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== ''Cold Case'' ==
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* ''Cold Case'' also had an episode about a serial killer who kidnapped women and then hunted them for sport. When he is finally cornered by the Lilly, he gloats that his youngest victim, a high school track runner, {{spoiler|was so desperate to escape she attempted to run on the stumps of her legs after her feet were practically broken off. It was seriously one of the most disturbing things I'd ever heard on TV. The scene of her wailing "I want my Daddy! just before she is fatally shot doesn't help}}. And although he didn't rape any of his victims, he seems particularly smug about putting the fear of that possibility into them (he forced his victims to strip before making them run through the woods) and that towards the end, the women were practically offering themselves to him--"You have no idea of the things a woman will ''beg'' you to do, if you'll just let her live"--in the futile hopes of surviving their ordeal.
* "John Smith" from "The Road" - "[[Mind Rape|Once hope is gone... dying is just a formality."]]
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== ''Delocated'' ==
* Kinda silly, but Sergei, the Russian assassin, {{spoiler|sending a tape to Jon which shows his brother's dead body, and then drinking Jon's Mom's ashes?}} Watch the episode, it's genuinely frightening.
== ''Farscape'' ==
* [[Eye Scream]] is always good for a few nightmares ([
* "Eat Me" was an entire episode of horror, best summed up by these two lines:
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"Because, because, because THEY'RE ''EATING'' MEEEEEEE!" }}
** From the same episode, Kaarvok. Just... [http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2663225856/tt0187636 Kaarvok].
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* Diseased Plokavian judges melting all over the place while sentencing Moya's crew to death.
* Captain Jenek frying a test subject's unborn child alive with Heat Projection.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130530233350/http://www.karlsweb.com/KarlswebVisual/images/scorpy01.jpg Scorpius as a child.] There is a very good reason why we never see under his suit as an adult.
** Scorpius' nanny getting a broken coolant rod [[Eye Scream|through her eyeballs]] and dying horribly as Scorpius lowers the temperature of the cell until she freezes to death, alone and blind.
== ''Friday the 13th: The Series'' ==
* There were a lot of disturbing situations in ''[[Friday the
* Personally, I found the episode with "Mesmer's Bauble" quite disturbing. A homely guy uses it to make himself popular and handsome so that he can become the love of a singer he had a crush on. But then he decides loving her is not enough...he has to ''be'' her. Cue a scene where he is literally '''melting into her body'''. And if that wasn't bad enough, when the bauble is removed all the wishes are canceled causing him to revert from a beautiful woman to a homely man in an equally disturbing way.
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*** You guys better not watch ''Psycho'', then.
** The picture of said "Grinning Man" is very strong nightmare fuel.
* Another example from ''[[
* In the 1998 Christmas special, the backstory involves a magician's assistant who died when some equipment spectacularly malfunctioned and she got sliced in half by a table saw... lengthwise. Gruesome, but it just seems like your run-of-the-mill sort of gruesome--until you really think about the concept of ''lengthwise''. From the bottom up. Maddy sums it up best: "I'm gonna have to sleep with a saucepan between my legs!" Even worse, later there are several flashbacks to this incident, which show that the poor woman was conscious and screaming for ''entirely'' too long.
* In Season 3: The Eyes of Tiresias, a woman is having nightmares about people who are eventually murdered. At first nothing special, just your average Jonathon Creek. Then we get to see one of her dreams, in which a one-eyed man stabs her to death with a sword. Firstly, the amount of blood is really creepy, but then he turns around and has an actually pretty horrible looking mask on. It can really shock you when you're not ready for it.
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** [[Kamen Rider Kiva]]: The monsters of the week, Fangire, are [[Our Vampires Are Different|the equivalent to vampires]]. Except instead of just draining blood, they usually cause giant energy fangs to drain victims of life to the point the humans become transparent and shatter like glass after being being jolted.
** Three words: [[Shin Kamen Rider]]. I mean my god! His jaw is ripped in half during his transformation and antennas sprout from his head. If that's not enough he is shown to instead of a finisher rip your head off. He takes the cake.
