History Main / AnotherMansTerror

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone'': in "Judgment Night", a Nazi captain is forced to experience being on a ship that he torpedoed for all eternity.

* In one episode of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', the crew encounters a race that punishes murderers by implanting the final memories of the victim (which they also use as evidence) into the convict for him to experience at regular intervals. Then Tom Paris gets framed for murder.
* A very similar episode occurs on ''Series/StargateSG1'', when Colonel Mitchell has drugged, has false memories of committing the murder placed in his head, and left at the scene of the crime.

* In ''Literature/DragonBones'', touching a stone of an ancient ruined temple causes Ward to briefly see through the eyes of one of the last priests of that temple. [[spoiler: His sister Ciarra gets to be possessed by what is implied to be the ''god'' of that temple later on.]]
** And there is also Oreg ... who is immortal, but still able to make his traumatic memories real. It hurts no one but himself, but Ward is pretty horrified when he hears the sound of the whip and sees Oreg's clothes and then skin be ripped apart. It is explicitly said that this thing would have killed Oreg if it had been done to him by the one person who ''can'' kill him.

** The earlier film ''Film/{{Brainstorm}}'' ends with the protagonist viewing a similar recording of a woman's natural death, and nearly gets dragged down into the afterlife himself.

* ''TabletopGame/GeistTheSinEaters'': What happens to a Sin-Eater when they are resurrected (the second time and after) by their geist: somebody else dies in their stead, they experience the unfortunate person's demise, and then the Sin-Eater finds themselves alive once more, having shoved their death on someone else. [[CaptainObvious This is a traumatic experience]] that hits the KarmaMeter hard, and if it happens too often, the Sin-Eater will end up disconnected from their geist, with both descending into insanity.

* The title necklace in Music/KingDiamond's ''The Eye'' has this effect, as its wearer gets to go through its last owner's demise.

* In ''{{Halo}}'', the Master Chief watches a helmet-cam recording of [[spoiler: Sgt Johnson's squad being overrun by the Flood. Immediately before they attack you, naturally.]]

* ''The Dark Eye'' (not to be confused with ''Drakensang: The Dark Eye'') is an obscure horror game based on the works of Edgar Allen Poe. In it, you not only are living through a tale worthy of Poe - you're also subject to experiencing three Poe tales (The Tell-Tale Heart, Berenice, and "Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado") through both the eyes of the killer... and their unlucky victim. So enjoy watching yourself [[spoiler: get smothered and chopped up by someone who is driven mad by your eye, getting buried alive and then having your fiancee pull all your teeth out, and getting slowly bricked into a grotto while you're forced to watch]].

* ''The Dark Eye'' (not to be confused with ''Drakensang: The Dark Eye'') is an obscure horror game based on the works of Edgar Allen Poe. In it, you not only are living through a tale worthy of Poe - you're also subject to experiencing three Poe tales (The Tell-Tale Heart, Berenice, and The Cask of Amontillado) through both the eyes of the killer... and their unlucky victim. So enjoy watching yourself [[spoiler: get smothered and chopped up by someone who is driven mad by your eye, getting buried alive and then having your fiancee pull all your teeth out, and getting slowly bricked into a grotto while you're forced to watch]].

** And there is also Oreg ... who is immortal, but still able to make his traumatic memories real. It hurts no one but himself, but Ward is pretty horrified when he hears the sound of the whip and sees Oreg's clothes and then skin be ripped apart.

* Used to grim and varied effect in the story-within-a-story in ThomasLigotti's "Notes On The Writing Of Horror: A Story".

* In ''TheDresdenFiles'' graphic novel ''Ghoul Goblin'', Harry soulgazes a dying man to learn what he knows, and feels death beginning to suck him down too. The victim's last thoughts warn him to remain behind and protect his surviving siblings.

* In ''StrangeDays'', a full-sensory recording of a thrill-seeker's stunt ends in his (unintended) death. A dealer in black-market sensations views it, gets to the finish, and then rips the playback-cap off his head in revulsion, yelling at the would-be seller that he doesn't deal in snuff.
** The earlier film ''{{Brainstorm}}'' ends with the protagonist viewing a similar recording of a woman's natural death, and nearly gets dragged down into the afterlife himself.

* ''The Dark Eye'' (not to be confused with ''Drakensang TheDark Eye'') is an obscure horror game based on the works of Edgar Allen Poe. In it, you not only are living through a tale worthy of Poe - you're also subject to experiencing three Poe tales (The Tell-Tale Heart, Berenice, and The Cask of Amontillado) through both the eyes of the killer... and their unlucky victim. So enjoy watching yourself [[spoiler: get smothered and chopped up by someone who is driven mad by your eye, getting buried alive and then having your fiancee pull all your teeth out, and getting slowly bricked into a grotto while you're forced to watch]].

* ''The Dark Eye'' (not to be confused with ''Drakensang TheDark Eye'') is an obscure horror game based on the works of Creator/EdgarAllenPoe. In it, you not only are living through a tale worthy of Poe - you're also subject to experiencing three Poe tales (The Tell-Tale Heart, Berenice, and The Cask of Amontillado) through both the eyes of the killer... and their unlucky victim. So enjoy watching yourself [[spoiler: get smothered and chopped up by someone who is driven mad by your eye, getting buried alive and then having your fiancee pull all your teeth out, and getting slowly bricked into a grotto while you're forced to watch]].

* The Dark Eye (not to be confused with DrakensangTheDarkEye) is an obscure horror game based on the works of EdgarAllenPoe. In it, you not only are living through a tale worthy of Poe - you're also subject to experiencing three Poe tales (The Tell-Tale Heart, Berenice, and The Cask of Amontillado) through both the eyes of the killer... and their unlucky victim. So enjoy watching yourself [[spoiler: get smothered and chopped up by someone who is driven mad by your eye, getting buried alive and then having your fiancee pull all your teeth out, and getting slowly bricked into a grotto while you're forced to watch]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' has Vault 106, where the lone wanderer has hallucinations throughout the level.

** In ''The Return Of The King'', the [[PalantirPloy Palantir]] of Minas Tirith will only ever show the last image seen by Denethor -- [[{{Squick}} two burning hands]].

* In the beginning of [[{{Penumbra}} Penumbra: Black Plague]], you can listen to a tape of someone talking about the Tuurngait, only for it to turn into screaming as one of them attacks him. Shortly after, you encounter the same one...

* In ''{{Otherland}}'' Orlando has used VR simulations that play out fatal accidents or other forms of death. There's an urban legend that they're made by monitoring someone's actual death, but this is dismissed as ridiculous as someone would have to be loaded up with expensive recording devices in advance. He has [[YourDaysAreNumbered reason]] to be preoccupied with the experience.

* In ''Film/SourceCode'', Jake Gyllenhall is mentally dropped into the shoes of a train passenger in the eight minutes before said passenger does in a terrorist attack, with the task to find the planted bomb that destroyed the train the first time around. He has to go through the same eight minutes a ''lot'' during the course of the film.

* ''TwilightZone'': in "Judgment Night", a Nazi captain is forced to experience being on a ship that he torpedoed for all eternity.

* ''Twilight Zone'': in "Judgment Night", a Nazi captain is forced to experience being on a ship that he torpedoed for all eternity.

* Reliving the memories of the recently dead is a primary mechanic of ''VideoGame/{{Cryostasis}}'', though there's a twist involved--[[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong you can change what they did before they died]], often delaying their deaths.

* The title necklace in KingDiamond's ''The Eye'' has this effect on its wearer.