History Main / NightmarishFactory

* The lower classes in ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'' worked in a place like this, toiling like slaves to maintain the dangerous machinery that allowed those on the surface to live in luxury. To drive the point home the movie explicitly compares the factories to HumanSacrifice by showing a giant machine turning into Moloch (as in the current page image) and back again.

This trope started when mainstream factories didn't have anything in the way of child labor laws [[NoOSHACompliance or occupational safety standards]], and then people were horrified by the meat factory descriptions given in the book ''Literature/TheJungle'', and infamous RealLife incidents like the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire Triangle Shirtwaist fire]].

Supertrope to SickeningSlaughterhouse. Overlaps with EternalEngine in video games, and with HellholePrison wherever such places use convict labour.

Compare {{Dystopia}}, IndustrialGhetto, PollutedWasteland, IndustrializedEvil.

Supertrope to SickeningSlaughterhouse. Overlaps with EternalEngine in video games. Compare {{Dystopia}}, IndustrialGhetto, PollutedWasteland, IndustrializedEvil.

** Just to illustrate, one of the ''CaiphasCain'' novels (which tend to paint the Imperium in ''nicer'' tones), has Cain find himself on a Forge World. An announcement for workers is heard at one point, reminding them that in just a few decades of labour they might afford themselves a cybernetic body upgrade that would render the ambient air more or less breathable.

* The lower classes in ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'' worked in a place like this, toiling like slaves to maintain the dangerous machinery that allowed those on the surface to live in luxury.

* ''VideoGame/{{Obsidian}}'' has a powerless factory holding a massive robotic spider, a level that IS a character's nightmare, which you get to experience firsthand [[spoiler: thanks to nanobots who built it]]. One of four elemental mini-worlds also uses this trope with a factory that builds the nanobots.

[[caption-width-right:350: And you think ''your'' Mondays suck... ]]

* The lower classes in ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'' worked in a place like this.

Overlaps with EternalEngine in video games. Compare {{Dystopia}}, IndustrialGhetto, PollutedWasteland, IndustrializedEvil.

* You don't want to know what really goes on in the slaughterhouse in Matthew Stokoe's ''Cows''

* The titular machine in ''Videogame/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs''. Not only is it a filthy, bloody, kilometric slaughterhouse with a raving lunatic of a controller, but [[spoiler: it's ''alive'', it intends to pull a MercyKill on the entirety of humanity, crafts Manpigs out of still-living humans and intends to become a god by way of industrialized human sacrifice]].

Compare {{Dystopia}}, IndustrialGhetto, PollutedWasteland, IndustrializedEvil.

[[caption-width-right:350: [-And you think ''your'' Mondays suck...-] ]]

* In ''AliceMadnessReturns'', the Hatter's Domain is this after being taken over by the March Hare and Dormy.

* Stage 5 of ''HardCorpsUprising'' can be this. After sneaking in through what appears to be an ordinary (and poorly lit) base, the heroes are attacked by mechanical monsters that are constantly being dumped out onto conveyor belts. When defeated, they fall backwards and explode into pieces that can damage a character. The boss is [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere a flying alien-looking]] [[FetusTerrible fetus thing]] inside a case with mechanical arms and weapons attached to it. [[spoiler:Bahamut experiences the real 'Nightmare' part of this trope. Playing as Krystal (and reading her storyline loading screen after this stage) reveals that those mechanical monsters used to be people, and that she could see Bahamut was visibly disturbed about gunning down what may have been be his ex-comrades.]]

This trope started when mainstream factories didn't have anything in the way of child labor laws [[NoOSHACompliance or occupational safety standards]], and then people were horrified by the meat factory descriptions given in the book ''TheJungle'', and infamous RealLife incidents like the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire Triangle Shirtwaist fire]].

* The insane-looking toy factory at the penultimate level of ''102Dalmatians: PuppiesToTheRescue''. One of the rooms is a giant chamber filled with hovering cubes and giant electromagnets, described as "Professor Farsboom's Electromagnetic Experiment Chamber". And let's not forget that giant "super-gloop" cannon that Cruella uses on you in the level after that.

* The entirety of Autochthonia, Realm of Brass and Shadow, in ''{{Exalted}}''. It's the interior of a machine-god, and it's large enough to be a self-contained world.

* [[TabletopGame/{{Iron Kingdoms}} Ever wonder what a factory that makes combat units out of machine parts and large chunks of dead bodies looks like?]] Presumably the workforce doesn't care because the Cryx presumably use those same cyborg zombies for a workforce.
* The Umbral Realm of The Scar is made up of a whole bunch of these in [[TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse]]. Legend has it was once a realm devoted to the promise of cities; then the Wyrm got in, and it slowly turned into an eternal paean to the worst excesses and horrors of the Industrial Revolution.

** [[Videogame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand]]'s Egg Engines would count too.

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* The meat packing industry in Upton Sinclair's ''TheJungle'' can be considered as the TropeNamer.
** That's more of a modern interpretation, which is, ironically, is what the author intended. Sinclair, who was a committed socialist, originally wanted to showcase the flagrant abuse of workers, [[NoOSHACompliance dangerous working conditions]] and [[CorruptCorporateExecutive owners' complete disregard of everything]] except their profits. Society of the day, however, latched on the (quite colorful, true) description of the industry's ''products'', and unsanitary conditions in which they were made. The resulting outcry basically led to establishment of the Food and Drug Administration. As Sinclair himself said:
---> I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
** You don't want to know what really goes on in the slaughterhouse in Matthew Stokoe's ''Cows''

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* Grunty Industries of BanjoTooie. To make matters worse for Banjo and Kazooie, the parts, factory workers, and drones all want to kill them.

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* Grunty Industries of BanjoTooie.