** [[
** Don't forget that in the series from the 1970's,the monsters used to {{spoiler|turn people into skeletons or goo after spitting something on them}} and kidnap children.
== ''The League of Gentlemen'' ==
* Often considered one of the creepiest [[
* Papa Lazarou. Everything about him. [[Bad Santa|Especially]] in the [[Christmas Special]].
** The [[Christmas Special]] also manages to turn Herr Lipp (normally a mid case of [[Paranoia Fuel]]) into a full-on terror, mostly through excellent camera work. Plus there was the creepy, masked [[Cult]] and the Victorian curse. Who ever thought shadow puppets of a monkey screwing an elephant could be so scary?
* Harvey "Toadface" Denton becomes increasingly sinister and monstrous over the series, and yet he's got nothing on his [[Creepy Twins|twin]] [[Creepy Child|daughters]], Chloe and Radclyffe. Their [[Establishing Character Moment]] - involving [[Scary Scarecrows|a man trapped inside a scarecrow]] - is particularly well-remembered, as is their alarming pleasure at killing their father's beloved toads.
** As well as locking their parents in a room in the basement. It's implied that they never let them out again as they don't appear in the show afterwards.
* Edward and Tubbs, a pair of incredibly hideous, [[Villainous Incest|incestuous]] [[Corrupt Hick]] [[Serial Killer|serial killers]], as well as the implied metamorphosis of their son from a normal human being into a [[Bertha in The Attic|monstrous ogre-like creature that lives in the attic]]. Not something you expect to see on a [[
* [[The Butcher|Hilary Briss]] is mildly creepy all by himself, but the mysterious meats he sells (and the bizarre, dreamlike scene of him purchasing them from a dealer) are absolutely horrific.
* The Nosebleed Plague. Even Papa Lazarou was creeped out by that.
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== ''Space 1999'' ==
* The very premise of the series scared some in a way ''[[Star Trek]]'' never did. Whenever the base lost personnel and equipment, ''that's it''. There will be no replacements, and they are in growing danger of running out, especially since they apparently have no production facilities. At least in ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'', the ship had Neelix to rustle up supplies.
* There's also the episode "Dragon's Domain", and that scene with the tentacled monster dragging screaming personnel into its mouth and spitting out dessicated corpses...
* I caught one of the later episodes involving a pair of twins with some kind of voodoo power. The girl produced a very lifelike clay bust of Dr. Russel's head and proceeded to sink her fingers into the middle of the bust's face. The resulting scream of agony escaping from Dr. Russel's own fingers as she pressed them over her own face still haunts my thoughts.
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** The British post-nuke TV-movie ''[[Threads]]'' was even ''more'' grim and hopeless, with the characters futilely toiling to survive under blackened skies, and ending with a.. birth scene.
*** Of a half-dead deformed baby whose very appearence caused the final shot of the whole flim to be its teenage mother screaming in horror. Yeah, that was a cheerful ending.
** [
* The Rovers from ''[[The Prisoner]]''. Imagine, if you will, a large, white, bouncing balloon, that constantly emits a low, quavering whistle, and which roars mouthlessly as it attacks, lunging at its target and pressing against his face. Imagine seeing the impression of said face from inside the Rover. ''Now'' imagine seeing this ''at night''. As a ''child''.
** Add in the fact that the remains of anyone who is "captured" by Rover are never seen again...
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* ''[[In Search Of]]...'' was a documentary series that had a combination of a spooky music score and Leonard Nimoy's narration of supposedly "real" paranormal ideas guaranteed to induce nightmares.
* ''[[Jam]]''. Just... no...
* [[Life On
** Even scarier: Season 2, episode 1. That bloody whistling.
** And now series 3 of [[Ashes to Ashes]] has brought us the [[Body Horror]] that is PC Where's-the-rest-of-his-face. Crows cawing will never sound the same again.
