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* The "[[IronicNurseryRhyme Once there was a pretty fly]]" montage from ''TheNightOfTheHunter''.
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''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter''.
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* Before we get into the new ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' movies, let me tell you about the first time I saw an ad for ''BatmanReturns''. I was just innocently sitting in the back of my parents' car when I glanced out the window and saw the horrid face of The Penguin staring back. He's supposed to look like UnclePennybags! [[{{Taxi}} Danny DeVito]] in a tux should look like a plump, cuddly penguin. Not that monstrosity!
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* Before we get into the new ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' movies, let me tell you about the first time I saw an ad for ''BatmanReturns''.''Film/BatmanReturns''. I was just innocently sitting in the back of my parents' car when I glanced out the window and saw the horrid face of The Penguin staring back. He's supposed to look like UnclePennybags! [[{{Taxi}} Danny DeVito]] in a tux should look like a plump, cuddly penguin. Not that monstrosity!
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** The end, where Joker [[spoiler: marches across what can be only described as a hellscape]] and then fade to black...and the opening bars of Paint It Black...*shiver*
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* ''[[TheExorcist Exorcist: The Beginning]]'', while being otherwise a lame, horrid excuse for a movie, had one scene that made me so horrified/disturbed Ie had to leave the theatre and vomit. In it, we see a young boy being killed and torn to pieces by hyenas. It takes a few moments, too, not a few seconds. As I type this, I am getting the chills and sweating, all these years later. Barely finished the film, will never watch it again.
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* ''[[TheExorcist Exorcist: The Beginning]]'', ''ExorcistTheBeginning'', while being otherwise a lame, horrid excuse for a movie, had one scene that made me so horrified/disturbed Ie had to leave the theatre and vomit. In it, we see a young boy being killed and torn to pieces by hyenas. It takes a few moments, too, not a few seconds. As I type this, I am getting the chills and sweating, all these years later. Barely finished the film, will never watch it again.
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* Laugh at me all you want, but I will swear that the absolute creepiest film he has ever seen (and he's seen a number of scary films, from ''TheExorcist'' to ''{{Seven}}'' to ''TheRing'') was ''The Parable'', a film strip I watched on a Catholic retreat in high school. This is partly due to GenreShift: he expected something sappy and uplifting, like most religious films, and instead got what could best be described as FedericoFellini [[XMeetsY directing]] ''{{It}}''. Allow him to explain: The film (which is directed in a [[MindScrew surrealistic black and white style without any dialogue]]) stars a nameless [[MonsterClown creepy clown]] who is also supposed to be a [[MessianicArchetype representation of Jesus]]. This clown walks around [[CircusOfFear a very odd-seeming carnival]], trying to help out his fellow workers, but is met with reactions [[CrapsackWorld ranging from anger to disdain to bemusement]]. Eventually, he enters the main tent, where an [[MarionetteMaster insane puppeteer]] is showing a [[PerversePuppet disturbing puppet show]] to a bunch of traumatized kids, all wearing large, uncomfortable-looking hoodies for some reason. The clown goes and starts to amuse the kids, which enrages the puppeteer, who captures the clown and hangs him on one of the puppet frames. As he forces the clown to perform a manic dance, the clown dies, but not before letting out an ear-splitting scream. And no, he [[SubvertedTrope does not]] get better, either, although there are hints that his sacrifice inspired other members of the troupe. (The year after I saw this, my school got a new retreat director, who decided not to show the film, reasoning that it was not [[InsaneTrollLogic the point of retreat to scare the fuck out of students]].)
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* Laugh at me all you want, but I will swear that the absolute creepiest film he has ever seen (and he's seen a number of scary films, from ''TheExorcist'' ''Film/TheExorcist'' to ''{{Seven}}'' to ''TheRing'') was ''The Parable'', a film strip I watched on a Catholic retreat in high school. This is partly due to GenreShift: he expected something sappy and uplifting, like most religious films, and instead got what could best be described as FedericoFellini [[XMeetsY directing]] ''{{It}}''. Allow him to explain: The film (which is directed in a [[MindScrew surrealistic black and white style without any dialogue]]) stars a nameless [[MonsterClown creepy clown]] who is also supposed to be a [[MessianicArchetype representation of Jesus]]. This clown walks around [[CircusOfFear a very odd-seeming carnival]], trying to help out his fellow workers, but is met with reactions [[CrapsackWorld ranging from anger to disdain to bemusement]]. Eventually, he enters the main tent, where an [[MarionetteMaster insane puppeteer]] is showing a [[PerversePuppet disturbing puppet show]] to a bunch of traumatized kids, all wearing large, uncomfortable-looking hoodies for some reason. The clown goes and starts to amuse the kids, which enrages the puppeteer, who captures the clown and hangs him on one of the puppet frames. As he forces the clown to perform a manic dance, the clown dies, but not before letting out an ear-splitting scream. And no, he [[SubvertedTrope does not]] get better, either, although there are hints that his sacrifice inspired other members of the troupe. (The year after I saw this, my school got a new retreat director, who decided not to show the film, reasoning that it was not [[InsaneTrollLogic the point of retreat to scare the fuck out of students]].)
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Do you remember as a kid, you couldn't wait until you were 17 so you could watch R-rated movies without your parents' permission? Well, the scariness of ''these'' movies [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel may make it feel like it wasn't worth the wait]]. So, to all the kids out there... try not to grow up too fast.
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Do you remember as a kid, you couldn't wait until you were 17 so you could watch R-rated movies without your parents' permission? Well, the scariness of ''these'' movies [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel [[NightmareFuel may make it feel like it wasn't worth the wait]]. So, to all the kids out there... try not to grow up too fast.
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* ''Film/{{Batman}}'' (1989) - The scenes with Joker wearing skin colored make up in place over his now bleach white skin. Also, the scene where Joker challenges Batman to reveal himself after the Joker himself "took off his make up". Bruce then pauses the video on Joker's sinister grin and then we are treated to a flashback where it is revealed that The Joker as a young Jack Naiper killed his parents. The scene flashes back to Bruce who then turns to the screen in complete shock and the very next scene show is a [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel CLOSE UP AND FREEZE FRAME]] picture of Joker's [[SlasherSmile sinister grin]] looking straight at the viewer.
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* ''Film/{{Batman}}'' (1989) - The scenes with Joker wearing skin colored make up in place over his now bleach white skin. Also, the scene where Joker challenges Batman to reveal himself after the Joker himself "took off his make up". Bruce then pauses the video on Joker's sinister grin and then we are treated to a flashback where it is revealed that The Joker as a young Jack Naiper killed his parents. The scene flashes back to Bruce who then turns to the screen in complete shock and the very next scene show is a [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel [[NightmareFuel CLOSE UP AND FREEZE FRAME]] picture of Joker's [[SlasherSmile sinister grin]] looking straight at the viewer.
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* The 2007 ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' is riddled with HighOctaneNightmareFuel, and even NightmareRetardant. However, one unintentionally terrifying scene scared me more than anything else in the movie. The scene? Sweeney holds up his razor while singing "My Friends", and Mrs. Lovett's face is directly behind the razor. Not exactly frightening, except the camera focuses on the razor, and as a result, Mrs. Lovett's face is blurred. Maybe as a result of the make-up around the eyes, or just how wide the eyes are at this point, her eyes look as if they're about to pop out of her head. Ugh.
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* The 2007 ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' is riddled with HighOctaneNightmareFuel, NightmareFuel, and even NightmareRetardant. However, one unintentionally terrifying scene scared me more than anything else in the movie. The scene? Sweeney holds up his razor while singing "My Friends", and Mrs. Lovett's face is directly behind the razor. Not exactly frightening, except the camera focuses on the razor, and as a result, Mrs. Lovett's face is blurred. Maybe as a result of the make-up around the eyes, or just how wide the eyes are at this point, her eyes look as if they're about to pop out of her head. Ugh.
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** This is, of course, a Jan Švankmajer film. The same guy made a film where a dude ''[[spoiler:eats his own dick with mustard]]''. Yeah, HighOctaneNightmareFuel is pretty much a given for his films.
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** This is, of course, a Jan Švankmajer film. The same guy made a film where a dude ''[[spoiler:eats his own dick with mustard]]''. Yeah, HighOctaneNightmareFuel NightmareFuel is pretty much a given for his films.
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* The TV movie David, about a boy whose father sets him on fire due to a custody dispute. It was based on a true story, and the boy was burned over 90 percent of his body. John Glover played the father, and apparently the role was HighOctaneNightmareFuel for him.
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* The TV movie David, about a boy whose father sets him on fire due to a custody dispute. It was based on a true story, and the boy was burned over 90 percent of his body. John Glover played the father, and apparently the role was HighOctaneNightmareFuel NightmareFuel for him.
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** For this viewer, the only things that made me jump were the [[spoiler: photos]] and [[spoiler: the sight of Megan's corpse in the barrel]]. Everything else was neutralized for me because I could point out how different it was from reality (which, in and of itself, was HighOctaneNightmareFuel because how certain plot elements would play out in reality is even scarier).
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** For this viewer, the only things that made me jump were the [[spoiler: photos]] and [[spoiler: the sight of Megan's corpse in the barrel]]. Everything else was neutralized for me because I could point out how different it was from reality (which, in and of itself, was HighOctaneNightmareFuel NightmareFuel because how certain plot elements would play out in reality is even scarier).
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* Anyone seen those signs for a new ''Film/AliceInWonderland 3D'' movie? That Mad Hatter terrified me and my friends while we waited to see "Transformers 2: Revenge of The Fallen". He looks as though he stares into your soul and watches you.
** The eyes, the eyelashes...
*** The Red Queen's castle. The moat is ''filled. With.'' '''HEADS.'''
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** The eyes, the eyelashes...
