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* Most ''[[Castlevania]]'' games hold a "Chapel" level. ''[[Castlevania: Circle of the Moon|Circle of the Moon]]'' had one with a giant lamb's head that spews poison, fireballs and flying skulls, while Curse of Darkness has an extra-boss living inside a mass of corpses, hidden in the church, in a room full of bodies that make the walls. (Scares and [[Womb Level]], anyone?)

* ''[[Aquaria (video game)|Aquaria]]'' has the [[That One Level|Mithalas Cathedral]] which takes this [[Up to Eleven]] [[Hailfire Peaks|and combines it with]] [[Womb Level]]: it's got [[Cthulhu Mythos|Shoggoth-like]] monsters, [[Meat Moss]] everywhere (plus tentacles), [[Sand Worm|worm enemies]] coming out of the walls, mutants that look too much like Naija for comfort, and you have to {{spoiler|fight the [[That One Boss|Mithalan God]] turned [[Eldritch Abomination]]}} at the end. Do not play this level if you are planning to get any sleep that night.

 

* The "Antares" stage in ''[[Tekken]] 5'' is a dimly-lit, mostly red colored cathedral. The same stage reappears in ''[[Gaiden Game|Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection]]'', although the creepiness is gone; it's well-lit, [[Snow Means Death|snow pours in through a hole in the ceiling]], and [[Crowning Music of Awesome|the music is miles ahead of its predecessor.]]

 

* In the FPS video game ''[[Painkiller]]'', one of the early stages is exactly like this. You fight your way through a graveyard full of revenants and confront the Big Baddie inside the cathedral. Something about the place isn't quite right... maybe it's the dismembered corpses suspended by chains from the ceiling?

 

* The Chaos Sanctuary in ''[[Diablo]] II'' looks like a cathedral. The problem is, it's in hell and it doubles as Diablo's home. When all five seals are opened, the place glows red.

 

* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' players tend to favor these as [[Self-Imposed Challenge|megaprojects]], after [[Evil Tower of Ominousness|Evil Towers Of Ominousness]] of course. They usually to revolve around [[Human Sacrifice|offerings of blood for the blood god]], Armok.

 

* The Hulle Granz Cathedral from the ''[[.hack GU Games|.hack//G.U.]]'' games. Might not have the whole dungeon thing going, but makes up for it with sheer imposing ominousness, as well as being the home to more than a couple plot twists and epic battles through the series.

* The cathedral in ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'' has the whole "totally not evil" shtick going on, even though the residents couldn't be [[Paper-Thin Disguise|more obviously evil]].

* The main feature of the Undead Parish in ''[[Dark Souls]]''. With plenty of tough Undead, some very troublesome unique foes, its bell tower is also home to the first Bell Of Awakening.

 

* ''[[Thief]]:'' ''The Dark Project'' has a level where [[Player Character|Garret]] must infiltrate a Hammerite cathedral at the epicenter of a disaster that ruined a district of [[The City]] decades ago, which has now been walled off and is infested with [[The Undead]]. The {{spoiler|[[Lightning Bruiser|Hammer Haunts]] }} in the cathedral itself are [[Demonic Spiders|especially dangerous]], and it is one of the most chilling levels in the game. The Soulforge Cathedral of the Mechanists from the second game (''[[Thief]] : The Metal Age'') isn't haunted, but it's still a very eerie place to be (at least during the events the mission is set in).

 

* Oublie Cathedral from ''[[Eternal Darkness]]'' would qualify. Most of the fighting and exposition takes place in the catacombs beneath it, though.

* The final level of ''[[Silent Hill 3]]'' rakes place in the cult's church, which in complete with pews, pulpit, and confessional.

* The one in Brennenburg castle from ''[[Amnesia: The Dark Descent|Amnesia the Dark Descent]]'' fits the trope well.

 

* The Ossuary of [[Eldritch Location|Orqwith]] in ''[[Doom Patrol]]''.

 

* [[Poul Anderson]], [[Operation Chaos]]. The cathedral and surrounding town of Siloam are extra creepy, including nonstop chanting of Barbarous Names.

* Most buildings are creepy in ''[[The Monk]]'', but cathedrals, monestaries, and nunneries take the cake for places of of incredible terror and torture.

 

* ''[[Silent Hill: Promise]]'': St. Stella Church

 

* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWJAof-O5Pc&feature=related The Cathedral]'', a highly creepy CGI short by Tomasz Bagiński.<ref>Sorry for the backwards-text-copyright-evasion thing, but there is no substitute for the full-length film and its [[Crowning Music of Awesome]].</ref>