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* ''[[The Haunting Hour the Series/Nightmare Fuel|The Haunting Hour the Series]]''
* ''[[House (TV)/Nightmare Fuel|House]]''
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* ''[[Kamen Rider Fourze (TV)/Nightmare Fuel|Kamen Rider Fourze]]''
* ''[[Life On Mars 2006 (TV)/Nightmare Fuel|Life On Mars 2006]]''
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== ''Dexter'' ==
* Every time [[Dexter]] has a flashback to his mother's murder. To whit, the sight of a two year old child drenched in blood, with the alternating sound of his mother begging her killer not to do it in front of her son and her telling Dexter not to watch, which then segues into the sound of Dexter crying mixed with his mother's screaming ''as she is cut to pieces with a chainsaw''. No wonder Dexter is so messed up.
* On a lesser note, the Trinity killer. A ''batshit insane'' killer who "kills in threes": a death in the bathtub, a death made out to look like a suicide (by falling), and a bludgeoning. The key here is that the said falling kill has him say that if his victim doesn't do it, he will go back to her (it's always a woman, mother of two) house and ''kill off her relatives one by one''. Then the bludgeoning. In the one we see in the show, he claims that "'''you''' made me ''do this''" in a rather sad like tone. And the bathtub one shows him [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|n]][[Fan Disservice|a]][[Squick|k]][[Worse Than It Sounds (Darth Wiki)|ed]].
** Much worse than this is when he {{spoiler|buries unconscious ten year-old boys in concrete.}}
** Lithgow's ability to go from a cold authoritarian monster, to a [[Psychopathic Manchild|psychotic man child ]]crying over his own crimes to {{spoiler|a God respecting family man}} is perhaps more frightening than his crimes themselves.
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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
* 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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** 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
* ''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.
** Seconded. I am rather messy and paranoid about this happening to ''me''.
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