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Do you remember as a kid, you couldn't wait until you were 17 so you could watch R-rated movies without your parents' permission? Well, the scariness of ''these'' movies [[Nightmare Fuel|may make it feel like it wasn't worth the wait]]. So, to all the kids out there... try not to grow up too fast.
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See [[:Category:Film/Nightmare Fuel]] for an incomplete list.
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* ''[[Cujo]]''. The three most particularly terrifying scenes post-rabies infection, are: when the titular dog mauls his owner and the neighbor; when he takes a bite out of the mom while she and her son are trapped in the car; and the penultimate scene when, having gotten back up from a [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]] inflicted by the [[Mama Bear|mom]] with a [[When All You Have Is a Hammer|baseball bat]] moments earlier, he shows up unexpectedly {{spoiler|just before he dies via gunshot inflicted to the head}}. Yep, [[Paranoia Fuel]] aplenty.
** Becomes even scarier if you watch it after learning about the symptoms and prognosis of rabies. Can also be [[Fridge Horror]] when you consider the possibility that post-bite vaccination can fail in rare cases, and balance that with the fact that the mom had been bitten by Cujo. The book is even worse, what with it's significantly more dramatic ending.
* The 1963 Italian horror film "Black Sabbath" (yes, the one [[Black Sabbath|a certain band]] was named after) has three segments. The first two (or last two, if you see the dubbed AIP version) are your typical, run of the mill horror stories. The finale, "Drop of Water", however, is possibly the scariest thing ever filmed. If you've seen the film, that THING's [[Nightmare Face|face]] has haunted your dreams. If you haven't seen it, [[Schmuck Bait|look it up]] on Google Video (unless you want to sleep within the next few days).
* [[Nosferatu]]. You don't even need to see the movie, and still have nightmares about that creature.
** Furthermore, the [[Mockumentary]] film, ''[[Shadow of the Vampire]]'' decides that [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy|Max Shreck, the actor who played]] Count <s>Dracula</s> Orlok was a REAL VAMPIRE! To quote [[The Angry Video Game Nerd|Cinemassacre's Monster Madness]], "He may as well be". Brr...
* ''[[The Trial]]'' (1993 version). The labyrinth of dilapidated corridors as a metaphor for a heartless bureaucracy awakens some childhood fears in some peoplw. A rare case of creating a really unsettling effect without using any horror-associated elements.
* The opening scene of [[The Unborn]]. So you're out jogging, and you run into a stray glove in the road. Not so bad...until you turn around and see [[Creepy Child|the owner of the matching one]] standing right behind you, just...staring. An odd cut, and you're suddenly faced with a pit bull [[Uncanny Valley|wearing a papier-mâché human mask.]] He waddles off into the woods, and for no real reason, you decide to follow him. You come across the mask lying on the ground, and dig down into the dirt to find the strings attached to a [[Fetus Terrible|disturbing-looking fetus]] in a jar. Zoom in slowly on its little swollen face...and [[Blue Eyes|THE EYES]] [[Eye Awaken|BURST OPEN.]]
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** Also from [[RoboCop]], early in the film, before his resurrection as a cyborg, Murphy is captured by Boddicker's gang, who proceed to graphically dismember him ''with shotguns'', blowing his arm off and blasting endless rounds into his torso from a distance, before finally killing him with a close range shot through the head. Murphy is conscious and screaming horrifically throughout, up until the final headshot.
* '' [[Dying Breed]]''. Another Australian film, twice as disturbing as wolf creek (which in itself is based on a true story). A group of cannibals grab a few hiker girls and rape them to get more children or else die from inbreeding, and eat the men. What makes this so scary, you ask? ''Based on a true story''. The actual man was a convict who broke free and was found years later. He was a known cannibal, and he had a family in the Australian Outback that practiced cannibalism. ''In Australia''.
** As an Australian resident I'd like to point out that the cannibal and prisoner part of Dying Breed are the only provable facts, originally Alexander Pearce escaped and cannibalized other escapees due to starvation. Tasmania is not a forgiving place. Though apparently he did grow to like human flesh. There's not evidence he ever spawned a family though or that he was ever out long enough to raise them as cannibals. Also he was hung on
** Seconded. I'm a Tasmanian, and the story is overblown incredibly. Alexander Pearce didn't raise a family, nor is [[Wolf Creek]] a true story. It's inspired (read: the writers have made speculative fiction) by the disappearance of several backpackers. Furthermore, Tasmania is about as opposite to the Outback as you can get.