** {{spoiler|[[It Got Worse]]. PC Where's-the-rest-of-his-face? He's a 20-something year old Gene Hunt who was killed after a week in the police force. In an attempt to stop a robbery on coronation day 1953, he was shot in the head with a shotgun and buried in a shallow grave, where he remained until his body was discovered by police in the present day.}}
** What about {{spoiler|Viv's}} death scene, when {{spoiler|Jim Keates just holds him and watches him die in pain and terror.}} Terrifying enough before you find out the latter's true identity and purpose! {{spoiler|[[It Got Worse]] Keats is either Satan or one of his minions come for the souls of the failed coppers.}}
* ''[[Tales
** Actually, despite the campy and low-budget feel now, at the time of the show's initial run, the episodes were pretty creepy for its time. In addition, the title and end cards didn't help matters much to your average child.
* ''[[Law and Order]]'': Another early episode, "Indifference," is so obviously inspired by the Lisa Steinberg case that it concludes with a long disclaimer both displayed and spoken about how the real case differed from the story just shown. It is easily the creepiest moment of the entire series considering they used the same title sequence narrator, reading white text on a pure black background to tell the audience that the horrific case and the depraved criminals involved have some basis in real life. The fact that such sickos exist to make their children living in virtual hell for all their short, terrified and miserable lives in North America behind respectable doors will shake your soul to the ground.
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** See also the episode "Bad Faith", which predates the Catholic Church sex scandal by over five years, yet manages to predict it down to the "shuffling parishes".
*** That's because it was probably based on a similar Canadian scandal that predated the US one.
* ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent]]'' episode "Want". It was based on the Jeffrey Dahmer case, so that should tell you something. One of the victims survived, but suffered "permanent" damage to her speech and cognitive functioning. The doctor tells them {{spoiler|the victim has a hole in her head, likely created by a common household drill.}} Not only that, but {{spoiler|her spinal fluid was hypertonic (diluted), and she had slight scalding on her brain tissue.}}
** {{spoiler|Eames: He drilled a hole in her skull, and poured hot water on her brain.}}
** Oh, yeah, the killer also {{spoiler|[[I'm a Humanitarian|ate part of one of his victim's calf muscles]] after cooking it with potatoes & onions. Now that's good eatin'!}}
** Oh, and the killer himself? He just wanted some cuddling. {{spoiler|He's usually [[How I Met Your Mother|much]] better with women, [[Dr.
* The premise of the ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'' episode "Hammered" isn't anything out of the ordinary: a man wakes up and finds a bludgeoned and raped woman in his apartment and no memory of it because he'd been drinking. The [[Nightmare Fuel]] comes later when ADA Paxton has the crime lab make up a videotape showing the sequence of events in the killing, complete with realistic blood spatter, bloody hammer, and the unblinking, psycho-faced head of their main suspect ([[Felicity|Noel Crane]] photoshopped in. I cannot close my eyes anymore without seeing that tape.
** The [[Mind Rape]] games that {{spoiler|Elliot and Olivia}} go through at the hands of {{spoiler|[[Robin Williams|Merrit Rook]].}} First, {{spoiler|Rook tricks Olivia into submitting to him by telling her he's got a bomb and will detonate it if she doesn't obey him.}} Later, {{spoiler|he tells Eliot that he's got Olivia and takes him to a houser that has two rooms separated by a wall and a window. In one of the rooms, we have a bound Olivia whom we can see through said window, and Rook says he's gonna torture her with electricity.}} To prove it, {{spoiler|he closes the window and blocks it with a fold, then presses a button ''and we hear a female's scream''. Which means, ''he is actually doing it''.}} Then, he keeps pressuring, browbeating and trying to verbally bitchslap {{spoiler|Elliot}} for some of the creepiest last moments of the whole franchise. {{spoiler|Elliot doesn't break down, tho, and then Rook reveals that the screams were recorded and the newly-released Olivia is unharmed. While it's a relief, it doesn't take the fright from the "torture session" away.}}
*** Oh dear ''God''. I remember watching that episode and never feeling more scared of Robin Williams in my ''life''. I always thought that he was a funny comedian...and then that episode came along and changed my perception ''very'' quickly. Either he played that role to ''perfection'' or I don't want to ''know'' how he pulled it off,
** The episode "Mean", where a teenage girl is found dead in a car trunk, throat slit and with dozens of little cuts all over her body, which the medical examiner informs us were made while she was still alive, arms and legs bound, with tiny nail scissors--the attacker(s) had apparently been stabbing her with the scissors then opening them in the victim's flesh. And it turns out that the attackers were {{spoiler|the victim's close friends, also teenage girls}}. And you want to know what's really scary? The episode is [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story|based on]] the real-life [
* I recall being scared by a particular scene from the phantom of the opera episode of ''[[Big Bad Beetleborgs]]'' , the scene in particular is the one where there's someone playing the organ, someone sneaks up to take a closer look and touches the mysterious figure on the shoulder, when we get a look at the figure playing the organ we see that it's the phantom who turns around and cackles maniacally like Jack Nicholson's Joker.