*** The Red Queen's castle. The moat is ''filled. With.'' '''HEADS.'''
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->''"Do not watch this movie on drugs unless you've got a mean hankering for PTSD."''
-->--'''D. [=McCallum=]''', ''{{Cracked}}'', on ''ShutterIsland'' [[hottip:*:Applicable to many of these examples as well]]
Do you remember as a kid, you couldn't wait until you were 17 so you could watch R-rated movies without your parents' permission? Well, the scariness of ''these'' movies [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel may make it feel like it wasn't worth the wait]]. So, to all the kids out there... try not to grow up too fast.
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* [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/OneHundredAndTwentySevenHours 127 Hours]]
* [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/FourteenOhEight 1408]]
* [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001: A Space Odyssey]]
* [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TwoThousandTwelve 2012]]
* [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TwentyEightDaysLater 28 Days Later]]
** [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TwentyEightWeeksLater 28 Weeks Later]]
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Alien}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/AlienAbductionIncidentInLakeCounty
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/ApocalypseNow
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Audition}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Avatar}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/BattleLosAngeles
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Beetlejuice}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheBirds
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheBlackHole
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/BlackSwan
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/BladeRunner
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheBlairWitchProject
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheBrood
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/CabinFever
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheCell
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/ChildrenOfMen
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Chronicle}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheChroniclesOfNarnia
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Cloverfield}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Coraline}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/CowboysAndAliens
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Creepshow}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Cube}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/DarkCity
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheDarkKnightSaga
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/DawnOfTheDead
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheDayAfter
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/DeepImpact
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/DemonCityShinjuku
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheDevilsAdvocate
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{District 9}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Dragonslayer}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Eraserhead}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/EventHorizon
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheExorcist
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheFaculty
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/FightClub
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/FinalDestination
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheFourthKind
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/FunnyGames
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Gamera}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Godzilla}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Goodfellas}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/GraveEncounters
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Gremlins}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheGrey
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Halloween}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Hellraiser}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/HomeMovie
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Hook}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/HollowMan
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/HowardTheDuck
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheHowling
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheHumanCentipede
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/IndianaJones
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheIronGiant
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/IronMan
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{It}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/ItsAWonderfulLife
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/JacobsLadder
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Jaws}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Jumanji}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Juon}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/JurassicPark
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/KingKong
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/LakeMungo
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheLastBroadcast
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheLastExorcism
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheLastTemptationOfChrist
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheLordOfTheRings
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheMatrix
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Moon}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheMothmanProphecies
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheMummyTrilogy
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheMuppetChristmasCarol
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheNeverendingStory
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/ANightmareOnElmStreet
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/NoCountryForOldMen
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheOmen
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/PiratesOfTheCaribbean
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** HighOctaneNightmareFuel/ABugsLife
** HighOctaneNightmareFuel/FindingNemo
** HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheIncredibles
** HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Brave}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Poltergeist}}
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* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{RoboCop}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/SavingPrivateRyan
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Saw}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Scream}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Se7en}}
* [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Firefly}} Serenity]]
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/ShaunOfTheDead
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheShining
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/ShortCircuit
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/ShutterIsland
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Signs}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheSilenceOfTheLambs
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/SilentHill
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheSorcerersApprentice
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Spider-Man}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/StarTrek
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/StarWars (includes non-film examples as well)
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/StayAlive
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Super 8}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/ATaleOfTwoSisters
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheThing
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Terminator}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Threads}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Transformers}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Tremors}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TronLegacy
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheWarOfTheWorlds
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/WolfCreek
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/XMenFirstClass
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/ZeroDay
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* OsmosisJones: Read the example for Ebola on the main page? If not do so now. Compare Ebola to dandruff. For the sake of the argument Ebola is X times worse. '''''Now imagine something X times worse than Ebola and a man dying of it and you have the Red Death.'''''
* Margaret Hamilton as [[Film/TheWizardOfOz the Wicked Witch of the West]] has to be one of the most terrifying performances ever committed to film. Everything about her, from the acid-green skin, to the not-quite-human face, to the eery shrill voice seems programmed to give kids nightmares. And with all the scenes of her flying through the sky on a broomstick, teleporting instantly in a ball of fire, and watching the heroes through her crystal ball, there's the implication that she can find you and hunt you down '''''[[FridgeHorror wherever]] [[ParanoiaFuel you are!]]''''' If anything, the fact that it's a family film makes her scarier: she's obviously a sadist with vast magical powers, but we never see her doing anything that violent...[[NothingIsScarier our imaginations get to fill in the details]].
** However, if you've seen [[{{Theatre/Wicked}} Wicked]], this gets a bit NightmareRetardant - it can be hard not to imagine the Wicked Witch suddenly singing about defying gravity.
* ''Film/{{Evilspeak}}''. The plot centered around a student living on the dorm of an academy who became interested in the occult and started to converse with the spirit of a long-dead warlock via computer (don't ask, I don't get it either). The plot included [[FullBoarAction pigs being possessed and eating people]] (including a scene where said pigs break into a woman's bathroom and eat her while she's in her bath), messy decapitations aplenty, and blood and gore all over the place with ominous chanting in the background. And as if that wasn't [[NightmareFuel nightmarish]] enough already, [[spoiler:the movie [[DownerEnding ends]] with the aforementioned computer screen flashing a message saying "I will return."]] I had a LOT of trouble sleeping that night, and have since sworn never to watch that movie again.
* ''{{Cujo}}''. The three most particularly terrifying scenes post-rabies infection, are: when the titular dog mauls his owner and the neighbor; when he takes a bite out of the mom while she and her son are trapped in the car; and the penultimate scene when, having gotten back up from a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown inflicted by the [[MamaBear mom]] with a [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer baseball bat]] moments earlier, he shows up unexpectedly [[spoiler:just before he dies via gunshot inflicted to the head]]. Yep, ParanoiaFuel aplenty.
** Becomes even scarier if you watch it after learning about the symptoms and prognosis of rabies. Can also be FridgeHorror when you consider the possibility that post-bite vaccination can fail in rare cases, and balance that with the fact that the mom had been bitten by Cujo. The book is even worse, what with it's significantly more dramatic ending.
* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYjFKsJjCP0 library scene]] from ''{{Ghostbusters}}'' isn't exactly the scariest scene in a movie, but it can really catch you off guard if you haven't seen it before. It may be NightmareRetardant for some people (including myself).
* TheIncredibleShrinkingMan: The fight between the now very tiny Scott Carey and the spider. Yes, it was made over fifty years ago and on a shoestring budget. However, the whole appearance of the spider was very, very creepy. From when it first appeared crawling out of the crate to when after the basement floods, it tramples on top of the matchbox that Scott now lives in. Finally, the battle when the spider crawls over him is chilling, and when Scott stabs it, it's enough to give one nightmares. Then you see that red hour glass shape on the bottom of the spider, you realize what type of spider it was leading to a FridgeHorror.
* ''SmokinAces'': Specifically the scene when one of the Tremor brothers ''falls on a chainsaw.'' Seriously, the director of ''{{Hostel}}'' would be impressed.
* The 1963 Italian horror film "Black Sabbath" (yes, the one [[Music/BlackSabbath a certain band]] was named after) has three segments. The first two (or last two, if you see the dubbed AIP version) are your typical, run of the mill horror stories. The finale, "Drop of Water", however, is possibly the scariest thing ever filmed. If you've seen the film, that THING's [[NightmareFace face]] has haunted your dreams. If you haven't seen it, [[SchmuckBait look it up]] on Google Video (unless you want to sleep within the next few days).
* [[LooksLikeOrlok Nosferatu]]. I have never even seen the movie, but I still have nightmares about that creature.
** Furthermore, the {{Mockumentary}} film, ''ShadowOfTheVampire'' decides that [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Max Shreck, the actor who played]] Count [[strike:Dracula]] Orlok was a REAL VAMPIRE! To quote [[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd Cinemassacre's Monster Madness]], "He may as well be". Brr...
* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus_%281999_film%29 Virus]]'' was a movie that was shown as M in my video shop. It was certainly 18+ .. I mean I like the horror genre, but maybe because I wasn't prepared it struck deep. If I ever had nightmares, this would be it.
* ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004'' remake. A zombified baby's birth scream and scene cut to show the baby itself. First time I saw that, I froze to my seat.
** The [[PapaWolf subsequent line]] is even worse if you're a dad, or would like to be.
** the early scene where Ana and Luis wake up to be attacked by a zombified little girl, Not specifically for fear of zombies, but it made him realize that whenever you go to sleep you never really know what the world might be like when you wake up.
* ''TheTrial'' (1993 version). The labyrinth of dilapidated corridors as a metaphor for a heartless bureaucracy awakens some childhood fears in some peoplw. A rare case of creating a really unsettling effect without using any horror-associated elements.
* The entire opening scene of [[TheUnborn The Unborn]]. So you're out jogging, and you run into a stray glove in the road. Not so bad...until you turn around and see [[CreepyChild the owner of the matching one]] standing right behind you, just...staring. An odd cut, and you're suddenly faced with a pit bull [[UncannyValley wearing a papier-mâché human mask.]] He waddles off into the woods, and for no real reason, you decide to follow him. You come across the mask lying on the ground, and dig down into the dirt to find the strings attached to a [[FetusTerrible disturbing-looking fetus]] in a jar. Zoom in slowly on its little swollen face...and [[BlueEyes THE EYES]] [[EyeAwaken BURST OPEN.]]
* In RoboCop, during the final shootout between the titular cyborg and Clarence Boddicker's gang in an abandoned chemical plant, one of the gang members crashes a van into a vat of toxic waste...and survives. The effect of the waste on him is both nauseating and terrifying, he is visibly melting and dissolving, while alive, staggering around and moaning desperately for help. It is almost a relief when, later in the sequence, he is accidentally run over by Boddicker and promptly ''[[MadeOfPlasticine explodes]]'' from the impact, showering the windscreen in what appears to be [[NauseaFuel brown water]], rather than blood.