* ''[[Drag Me to Hell]]'' is filled to the brim with [[Nightmare Fuel]], but the scene that really stands out is the ending, {{spoiler|in which the final shot is of the female protagonist being [[Dragged Off to Hell]], as demonic hands grab her and slowly bring her down to Hell as her piercing scream reverberates throughout the whole scene.}}
** The early sequence where Christine has the seer Ram Jas read her fortune. As she holds out her hand for him to try and see into her future the tension starts to build up and the music turns ominous. Then *BAM* out of nowhere a quick flash of the Lamia's face appears, with burning yellow eyes and razor-sharp teeth against a background of flames and accompanied by a high-pitched screech. So many sleepless nights because of that one shot.
* There's a creepy scene in the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' episode ''[[Devil Doll (film)|Devil Doll]]'', where [[Demonic Dummy]] Hugo is sitting motionless in his cage. After a long lingering shot in dead silence, his eyes make a slight movement (reminding us that he is indeed, alive) and the camera pans across the room. Not even Mike and the bots' excellent riffing can diffuse the terror of that horrifyingly subtle little moment.
** Speaking of [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]], "Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders" isn't an episode to watch alone late at night. It's a terrible film and not scary during the day, but disturbing
* ''[[Pink Floyd]]:
** [[The Wall]]''. In particular, [[Body Horror|Comfortably Numb]] and Goodbye Blue Sky are nightmare fuel.
** While the song in itself isn't scary, the ending of Confortably Numb (when Pink [[Body Horror|gets rid of his own skin]]) probably counts. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt0b77N5kWg And let's] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q68Qwgz1aXQ just say everything] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE2t6HWmquc gets worse] [[It Got Worse|from there]]. Probably all the animated sequences count as well.
** ''The Trial,'' as a song, isn't really that bad. The ''[[Deranged Animation|film]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jViTte8VAzU version,] on the other hand...
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* The intro to ''[[Eraserhead]]''. That's not to say that the rest of the movie isn't nightmarish as well, but the simple sight of The Man In The Planet crouched motionless by the window, wrapped in shadows, and then twitching slightly, is probably the single most disconcerting thing in the universe.
** The artificial chickens served for dinner by Mary's parents. "Just cut them up like regular chickens..."
** Scarier still are the mysteries surrounding the special effects. The rumor that the baby puppet is a modified cow fetus seems mostly debunked, but the opposite is true for another
* ''When a Stranger Calls Back'', (The made-for-TV sequel to the original ''[[When a Stranger Calls]].''), has an innocent schoolgirl stalked by {{spoiler|William Landis, a psychopathic ventriloquist who, in the film's climax, paints himself to look like the wall behind him, so if the lights are off, he's practically invisible.}} It sounds cartoony, but when you see him do it, and realize that it could actually be done in real life, it's utterly creepy.
* [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (film)|Humma Kavula]] is a semi-insane missionary living amongst the Jatravartid people of Viltvodle VI, and a former space pirate. (It was presumably during his time as a pirate that he lost his legs and had them replaced with telescoping mechanical spider appendages). He wears thick glasses, which make his eyes appear normal when worn; however, when he removes the glasses, he appears to have shrunken black pits where his eyes should be.
** Don't worry, it becomes [[Nightmare Retardant]] [[Hey, It's That Guy!|once you realise he's]] [[Of Mice and Men|Lennie]]...or does that make it worse?
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* [[Terry Gilliam]]'s surreal movie ''[[Brazil (film)|Brazil]]'' (1985)
{{quote|"This is a professional relationship"}}
* Science gone horribly wrong! The original movie ''[[The Fly]]'' was creepy and psychologically horrible (imagine you were the poor wife), and the 1986 reimagining was just plain [[Squick
* The Russian movie ''Nochnoy dozor'' (2004) (aka [[Night Watch]]).
** Having seen the movie numerous times...which part or parts did you consider Nightmare Fuel?
** The freaky doll with the spider's legs and the sequence in the beginning with the frying pan. This editor is still creeped out by those two.