* There was an ad shown on [[The Gruen Transfer]] for a French Pay TV crime channel, which showed a puppet alligator walking through a forest, ripping to shreds every creature he encountered and leaving guts and eyes behind him (The point was that that would be how they would make a kid's show, should they ever want to.) I was squicked out so much it was awful. It was just... ugh.
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**** And then the whole second season gets creepier and creepier as we see events leading closer and closer to the world of Epitaph One.
** Fiddling with the mind-wiping tech enables one to generate what is essentially an unending stream of agonizing, searing pain, as Bennett so gleefully demonstrates on Caroline. And worse, it leaves ''no'' marks and mind-wiping can eliminate the memory of it ever happening, so it is easy to cover up. Even worse than that, though, is Bennett's description of how it works, which mentions that she can prevent you from even ''passing out'' from the shock.
* ''[[
** Another episode stars Luke Perry. He plays a guy who cures people of mental instability by absorbing their afflictions into himself. Or something, the show was vague on that. His friend warns him that he's going to get hurt, but he thinks it's worth the sacrifice. Then he deals with a small boy who keeps staring at nothing and going "Now he's coming up the walk, now he's coming in the door, now he's coming up the stairs, now he's coming up the walk..." [[Madness Mantra|etc]]. Perry's character absorbs the boy's hurts, and the boy runs to his mother. Perry starts taking anti-psychotic meds when the boy goes "Now he's coming up the walk!" And...there's actually someone, unseen, coming up the walk. "Now he's coming in the door!" Someone comes in the front door. "Now he's coming up the stairs!" A heavy tread is heard on the steps. Cut back to the room, where the boy is holding his mother, and both are watching Perry staring at nothing, muttering "Now he's coming up the walk, now he's coming in the door..."
* As ashamed as I am to say it, the only two shows to ''EVER'' give me nightmares, were from Nickelodeon. Yup, that kids network. More specifically, the shows ''[[The Adventures of Pete and Pete]]'', and ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark?]]''. For ''Pete and Pete'', there was an episode where the school's wrestling team was being cut down one by one in very ..... ''odd'' ways. The only two I can currently remember, it having been at least 12 years since the episode aired, were Death by Vibrating Bed and the Reverse Hand Drier, which sucked the wrestler up into the little foot and a half square box.
** Great. And here I thought I'd put the trauma behind me. Thanks a freaking lot.
* The season two episode of ''[[Rome]]'' which featured two exstensive torture scenes grossed me out beyond words. The worst part was the first victim's pleading, and his young age. There is also a season one episode where a man is tortured by ways of being flayed alive, though it mostly happens off-screen and only his screams of agony can be heard.
