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* ''[[One Thousand Ways to Die (TV)/Nightmare Fuel|1,000 Ways to Die]]''

* ''[[~~Twenty Four~~ (TV)/Nightmare Fuel|24]]''

* ''[[24 (TV)/Nightmare Fuel|24]]''

* ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark/Nightmare Fuel|Are You Afraid of the Dark?]]''

* ''[[Babylon 5 ~~(TV)~~/Nightmare Fuel|Babylon 5]]''

* ''[[Babylon 5/Nightmare Fuel|Babylon 5]]''

* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined ~~(TV)~~/Nightmare Fuel|Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]''

* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined/Nightmare Fuel|Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]''

* ''[[Being Human (TV)/Nightmare Fuel|Being Human]]''

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)/Nightmare Fuel|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''

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* ''[[CSI (TV)/Nightmare Fuel|CSI]]''

* ''[[Deadliest Catch (TV)/Nightmare Fuel|Deadliest Catch]]''

* ''[[Doctor Who ~~(TV)~~/Nightmare Fuel|Doctor Who]]''

* ''[[Doctor Who/Nightmare Fuel|Doctor Who]]''

* ''[[Farscape (TV)/Nightmare Fuel|Farscape]]''

* ''[[Firefly (TV)/Nightmare Fuel|Firefly]]''

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== ''Friday the 13th: The Series'' ==

* There were a lot of disturbing situations in ''[[Friday the ~~13 th~~ The Series]]'', despite its overall cheesiness. One of the freakiest for me involved a body-transferring amulet. A [[Corrupt Hick]] with a penchant for stuffing animals (and people) is shoved down the stairs by a chair containing the decayed stuffed corpse of his grandfather and is on the verge of death; rather than dying, he transfers his mind into the corpse. Normally, this would restore the corpse to a living, intact condition, but perhaps being rotten and stuffed with sawdust was too much to overcome. When the madman reappears, he hisses eerily, "Why die?", as if even life as a decaying monster is better than death to him. (Unfortunately, captioning revealed that he actually says "Time to die," which is too trite to be really scary any more.)

* There were a lot of disturbing situations in ''[[Friday the 13th: The Series]]'', despite its overall cheesiness. One of the freakiest for me involved a body-transferring amulet. A [[Corrupt Hick]] with a penchant for stuffing animals (and people) is shoved down the stairs by a chair containing the decayed stuffed corpse of his grandfather and is on the verge of death; rather than dying, he transfers his mind into the corpse. Normally, this would restore the corpse to a living, intact condition, but perhaps being rotten and stuffed with sawdust was too much to overcome. When the madman reappears, he hisses eerily, "Why die?", as if even life as a decaying monster is better than death to him. (Unfortunately, captioning revealed that he actually says "Time to die," which is too trite to be really scary any more.)

* 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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** 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.

** [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/The_War_Game~~ The War Game.] 'nuff said.

** [[wikipedia:The War Game|The War Game.]] 'nuff said.

* 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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** 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 [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Murder_of_Shanda_Sharer~~ murder of Shanda Sharer], which was actually far more brutal in many respects, notably that the victim was kept trapped alive in the car trunk for many hours after the murder; the murderers eventually burned her alive. So um yeah. Sweet dreams.

** 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 [[wikipedia:Murder of Shanda Sharer|murder of Shanda Sharer]], which was actually far more brutal in many respects, notably that the victim was kept trapped alive in the car trunk for many hours after the murder; the murderers eventually burned her alive. So um yeah. Sweet dreams.

* 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 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 [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Collyer_brothers~~ Collyer brothers]-level clutter is horrifying. How it happens: Say you have a favorite toy, one that you can't throw out but its value is purely sentimental, or you grew up in a deprived/poor environment and you had to save clothes and other objects to extend their use. Now, imagine if that sentiment extended to ''everything in your house, including food''; add that obsesive-compulsive feeling that if you ever ''do'' throw something out [[Tempting Fate|something bad will happen]] and you're stuck in a firetrap of your own making.

* ''Hoarders'', dear God ''Hoarders''. Sure, I am a little messy, but to see how easily it can get to [[wikipedia:Collyer brothers|Collyer brothers]]-level clutter is horrifying. How it happens: Say you have a favorite toy, one that you can't throw out but its value is purely sentimental, or you grew up in a deprived/poor environment and you had to save clothes and other objects to extend their use. Now, imagine if that sentiment extended to ''everything in your house, including food''; add that obsesive-compulsive feeling that if you ever ''do'' throw something out [[Tempting Fate|something bad will happen]] and you're stuck in a firetrap of your own making.

** 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.