* The ''[[Death Note]]'' film spinoff ''[[L: Change the World]]'' pulls this off with the symptoms of the killer virus at the centre of the plot. The various sores with the severe bleeding and the tears of blood make its victims look disturbing, not to ignore their moans and screams of pain. The named character who uses a syringe of infected blood to commit suicide and deny the villains use of him continues screaming even when the camera isn't focused on him, and when he is "neutralised" the last shot the audience (and his preteen daughter) gets of him is his wholly bloodshot eyes along with his severely charred face. L describes his impending death by heart attack as peaceful, and [[User:Gentlemens Dame 883|this editor]] is inclined to agree if the alternative is so much worse. There is, also, the [[Fridge Logic|after-the-film consideration]] of how horrible such a virus, described as a mix of influenza and Ebola but "100 times" as infectious, would be. Sometimes thinking too hard is bad...
** [[Nightmare Retardant|Think harder.]] If it's that deadly, it kills its hosts too fast to spread, and the symptoms are obvious enough to prevent accidental infection.
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** Private Mailer looking in through the window.
** ''28 Days Later'' as a whole. Most zombie films are set in America, on the other side of the Atlantic, and the zombies are comically slow and realistically wouldn't have a chance against the US military. ''28 Days'' is set in Britain, far, far closer to home, and features a massively lethal [[Hate Plague]] that rolls over the country in 28 days flat. That, coupled with the shots of an empty London, is terrifying to contemplate.
** A lot of discussion about ''28 Days Later'' talks about the Infected. And they certainly are pretty terrifying. But probably the most effective nightmare fuel is the first ten minutes, when the main character wakes up and wanders around
* Kevin from ''[[Sin City]]'', full stop.
** Ladies and gentlemen, [[The Lord of the Rings|Frodo]] has left the building....
* The lobotomy in ''[[From Hell]]''. Tied down and she can see it coming and it ''doesn't even kill her''.
** The monolauge at the end {{spoiler|Where Jack is going insane as he cuts up the last woman}}. Informative, though...
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* Despite its age, the ''[[The Thing from Another World]]'' manages a couple of moments; in one scene, the Thing is doused with gasoline and set ablaze in a dark and claustrophobic room, and [[Man On Fire|continues to rampage around unimpeded]], spreading flames everywhere. At another point, the heroes know the Thing is lurking somewhere nearby. They come up with a plan, yank the door of their refuge open, and the towering Thing is standing ''right there'' in the doorway.
* How about ''[[Manhunter (film)|Manhunter]]''? Tom Noonan's performance as the Tooth Fairy has to be one of the most disturbing bits of acting ever committed to film.
* ''Saturn 3'' had '''the''' most terrifying robot in history. It's introduced to us from the feet up ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NENxIu02bvg around 1:40 in this trailer]), looking for all the world like a skinned, metallic corpse with tubes for veins and metal plates where its muscles would be. Slowly, more of it is revealed, until we come to its head... or lack of one. All it has on top are two insectile, twitching, glowing eyes on an arm. It doesn't
* ''[[Coma]]''. Unconscious victims go from the OR to the Jefferson Institute, where you think is a nice care home for the terminally ill, but {{spoiler|in reality keeps them naked and tube-fed hanging on wires from the ceiling, and the people in charge steal their organs to sell on the black market.}} If you're in any way afraid of hospitals or medical paraphernalia, don't watch this movie.▼
▲* ''Coma''. Unconscious victims go from the OR to the Jefferson Institute, where you think is a nice care home for the terminally ill, but {{spoiler|in reality keeps them naked and tube-fed hanging on wires from the ceiling, and the people in charge steal their organs to sell on the black market.}} If you're in any way afraid of hospitals or medical paraphernalia, don't watch this movie.
* ''[[The Howling]]'' movies, all except the third one which was more Nightmare Retardant than anything.
** The transformation scene in ''Howling 4'' where the woman's husband slowly melts into a puddle of blood (completely conscious at least most of the time) before being reformed as a werewolf. All the goofy-looking townspeople chanting "Satan call you" as it happens does add enough unintentional silliness to somewhat curb the effects, though.
* The very end of ''[[Session 9]]'', when the baby stops crying. Alright, so it's not ''really'' a [[Faux Horror Film|horror movie]]. That doesn't make it any better.
* The original ''[[Black Christmas]]''.