** Also from RoboCop, early in the film, before his resurrection as a cyborg, Murphy is captured by Boddicker's gang, who proceed to graphically dismember him ''with shotguns'', blowing his arm off and blasting endless rounds into his torso from a distance, before finally killing him with a close range shot through the head. Murphy is entirely concious and screaming horrifically throughout, up until the final headshot.
* '' DyingBreed''. Another Australian film, twice as disturbing as wolf creek (which in itself is based on a true story). A group of cannibals grab a few hiker girls and rape them to get more children or else die from inbreeding, and eat the men. What makes this so scary, you ask? ''Based on a true story''. The actual man was a convict who broke free and was found years later. He was a known cannibal, and he had a family in the Australian Outback that practiced cannibalism. ''In Australia''.
** As an Australian resident I'd like to point out that the cannibal and prisoner part of Dying Breed are the only provable facts, originally Alexander Pearce escaped and cannibalized other escapees due to starvation. Tasmania is not a forgiving place. Though apparently he did grow to like human flesh. There's not evidence he ever spawned a family though or that he was ever out long enough to raise them as cannibals. Also he was hung on 19th of July 1894.
** Seconded. I'm a Tasmanian, and the story is overblown incredibly. Alexander Pearce didn't raise a family, nor is WolfCreek a true story. It's inspired (read: the writers have made speculative fiction) by the disappearance of several backpackers. Furthermore, Tasmania is about as opposite to the Outback as you can get.
* ''DragMeToHell'' is filled to the brim with High Octane Nightmare Fuel, but the scene that really stands out is the ending, [[spoiler:in which the final shot is of the female protagonist literally being DraggedOffToHell, as demonic hands grab her and slowly bring her down to Hell as her piercing scream reverberates throughout the whole scene.]]
** The early sequence where Christine has the seer Ram Jas read her fortune. As she holds out her hand for him to try and see into her future the tension starts to build up and the music turns ominous. Then *BAM* out of nowhere a quick flash of the Lamia's face appears, with burning yellow eyes and razor-sharp teeth against a background of flames and accompanied by a high-pitched screech. So many sleepless nights because of that one shot.
* There's a creepy scene in the ''{{MST3K}}'' episode ''Film/DevilDoll'', where DemonicDummy Hugo is sitting motionless in his cage. After a long lingering shot in dead silence, his eyes make a slight movement (reminding us that he is indeed, alive) and the camera pans across the room. Not even Mike and the bots' excellent riffing can diffuse the terror of that horrifyingly subtle little moment.
** Speaking of MST3K, "Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders" isn't an episode to watch alone late at night. It's a terrible film and not scary during the day, but disturbing enough--in part ''because'' it's so badly made--to be rather spooky at the time of night/morning when ''everything'' is spooky.
* ''PinkFloyd: TheWall''. In particular, [[BodyHorror Comfortably Numb]] and Goodbye Blue Sky are nightmare fuel.
** Comfortably Numb never scared me. I remember hearing the song when I was younger and feeling mostly relaxed when it would come on the radio or something. Later, as I got older, I listened to the lyrics more closely and realized it was actually pretty disturbing but I still really like it. The complete opposite happened with TheEagles' ''Hotel California''. I thought it was a nice, relaxing song until I actually paid close attention to it when I got older. Creeped me right the hell out and still does.
** While the song in itself isn't scary, the ending of Confortably Numb (when Pink [[BodyHorror gets rid of his own skin]]) probably counts. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt0b77N5kWg And let's]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q68Qwgz1aXQ just say everything]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE2t6HWmquc gets worse]] [[ItGotWorse from there]]. Hell, probably all the animated sequences count as well.
** ''The Trial,'' as a song, isn't really that bad. The ''[[DerangedAnimation film]]'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jViTte8VAzU version,]] on the other hand...
* ''Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari'', also a brilliant example of ParanoiaFuel. Contains the most messed-up set design in anything ever, as well as a psychotic sleepwalking Conrad Veidt.
** ''TheManWhoLaughs'' has more Veidt, this time as the most unbelievably disturbing-looking protagonist in all of film. See the page on SlasherSmile, and you too will understand.
* The intro to ''{{Eraserhead}}''. That's not to say that the rest of the movie isn't nightmarish as well, mind you, but the simple sight of The Man In The Planet crouched motionless by the window, wrapped in shadows, and then twitching slightly, is probably the single most disconcerting thing in the universe.
** Don't forget the artificial chickens served for dinner by Mary's parents. "Just cut them up like regular chickens..."
** Scarier still are the mysteries surrounding the special effects. The rumor that the baby puppet is a modified cow fetus seems mostly debunked, but the opposite is true for another facet--it's been ''confirmed'' that the umbilical cords used in the film are not only real, but ''human''. A crew member relates [[http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Interview/4749/Eraserheadfaq.htm#9.%20Is%20it%20true%20that%20Lynch%20used%20hospital%20refuse%20for here]] how one landed on another crewman's shoe and he was so {{Squicked}} that they had to cease filming for several days.
* The scene in the movie '*Film/MasterAndCommander: The Far Side of the World, when [[spoiler:Midshipman Hollom commits suicide by jumping off the side of the ship while holding a cannonball.]] The sight of his upturned face slowly fading out of sight as he sank downwards into the water haunted her for ''years''.
** Also another scene, during a huge storm where the Surprise looses a mast, and the sailors have to cut it loose fast or the ship will turn sideways to the waves and be rolled over. And there's one man still clinging to the ropes, watching his shipmates cut him loose, screaming for them to just wait for him...
** Despite the [[GoryDiscretionShot bloodlessness]], the [[spoiler:amputation scene]] almost made me [[NauseaFuel sick]]. The fact that the assisting sailors--all familiar with wounds and battles--were so obviously disturbed just struck a chord with me that's made it almost impossible for me to watch that scene ever since. The fact that, drugged though he was, Blakeny was still somewhat ''aware'' just makes it ten times worse.
* The 2004 remake of ''TheManchurianCandidate'' includes a graphic depiction of a murder by asphyxiation with plastic wrap. The victim gags and vomits while his eyes bulge and he claws desperately at his assailant, all to no avail. This editor still can visualise it with disturbing clarity despite not having touched the film since two years back.
** "Do you remember me?" "No." [[ParanoiaFuel * cheerful grin* "Good! Come with me."]] ''My eyes are watering just typing that.'' Don't even get me started on CompellingVoice + ArtShift; I have a tendency to trail off into "ohnonononononononono..."
** Oh, and while we're on the subject of gruesome movie deaths (and near deaths) from asphyxiation: Anyone remember the scene in ''TotalRecall'' where [[spoiler:ArnoldSchwarzenegger and two other characters]] are trapped on an airless Mars? Their gagging, eye-bulging antics are so over the top that the scene almost CrossesTheLineTwice into NightmareRetardant. ''Almost.'' Admittedly, the scene's scariness and plausibility are ''slightly'' reduced by the fact that [[spoiler:two of the three characters somehow survive. Not only do they survive, but they are ''perfectly fine'']].
* ''When a Stranger Calls Back'', (The made-for-TV sequel to the original ''WhenAStrangerCalls.''), has an innocent schoolgirl stalked by [[spoiler:William Landis, a psychopathic ventriloquist who, in the film's climax, paints himself to look like the wall behind him, so if the lights are off, he's practically invisible.]] It sounds cartoony, but when you see him do it, and realize that it could actually be done in real life, it's utterly creepy.
* If the part of ''[[TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' where HAL deactivates the crewmembers' life support systems doesn't creep you out, you are a freak. A ''freak'', sir!
** The monolith scene with the [[HellIsThatNoise hellish]] [[DroneOfDread droning]] [[OminousLatinChanting choral]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgqI32JX_jY music]].
** I never found that scene scary. I did, however, find the infamous ''Daisy, daisy...'' scene quite scary, and a TearJerker too. As a YouTube comment I saw once put it, "It's like watching the execution of an invalid".
* [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Humma Kavula]] is a semi-insane missionary living amongst the Jatravartid people of Viltvodle VI, and a former space pirate. (It was presumably during his time as a pirate that he lost his legs and had them replaced with telescoping mechanical spider appendages). He wears thick glasses, which make his eyes appear normal when worn; however, when he removes the glasses, he appears to have shrunken black pits where his eyes should be.
** Don't worry, it becomes NightmareRetardant [[HeyItsThatGuy once you realise he's]] [[OfMiceAndMen Lennie]]...or does that make it worse?
* The 2007 ''{{Film/Beowulf}}'''s portrayal of Grendel. Crispin Hellion Glover is a scary man.
* While ''El Orfanato'' was a pretty scary film all around, three things in particular merit this list: 1) the bit with the medium and [[spoiler: the screaming, invisible children]], 2) the car-crash, 3) Tomas.
* ''[[http://imdb.com/title/tt0069738/ The Asphyx (UK, 1973)]]''
* The original ''TheLastHouseOnTheLeft''. Just... ''TheLastHouseOnTheLeft''.
** Really any thing by Wes Craven, but yes, my god that movied freaked me the fuck out, simply because IT CAN (and most likely does) REALLY HAPPEN.
* ''{{Suspiria}}'' ; Pat's Murder. The wire scene.
* The truck pull scene in the original ''Film/TheHitcher''. It makes you look ''away'' from the screen before [[spoiler: a cut to black]]. Take ''that'', Hack Wade Wall.
* TerryGilliam's surreal movie ''{{Brazil}}'' (1985)
--> "This is a professional relationship"
* Science gone horribly wrong! The original movie ''TheFly'' was creepy and psychologically horrible (imagine you were the poor wife), and the 1986 reimagining was just plain {{Squick}}tastic BodyHorror descent into madness and horror.
