Return to Oz/Nightmare Fuel

The Wheelers in their introduction, they were Laughing Mad, human headed things with wheels that creaked very loudly, complete with high pitched calls.
- The wheeler's threat: " You'll have to come out eventually and when you do... we'll cut you up into little pieces and throw you in the deadly desert!"
The head scene when Dorothy went to retrieve the Powder of Life from the 31st head of Mombi in a corridor of heads. When she finally opens the door and gets the powder, the head comes to life and says "Dorothy Gale" in a Creepy Monotone, then the other heads wake up to scream loudly as she runs away from the headless Mombi.
When The Nome King loses his shit and and becomes a huge one eyed giant intent on eating the main cast.
- The death scene of the Nome King as he begins to decay rapidly after eating his one weakness, a chicken egg.
In addition, to the Nomes themselves which are demonic, but the scariest ones are the ones that reach out at the Scarecrow, but it is from a first person perceptive; so it looks like they're trying to get you.
The Deadly Desert. It surrounds all of Oz, and if you touch even a toe in it, your body turns to sand. One of the Wheelers has this happen to him to demonstrate as Dorothy and company fly precariously over it in the Gump.
Outside of the more fantastic scares of Oz, there's the fact that Dorothy gets there after escaping a mental hospital where she was about to get electroshock therapy. Let me say that again: Dorothy, a little girl, was about to get electroshock therapy.
- The mental hospital was creepy enough on its own. At first, it seems like a perfectly nice, reputable place. Then we see the rest of it. It's got all the staples: dirty, dimly lit hallways, creepy orderlies, an even creepier nurse, and a doctor who seems a little too enthusiastic about trying his new therapy on a preteen girl. And then there are the "damaged" patients who've been locked in the cellar...

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