** Even the
** The killer's voice on the phone
* ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]''. When [[Psycho for Hire|Mr.]] [[Ax Crazy|Blonde]] is through, you'll never listen to "Stuck in the Middle With You" quite the same way. And that ''dance''...
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* (Spoilers inserted to hide triggers) The {{spoiler|gang rape}} scene in ''[[The Accused]]'' is just horrible. {{spoiler|The rape on its own is bad enough, but it's the cheering of the men watching and the ringleader picking out who gets to go next all while Sarah is screaming and crying that pushes it into true Nightmare Fuel territory}}. That, and the fact that the premise of the movie was based on a true story.
** That scene was apparently serious [[Nightmare Fuel]] for the actors who were playing the {{spoiler|rapists}}; Jodie Foster had to repeatedly reassure them.
*** Tim Roth was pretty disturbed after filming the scene in ''Rob Roy'' where {{spoiler|Archibald rapes Mary}} and was pretty nervous around Jessica Lange for a while. It serves as a bit of [[Nightmare Retardant]] to know that while they play [[Complete Monster
*** Lawrence Fishburne only had a couple takes in him for the rape scene in ''What's Love Got to Do With It''. Afterwards, the crew kept a wide berth. More disturbingly, Fishburne was approached in a restaurant by Ike Turner, who complimented him on the performance.
* The 1988 Czech version of ''Alice In Wonderland'' features [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aezgBUPgrOc reanimated skeletons of small animals] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K663tPpSACM a scene of pure madness at the tea party.] Makes it even more eerie that there is no music whatsoever in the movie except for the squeeks and clinks of old clothing, footsteps, and winding-gears. This is a Jan Švankmajer film. The same guy made a film where a dude ''{{spoiler|eats his own dick with mustard}}''. Yeah, [[Nightmare Fuel]] is a given for his films.
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** [[Conspiracy Theorist|In case you guys didn't know, that movie was based on a very true story. As the real story goes, scientists were trying to find a way to make whole battleships invisible to enemy radar. They put a bunch of machines on the ship, and when turned on, the ship was surrounded by a green glow. Suddenly, the ship AND the glow disappeared. Instantly, the ship was seen SEVERAL MILES down the coast. The ship disappeared again and returned to its original spot. When the boat was searched, most of the crew was either violently ill or insane. Some of them had vanished, and some had even FUSED INTO THE WALLS OF THE SHIP!]]
** A similar scene is shown in the move ''Supernova.'' When it was in the theaters, this movie was rated PG-13. It has since been re-rated to R. The crew members of the ship all die in very creepy ways. One of them [[Body Horror|melts into the structure of the suspended animation pod]] that [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place|should have kept him safe during the hyperspace jump]]. Unfortunately, his doesn't seal completely. The rest of the deaths are as bad.
* The horror movie ''[[Frayed]]'' draws its nightmare fuel from several sources: slasher movies, birthday clowns, mental hospitals and {{spoiler|child molestation.}} The worst is a prolonged and ''extremely'' graphic sequence near the beginning of the movie where a person gets their head beaten to a pulp. The sound effects alone ensure that the viewer will have a tough time getting to sleep that night.▼
▲* The horror movie ''Frayed'' draws its nightmare fuel from several sources: slasher movies, birthday clowns, mental hospitals and {{spoiler|child molestation.}} The worst is a prolonged and ''extremely'' graphic sequence near the beginning of the movie where a person gets their head beaten to a pulp. The sound effects alone ensure that the viewer will have a tough time getting to sleep that night.
* In the 1970s there was the ''[[It's Alive|Its Alive]]'' horror trilogy about an experimental fertility drug causing babies to be born as monsters that would kill when scared.
** A commercial for it in the early afternoon, the one where the camera revolves around an innocent-looking basinette, and then suddenly you see the lizard arm hanging out of it and that awful whining scream sounds...
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** The scene in which a native woman gives birth to a dead, ''rotten'', '' '''maggot-ridden''' ''.
** Another genuinely frightening scene involves an extremely stressed English commander trying to calm his nerves by arranging his butterfly collection, only to find that his latest butterfly has transformed into a dead crow. Slowly, his collection begins fluttering to life... and falls silent. Then [[Body Horror|a newborn butterfly begins forcing its way out of the commander's mouth]].