* Wildlife documentaries can sometimes show you the more unsettling side of nature, but few have so affected me as much as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuKjBIBBAL8&NR=1 this sequence] from BBC documentary ''[[Planet Earth]]'' concerning ants infected by the parasitic Cordyceps fungus. The intimate macro view of these creatures' distress as the fungus spreading through their brains modifies their behaviour to suit its needs makes it seem far more personal than simply a bunch of minute insects, and that's even before the [[Body Horror]] kicks in as the fungus sprouts from the deceased ant's head, growing until it can release its spores across the colony below. And then, because that's simply not horrifying enough, they go ahead and show a montage of various other insect species' Cordyceps-sprouting corpses, the camera rotating slowly around each one to ensure that no detail is missed. [[David Attenborough]]'s matter-of-fact narration over the whole thing does nothing to mitigate its effect.
** And if that's not enough horror for you, this concept was used in ''[[The X
* ''Alien Planet'', a Discovery Channel [[Speculative Documentary]] based on Wayne Barlowe's ''Expedition''. If you thought his artwork was scary, see the creatures in action.
* [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]] seems to have one moment from the ''Soultaker'' episode that stands out in particular. {{spoiler|The movie's screenwriter/protagonist babe decides she's going to take a bath. Her "mom" watches her strip down to her skivvies through a crack in the door. Not only is Mom's stare soul-piercingly horrifying, but it also so happens to be that she is really an eyeliner-and-trenchcoat-sporting Joe Estevez in disguise.}}
* As maybe the only instance of something actually scary or creepy in ''[[
* The skinwalkers and the lycanthropes in [[The Dresden Files]]. Skinwalkers are a [[Nightmare Fuel]] concept in and of themselves with a nice side of [[Paranoia Fuel]], but it's one thing to read about them and another thing to see a graphic portrayal.
* ''[[So Weird]]''. Every other episode.
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** Not necessarily. Nothing would prevent a flashforward from taking place during daylight Down Under - as the one in the series finale did.
** Despite the scene being played as a joke, I am now genuinely afraid of passing out and drowning in a urinal.
* The horror in [[Poltergeist:
* One opening teaser scene of [[Six Feet Under]] featured a first person perspective of a three week-old infant lying in a crib. As the adoring parents leave the baby to sleep, the camera (serving as the baby's perspective) looks up at the roof into a rather creepy black and white baby's mobile. As the camera blurs and zooms, the shot [[Fade to White|fades to white.]]
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* Realistic and disturbing, [[Six Feet Under|"That's My Dog"]] is an entire episode of a realistically terrifying {{spoiler|carjacking}}. David picks up a "cute" hitchhiker who {{spoiler|forces David at gunpoint to take out all his money at an ATM, beats and punches him, forces him to smoke crack, makes him suck the barrel of a gun, threatens to set him on fire after pouring gasoline on him, steals his van, and leaves him in the middle of nowhere, beaten half to death.}}
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Qeee8D2Ro Recorded Live: a thing by S. S. Wilson] was used as filler material on HBO in the late 70s and early 80s. In it, a man goes to a job interview at a film lab and finds something... horrifying... S. S. Wilson would later bring us the [[Tremors]] films.
* On an episode of ''[[
** You can see it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpo18cjoYcg&feature=related#movie_player here].
* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' presents: [https://web.archive.org/web/20100929092753/http://www.hulu.com/watch/116561/saturday-night-live-digital-short-the-tizzle-wizzle-show-jammy-shuffle The Tizzle Wizzle Show!] Jammies!
*** What's really scary about that sketch is that {{spoiler|you don't see the pill-induced knife-fight coming. You think it's just going to be some silly sketch, but it turns dark real quick}}.
** The Digital Short on the last episode of season 35 (Alec Baldwin with musical guest Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) is not as scary as "The Tizzle Wizzle Show," but it does have some [[Nightmare Fuel]] that makes you wonder if ''SNL'' is trying to make people laugh or scare them to death (it's a little from column A and a little from column B in this case), like the [[Soundtrack Dissonance]] of light, cheery music playing over a pan shot of [[Trash of the Titans|a trashed kitchen and living room]], the convincing make-up job done to Andy Samberg to make him look like a coked-up freak (to go along with Samberg's acting), the sudden break in song when Samberg yells at the dancers not to touch him, how fast the song progresses (reminds me of being in a car with failing brakes), and {{spoiler|how the whole thing turns out to be a vivid, drug-induced hallucination}}.
