The Garden of Sinners/Nightmare Fuel



Oh, Nasu, sometimes he can outdo FREAKING Hideaki Anno in terms of sheer messed-up-ness. Overall dark coloring and constant use of silence doesn't help things either. Ghosts that make people commit suicide, human puppet, bizzare carnivorous murderer, and a girl who has a very twisted sense of morality and constantly repressed desire of murder; clearly what you see in a kid friendly series!

"She bends down and touches the blood flowing on the ground; streaks it across her lips. -->The blood drips down and her body trembles in ecstasy. The first lipstick Shiki has ever worn."
 * Any death in general due to really colorful depiction of blood.
 * In the first movie:
 * Shiki investigates a haunted building. For a good chilling half a minute, really creepy music and equally creepy gigglings are heard throughout the building and then the ghost shows up right behind Shiki and.
 * In the second movie
 * while taking a walk, Shiki finds a corpse lying on a massive pool of blood. Her reaction?

": I want to kill you."
 * And some of the details of the murders are really horrifying, especially the one where the corpse got dismembered and the limbs were set around the head to look like a flower.
 * Later, when Mikiya goes to visit Shiki, he stops. The camera focuses on the path for a second, then cue scare chord and blood flowing down the cracks and at the end of the path, stands  in front of a corpse, with possibly one of the most horrifying Dissonant Serenity ever.
 * After Mikiya spies on Shiki's house one last time,  Mikiya runs, keep tripping himself and strains his ankle, with  walking very slowly toward him.


 * In the third movie
 * Asagami Fujino's power itself; it can twist anything clockwise and counterclockwise, and she only used it against human limbs . Special points for a poor chap in the dock: he got his limbs twisted off, one by one and the accompanying sound effect of both screaming and limbs torn off is just so unsettling that I actually had to touch my limbs, just to make sure they were still attached.
 * How about Fujino's inability to feel pain, which
 * In the fourth movie
 * Shiki trying to black out her eyes due to her newfound Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. The sound effect that follows the action also puts this in Squick territory.
 * The fifth movie. Dear GOD the fifth movie.
 * For starters, due to the high amount of blood and gore in this film, some of the fights themselves are nightmare fuel.
 * In the beginning of the movie, Enjou Tomoe has a dream where his mother kills him. Cue to him stabbing his mother repeatedly. The squishy sound is bad enough, then he pulls out her intestine and holds it in his hand, feeling how warm it is. Once you know the context.....
 * Right after that, he runs away from a bunch of thugs. After he gets cornered, a thug tries to sock him. He retaliates by stabbing his eyes, with his bare fingers.
 * When Shiki and Tomoe visit, they are greeted with the pleasant sight of
 * The mere thought of the viewers putting themselves in Tomoe's shoes is scary enough. How would you feel if you
 * How about the scene in the basements of the apartment: and . Seriously, Nasu, did you have the script proof-read by Hideaki Anno or something?
 * The scene where  doesn't make it any less painful to watch knowing that the character performing the deed is an Expy of Alex Delarge from A Clockwork Orange and Willy Wonka.
 * The former character's influence is more prominent, seeing as how he hums Ode to Joy as he's approaching Mikiya.
 * How about his ? He gets  ? The moral of this chapter: You do not, under any circumstance,.
 * Let's just say the fifth movie as a whole is a pure undilluted High Octane Nightmare Fuel.
 * The seventh movie: . The above picture should give you an idea and THAT'S a mild example.
 * That doesn't even begin to do him justice. Just remembering some of the shit he did makes me feel like my soul is being raped.