* ''[[Angels & Demons]]'' has [[Eye Scream]], branding, drowning, choking to death on dirt... oh, yeah, and immolation. {{spoiler|Self-immolation, too.}} Freaky beyond measure. Also, the {{spoiler|Pope after his impromptu exhumation is really, really disturbing-looking.}} In another [[Incredibly Lame Pun|vein]], Vittoria attempts CPR on one of the four kidnapped Cardinals, only for it to come to her attention (and the viewer's) that the man's lungs are
* The opening sequence in the film version of ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'': "Wanna see something ''really'' scary?"
* The French film ''[[Irreversible]]'' has several scenes with extremely graphic violence. Within the first few minutes, a man's arm is broken and the film's protagonist bashes the face of another man into pulp with a fire extinguisher. The camera stays on the violence for long, nauseating, unflinching shots. Later in the film, a woman is cornered in an under-street tunnel and brutally raped and beaten. The sequence lasts for over ten minutes, again without a single cut.
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* One of the most disturbing examples of [[Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You]] comes at the climax of another [[Alfred Hitchcock|Hitchcock]] film ''[[Spellbound]]''. Dr. Murchison threatens to kill Dr. Peterson, but with a few choice words on Peterson's part her life is spared. The camera switches to Murchison's point of view as the aim of his gun follows her out of the room. She shuts the door, and the hand holding his gun turns, as though he's pondering his next action. Then, slowly, the hand turns some more: at <s> himself</s> [[Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You|you]]. That's right; you're experiencing a first-person ''suicide''. It also doesn't help that the hand and the gun are highly detailed models, so their movement is highly unnatural.
* What happens to Edmond Delhurst in ''[[Food of the Gods 2]]''. Although the movie is ostensibly about the [[Rodents of Unusual Size|giant rats]], the deaths they cause are shown in quick cuts, whereas Delhurst's death by turning into a bubbling puddle of "super cancer" is drawn out to ludicrous lengths (almost a full two minutes) with many loving closeups of his swollen, pus-oozing, tumor-covered face. It's frankly a relief when he ''finally'' keels over and dies.
* ''[[Re-Animator]]'': {{spoiler|Dr. Hill's reanimated severed head raping Dan's sweet, innocent girlfriend.}} And for some reason the fact that in the final scenes all the reanimated cadavers are stark naked makes it much less [[
* In ''[[The Last King of Scotland]]'', there's the scene where Garrigar finds {{spoiler|Kay's mutilated body}}. It's utterly horrific.
** Garrigan being {{spoiler|suspened from the ceiling by ''hooks through his chest''}}
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** [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/ The Piano Teacher], based on a novel by Elfriede Jelinek. It features Isabella Huppert as the most screwed up woman ever, named Erika. Notable scenes: the opening scene in which Erika and her mother fight about the fact that Erika came home late (and she's 40-plus years old!) and the fight turns physical, Erika's seduction of her student could count as [[Squick]], the scene in the uncut version in which Erika {{spoiler|cuts between her legs and a trail of blood streams down the bathtub's side}}, when {{spoiler|Erika appears to be attempting to rape her own mother}} the next-to-last scene in which {{spoiler|Erika forces her young male student to rape her (while her mother is within earshot!) and Erika looks like a corpse}}. The thing comes together to conclude: This protagonist is a very, very screwed up human being.
** [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1149362/ The White Ribbon] is not like many other horror films. There are no monsters, no killers, no jump scares. It is all the people. Imagine this: you live in a small Austrian village in the months leading up to [[World War I]]. Strange events begin to happen to citizens. Someone strings a wire to trip the doctor as he rides his horse, a worker falls through a weak floor and dies, two children go missing at separate times and are found severely beaten, one of which is nearly blinded. What can you do about this? '''Absolutely nothing'''. You can't find out who is behind these crimes, and if you pursue suspicions, your reputation is likely to be ruined. That is what happens to the protagonist and narrator of this film. The cinematography and atmosphere of the film are so cold, it's like you are watching a serious version of ''[[Village of the Damned]]'', where the children don't have psychic powers, but are still creepy and are clearly hiding something. And there isn't a single thing you can do about it, so you better just leave.
