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10 Terrifying Doors You Really Don’t Want to Open

by Geekosystem Staff | 12:51 pm, January 17th, 2012

Static objects are fairly good at being ominous: A humanoid figure too far off in the distance to have any discernible features, or a lone gun sitting on a dresser. They’re ominous because of the details the imagination fills in. Why is that humanoid just standing around all the way over there? Why do you have that gun sitting on the dresser in plain sight? For the details the imagination fills in, a door provides the biggest lack thereof, and thus provides a stomping ground for the most twisted, evil machinations your imagination can conjure. On top of that, they could be the portal to something even more terrifying and sinister than you could’ve thought, and after the break, we whipped up a list of the ten most terrifying doors in geekdom that are better left closed.

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The Being John Malkovich Door (1 of 11)
The Being John Malkovich Door

The tiny door resides on an already half-sized floor of an office building. Hidden behind a filing cabinet and a boarded-up and painted-over hole in the wall, the door opens to a passageway that is not only filled with unidentified muck, but shoots you to the end once you've crawled about halfway in. On top of that, the passage happens to lead to inside the head of John Malkovich, providing you with a view through his eyes. Compounded with the fact that the Malkovich bloodline allows a certain cult to live forever by way of living inside people of said bloodline, this door couldn't be any creepier. Except that after a certain amount of time, it drops you off on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike. Out of thin air.

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  • https://twitter.com/#!/haversam [A]

    Good list. The “view all” link is greatly appreciated (every site should do this)

    Also, there’s a small typo: #2 Coraline’s Door

  • http://www.facebook.com/gdavies1981 Gareth Davies

    No mention of any of the doors in Cube?

  • http://morwenedhelwen.wordpress.com/ Morwen Edhelwen

    No mention of the chalk door in Pan’s Labyrinth?

  • chip

    How about Carol Anne’s closet door in Poltergeist?

  • Jelainek

    I thought for sure Pan’s Labyrinth would make this list!

  • nunya

    You use a crappy regular door from Resident Evil and neglect the Mansion door? c’monnnn

  • Randallcu

    Where’s the Door to Snookie’s room, from Jersey Shore???

  • Peter

    What is that angel movie? D=
    Never heard about it
    Can someone talk about it?

  • MEM

    Where’s the Apple Store door?

  • Meredith Allison @RockTique

    I was just going to write that as I’m watching Poltergeist as I’m reading this!

  • guest

    evil dead

  • Tommy

    What about the red door in Insidious?

  • SACKCHASER

    ROOM 237 IN THE SHINING?? IDIOTS.

  • HOTBAGS

    1408?

  • http://halebobb.com/Debate.htm The Federal Farmer

    No mention of my “backdoor?”

  • Anouk

    You forgot “every door from Dead Space/Dead Space 2″.

  • Qdsf

    GIMME THE REFERENCES FOR THAT ANGEL MOVIE NAO !!!! Or I’ll break your internet !

  • Midnight Yaya

    How about any door in the paranormal activity ?

  • Chiller

    You maybe don’t know the mexican film “La Puerta y La Mujer del Carnicero” (The Door and The Butcher’s Wife), formed of two stories, the first one (The Door) is the most terrifying door I’ve ever seen in a movie.

  • Bill

    what about the door that leads to the penn state shower’s?

  • MEM

    But, what about a door from [Name of this horror movie I've seen]!!1

    Are you looking? I’m part of the internet!

  • M.

    RIGHT!!!!! Cube was one of the craziest scary movies I have ever seen. So good.

  • Jessica

    yea pan’s labyrinth would i have the movie its soo creeepy mostlythe thing chasing her and the pile of kid shoes.

  • Jessica

    it said dont want to go in i bet u wanna go inn there lmao.


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