History Main / NightmarishFactory

* Much of the environment of the surreal stop-motion horror film ''WebVideo/MadGod'' has this dakr industrial aesthetic, especially the city where {{golem}}s made of crap labour in a gigantic engine.

* The Chop Shop in ''WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}'' is this, both in appearance and in how it's seen In-Universe. The fact that the owner looks like a female robot Satan doesn't help one bit. Nor does Music/TomWaits' [[Music/{{Swordfishtrombones}} "Underground."]]

* The Chop Shop in ''WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}'' is this, both in appearance and in how it's seen in-world. The fact that the owner looks like a female robot Satan doesn't help one bit. Nor does Music/TomWaits' [[Music/{{Swordfishtrombones}} "Underground."]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSteamEnginesOfOz'', to reach the secret chamber where the Tin Man has hidden his heart, the heroes have to pass through the Great Steam Engine of Oz. It is blisteringly hot, everything is bathed in a hellish red glow, it is filled with smoke and steam, and coal keeps raining down upon there heads. Phadrig and Gromit both almost pass out from the exertion it takes to get through.

* The characters in ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'' make their way to a dilapidated version of this over the course of most of the movie. The villain is actually a magitek robot driven crazy by running the factory in the first place.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': in Dean's hallucination in the Season 2 finale, he frees enslaved orphans forced to turn a mill so that their misery can fuel the power of the Insect King (a robot/insect version of [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain the Monarch]])

* Smithy's Weapons Factory from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' is a cross between this and OminousFloatingCastle.
* Cruella [=DeVil=]'s toy factory at the penultimate level of ''VideoGame/OneHundredAndTwoDalmatiansPuppiesToTheRescue'', which manufactures the [[LivingToys evil robotic toys]] you've been fighting throughout the game. The place is replete with several types of [[NoOSHACompliance dangerous crushing devices]] and [[ConveyorBeltOfDoom unprotected conveyor belts.]] And let's not forget that giant "super-gloop" cannon that Cruella uses on you in the level after that.

* [[http://yukkuri.wikia.com/wiki/Factory The Factory]] in stories about [[WaddlingHead Yukkuris]] in the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' setting. Here, the horror is not in the working conditions, but in the horrific treatment of the yukkuris produced there.

* In the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic pony]] fanfiction ''FanFic/RainbowFactory'', based on the song by Music/WoodenToaster, the top levels of the factory are described as this, although it's more because they're [[HumanResources rendering children down for their colors]] to [[MakesSenseInContext manufacture rainbows.]]

** The second half of Stage 3 of ''{{VideoGame/Contra}}: Shattered Soldier'' also fits this. After you have destroyed the small HelicopterBlender, you enter the factory, facing the grinding machine and the chubby alien thing that produces inanimate molds. Defeat it and it gets into grinding machine along with the molds, getting grinded into the grinding machine. Next, you will see an alien snake (looks like Devil Dragon Emperor Java) that spits the hazardous bubbles as well as poisonous acids. Beat the alien snake, and two rolling turrets following it, and you will face a giant robot that breaks the wall and chases you.

* ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}''

** ''VideoGame/{{QuakeIV}}'':

* Cruella DeVil's toy factory at the penultimate level of ''VideoGame/OneHundredAndTwoDalmatiansPuppiesToTheRescue'', which manufactures the [[LivingToys evil robotic toys]] you've been fighting throughout the game. The place is replete with several types of [[NoOSHACompliance dangerous crushing devices]] and [[ConveyorBeltOfDoom unprotected conveyor belts.]] And let's not forget that giant "super-gloop" cannon that Cruella uses on you in the level after that.

* The setting of the slasher film ''Hazmat''.

* The Chop Shop in ''WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}'' is this, both in appearance and in how it's seen in-world. The fact that the owner looks like a female robot Satan doesn't help one bit.

* An entire city (at least) is like this in the BadFuture of ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons''.

* The factory that King Dedede builds in episode 28 of ''Anime/KirbyOfTheStars''.

