In the Walter Koenig/Bruce Campbell vehicle Moontrap, wormsign on the moon marks the approach of the Kelium, ancient, burrowing robots with probing tentacles intent on cutting humans to pieces and using them for spare parts.Freddy's worm-form pulls this off in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.He doesn't walk, and He's between the rows, not behind them. ![]() He Who Walks Behind the Rows in Children of the Corn (1984).The Driller in Transformers: Dark of the Moon.In The Frighteners the Big Bad evil ghost does this to various surfaces (wallpapers, rugs) in a haunted house.The MUTOs make their presence know with an EMP field they emit, causing all electronic devices to fail within their radius.Taken Up to Eleven when the act of landfall is preceded by a tsunami. Godzilla creates a massive swell in the water as he swims, with his dorsal spines protruding from the top.Godzilla (1998) does this when Godzilla arrives from the ocean.You don't see the floorboards move till it's too late, you just hear the beeping of the motion detectors. They do this because, like vampires, they are vulnerable to the sun. The titular creatures attack from under the earth, and then drag their prey down into it. As the protagonists are fleeing inside the store, a line of planks start flying into the air as a graboid goes beneath them.When Valentine and Earl are fleeing a graboid in the desert, a line of posts fall down as the graboid passes under them. ![]() The Graboids in Tremors give these as they tunnel.Towards the end of John Carpenter's The Thing (1982), the thing races underground towards McReady, splitting floorboards as it goes.As they approach the surface, they cause soil liquefaction. Dune (2021): Sands worms can be spotted at the distance with all the sand that's moved as they approach.Presumably, the motion of the giant creature (and more importantly tons of sand) ionizes the air. For an added effect, we also see lightning-like effects. Dune (1984): (the Trope Namer being the book on which it is based) A Sand Worm makes the pretty distinct wormsign shape underground.note If any level of physics at all is implied, the first suggests that the stable ground was dense enough to need to be pushed out of the way, while the second suggests that it was compressed or liquefied into a material phase that couldn't support its own weight after the burrower passed. Sometimes the effect will be the ground bulging up as if something has been forced through it, while other times it will be subsidence, as if the monster has actually consumed the earth, undermining the ground above it. It can be used as a legitimate tension-building device to hint a monster the audience hasn't seen yet (or hasn't seen much of) or as a way for lower-budget films to get the monster in without actually spending money on the generally more expensive effects shot. It's not always played for scares though sometimes it's just a convenient visual shorthand for indicating where something moving underground - such as Mole Men, or a Drill Tank - happens to be. ![]() What you do see is the floorboards splitting as it pushes through the ground underneath them towards the camera, or just dust being kicked up if it's outside. He also seems easy to provoke and hates to be cheated or swindled.The Monster is coming for you, but you can't see it. He has also proven to be stubborn, refusing to listen to Eustace and Muriel that Eustass was actually the son of the man who tricked him, despite them constantly explaining. The Sand Whale seems to be a bit naïve, as he stated that Ickett Bagge cheated him in a card game and mistaking Eustace for his father, due to his heavy resemblance to him. He is capable of standing on his tail and can play the accordion quite well for a whale. The Sand Whale is primarily olive green with bags under his eyes, probably tired from his years of searching. The whale devours Ma for revenge and takes his accordion to the concert of sand whales. Ma tries to capture the whale with a net but Courage prevents this by cutting it with scissors. Desperate, Courage visits Eustace's mother who decides to hunt the whale. After that, Courage tries to return his accordion and free Eustace and Muriel. Believing that it is a hoax, the whale destroys much of the house and then devours Eustace and Muriel. Eustace denies having the accordion and says it is his mother who has it. Once the Sand Whale arrives at the Bagge's farmhouse, he confuses Eustace for Ickett due to the immense likeness they have.
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