*** And the part on the Digital Short "Boombox" where {{spoiler|everyone in the retirement home has sex with each other when Samberg and special guest star Julian Casablancas from The Strokes use the boombox to change the world}} though that's more [[Squick]] than High-Octane Nightmare Fuel. Maybe it's [[Squick]]-[[Nightmare Fuel|mare Fuel]].
* ''[[Rescue 911]]'' That show can really [[Scare'Em Straight|scare you straight]] as they'll show the injuries with great detail. I will never look at hot water the same again after "Baby Bathtub Burn".
* ''Hoarders'', dear God ''Hoarders''. Sure, I am a little messy, but to see how easily it can get to [
** Seconded. I am rather messy and paranoid about this happening to ''me''.
** ''Hoarders'' also uses a lot of [[Soundtrack Dissonance]], [[Heartbeat Soundtrack]], and white-on-black typewriter font to give everything that [[Room Full of Crazy]] effect.
* I love Monk, but "The Girl Who Cried Wolf" scared the ''crap'' out of me. The episode hinges on Sharona losing her mind, going from her losing her checkbook to having hallucinations of a ''man covered in blood with a knife in his chest and a screwdriver in the side of his head, telling her that her father (who is dead) is worried about her.'' Of course, it {{spoiler|was really just a ploy by the villain, who had been hiding her things and having her boyfriend pretend to be the dead guy, so Sharona's evidence that she murdered her husband would be discredited}}, but I have had a long-time fear of hallucinations, and- Brr.
* The [[Discovery Channel]] used to have a show called ''[[I Shouldnt Be Alive]]'', which of course was [[Exactly What It Says
** The most horrific episode featured some friends stuck in a dinghy after their yacht sank in a storm. {{spoiler|One of them got a huge gash on her leg, and the dinghy partially filled with water. Pus and blood from her wounds polluted the water, as well as the group's ''waste'' (they were being followed by sharks), so they all started becoming painfully infected, covered with bloody sores. They had no water, and eventually two of them started drinking seawater, which can turn you crazy. Sure enough, they soon started gibbering and howling like lunatics (with a warped [[Through the Eyes of Madness]] depiction), and eventually just ''walked off'' into the shark-infested water (one said he "just wanted to make a run to the 7-11"). Then the really injured one finally succumbed (one of the survivors said the night before, she started speaking in tongues), leaving just two left out of five. By the time they were finally rescued, the survivors were ''covered'' in horrible bleeding sores and scabs. They had drifted over a 100 miles out to sea, but for some reason had been reported arriving safe into port before the storm, so the Coast Guard was ''never alerted''. Yergh.}} I don't know if I'll ever be talked into a sailing trip again...
** Discovery Channel has a even more nightmare fuelish serie named ''[[Animal X]]'', a cryptozoological documentary series. Just one episode is just enough to make it difficult to sleep at night afterward. Watch it [http://www.youtube.com/show/animalxclassic?s=2 here] and enjoy.
* ''[[Caprica]]'' has, in the pilot, {{spoiler|Tamara Adama}}'s resurrected [[Digital Avatar]] unable to feel her own heartbeat. That freaks the shit out of her, her father, and the audience.
** Made worse when, after momentarily putting her out of sight and mind, the show revisits her character a few episodes later where we learn she's been trapped in the pitch-black virtual prison she was created in for ''days'', causing her to doubt that [[All Just a Dream|it's all a dream]]. She seems to have mellowed, though it seems more out of exhaustion than out of acclimatation.
