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*** So creepy in fact, the developers of [[Scratches]] thought it would be funny to throw it into the game!
*** The inspiration for the painting makes it less creepy. The boy is the artist, and the girl is meant to protect him from the hands outside.
** Many of [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goya |Goya's]] works are like this. He was part of the Romantic movement, in which paintings that captured a moment of the "sublime" - the ''old'' meaning of "sublime", which contained both awe and fear - were popular. Even his early works seem to have something quietly ''off'' about them; something he painted for a textile corporation had children playing, and one of them has a rather sinister smile. Later, Goya had a mental breakdown, reflected in his paintings. The most disturbing one, by most estimates, is [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son:Saturn Devouring His Son|Saturn Devouring His Son]].
** Almost every painting by [[Hieronymus Bosch]] belongs on this page.
** The painting "The Nightmare" by [[Henry Fuseli]]. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightmare )
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