* The Russian movie ''Nochnoy dozor'' (2004) (aka {{Nightwatch}}).
** Having seen the movie numerous times...which part or parts did you consider Nightmare Fuel?
** The freaky doll with the spider's legs and the sequence in the beginning with the frying pan. This editor is still creeped out by those two.
* In ''Film/HeavyMetal'', the most disturbing story is hands down "B-17." Whether is the ''extremely'' graphic death toll on the plane's crew during the plane's bombing run, or the rampaging zombies the dead turn into or the fact that the only survivor lands on an island utterly surrounded by the living dead aircrews is a matter of opinion.
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* The ''Manga/DeathNote'' film spinoff ''Film/LChangeTheWorld'' pulls this off with the symptoms of the killer virus at the centre of the plot. The various sores with the severe bleeding and the tears of blood make its victims look disturbing, not to ignore their moans and screams of pain. The named character who uses a syringe of infected blood to commit suicide and deny the villains use of him continues screaming even when the camera isn't focused on him, and when he is "neutralised" the last shot the audience (and his preteen daughter) gets of him is his wholly bloodshot eyes along with his severely charred face. L describes his impending death by heart attack as peaceful, and [[@/GentlemensDame883 this editor]] is inclined to agree if the alternative is so much worse. There is, also, the [[FridgeLogic after-the-film consideration]] of how horrible such a virus, described as a mix of influenza and Ebola but "100 times" as infectious, would be. Sometimes thinking too hard is bad...
** [[NightmareRetardant Think harder.]] If it's that deadly, it kills its hosts too fast to spread, and the symptoms are obvious enough to prevent accidental infection.
* The ''[[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1c/Zombi2poster.jpg poster alone]]'' for ''Film/{{Zombi 2}}''/''Zombie Flesh Eaters''/''Zombie''. The menacing tagline doesn't help at all either.
** The movie also contains an excellent and painfully slow scene of a [[EyeScream face being pulled toward a very long splinter of wood]]. Lucio Fulci, the director, was apparently known for including lots of gore in his movies. And doing it well.
* ''Recorded Live'', a student film by S.S. Wilson, the man behind the ''Tremors'' series. A man goes to a job interview, only to find there's nothing in the office but a film reel with "do not erase" written on it. Suddenly the film comes to life and advances on the man, who runs for his life. He discovers the film can be driven off with a magnet, but eventually it outsmarts him by moving under the carpet and springing up from beneath him, enveloping the poor bastard and leaving nothing behind when it moves away. Then it sends out another letter to a job applicant, and returns to its reel. Did I mention the film makes a "fast forwarding" noise every time it moves? You'll never hear that sound the same way again.
** And you can watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Qeee8D2Ro here]]...
* The exact fate of [[spoiler:Marlena]] in ''{{Cloverfield}}''.
** For those who [[JitterCam get motion sickness easily]] and didn't watch it: [[spoiler:While the main characters are walking through a SinisterSubway tunnel, a scene which is [[NothingIsScarier pretty creepy in it's own right]] , Marlena gets bitten by one of the parasites that fall off of the giant monster-thing. A few minutes later, when they end up at a first-aid center set up by the Military, her eyes start bleeding uncontrollably. Everyone starts freaking out, they drag her behind a curtain and we see a huge splatter of blood against it. They never explain exactly ''what'' happened behind the curtain, but it's pretty much set in stone that it's either: A, her stomach exploded, or B, they shot her so she wouldn't give birth to another parasite or something along those lines.]]
* The movie ''BarefootGen'' shows graphic animated depictions of people's eyeballs and skin melting in the 1945 Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings. ''Graphic''. It even has a dog trying to escape the blast but melting along with the others. What's even worse, however, is that some of the people with their skin and eyes melted off actually survived, at least temporarily. They are shown walking through the rubble, holding out their half-melted arms like zombies... Scenes from the movie exist on Youtube, but will not be linked to here.
** The manga is ''just as bad.'' * whimper*
* If the [[spoiler:dead baby]] in the movie ''{{Trainspotting}}'' didn't creep you out, Renton's withdrawal hallucination of it crawling on the ceiling will.
** How about the entire withdrawal scene? Creepy shit.
** That hallucination still makes cameos in my nightmares and I haven't seen the movie in ten years.
* Before we get into the new ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' movies, let me tell you about the first time I saw an ad for ''BatmanReturns''. I was just innocently sitting in the back of my parents' car when I glanced out the window and saw the horrid face of The Penguin staring back. He's supposed to look like UnclePennybags! [[{{Taxi}} Danny DeVito]] in a tux should look like a plump, cuddly penguin. Not that monstrosity!
* ''Film/{{Batman}}'' (1989) - The scenes with Joker wearing skin colored make up in place over his now bleach white skin. Also, the scene where Joker challenges Batman to reveal himself after the Joker himself "took off his make up". Bruce then pauses the video on Joker's sinister grin and then we are treated to a flashback where it is revealed that The Joker as a young Jack Naiper killed his parents. The scene flashes back to Bruce who then turns to the screen in complete shock and the very next scene show is a [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel CLOSE UP AND FREEZE FRAME]] picture of Joker's [[SlasherSmile sinister grin]] looking straight at the viewer.
** When I first saw ''Batman'', I was about ten or so, and it was all fine until the end, when the Joker calmly gives a lighthearted speech to the city that ends on the note "Oh, by the way, I've randomly decided that I'm going to kill you all with the grossest-looking gas ever." I saw it coming and everything, but the way he played it creeped me out beyond reason.
* The twitchy, headshaking ghosts in the ''Film/HouseOnHauntedHill'' remake, especially the scene where Melissa finds herself videotaping a ghostly vivisection (in an empty room), and then senses something behind her. She turns, sees a shadowy figure peer around a corner wayyyyyy down the hallway, and in an eyeblink it's RIGHT THERE IN HER FACE OH MY GOD HEADSHAKING TEETH BLOOD ARGH ARGH ARGH...
** Oh god, the whole film. The tank full of blood. The bizarre nightmarish images from the "Saturation Chamber" made even more horrifying as it's suggested these were real things that prowled the Asylum and still lurk somewhere down there. Melissa's remains. Steven Price's wife rotting to nothing by "the Evil". And the final shot at the end of the credits, showing the characters devoured by the "Evil" in a nightmarish scene right out of Vanacuts depraved "Home movies", suggesting they're still trapped in an endless hell within the Asylum. Hell, even the opening credits are creepy as hell.
** The original has a fantastic JumpScare. I have no clue why it's so damn effective, but it gets me every time.
* The Spanish horror film ''Film/{{REC}}''. Locked into an apartment complex with a mysterious and creepy infection rampaging, risking death if you try to leave the building, and a [[spoiler: frightening once-a-girl monster corpse in the attic]].
** It may be the single scariest thing ever committed to celluloid.
*** This scene in the remake is frame for frame ''identical'' and just as terrifying.
** The American version, ''Quarantine'', has some traumatic scares of its own, specifically, ''the freaking Thin Man''.
*** Man-in-the-Suit legend Doug Jones, actually, playing by far the most disturbing carrier (short of the UndeadChild, that is) in the entire film.
* ''DonnieDarko''. Frank.
** The [[http://www.donniedarkofilm.com/ website]] is an interactive nightmare. Even worse is finding it months prior to the movie's release, thus thinking it's a game that will be explained, thus being left confused and nervous when it seems to abruptly terminate with a sinister last page. For maximum fun, click on one of the links in any of the pop-up "websites". It will tell you the link is broken, and offer a link to contact the webmaster about the problem. Click on that, and... yeah, you may be afraid of your computer for a while.
* The "[[IronicNurseryRhyme Once there was a pretty fly]]" montage from ''TheNightOfTheHunter''.
* ''RosemarysBaby''. The scariest part is the nightmare sequence, where Rosemary dreams [[spoiler:(correctly) that she is raped by a demon]].
* I gained a fear of skinny people thanks to the BodyHorror happy ''{{Thinner}}'', based on a StephenKing story.
** Fear of skinny people? More like fear of pie...
** Actually it was more than that, it was [[UnfortunateImplications a fear of gypsies as well.]]
** Dude, muppets themselves have massive horror potential.
* ''FourteenOhEight'': "''Five. This is five. Ignore the sirens. Even if you leave this room, you can '''never''' leave this room...''"
** Scary on its own, but the [[spoiler: false ending]] gives way to a worse piece: [[spoiler: the evil fucking room trots out Kusack's dead daughter, lets him hold her as she begs him not to let "them" take her away, then she crumbles to ash in his arms.]]
* ''{{Videodrome}}''. If anybody is able to watch this film without even so much as even flinching, my only words to them is "get away from me, you sick, soulless psychopath."
** [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne Hey, I'm not sick!]]
** [[BodyHorror "Long live the new flesh"]]
* Speaking of DavidCronenberg, ''Shivers'' is easily one of the most fucked-up things ever put onto film. However, the part when [[spoiler: one of the penis monsters comes out of the guy's mouth]] easily takes the cake as the squickiest part. And that's really, REALLY saying something.
* The last scene of ''The Black Dahlia'', where Josh Hartnett's character is talking with Scarlett Johansson's character, then looks back to see [[spoiler:the Dahlia's corpse spread out on the lawn just like it was when she was found]]. The [[ScareChord sharp violin music]] really makes it a O_o moment.
* The 2007 ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' is riddled with HighOctaneNightmareFuel, and even NightmareRetardant. However, one unintentionally terrifying scene scared me more than anything else in the movie. The scene? Sweeney holds up his razor while singing "My Friends", and Mrs. Lovett's face is directly behind the razor. Not exactly frightening, except the camera focuses on the razor, and as a result, Mrs. Lovett's face is blurred. Maybe as a result of the make-up around the eyes, or just how wide the eyes are at this point, her eyes look as if they're about to pop out of her head. Ugh.
