BlazBlue/Nightmare Fuel

"Wait...did this nightmare fuel used to be...HUMAN...?!"

—Ragna, during his encounter with Arakune in Calamity Trigger Reloaded

BlazBlue has a disproportionate number of scary moments.

From Calamity Trigger, Ragna and Nu fusing together and forming the Black Beast. Her childish giggling does not help at all.
Depending on how you interpret Ragna's Badass Creed, his Astral finish kills his opponent utterly.
What Relius did to his daughter and wife.
Makoto's Bad Ending very likely takes the biscuit. A few key words: Relius, Ignis, physical restraint, destroyed innocence, agonised screams, desperate pleading, rape metaphors, soul extraction. Picture here.
We finally get to see exactly how Ragna lost his arm, and it is not pretty. Seeing a young Ragna, his arm cut off, surrounded by a ring of fire as a Yukianesa-possessed Jin looms over him, all while Terumi's silhouette watches with twisted amusement is beyond freaky. Picture here.
In Carl's Bad Ending, he confronts Hazama, who beats him and props Carl up where he is helpless, then begins slowly tearing Nirvana apart. Carl desperately pleads for him to stop, but he continues and breaks her into pieces. Hazama then grabs Carl by the collar, sickly grinning and delivering a brutal Hannibal Lecture to him, before finally throwing him against a wall and killing him. The whole scene is both awesome and terrifying. Picture here.
Ragna's Bad Ending is a definite example. Ragna's Azure backfires from overuse and turns him into a new Black Beast. He can do nothing as he ravages across what's left of the world and destroys it. The chilling screams of the people he devours do not help.
Arakune. Just... Arakune. Everything about him.
- Also, the Black Beast.

From Video Games/Nightmare Fuel:

Many of the Bad Endings of the BlazBlue games are like this - mental crashes, abuse and unwilling transformations are pretty much the norm - but Makoto's bad ending takes the cake for one of the worst. After losing her way, she runs headlong into Relius and puts up a brave front, but ultimately winds up restrained by Ignis. The stage is now set for what may yet be one of Relius' harshest crossings of the Moral Event Horizon. He proceeds to filter through her mind and soul like sweeping through a library, ignoring her fondest memories and dredging out her most miserable moments. Relius has always been obsessed with souls, but that sick desire of his is taken to unprecedented levels when he comes across a soul he describes as "focused, yet pointing in multiple directions" - something capable of "leaping through time and space so adroitly". By the time he gets to the animal instincts at her core and is prepared to topple and rebuild her soul anew, the sheer force of trauma has left her completely paralyzed. Makoto can literally do nothing as Relius destroys her very being and uses her lifeless body for his own purposes. Only scale differentiates this from the aforementioned Demon Path - a sheer grotesquerie of human nature written all too well.
- There's a particularly chilling portion of this ending where all we hear is Makoto sobbing, pleading with Relius to stop, and a few times mentions what he's doing is hurting her, while he ingnores this and says he will go on. What makes that even worse is that their character portraits aren't shown at this time, amplifying the effect of us hearing a rape in progress.
Even the Help me Professor Kokonoe segment is chilling due to Makoto still begging for mercy even after she's entered Kokonoe's lab.
Want more? Use his Astral Heat (Puppeteer's Altar). The opponent is trapped in one of Relius' labs and restrained in some way. If you'll notice, the walls are smeared with the blood of past subjects...who are hanging above on swinging crosses, the shadows of which can be seen. Relius then nonchalantly alludes to what he's going to do to him/her and the doors slam. All you can hear over the announcer is the death cry of the victim. For even more horror, some of the "experiments" are particularly gruesome. While Hazama is dying of boredom ("Not like I don't deserve a hundred times worse...") and Tsubaki's appears humane (despite her facing the wrong way due to blindness, and more about Relius being savvy enough that Tsubaki's utter loyalty assures that she's not going to rebel), those swords for Platinum's are going into her barrel, Bang's knees are pressed under stone blocks with more on the way, Arakune is being boiled alive, and before you even think to laugh at the hamster ball, read the spoiler block above to know exactly where that's going. Yeah, he's that kinda person.
What about Ragna's Bad Ending, where he unwittingly transforms into the Black Beast, and can do nothing as he ravages across the world, complete with the horrifying screams of the people he devours?
Some say that nightmares can begin with a sense of safeness. In that very case, the combination of Litchi and Arakune's Bad Ends count. We were lured into a sense of happiness and heartwarming that we saw Arakune still has enough heart and care about Litchi's welfare, trying his best to remove her from his curse, and she is able to live on her life normally without any memory of him... in which we later learn that the corruption within Litchi is similar to Alzheimer's disease. Without a cure, it will continue to rot her until she dies, and all Arakune took was memories of him, and without his memory, Litchi becomes unmotivated to find the cure and blissfully unaware of it, awaiting the day she withers and die with her memories being jumbled here and there, or at worst, become the next Arakune and then start eating everyone nearby until someone kills her. Can she just join NOL so she can have a shot in surviving and have a Heel Realization to make amends instead? Please??

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