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Lynn Hershman Leeson’s wig-in-a-box that periodically giggles through a hidden speaker creepily drives home the notion that women were expected to perform as always-happy and put-together.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

But in Erin Lee Carr’s Hulu whodunnit documentary, "Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara," their fans' closeness began creepily bordering on something else.

From Salon • Oct. 18, 2024

After Ernst arranges the meeting with Disney, Marks pencils in a toothbrush mustache and transforms himself into a creepily avuncular version of the character, whose Midwestern niceness becomes menacing when his business interests are threatened.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2024

The Daily Mail's Christopher Stevens gave the series five stars, and wrote: "Andrew Scott forces us to question our moral choices in this creepily compelling homage to Alfred Hitchcock."

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2024

We followed him and Lidewij inside, past a huge oak dining room table with only two chairs, into a creepily sterile living room.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green