** When [[spoiler:Mrs. Lovett meets her KarmicDeath]]. I laughed through most of the over-the-top blood effects, but watching someone being [[spoiler:''[[http://es.tinypic.com/r/2lbgs9h/3 burned alive in an oven]]'']] almost made me lose my lunch.
** Beadle Bamford. Where to even begin? I guess when we learn that Judge Turpin raped Benjamin Barker's/Sweeney Todd's wife, and while he raped her the Beadle was looking on with ''[[NightmareFetishist entirely]]'' [[NightmareFetishist too much interest]]. Later, he praises Turpin for sentencing a ''nine-year-old boy'' to death for stealing... A pretty small, insignificant something. Then there's the beating he gave Anthony, and we more than believed Beadle when he said, "Next time, I'll beat out your pretty little brain." Plus, throughout the movie it's implied that he's a pedophile. Who knew a mere [[TheDragon sidekick]] could end up almost more monstrous and terrifying than the BigBad himself? (Considering, of course, that almost ''everyone'' in this movie is either a CompleteMonster or repeatedly crosses the MoralEventHorizon.)
* ''TheGodfather'' has Sonny Corlene's death and of course the famous horsehead in the bed scene. Of course Marlon Brando's portrayal of the Godfather could also qualify.
* Peter Lorre in ''Film/{{M}}''.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUDUbxsNjV0#t=9m27s "How I must! Don't want to! MUST! DON'T WANT TO! MUST! And then, a voice screams - I can't bear to hear it! I can't... I can't..."]]
* Peter Lorre in ''Mad Love''. It came out in 1935, but that neckbrace/metal glove costume remains FREAKY, and Lorre was never freakier. "Yes, they cut off my head. But that Gogol, he put it back . . . HERE!"
* The complete {{Squick}}-fest that was ''HollowMan'', particularly the invisible rape scene in the neighbor's apartment.
* The traps in ''Film/ResidentEvil'', in particular, [[spoiler:the lasers that cut off one commando's limbs, decapitate another and finally cut up Colin Salmon into square chunks using a laser grid - ''milliseconds before they're shut off'' - after he dodges the first two. The close angle on his eye as he fell apart did not help.]] I refuse to watch the ''{{Cube}}'' series for similar reasons.
* I got my first nightmare in a long time from the movie ''Titus'', in the exquisitely shot but horrific scene where [[spoiler:Lavinia is found on a stump, having been raped and with her hands and tongue cut off. Twigs have been stuck in the stumps, and when she opens her mouth, blood streams out.]]
* In ''Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}'', after Lance Henriksen's character has called up the demon to avenge his young son's death, he's driving with the boy's body wrapped up on the front seat of his truck. A bump causes the body to roll off, unraveling, and ask in a soft, scared, little-boy voice, "What'd you do, daddy?" To this day it still makes me shiver.
** Just for funzies: I was old enough by the time I saw ''Pumpkinhead'' to consider the sneering, leonine demon to be made of [[RuleofCool pure, unrefined, 200-proof win]].
** Unusual for a low-budget horror film, Pumpkinhead had a few subtle moments. [[spoiler: Every scene the monster's in, it has a slightly different face... until, at last, it has Henriksen's.]] More terrifying for me, though, is that it subverts usual horror movie fare as the monster stalks the reckless teens. [[spoiler: The child's killer is one of the first to die.]]
* ''Film/TheChangeling'' (1980) has two blood-freezing scenes, neither with a single drop of blood in them. In the first, listening to the audio tape recording made of a spirit-writer's attempt to contact the ghost haunting George C. Scott's house, [[spoiler:the murdered boy's voice can be heard desperately whispering ... something that was completely inaudible during the scene in which the tape was made.]] When the hero figures out where the body has been buried, he goes there and finds that a house has been built on the spot with a mother and her little girl living there. The girl asks him [[spoiler:if he's come about ''"the boy under the floor"''.]] Brrrr.
* Gomer Pyle's [[spoiler:suicide]] in ''FullMetalJacket''.
** [[spoiler:The actual suicide itself is quick, but EXTREMELY concentrated in HONF. Seeing somebody's (squib) brains splattered all over the wall directly behind them will do that.]]
** Made worse by the CreepyMonotone leading up to it.
-->'''Gomer Pyle''': Seven-six-two millimeter, full...metal...jacket.
** The end, where Joker [[spoiler: marches across what can be only described as a hellscape]] and then fade to black...and the opening bars of Paint It Black...*shiver*
* The Zuni fetish doll in ''Film/TrilogyOfTerror''. Pure, uncut, nightmare fuel.
* The opening of ''TheFearlessVampireKillers.'' The MGM lion roars twice and... well, see for yourself: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvTSjcpbQS4 original version]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j91DQKsXpwk American version]].
* Several things about the movie ''Film/FrightNight'' especially the transformation scenes such as when "Evil Ed" changes from wolf to human and the particularly freaky scene where Amy (the main character's girlfriend) turns into a freakishly cartoonish vampire with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily.
* ''Film/TheDescent''. The crawlers are creepy enough to start off with, but when you realize they might be [[spoiler:figments of Sarah's imagination as she kills all her friends down there in the cave...]] For that matter, Sarah herself. She's like [[spoiler:Carrie]] gone ActionGirl, for God's sake.
* ''MinorityReport'' did it for me. Have a nice trip to containment. Saw it once, judged it to be a good movie, and ''never saw it again because of that scene''.
* In the {{Blaxploitation}} flick ''Film/{{Blacula}}'': one of Blacula's female victims reanimates in the local morgue, and the viewer gets treated to a POV shot of a luckless morgue attendant, as said victim comes charging down a hallway towards him in slow-motion, all fangs and crazed staring eyes...
* Having laughed his way through ''[[Film/TwentyEightDaysLater 28 Days Later]]'', I believed that its sequel, ''[[TwentyEightWeeksLater 28 Weeks Later]],'' would be more of the same. [[http://vimeo.com/17083028 The first non-flashback infection scene]] [[spoiler:in which a woman in full-body restraints is kissed by her husband who subsequently contracts the virus, puts out her eyes, and beats her to death in a series of extreme close-up shots]] put that notion to rest and marked the end of the movie-viewing experience for my wife.
** Private Mailer looking in through the window. [[Tropers/SpamWarrior3000 I]] couldn't look at a dark window for MONTHS after that, and to this day gets creeped out if she's home alone at night.
** ''28 Days Later'' as a whole frightens me more, I think, than it generally frightens other people. I think it's the concept I have nightmares about. Most zombie films are set in America, on the other side of the Atlantic, and the zombies are comically slow and realistically wouldn't have a chance against the US military. ''28 Days'' is set in Britain, far, far closer to home, and features a massively lethal HatePlague that rolls over the entire country in 28 days flat. I just find that, coupled with the shots of an empty London, terrifying to contemplate.
** A lot of discussion about ''28 Days Later'' talks about the Infected. And they certainly are pretty terrifying. But probably the most effective nightmare fuel is the first ten minutes, when the main character wakes up and wanders around London -- and it's completely empty. Not even that trashed or destroyed or ruined, compared to most post-apocalyptic visions of the world, just... empty. Like the main character woke up one day and found that the entire world had just disappeared -- and he was the only one left, isolated and alone in this massive, empty city...
* Kevin from ''SinCity'', full stop.
** Ladies and gentlemen, [[LordOfTheRings Frodo]] has left the building....
* The lobotomy in ''FromHell''. I mean, god. Tied down and she can see it coming and it ''doesn't even kill her''.
** I've only seen the film once but the scene with the Elephant Man (I'm pretty sure it was this film) bing unveiled creeped me out; what he looked like, not the unveiling in and of itself.
** The monolauge at the end[[spoiler: Where Jack is going insane as he cuts up the last woman]]. I will never EVER look at the heart the same way again. Informative, though...
* ''Film/{{Martyrs}}'', not the least because it's pretty much made of ItGotWorse.
* ''Film/TheInnocents'' based on the novella ''Literature/TheTurnOfTheScrew'' is completely bloodless and devoid of violence but it is ''extremely'' scary because of the stark black and white scheme and the atmosphere.
** Also, of course, the ending, the full implications of which ([[spoiler:necrophiliac pedophilia]]) are...more than a little disturbing.
* ''{{Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory}}''s infamous tunnel scene still creeps me right out.
** The fact the Gene Wilder's never-quite-sane voice is constantly rising in volume and growing more unhinged as he sings his bizarre poetry until he's finally bellowing at the top of his lungs and visibly shaking is what clinches it.
* ''TheMothmanProphecies'': I still get chills just from remembering the sound of Indrid Cold's voice on the phone.
** I was terrified of my BATHROOM SINK after watching that movie, due to the voice coming out of the motel sink's drain.
** Don't forget the closet. I was claustrophobic enough ''before'' seeing that.
** I was scared of the beginning when they're driving down the street, and the mothman CRASHES INTO THEIR WINDSHIELD. It was just so unexpected!
* ''Film/DeadSilence''. I barely watched any of it due to keeping my eyes covered, and was still terrified... Plot and {{Narm}} aside, every single closeup of that goddamn ventriloquist's dummy and its GIANT EYES THAT SLOWLY START TO MOVE ON THEIR OWN AND... BRRRRRRRRRR.
* Despite its age, the ''TheThingFromAnotherWorld'' manages a couple of moments; in one scene, the Thing is doused with gasoline and set ablaze in a dark and claustrophobic room, and [[ManOnFire continues to rampage around unimpeded]], spreading flames everywhere. At another point, the heroes know the Thing is lurking somewhere nearby. They come up with a plan, yank the door of their refuge open, and the towering Thing is standing ''right there'' in the doorway.