* ''[[Munich]]'': The movie in general was quite disturbing, but nowhere moreso than in the scenes depicting the actual Munich hostage crisis. ''Especially'' in the scene where {{spoiler|one of the athletes is shot in the mouth at point-blank range. ''And survives''.}} Thanks to Spielberg's brilliant and powerful execution, the intensity and brutality of those scenes will be haunting your nightmares for quite some time, no matter how jaded you are. It's scary enough as it is, but on top of that, ''everything depicted in those scenes actually happened''. {{spoiler|And the guy who got shot in the face? He was played in the movie by the son of the real guy. That had to have taken a lot of courage.}}▼
▲* ''Munich'': The movie in general was quite disturbing, but nowhere moreso than in the scenes depicting the actual Munich hostage crisis. ''Especially'' in the scene where {{spoiler|one of the athletes is shot in the mouth at point-blank range. ''And survives''.}} Thanks to Spielberg's brilliant and powerful execution, the intensity and brutality of those scenes will be haunting your nightmares for quite some time, no matter how jaded you are. It's scary enough as it is, but on top of that, ''everything depicted in those scenes actually happened''. {{spoiler|And the guy who got shot in the face? He was played in the movie by the son of the real guy. That had to have taken a lot of courage.}}
* ''[[There Will Be Blood]]'' is nightmare fuel before anything nightmarish even ''happens'', thanks to the ruthlessly foreboding soundtrack. The shockingly gruesome finale is just the icing on the cake.
* The [[Blood Bath|Mrs. Bathory scene]] in [[Hostel]] Part 2. {{spoiler|Lorna's}} screaming makes it even more terrifying.
** How ''[[Fetish Fuel|turned on]]'' the woman ([[Draco in Leather Pants|who admittedly is kind of hot]]) is before she even starts slashing. Also, there's the fact that [[wikipedia:Elizabeth Bathory|it's based on an actual person]].
* The beginning of ''[[Ghost Ship]]'', where a crowd of partygoers
* ''[[30 Days of Night]]''. For once, there was a
*
* The original Japanese version of ''Pulse'' (''Kairo''.) Kiyoshi Kurosawa's ([[Akira Kurosawa|no relation]]) ghosts are indescribably frightening, not because of what they ''do'', but merely for their ''presence''. As the movie progresses, and mankind {{spoiler|steadily dies off or vanishes}}, the ghosts become much more visible, more obvious, and more common. The Lady In Red in the sealed room, with her dreamlike, stumbling gait, creeps up on a hapless protagonist slowly, ever so relentlessly slowly...
** {{spoiler|[[The Grim Reaper|Death itself]]}} showing up in human form to claim {{spoiler|the main male lead}}, coming closer and closer to the screen (slowly, naturally) until his eyes fill the audience's field of vision.
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** There is a song that chances are everyone knows. It's a sort of melancholy song, but even though it talks about how good things are hard to reach, the singer still seems hopeful. YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO LISTEN TO THIS SONG THE SAME WAY AGAIN!!! Remember folks, it's not the [[Soundtrack Dissonance]] that scares us, but when the music comes to a screeching halt that really clinches it. {{spoiler|[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|If happy little blue birds fly beyond the rainbow... Why, oh why can't I?]]}} *shudder*
* ''[[Phantoms]]'', based on the book by [[Dean Koontz]]. While much of the movie is largely B-grade, it has some genuinely unsettling imagery. {{spoiler|all the people in the vaguely astronaut-like Hazmat suits appearing out of the shadows, their faceplates completely black; the single shot of the empty army command center with a few papers blowing in the wind; and the bit at the end where all the people who were the Phantom-creature's snack food are standing still assembled in the middle of town.}} ''Gah.''
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
** "[[Harry Potter and
** "[[Harry Potter and
** In ''[[Harry Potter and
** Not even. This one may be more [[Fridge Horror]], but... Bathilda Bagshot, and the moment you realize exactly what is in the room Hermione's looking into.
* ''In Dreams'': the final scene.
* Covenant Rider, a Christian [[The Wild West|Western]] by Willie George Ministries and Kenneth Copeland Minstries. A flashback scene had a young [[The Gunslinger|Wichita Slim]] tied to a post and ##[[Cold-Blooded Torture|branded]]'' for misbehavior. The combination of a [[Scream Discretion Shot|little boy screaming]] and the burn on his shirt ensured that Covenant Rider would never, ever be watched after the first time.