* ''[[I, Claudius]]'' - ''Caligula''. What he does to his sister Drusilla {{spoiler|(cutting her open and eating her unborn child, all while assuring her that it won't hurt)}} is disturbing enough, but at least happens offscreen, and the audience doesn't see the result. His second cousin Gemullus, on the other hand... {{spoiler|Gemullus has a weak chest, and won't stop coughing. Caligula finds this incredibly aggravating, and eventually sends him to his room in the middle of dinner, but insists later that evening, when Claudius comes to see him, that he can still hear him coughing. Midway through their conversation, he says that it has finally stopped, much to his relief. Shortly, they are interrupted by Macro... ''carrying Gemullus' severed head''. Which is so mutliated that Claudius doesn't recognise it. And Gemullus is only twelve years old.}}
*** What makes the whole thing even worse is that Caligula REALLY WAS THAT BATSHIT INSANE.
* ''[[Truth in Television|Mystery Diagnosis]]'': Imagine having one of the bizarre diseases that show up on ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', only you've been suffering from it for ''decades''.
* [[Stephen Fry]] was one of the lucky people who got to visit and film in the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131022141414/http://web.utk.edu/~fac/ Body Farm at the University of Tennessee]. Not only did his tour guide remark that she can now guess what a person's skull looks like under their face (no, her name isn't [[Bones|Temperance or Angela]]), but according to Fry this is also the first time he's ever seen a dead body.
* That Latin American priest wasn't the only one terrifed when Puddy on ''[[Seinfeld]]'' painted his face to "support the team" the New Jersey Devils and did [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTJMtZWx29s&feature=related this].
* Spike TV's ''[[
* A few Stargate Atlantis episodes reach into this, mostly the ones dealing with Michael's experiments. And one episode dealing with replicators, in which {{spoiler|Dr. Weir is infected with nanites that put her into a coma and then a perfect virtual reality simulation of an almost normal life, interspersed with various unsettling moments.}}
** The iratus bug was probably designed for this.
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* In the HBO movie ''If These Walls Could Talk'', Demi Moore's attempts to get an abortion in the pre-Roe vs. Wade 1950's. Two HONF moments were when she tries to induce an abortion using a knitting needle, and the ending after she has gotten an illegal abortion. She is on the phone trying to call an ambulance while she slowly loses consciousness and collapses into a pool of blood.
* I remember an episode of [[Numb3rs]] that freaked me out, featuring a bombing attack at a car dealership. It wasn't a bad episode (and it even had a cameo appearance by none other than Bill Nywe the Science Guy!) by the unpleasant close up of the burned remains of a bombing victim... ''shudder''
* I was quite... unsettled by an episode of [[Millennium (TV series)|Millennium]] first season, where a female serial killer butchered the federal agent in charge of watching her (the buzzing of files on his corpse...) before kidnapping two boys and keeping them locked while broadcasting the same song over and over in their jail (Love is Blue). After ten years, this song is still an [[Ear Worm]] for me. And generally announces a very bad night.
* Just pray and hope you'll never run afoul of an [[Artifact]] from ''[[Warehouse 13]]''. Or a previous warehouse. You could be [[And I Must Scream|turned into a glass statue]], prematurely aged to death, the victim of ''[[Spontaneous Combustion]]'' or ''mummified alive''. And these are just some examples...
* There's the speetle from ''[[Unnatural History]]''. It has ''very'' acidic spit which it used to get out of a ''jam jar and a fridge''.
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* Once upon a time in [[The Eighties]], there was this Chilean [[Soap Opera]] named "Los titeres" (''The puppets''). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF6wKNJQGwI It had a freaking CREEPY opening sequence], which terrified ''thousands'' of then-kids and is ''still'' very disturbing for Chileans in their thirties.
