creepy feeling

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Those representations have surmounted what some call the “uncanny valley” — meaning the fake faces no longer fill viewers with an instinctively creepy feeling because they do not look quite human, West said.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 4, 2019

Maybe the most haunting thing about “Beetlejuice,” the new musical version of the 1988 Tim Burton movie that is having its world premiere at the National Theatre, is the creepy feeling of inspiration run amok.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2018

That gave me a creepy feeling, to say the least.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2017

When I got to where I was going, I said to the person I was visiting: 'What a creepy feeling it is, passing that turnoff', and she said: 'Oh, do you think she's still alive?'

From The Guardian • Jun. 19, 2012

And even if nothing is missing, you get that creepy feeling like somebody’s been looking through your private stuff and dusting everything with lemon furniture polish?

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan