Hellraiser/Nightmare Fuel

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  • The part in Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth where Pinhead, via the Pillar of Souls, rips off a woman's skin while she's still alive before absorbing her into the pillar.
  • Both Hell on Earth and Inferno have scenes where characters are killed behind closed doors. We just hear really, really awful noises (especially in the latter) as a large amount of blood begins flowing out from under the door. The Engineer first appearing in Inferno could also count.
  • Deader has Amy wake up with a knife in her back. After several frantic minutes, she resorts to slamming a door on the handle, and then begins painfully inching forward to try and slowly pull the blade out.
  • The second film has a mental patient being given a straight razor. As he screams "Get them off me!" he starts carving into his torso, trying to cut the maggots he is imagining out (at several points, it shows things from his point of view, bugs and all). His spilled blood summons the skinless Julia, and the two begin wrestling, and there is just blood flying everywhere. When Julia finally kills the mental patient, he vomits, to add to the Nausea Fuel.
    • Also in the second film. Kirsty gets messages supposedly from her deceased father Larry that he is in Hell and needs her help. After Julia knocks her out cold and Tiffany opens the box, she wakes up in what appears to be her home before her biological mother died. However it turns out to be her personal hell as the pictures bleed and her mother's picture is replaced by a picture of Julia. The Cenobites then appear, but let her explore the labyrinth. She finds a house similar to Frank's old home where Larry and Julia moved into in the first film. When she enters it she finds a place similar to a brothel on the inside with what appears to be lusty women hidden under white blankets, on top of beds that retreat into chambers before coming out covered in blood. As if that wasn't bad enough Kirsty finds Frank, who was the true messenger and tricked Kirsty into coming down here so that she'd be his newest concubine. He explains that this house is his personal Hell and the other women are simply ghosts that tease him with offers of sexual favors then disappear whenever he accepts. Wheras since Kirsty is another flesh and blood human being one that won't disappear so easily. Kirsty manages to overpower him and destroy picture of him reducing him back to the skinless Ghoul he once was in the first movie. If not for Julia wanting revenge, Kirsty wouldn't have gotten out of there.
  • To understand the "angel to some" part of Pinhead's boast, see Rob Ager's analysis of the original film here. It's nightmare fuel by itself.

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