* How about ''Film/{{Manhunter}}''? Tom Noonan's performance as the Tooth Fairy has to be one of the most disturbing bits of acting ever committed to film.
* ''Saturn 3'' had '''the''' most terrifying robot in history. It's introduced to us from the feet up ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NENxIu02bvg around 1:40 in this trailer]]), looking for all the world like a skinned, metallic corpse with tubes for veins and metal plates where its muscles would be. Slowly, more of it is revealed, until we come to its head... or lack of one. All it has on top are two insectile, twitching, glowing eyes on an arm. It doesn't talk -- it merely flicks its eyes around to stare at you. When you combine those attributes with its measured tread, its deliberately inhuman movements and the fact that it's learning directly from [[spoiler:the thoughts of the murderous, psychotic handler who has a stalkercrush on Farrah Fawcett]], it invokes the eeriest elements of the UncannyValley, essentially recreating FrankensteinsMonster [[RecycledInSPACE in space]]. But scarier. What happens near the end of the film isn't pretty either: [[spoiler:the handler places ''his own brain'' inside the robot, which wears the front of his face like a mask]].
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* ''Coma''. Unconscious victims go from the OR to the Jefferson Institute, where you think is a nice care home for the terminally ill, but [[spoiler:in reality keeps them naked and tube-fed hanging on wires from the ceiling, and the people in charge steal their organs to sell on the black market.]] If you're in any way afraid of hospitals or medical paraphernalia, don't watch this movie.
** I was in a convalescent home once after a long illness--and one of the therapists selected this particular movie for Movie Night. Talk about something that you really shouldn't want patients brooding about! Needless to say, I gave that social event a miss.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xG74Vr5_fQ This lovely little scene]] from ''Ichi the Killer''. And, while not creeping me out in the slightest, to any who have seen the film: tempura oil.
* ''TheHowling'' movies, all except the third one which was more Nightmare Retardant than anything.
** I would like to especially highlight the transformation scene in ''Howling 4'' where the woman's husband slowly melts into a puddle of blood (completely conscious at least most of the time) before being reformed as a werewolf. All the goofy-looking townspeople chanting "Satan call you" as it happens does add enough unintentional silliness to somewhat curb the effects, though.
*** My father, a man who does not scare easily, describes a scene from the first movie, wherein one of the heroes is attempting to find information on the werewolves in the local doctor's office. She combs through the office, looking very thoroughly, finally finding the documents she was looking for in a file cabinet. A hairy, clawed hand then reaches down from the top of the screen and pulls the file out of her grasp, with the implication that the hand's owner was in the office with her, watching her search the whole time.
* The very end of ''{{Session 9}}'', when the baby stops crying. Alright, so it's not ''really'' a [[FauxHorrorFilm horror movie]]. That doesn't make it any better.
* The original ''BlackChristmas''. As a kid, I was terrified just by the ads -- featuring the body of a woman, suffocated by plastic wrap, propped up in a rocking chair and surrounded by Christmas lights and mistletoe. When I finally saw the film as an adult, the death-by-Saran-wrap didn't bother me, but the killer's voice on the phone kept me up at night for weeks..
* ''ReservoirDogs''. When [[PsychoForHire Mr.]] [[AxCrazy Blonde]] is through, you'll never listen to "Stuck in the Middle With You" quite the same way. And that ''dance''...
** Having lost an ear to an untreated childhood infection, I love to {{squick}} out my friends during that moment with statements such as 'Been there, done that, got the massive scarring'. The fact that all the scarring is internal, the outside of the ear having been sewn back on, invariably leads to at least one friend peering into the aforementioned ear.
* The entirety of ''The Poughkeepsie Tapes.'' There's no part of the movie that doesn't qualify as Nightmare Fuel, actually. It makes ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' look like a ''Care Bears Movie'' sequel.
** I stumbled on an online ad for the film made to resemble a disturbing news item. I attend college in Poughkeepsie.
* ''TheBeyond'', by Lucio Fulci. Even with the heavy [[ExecutiveMeddling Executive Meddling]], there are still plenty of scenes that make me squick - so much so that I've only watched it through once, even though I have the DVD. A small sample includes: [[spoiler:[[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RvEAi-0-eqY Tarantulas eating out a guy's tongue]]]], [[spoiler:[[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aBAK8mLEhgQ a girl seeing her mother's face getting melted off]]]], oh, and [[spoiler:[[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=p_3Uc5mHJaQ This]]]]. '''Do not''' watch it in the dark and '''do not''' watch it alone.
* ''Turistas'', a 2006 thriller about a group of American tourists in Brazil, after a mishap with a bus, decide to head to a local bar for some drinks. Only it goes downhill from there as [[spoiler: they are drugged, have all their possessions stolen, and are lured into a house where a mad doctor guts them for organs to sell on the black market]]. Needless to say, Brazil wasn't too happy about this movie.
* Johnny 5's near-death beatdown in ''ShortCircuit 2''. It wasn't as much the fact that the directors had the gall to try and kill off the lovable, innocent star of the show in such a brutal manner, nor was it as much how they emphasized that he was being ''killed'' by his impassioned, pained cries of agony and ''his mech fluid splattering on his assaulters like blood'', but the fact that, for the better part of 10 minutes, we're forced to watch him get up, take his severed arm, limp a good ways to a parked car, steal the battery from it to hook it up to himself as a backup life support system, write out in broken English on a dirty brick wall in an alleyway a plea to his friend to help fix him, and then use a computer to instruct the guy on how to perform the robotic equivalent to trauma center surgery fast enough so he won't die from power loss. In essence, they took your standard, horrific near-fatal movie beating, and instead of merely skipping to the hospital scene, they show you, in every gruesome detail, all of the horrible fight for survival the character had to endure to get to that hospital scene. That isn't just dramatic or sad, that is downright ''sadistic''. It traumatized me so much after I first saw it, I couldn't go past a Radio Shack without breaking up.
* In Danny Boyle's film ''Film/{{Sunshine}}'', several characters [[spoiler:die by simply being roasted by the sun, due to having no atmosphere or objects blocking the sun from them]]. While for one, it was something akin to a [[spoiler:religious experience]], the crew got to listen to the other screaming in pain for about a minute while [[spoiler:the sun's rays coming through his visor destroyed his face and head, and the rest of his body simply superheated and boiled]].
** What about that movie is ''not'' nightmare fuel? To paraphrase [[TheOffice Michael Scott]], that movie taught me that the sun is about trying to kill you in outer space. In oh-so-many ways. Let's not forget Pinbacker's character and the fact that he was just [[spoiler:hanging out ''all alone'' in outer space for seven years or so, and then went [[AxCrazy completely apeshit]] and [[AloneWithThePsycho sneaked aboard the Icarus]] and started trying to kill everyone. Oh, and he's been horribly burnt by the sun all the time, and when Capa finally fights with him, his SKIN RIPS OFF. OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD.]]
* Even ''hearing'' about the plot of ''TheRing'' scared me for days...
** ''Seven'' days?
*** Dr. NightmareRetardant hereby prescribes you a viewing of ''Scary Movie 3'', which will both inoculate you if you haven't seen ''TheRing'', and cure you if you have. SoBadItsGood. "Seven days? Willie Mays?"
* ''IndependenceDay''. "Release me..."
** "I know there is much we can learn from each other, if we can negotiate a truce. We can find a way to coexist." "Peace... no peace." "What is it you want us to do?" "Die..." (There is also a great song by Infected Mushroom aptly called ''Release Me'' which uses sound clips from that scene.)
*** Though followed up with a CrowningMomentofAwesome when you realize it's [[{{Firefly}} Jayne]] who shoots through the window to try to save [[StarTrek Data]]
* ''CapeFear''. Mostly the old one, where just the way Max Cady spoke was scary enough to give me nightmares.
** [=DeNiro=] riding under the car still haunts my nightmares. Heck, it even freaked me out when Sideshow Bob did the same thing in "the Simpsons".
*** [[{{NightmareRetardant}} "Hey, kids! Who wants to drive through that cactus patch?"]]
* ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'': The saw bit during the prison riot, oh my ''God''. Also, a fair chunk of the flashback Rorshach tells.
** Doctor Manhattan's origin story, in which he's ''ripped apart'' into what is essentially nothing, then slowly reassembles himself.
** It started off pretty scary with the floating nervous system, but the kicker was when he reassembled himself '''without skin''' on accident, screamed bloody murder and disappeared. Third time's a charm though.
* ''MulhollandDrive'' isn't nearly as nightmarish as ''Eraserhead'' or even ''BlueVelvet''. But it's still one of DavidLynch's most disturbing films. Some examples:
** The infamous scene featuring two guys, a diner, and [[spoiler:something resembling a zombie hobo out back]].
*** Which had a decidedly {{narm}}y effect on me, but-- gah.
*** When I saw that scene, all he could think was "[[TheMightyBoosh Old Gregg!]]"
** Sierra Boniokayta. This is when the film takes a much darker turn, as Betty and Rita investigate the apartment of Diane Selwyn, looking for answers regarding Rita's true identity. Do they find anything? Yes... [[spoiler:Diane's decaying corpse in a bed.]] The neighbor's knocking on the door somehow makes it worse.
** The ending. It could have been [[NightmareRetardant completely ridiculous]], but the way it's done...
*** The old couple with the ghastly grins and then they... I wish I could erase it from my head.
* ''{{Inland Empire}}'' - David Lynch apparently can't get enough of creepy faces OR suffocating suspense and so, being David Lynch, distilled this to an even worse extreme in this film. You'll know the scene when you see it. And then you will never...EVER...forget it. As someone who first watched (and loved!) Aliens at age 7 and used to watch Event Horizon in bed at night to lull him to sleep, that goddamned FACE from Inland Empire is the only movie scene in history to give me nightmares. I still wake up expecting to see it hovering outside my window at 3 AM.