** Decades later, Chile has the "night telenovelas" which are regularly aired around 10/11 PM to have the plot go either [[Darker and Edgier]] or [[Hotter and Sexier]] without [[Moral Guardians]] whining on them. And sometimes, these "soaps" are '''fucking scary'''. Some of the scariest moments are here:
** ''Alguien te mira'': {{spoiler|Each of the [[Villain Protagonist]]'s ''very'' gruesome murders. Specially goes to him [[Off
** ''Donde esta Elisa'': {{spoiler|The titular Elisa, a 15-year-old [[Ordinary High School Student]] [[Non Royal Princess|from a rich family]], [[Adult Fear|is kidnapped by her own uncle]], [[Parental Incest|after he molested and raped her for quite a while]]. And when she's found and rescued, ''[[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|she's shot and dies.]]'' And then there's all that said uncle's wife, [[Yandere|Consuelo]], does...}}
** ''El laberinto de Alicia'': {{spoiler|The [[Lolicon|pedophiliac]] [[Big Bad]]'s [[Karmic Death]]... [[Groin Attack|Being castrated with a scalpel]] by his younger sister, also the [[Mama Bear]] of one of his victims, and left to bleed to death. We don't ''exactly'' see how she does it, but we ''do'' see the guy's face, and then he's found with blood all over his crotch.}}
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* The ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' Halloween episode was just unsettling as all get out, but then we have [[Satan]] in the guise of Al trying to strangle Sam while the room whirls around them. Imagine your best friend trying to murder you...
* In the episode 'The Moor' of [[The Borgias]], the viewers are given the delightful image of a room full of rotting corpses, set up like the Last Supper. They've been there for decades, since he being fed a poisoned buffet. So, in addition to being horribly antisemitic, the Lord of Naples (the perpetrator) was downright terrifying.
* The scence from [[Walking
* Seaquest DSV: Episode "Knight of Shadows". When Bridger and the command crew are watching a film of the passengers and crew of a long-sunken ship they just found at the bottom of the ocean. He stops the projector because of a sense of foreboding and after the meeting ends wnen everybody leaves the room, the image from the frozen, single frame TURNS AND LOOKS AT HIM - GLARING! The ghost inhabited the image on the wall and was threatening him. I was freaked out for days. In my thirties.
* There is a season 8 episode of ER with Abby alone in her bathrobe, when she hears a knock on the door, and she hears from the intercom that it's the pizza she ordered. She buzzes him in, and then opens the door to find out that it was the wife-hitter whose wife she had just saved. He tries to find out where his wife is, Abby doesn't tell him and he then leaves after a threat to call the police. She hears another knock on the door, and she stupidly unlocks the door (but leaves the chain lock on) and, it's still the hitter and he somehow forces himself inside and punches Abby until she falls unconscious.
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* In the pilot of American Horror Story. {{spoiler|We see Violet leading Leah into the basement with the promise of Cocaine. What happens instead is that she gets attacked by Tate and some sort of creature.}}
* On ''[[Breaking Bad]]'', the {{spoiler|ultimate fate of Gus.}} '' {{spoiler|Half of his face gets blown off,}}'' {{spoiler|but we "get" to see him walk out of an exploded room before he suddenly drops dead}}. Possibly also an [[Awesome Moments|awesome moment]].
* The climax of the episode "Meat Puzzle" from ''[[
* The "alien abduction" scene in the 12th episode in [[Carl Sagan]]'s Cosmos. If you're going to debunk something, it's not a good idea to present it as absolutely terrifying first.
* The child abuse episode of ''Veronica Mars''. The ending where Sherriff Lamb appears to hate it, but also can't do anything about it, almost seems realistic in the context of excessively conservative rich families.
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* In ''[[Rizzoli and Isles]]'' we have the [[Ax Crazy]] sociopath Charles Hoyt. In particular, the way he preys on and tortures his victims, most notably Jane, is uncomfortably and [[Nightmare Fuel|disturbingly]] reminiscent of rape. He also threatens to rape Maura at one point. The guy is just so unsettling and unpredictable in his behavior, it's scary.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRf6hjm9hvU This episode] of ''[[Punky Brewster]]'' called "Perils of Punky". Episode was completely out of left field.
* During [[The Nineties]] their was a [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''In Search Of'' called ''Sightings''. The first 2 seasons was spine tingling unnerving.
* [[Unsolved Mysteries]] had VERY high doses of Nightmare Fuel. Even the true crime segments was bone chillingly creepy.
** The faceless hitchhiking ghost.
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