There are also notable psychological and body horror stories focused on the concept of zippers:
: Typical of these stories, the "ZIP" file acts as a gateway for a digital entity to infect the user's world or game environment. Horror Shorts: "Zip" Silky.zip
In the world of Sonic the Hedgehog fan horror (often referred to as "Sonic.exe" or "Oddities"), a story titled involves characters receiving a mysterious compressed file. Once extracted and booted, the game reveals a twisted, "faker" version of the classic game. There are also notable psychological and body horror
: Often features "Silky" or "Zip" nicknames for spirit hosts or entities. : Often features "Silky" or "Zip" nicknames for
: In the short film Zip , a 16-year-old singer-songwriter named Melody wakes up to find a zipper sewn across her mouth, a haunting metaphor for being silenced.