** [[http://api.ning.com/files/-jTS6W3nJqm58uuppaYSG0nyNTVVOTjcc1HUbl4TWuI_/InlandEmpireScream2.jpg THIS]] wouldn't be the face you're talking about, would it?...
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1V4v0CPyMo The scene in question]].
** Let's not forget some of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmMwKBMse_w David Lynch's short films]], now.
* (Spoilers inserted to hide triggers) The [[spoiler:gang rape]] scene in ''Film/TheAccused'' is just horrible. [[spoiler:The rape on its own is bad enough, but it's the cheering of the men watching and the ringleader picking out who gets to go next all while Sarah is screaming and crying that pushes it into true Nightmare Fuel territory]]. That, and the fact that the premise of the movie was based on a true story.
** That scene was apparently serious HighOctaneNightmareFuel for the actors who were playing the [[spoiler:rapists]]; Jodie Foster had to repeatedly reassure them.
*** Tim Roth was pretty disturbed after filming the scene in ''Rob Roy'' where [[spoiler:Archibald rapes Mary]] and was pretty nervous around Jessica Lange for a while. It serves as a bit of NightmareRetardant to know that while they play {{Complete Monster}}s in the movies, the actors themselves are decent guys, at least when it comes to certain scenes.
*** Lawrence Fishburne only had a couple takes in him for the rape scene in ''What's Love Got to Do With It''. Afterwards, the crew kept a wide berth. More disturbingly, Fishburne was approached in a restaurant by Ike Turner, who complimented him on the performance.
* The 1988 Czech version of ''Alice In Wonderland'' features [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aezgBUPgrOc reanimated skeletons of small animals]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K663tPpSACM a scene of pure madness at the tea party.]] Makes it even more eerie that there is no music whatsoever in the movie except for the squeeks and clinks of old clothing, footsteps, and winding-gears.
** This is, of course, a Jan Švankmajer film. The same guy made a film where a dude ''[[spoiler:eats his own dick with mustard]]''. Yeah, HighOctaneNightmareFuel is pretty much a given for his films.
* The original ''Film/DayOfTheDead''. The only Romero zombie flick to be personally bothersome with the scene of [[spoiler:the solider's head getting ripped off and ''he's still screaming'']]. Yes, it's just special effects. ''It does not help''.
* ''The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover'' is very, very high-octane nightmare fuel. In particular:
** Most of Michael Gambon's ''monologues'' alone are nightmarish: particularly when he lectures his wife, loudly enough so that everyone in the restaurant can hear, that she's not allowed to masturbate because as her husband, only he gets to decide when she gets touched.
*** And it is a massive testament to Gambon's talent that anybody who watched this movie could also watch him as ''Albus freakin Dumbledore'' in the ''Film/HarryPotter'' movies, without having nightmare flashbacks.
** Helen Mirren (the wife) and her lover concealing their affair from said abusive husband by stowing away, naked, in a truck full of slaughtered pig parts.
** The [[spoiler:murder of her lover.]]
** The ending, which becomes high-octane NauseaFuel as well.
* The 1989 movie ''Film/{{Leviathan}}''. THE ENTIRE FRICKING MOVIE!
** Of particular note is the scene where [[spoiler:the creature (in the form of an arm-sized leech-eel, clamps onto a character's chest and he can't pull it off.]] A combination of sheer revulsion and sympathetic terror.
* The Australian creature-feature ''Film/{{Rogue}}'', which features a boatload of tourists getting attacked by a MASSIVE crocodile. It's more terrifying than Lake Placid, if only for the fact that the people in that film could simply call for a helicopter to get them out of there. In ''Rogue'', the tourists make it to "safety" by swimming to a small island in the middle of the river. At least, until they realise they're standing on a tidal island that will eventually disappear as the water rises. They can't call for help either, they're in the middle of the outback with no reception. They've got no chance but to try and swim for it. ItGetsWorse from here. As an aside, on the special features the director mentions that even bigger crocodiles are on record as having been around in living memory in Australia. And tourists still go swimming in northern Australia.
* In ''ThePhiladelphiaExperiment,'' from 1984, a man and a destroyer are sent forward through time as a result of the experiments, which were meant to make the ship temporarily invisible. Time travel certainly isn't all that scary, but that way that the movie pointed out the mechanics of molecularizing the objects moving through time and putting them back together.......Let's just say the crew of that destroyer has a rather permanent tour, and that they've never felt closer to their ship.
** [[ConspiracyTheorist In case you guys didn't know, that movie was based on a very true story. As the real story goes, scientists were trying to find a way to make whole battleships invisible to enemy radar. They put a bunch of machines on the ship, and when turned on, the ship was surrounded by a green glow. Suddenly, the ship AND the glow disappeared. Instantly, the ship was seen SEVERAL MILES down the coast. The ship disappeared again and returned to its original spot. When the boat was searched, most of the crew was either violently ill or insane. Some of them had vanished, and some had even FUSED INTO THE WALLS OF THE SHIP!]]
** A similar scene is shown in the move ''Supernova.'' When it was in the theaters, this movie was rated PG-13. It has since been re-rated to R. The crew members of the ship all die in very creepy ways. One of them, I believe they were the first to die, [[BodyHorror melts into the structure of the suspended animation pod]] that [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace should have kept him safe during the hyperspace jump]]. Unfortunately, his doesn't seal completely. The rest of the deaths are just about as bad. I walked out at some point.
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* The horror movie ''Frayed'' draws its high octane nightmare fuel from several sources: slasher movies, birthday clowns, mental hospitals and [[spoiler:child molestation.]] The worst is a prolonged and ''extremely'' graphic sequence near the beginning of the movie where a person gets their head beaten to a pulp. The sound effects alone ensure that the viewer will have a tough time getting to sleep that night.
* In the 1970s there was the ''Film/ItsAlive'' horror trilogy about an experimental fertility drug causing babies to be born as monsters that would kill when scared. I was disturbed by the very idea and did my best to ignore them- and years later, while reading a book about cinema, ran into the image of the "demon baby" in full detail - without any warning, either. Just remembering it now brings back chills.
** I was about five when the first movie came out, and I remember the local TV station showing a commercial for it in the early afternoon, the one where the camera revolves around an innocent-looking basinette, and then suddenly you see the lizard arm hanging out of it and that awful whining scream sounds...I was frightened so badly that I still can't watch the movie, and my mother wanted to burn down the TV studio.
* The "cookout" scene in ''{{Doomsday}}''. The worst part is that it doesn't bother with discretion, it really just keeps on going and going.
* ''EasternPromises'' has a lot of other violence, but it's the throat-slitting that gets me. It helps that I was watching it in another window while I was typing something online, and so rather than seeing what was going on, I could only listen. Coupled with the amount of rape in that movie... agh. Also, the very first scene, with a heavily pregnant fourteen year old girl stumbling into a shop and asking for help, then collapsing into the blood that's been dripping down from between her legs, is crazy squicky. [[spoiler:A sexually abused fourteen year old girl miscarrying is bad enough. The fact that she dies, worse still. The fact that the person who'd been doing the abusing was [[CompleteMonster Semyon]]...]]
* How about the [[spoiler: {{Attempted Rape}} scene]] in the ''Planet Terror'' half of ''{{Grindhouse}}''? Especially when [[spoiler: the guy's balls start to ''melt off'']]. Sure there's a lot of {{Gorn}} in this movie, but that scene stood out to me as being especially {{Squick}}-y.
* The movie ''TheRuins''. Because not only do you not know WHY they're being forced to stay on top of the ruins you then DO find out and it leads to an hour of [[spoiler: VINES inside people. And the one girl character trying to CUT the vines out of herself]]. I now have a fear of plants.
** [[Tropers/{{Enchanter468}} I]] was officially terrified when I saw that [[spoiler:The Plant had mimicked the sound of a cell phone ringing, because that meant ''it knew humans would come to that sound.'' Knowing that ItCanThink made everything that followed ''so much worse.'']]
** If you need some NightmareRetardant, I couldn't help but keep thinking of LittleShopofHorrors the whole film.
* The film ''Film/{{Mirrors}}''. Especially the part where [[spoiler: the MC's sister's reflection RIPS HER OWN JAW OFF]] had me frightened of mirrors for weeks afterwards and feeling more than a little sick. Also the [[spoiler: woman in the mirror on fire that jumped out screaming]] scared me so much that I actually CRIED at 19 years old and my mother almost had to take me out of the theatre.
** [[Tropers/{{Tsaalyo}} I]] found pretty much every scene meant to be scary as either laughable or {{Nausea Fuel}}, especially the [[spoiler: opening scene where we're forced to watch a throat being sliced, in graphic detail, without even the benefit of a murderer's hand or knife to obscure some of it.]] Or the [[spoiler: jaw ripping scene.]] The only scary part I saw was [[spoiler: when the MC looks in his rearview mirror and sees his dead sister there with her jaw ripped off.]]
* Speaking of mirrors - [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Candyman Candyman. Candyman. Candyman.]] Sleep tight.
* [[PetSematary "Hello daddy, I want to play! First I played with mommy, then I played with Judd...now I want to play with ''you!''"]]
* John Singleton's ''BoyzNTheHood'' is notable for its disturbing realism. ''Especially'' [[spoiler: Ricky's murder]].
* The horrible, horrible scene in the ''GorillasInTheMist'' movie that depicts the murder of Dian Fossey's favorite gorilla Digit at the hands of poachers. But the worst is when they find his corpse propped up against a tree in a sitting position, with bloody stumps where his head and hands used to be. The whole thing gave me nightmares for weeks. Also a TearJerker and TruthInTelevision.
