its Robot Girl lead cheerfully greeting planetarium customers, over a music-box arrangement of the hymn "What A Friend We Have In Jesus" note In case you're wondering what the connection is, in Japan the tune is better known as "World of Stars"... and then, we cut immediately to After the End. | |
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The church music box in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. Alexia and Alfred's music box in Resident Evil – Code: Veronica. |
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The killer in the Babylon 5 episode "No Compromises" uses one. | |
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One can be heard at the beginning and ending of episode 11 of Ghost Stories. | |
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In Hollow Knight, a distorted tune of this nature plays whenever your Shadenote a ghost that appears wherever you are after you died, which you must defeat to reclaim your money and repair your soul reserve is nearby. | |
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In The Phantom of the Opera, the music box with the monkey on top plays "Masquerade." | |
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"Spieluhr" by Rammstein. The title actually means Music Box. | |
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In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Survivors", Deanna Troi, The Empath of the crew, happens to hear a music box playing during the Away Team's investigation of an elderly couple's home after a mysterious attack on their colony. Her empathic nature briefly brings her into contact with something very powerful that doesn't want to be discovered - the result is that the music box melody starts playing in her mind over and over again, louder and louder, until even a medically induced coma can't block it out. | |
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