Serial Experiments Lain/Nightmare Fuel: Difference between revisions

[[File:aliendude.png|link=Serial Experiments Lain|frame|You probably won't be getting much sleep tonight.]]

 

A classic late 90's anime with beautiful animation best described as "creepy, cool, [[Seinen]], and [[Cyberpunk]]". It's pretty much one of the most confusing animes out there, after [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]] anyway. That and it can be very scary at times, as the following examples can attest.

 

* The hum of the electric power transformers becomes ever more creepy as the series progresses.

** Especially when it starts forming recognisable words.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaFayr9zI-8 This video] demonstrates [[Serial Experiments Lain]]'s [[Nightmare Fuel]] potential very well. Set to the trailer music of ''[[Dark City]]'', even.

** What made it scarier was the fact that the damn thing just suddenly appeared at her doorway ''out of freakin nowhere'' before disappearing.

** This strikes me as pretty potent [[Paranoia Fuel]]. Think about it. Now that you're reading this, you'll think the alien is always watching you. Behind you. Like, right now. I know I sure am. Maybe you should check...

** Then Lain has its body. [[Mind Screw|Or it has her head.]] Man, fuck sleeping now...

** Oh yeah, I watched this ''and'' the End of Evangelion when I was about 8 or 9. Never freaked me out until now when I'm rewatching everything.

*** I also did that, and also only got freaked out after rewatching. Oh how easy it is to be a child.

** There was a time when [[Tech TV]] (when it still existed) would play anime at two o' clock in the morning on Sunday. ''Lain'' was one of these. I was interested, because I had seen some advertisements in magazines at the time, and decided to give it a shot. I was eleven. This was a bad idea.

* The train scene in Episode 1. After inexplicably teleporting to several places (or [[Mind Screw|perhaps not]]) Lain suddenly appears in front of a railroad, where a girl stands in the mist in the path of the oncoming train. The strange, dreamlike feel of the scene is eerie enough...but then we get a look at the girl's face. Her facial expression distorts from a odd combination of [[Slasher Smile]] and [[Psychotic Smirk]] to terrified/sad to just {{spoiler|HOLES}} and repeats once more.

*** Later, after class, Lain is walking down a deserted school hallway when she stops and notices a figure enshrouded in shadows peering out at her from a doorway, and then paper-thin, rainbow silhouettes suddenly phase through the school walls and move by her. The shadowy figure slides close to Lain, and we once again get a close-up of the disturbing, distorted face of the girl that we last saw at the railroad back in episode 1. The unusual being seems to slide right through Lain, leaving her alone in the hallway, hunched over and quaking in silent terror.

*** Here's a minor one from that episode: a brief text conversation. (It's also a little narmy, but...)

"It really hurts! :)" }}

** Episode 4. Don't tell me that little girl bearing down on the boy playing PHANTOMa isn't ''terrifying''. {{spoiler|It quickly turns into a different kind of horror when you realize what ''really'' just happened when he shot the "monster"...}}

 

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