* Specific to the movie version of ''[[Battle Royale]]'' is {{spoiler|the death of Kazuo Kiriyama}}. He fights with Mimura and friends, {{spoiler|killing them, and Mimura ends the battle by blowing up a massive propane tank bomb}}. The three heroes arrive on the scene after the explosion, and it seems as if everyone died, but then the [[Ominous Latin Chanting|creepy godawful theme music]] starts up again, and he [[Unflinching Walk|walks out]] [[Out of the Inferno|of the fire]], blinded, with [[Tears of Blood]] [[Eye Scream|running from his eyes.]] His actual death is anticlimactic, but everything leading up to it is straight up Nightmare Fuel.
* Anacondas in the Water. Just the preview can give you nightmares.
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** Where to begin? Hailed as one of the most disturbing films ever made, it contains scenes of rape, mutilation, dismemberment, cannibalism, and rapes all senses. What's more, real animals were killed onscreen, and footage of real executions were used, convincing the brain that what they are seeing may in fact be real. This isn't helped by the film being in clear daylight with all the bright colours of the rainforest, and the creepy music being used as inappropriate times (such as the gentle, almost happy theme song being used in the scene of a woman being decapitated).
*** It was considered so realistic that the Italian government thought the filmmakers had made an honest-to-god snuff film, and it took producing the (very much alive) actors to prove that it wasn't. They had to demonstrate in court how they'd faked the [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice|impalement]] scene.
* ''[[The Invisible]]'': Nick's predicament. Imagine being a spirit doomed to watch helplessly as everyone around you falls to pieces when they believe you're dead, seeing that people you hated or ignored are suffering horribly, while you yourself {{spoiler|are dying, and the only person who can save you is the one who put you in a coma to begin with}}.
* ''The Devil's Rejects'', including such moments as {{spoiler|the woman escaping the motel room wearing her husband's face.}}
* ''I am Dina'' is set in 19th century Norway. At the beginning, the heroine, then a little girl, causes a the contents of a huge cauldron full of boiling water (used to wash clothes) to be poured on her mother. First you see the mother, completely scalded. Then [[It Gets Worse|the little girl, waiting on her own in an attic, listening while her mother screams constantly for hours, maybe days, before dying.]]
** It gets worse. It wasn't boiling water, it was boiling ''lye''.
* ''[[Cracked.com]]'' lists [https://web.archive.org/web/20131029120245/http://www.cracked.com/article/160_7-horrifying-moments-from-classic-kids-movies/ 7 horrifying moments from classic ''kids''' movies].
* You don't think a biopic about the great jazz piano player Ray Charles will be scary? Check out the scene from ''Ray'' where he has a hallucination that his drowned brother is in his suitcase.
* [[A Nightmare on Elm Street|"Did you know that the brain can still function for seven minutes after the heart stops beating?]] [[Cold-Blooded Torture|We still have six minutes to play..."]]
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* The TV movie David, about a boy whose father sets him on fire due to a custody dispute. It was based on a true story, and the boy was burned over 90 percent of his body. John Glover played the father, and apparently the role was [[Nightmare Fuel]] for him.
* ''[[Fatal Attraction (film)|Fatal Attraction]]'' has probably ''the'' quintessential [[Yandere]] moment in western cinema, when Glenn Close's character Alex Forrest {{spoiler|takes the pet rabbit belonging to the daughter of her lover Dan Gallagher and ''boils it alive in a pressure cooker''}}. This grotesque act of evil was chilling enough to earn an entry on the [[Moral Event Horizon]] page, has given many people who watched it some serious nightmares, and was enough to coin the phrase "bunny boiler" for [[Yandere]]-types soon afterwards.
* The scenes where Alex kidnapped Dan's daughter. You can really feel Beth (Dan's wife) complete panic as she runs around searching for her daughter. That's every parent's worst
* The
* ''Untraceable.'' The first victim wasn't that horrible, but the guy being roasted alive, and the guy being submerged in acid. {{spoiler|add to that the fact that he was a cop.}}
* Back in the 1970s, there was apparently a portion of the Turkish film industry who couldn't care less about copyright laws and made unauthorized films about a number of superhero, action/adventure and sci-fi properties. That's just kinda weird, but one of the most infamous was a film called ''3 Dev Adam'' which involved Captain America, a Mexican wrestler known as Santos, and Spider-Man... except it wasn't Spider-Man. It was an evildoer who was called Spider-Man and had a similar costume to Spidey's. Even that wouldn't be so bad, except that this "Spider-Man" doesn't just want to rob banks or take over the world, he's also a serial killer and [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|rapist]]. There's supposed to be some unfathomably freakish imagery and such, like he has some gerbils or hamsters eat someone's eyes out.