** ''VideoGame/QuakeII'': The Processing Plant in, where you get to [[LetsMeetTheMeat watch your comrades get turned into Strogg chow]]. The main objective of the level is to hit the shutdown button for every single one of the processing machines. This concept was expanded in ''VideoGame/{{QuakeIV}}'' into the Stroyent Production Facility and explaining that victims are liquefied into essential nutrients for the Strogg.

*** The entire Stroyent factory arc in the same act continues the factory theme with corpses being liquefied into essential nutrients. There's a room with giant cogs and discarded piles of human bones to really emphasize the point. Subpar cyborgs also get discarded here in the basement acting like [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Zombies]].

** ''VideoGame/QuakeII'': The Processing Plant in ''VideoGame/{{Quake II}}'', where you get to [[LetsMeetTheMeat watch your comrades get turned into Strogg chow]]. The main objective of the level is to hit the shutdown button for every single one of the processing machines.

** In ''VideoGame/QuakeI'' The runic-themed levels have this feel to them. They feel like a cross between a molten-steel plant and a steel-based castle with runes, skulls, and crucifixion emblems adorning the walls and doors. The hot liquid behaves like lava, and the motif has the feel of an underworld villain's lair.
** ''VideoGame/QuakeII''
*** The Processing Plant in ''VideoGame/{{Quake II}}'', where you get to [[LetsMeetTheMeat watch your comrades get turned into Strogg chow]]. The main objective of the level is to hit the shutdown button for every single one of the processing machines.

** In ''VideoGame/QuakeI'' The Runic-Theme levels have this theme to them. They feel like a cross between a molten-steel plant and a steel-based castle with runes, skulls, and crucifixion emblems adorning the walls and doors. The hot liquid behaves like lava, and the motif has the feel of an underworld villain's lair.
** The Processing Plant in ''VideoGame/{{Quake II}}'', where you get to [[LetsMeetTheMeat watch your comrades get turned into Strogg chow]]. The main objective of the level is to hit the shutdown button for every single one of the processing machines.
* ''VideoGame/{{QuakeIV}}'':
** The Strogg Medical Facility in is one of these, despite the name. Captured human soldiers are put through UnwillingRoboticization where they're doped with steroids with massive, dirty needles, dismembered, and fused with cybernetic limbs and gubbins to make them into Strogg soldiers. You get to see this in First-Person, too (although for the PC Kain, it's a MidSeasonUpgrade and [[TookALevelInBadass level in Badass]] that gives him 25% more of everything since the mind-control implant in his skull was never fully activated).
** The entire Stroyent factory arc in the same act continues the factory theme with corpses being liquified into essential nutrients. There's a room with giant cogs and discarded piles of human bones to really emphasize the point. Subpar cyborgs also get discarded here in the basement acting like [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Zombies]].

* The Processing Plant in ''VideoGame/{{Quake II}}'', where you get to [[LetsMeetTheMeat watch your comrades get turned into Strogg chow]]. The main objective of the level is to hit the shutdown button for every single one of the processing machines.

** The entire ''Stroyent factory'' in the same act continues the factory theme with corpses being liquified into essential nutrients. There's a room with giant cogs and discarded piles of human bones to really emphasize the point.

* The Strogg Medical Facility in ''VideoGame/{{Quake IV}}'' is one of these, despite the name. Captured human soldiers are put through UnwillingRoboticization where they're doped with steroids with massive, dirty needles, dismembered, and fused with cybernetic limbs and gubbins to make them into Strogg soldiers. You get to see this in First-Person, too (although for the PC Kain, it's a MidSeasonUpgrade and [[TookALevelInBadass level in Badass]] that gives him 25% more of everything since the mind-control implant in his skull was never fully activated).

* The factory in which Max works in the film ''Elysium'' (2013)

* The Processing Plant in ''VideoGame/{{Quake II}}'', where you get to [[LetsMeetTheMeat watch your comrades get turned into Strogg chow]].