God of War (series)/Nightmare Fuel


 * You'd think that running around as pretty much gaming's ultimate badass, who stumbles upon CMOA's with every step, and hacked his way out of hell three times, would excuse one from this. You'd be dead wrong. Ares decides to mindrape Kratos by having him fall to the same church where he slaughtered his family....with them still alive in it, and pale(r) copies of Kratos emerging from holes in the ground to do them in. Fighting against these true monsters as they seem to spawn endlessly, your family screaming in terror, the numbers overwhelming you as the church begins to break apart in the void.....until the end, when after you have defended them to your last, your chains are ripped from your body, and used to kill them anyway.
 * The hydra's roar in the first game. Jesus Christ.
 * Clotho - the Fate who spins the threads of life - from God Of War II is creepy. For one thing, her lair is dark and ominous, as opposed to the rest of the Temple of the Fates, which is bright and majestic. Plus, her lair is strewn about with threads in a way that is reminiscent of cobwebs. As for Clotho herself, she's so massive she even makes Jabba the Hutt look like Calista Flockheart, and her skin is a sickly dark gray and zombie-like. To top it all off, she has multiple breasts and spindly little arms sticking out of her body. And last but not least, there's that little speech she makes when you first see her: "It is through my threads that all life is born. You must not tamper with destiny, Kratos. You will destroy everything!" Kratos may not be afraid of anything, but we're not so lucky.
 * Hell, let's talk about the first God Of War - in order to proceed, Kratos must "escort" a trapped, live, innocent soldier to a room, where he is sacrificed (i.e. crushed between spiked plates) to open a door, which is bad enough, in and of itself.
 * Squashed? You must have got the censored version. We yanks got to burn him alive.
 * Kratos himself. That this single petulant, Psychopathic Manchild is willing to essentially destroy reality itself purely in a fit of pique is bad enough. The cruelties he inflicts on innocents and monsters alike are the stuff of nightmares. That you have to play him is worse.
 * Ghost Of Sparta give us Scylla: Let's see: a giant part-shark part-squid part-narwhal part-crab monster which lurks in the water and has a penchant for sneak attacks and will chase Kratos even in an active volcano to kill him. The part where you fall into the water and the first thing you see is this giant monster rushing towards you with gaping maws open is quite scary.
 * Hades. Both the character in GOW 3 and the place itself in the first game: navigate through platforms made of flesh, bones and blood...