* ''[[Nurse Betty]]'' is a romantic comedy about a woman played by Renée Zellweger starts to believe that her favorite soap opera is real and gets into some wacky hijinks trying to find a character from the show that she's smitten over. Fun stuff, huh... except there's also a scene where Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock tie up her husband and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SWFz6TKK18 proceed to scalp him in brutal detail].
* [[The Skeleton Key]], especially the ending. {{spoiler|The more kind-hearted Caroline believed she was doing the right thing, the closer she went to her [[Fate Worse Than Death]].}}
* ''[[The Haunting]]'': That scene with the wallpaper that looks like a face, with the man singing, the woman laughing and the children CRYING.
* ''Biutiful:'' a roomful of sleeping immigrant workers (a total of about 25 men, women and children) {{spoiler|all die as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning, presumably. When their boss comes in to wake them, they're just all lying there dead.}} And somehow, [[It Got Worse|it gets worse]]: the main character, Uxbal, can {{spoiler|[[I See Dead People|communicate with the dead]] to some degree, and as he tries to apologize to one of the dead women, a friend of his, you briefly see the 'spirits' of the dead people suspended weirdly against the ceiling, their faces contorted with fear.}} It's all the most disturbing because there's no sound effects or [[Jump Scare|dramatic music stings]] to highlight it. And towards the end of the film, Uxbal {{spoiler|(who is dying of cancer) [[Attending Your Own Funeral|sees]] ''himself'' [[Attending Your Own Funeral|on the ceiling]] in the same way in his final hours.}} It's very, very effective.
* According to Eva, the Tom Green movie ''[[Freddy Got Fingered]]''.
{{quote|[http://www.jabootu.com/fgf.htm Throwing a couple more gallons of nightmare fuel on the fire...]}}
* The scene with the vice in ''[[Casino]].''▼
▲* The scene with the vice in ''Casino.''
* The Canadian zombie film ''[[Pontypool]]''. A virus spread not through blood or air, but ''speech''; you can be infected simply by listening to a term of endearment. The repeated [[Madness Mantra|madness mantras]] of the infected are some of the creepiest things ever committed to film, especially combined with their expressions. The movie taking place within a radio studio makes it sometimes almost unbearably claustrophobic. Then there's the [[Downer Ending]]....
** "For your safety, please avoid contact with close family members and refrain from the following: all terms of endearment, such as 'honey' or 'sweetheart'; baby talk with young children; and rhetorical discourse. For greater safety, please avoid the English language... [[Oh Crap|Do not translate this message]]."
* The early-90s anthology ''Body Bags'' was for the most part pretty [[Narm
* The recent sci-fi horror film ''[[Altitude]]''. By and large it's [[So Okay It's Average]], but it has some creepy stuff in it. A small, twin engine plane flies up to go over a storm system, only to encounter a huge wall of black clouds that it can't avoid. Okay, [[Darkness Equals Death|ominous]], but not too bad...until they realize that they've been flying through the storm for a while, and it doesn't seem to end, and their altimeter says they should be in the stratosphere, and all they can hear on the radio is [[Hell Is That Noise|this horrible screaming sound]]. But what '''really''' freaks you out are the [[Combat Tentacles|brief]] [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family|glimpses]] we got of [[Eldritch Abomination|the thing that makes the screaming noise:]] [[Giant Flyer|something]] ''[[Giant Flyer|huge]]'' [[Eldritch Abomination|moving around in the clouds.]]
* In the 2007 remake of ''[[I Am Legend]]'', [[The Aloner|the protagonist]] copes with his isolation by populating certain locations (like a video rental) with department-store mannequins, which he gives names to and converses with. Will Smith is driving in one scene when he looks out the side window and sees a brief glimpse of one of his human proxies standing in the middle of the road - and in a quick first-person snap cut, the mannequin '''turns its head to look at you'''.
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* * The short film ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MjTb5A68VA Pencil Face]''. Girl finds magic pencil (the face is already scary on itself), girl draws various things she wants, girl {{spoiler|gets [[Be Careful What You Wish For|sucked into black hole]]}}
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