* The nightmare scene from ''OneHourPhoto'', in which Robin Williams's character's eyes [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9ciLO_LeKU& explode with blood]]. Made all the more disturbing for coming in what is otherwise a fairly conventional thriller film and therefore being completely out of context, blindsiding me entirely. And I speak as someone who went through THAT scene in EventHorizon in slow motion.
** The entire concept is pretty creepy: The idea of people you only see in passing and take for granted finding ways to [[ParanoiaFuel maliciously invade your privacy.]]
* ''The Messengers'' may not have been too scary, but I couldn't sleep for three days after the scene with [[spoiler: the little kid reaching for the corpse on the ceiling.]] And the ''noise''. Oh god, the ''noise''.
* ''Men Behind the Sun'' (1988). A dramatization of the medical experiments of the Imperial Japanese Army's Unit 731 during the Second World War, this film was known for its ''very'' graphic depictions of surgical procedures, including human vivisection. Most of it can be found on Youtube; if you feel particularly brave you may do a search. Suffice to say that a single scene where a child is vivisected is the only piece of cinema to date to completely horrify me, to the extent that I simply could not bring myself to finish watching it, even though I knew it was completely fictional. For reference, I watched the Japanese version of ''{{The Ring}}'' alone, at midnight, and had a very peaceful night's sleep afterward.
** That's because Unit 731 was ''real''.
*** I checked on wikipedia and is a lot less happy with life in general for it. Entry should be moved to real life folder.
* ''[[TheExorcist Exorcist: The Beginning]]'', while being otherwise a lame, horrid excuse for a movie, had one scene that made me so horrified/disturbed Ie had to leave the theatre and vomit. In it, we see a young boy being killed and torn to pieces by hyenas. It takes a few moments, too, not a few seconds. As I type this, I am getting the chills and sweating, all these years later. Barely finished the film, will never watch it again.
** For me, the scene in which a native woman gives birth to a dead, ''rotten'', '' '''maggot-ridden''' '' corpse was worse.
** Another genuinely frightening scene involves an extremely stressed English commander trying to calm his nerves by arranging his butterfly collection, only to find that his latest butterfly has transformed into a dead crow. Slowly, his collection begins fluttering to life... and falls silent. Then [[BodyHorror a newborn butterfly begins forcing its way out of the commander's mouth]].
* ''AngelsAndDemons'' has EyeScream, branding, drowning, choking to death on dirt... oh, yeah, and immolation. [[spoiler:Self-immolation, too.]] Freaky beyond measure. Also, the [[spoiler:Pope after his impromptu exhumation is really, really disturbing-looking.]] In another [[IncrediblyLamePun vein]], Vittoria attempts CPR on one of the four kidnapped Cardinals, only for it to come to her attention (and the viewer's) that the man's lungs are punctured-- because blood squirts out of the open wound in his chest to hit Robert in the face. Gahhhhh.
* The opening sequence in the film version of ''TheTwilightZone'': "Wanna see something ''really'' scary?"
* The French film ''{{Irreversible}}'' has several scenes with extremely graphic violence. Within the first few minutes, a man's arm is broken and the film's protagonist bashes the face of another man into pulp with a fire extinguisher. The camera stays on the violence for long, nauseating, unflinching shots. Later in the film, a woman is cornered in an under-street tunnel and brutally raped and beaten. The sequence lasts for over ten minutes, again without a single cut.
** The first half of this movie is essentially one long MoralEventHorizon, and somehow, [[ItGotWorse it becomes worse]] when it gets better.
* The last five minutes of the film ''One Point Zero''. Full stop.
* There's something about the acting in ''The Red Skulls'' that makes for a film that actually could disturb even a dedicated B-flick horror fan too much to continue watching it all the way through - it's easy to forget it's supposed to be a "Gang War of the Quasi-Zombies" movie because even though the special effects are bottom-line cheesy, some of the actors actually seem to be demented in a way that's not fake...which either means they're better actors than this film deserved, or that they really ARE that messed-up in the mind.
* While the film itself looks promising enough, this freaky [[http://www.impawards.com/2009/pandorum_ver3.html poster]] for the upcoming Sci-Fi/Horror feature {{Pandorum}} deserves a mention for looking utterly terrifying.
** Try the [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/Pandorumposter.jpg other poster.]]
* One of the most disturbing examples of SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou comes at the climax of another [[AlfredHitchcock Hitchcock]] film ''{{Spellbound}}''. Dr. Murchison threatens to kill Dr. Peterson, but with a few choice words on Peterson's part her life is spared. The camera switches to Murchison's point of view as the aim of his gun follows her out of the room. She shuts the door, and the hand holding his gun turns, as though he's pondering his next action. Then, slowly, the hand turns some more: at [[strike: himself]] [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou you]]. That's right; you're experiencing a first-person ''suicide''. It also doesn't help that the hand and the gun are highly detailed models, so their movement is highly unnatural.
* What happens to Edmond Delhurst in ''Film/{{Food of the Gods 2}}''. Although the movie is ostensibly about the [[RodentsOfUnusualSize giant rats]], the deaths they cause are shown in quick cuts, whereas Delhurst's death by turning into a bubbling puddle of "super cancer" is drawn out to ludicrous lengths (almost a full two minutes) with many loving closeups of his swollen, pus-oozing, tumor-covered face. It's frankly a relief when he ''finally'' keels over and dies.
* Anyone seen those signs for a new ''Film/AliceInWonderland 3D'' movie? That Mad Hatter terrified me and my friends while we waited to see "Transformers 2: Revenge of The Fallen". He looks as though he stares into your soul and watches you.
** The eyes, the eyelashes...
*** The Red Queen's castle. The moat is ''filled. With.'' '''HEADS.'''
**** Apparently, one of the heads was Tim Burton's.
* I managed to watch ''ReAnimator'' and be fairly unfazed. Until, y'know, [[spoiler: Dr. Hill's reanimated severed head raping Dan's sweet, innocent girlfriend.]] And for some reason the fact that in the final scenes all the reanimated cadavers are stark naked makes it much less {{narm}}y and much more cringeworthily freaky.
* In ''TheLastKingOfScotland'', there's the scene where Garrigar finds [[spoiler: Kay's mutilated body]]. It's utterly horrific and built my nightmares for a few days.
** How about Garrigan being [[spoiler:suspened from the ceiling by ''hooks through his chest''? I was crying with my hands over my face for that entire sequence--and the [[ParentalNeglect ridiculously too-young KIDS]] in the aisle near me seemed undisturbed. That was just as upsetting as the fucking movie.]]
* I had nightmares for weeks after renting ''Something Wicked This Way Comes'' as a child. That movie should not have been in the children's section.
** [[CaptainObvious No shit.]]
* ''ShaunOfTheDead''. You'd expect it to be a simple AffectionateParody of a zombie movie, not a full-fledged ZombieApocalypse with zombies as scary as Romero ones (that even tear apart and eat a character with their bare hands at a certain point).
** The worst part that I can bear to think of was the stomach-eating sequence. YEESH.
*** Never saw ''DayOfTheDead'', which that scene was homaging? '''"[[FamousLastWords CHOKE ON 'EM!]]"'''
* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AClockworkOrange "I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain! What a wonderful feeling..."]]
** That [[NightmareFace face]] the Writer makes when he realizes that Alex raped his wife. I was only creeped out by the rape scene, [[CrossesTheLineTwice laughed when Alex killed the woman with a giant phallic statue]], and had minor jibblies during the Ludovico procedure. But that ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQzR3IBH-c4 face]]''... Nightmare Central.
** Alex's voice as he tells his story; it's just as creepy as any of the acts of ultraviolence he commits.
* ''Film/{{Coraline}}''. Yeah it's supposed to be creepy, not like that makes it any less scary. "Kids' fairytale" + "horror story" == sleeping with the light on.
** [[BodyHorror Button.]][[EyeScream Eyes.]] Yes, this is a family movie.
*** What was more upsetting, perhaps, was stapled smile Wybie gets later.
* ''Blindness'' was quite impressive in this regard. Specifically, I found the [[spoiler: uncomfortably extended group rape scene]] to be VERY difficult to sit through. It was so amazingly vulgar, while showing surprisingly little (in comparison). A list was quickly compiled of people who would be warned to NEVER see this film.
** For me, it was the pained cries of the victims that pushed this into nightmare territory. If I think a movie is really good, and ''Blindness'' was an otherwise very good movie, I can watch it over and over. Not this one.
* Have you ever noticed how today's horror flicks and thrillers have that "greenish dark icky look"? Watch ''{{Se7en}}'' or any episode of ''{{CSI}}'' or even some Sci-Fi type shows. Washed-out colors, greenish-yellowish....blecchiness! It truly adds to the "Creepy yuck factor". Apparently, good ol' Technicolor went out with the dinosaurs and 8-track tapes. Even the surroundings of the reconned ''BattlestarGalactica'' seem darker.
** Well Se7en at least was re-silvered to make it darker. If you don't like it I wouldn't worry; it's quite an expensive process and just used to, y'know, make things darker and scarier.
* ''{{Testament}},'' which takes place in a single town and focused on the effects a nuclear war has on a small group of people. The intimacy was what did it for me, especially when it came to the main character [[spoiler: nursing her children through radiation sickness and watching them die one by one]].
* [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0359734/ Michael Haneke]]'s films, especially:
** ''FunnyGames'' (see above for more details)
** [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/ The Piano Teacher]], based on a novel by Elfriede Jelinek. It features Isabella Huppert as the most screwed up woman ever, named Erika. Notable scenes: the opening scene in which Erika and her mother fight about the fact that Erika came home late (and she's 40-plus years old!) and the fight turns physical, Erika's seduction of her student could count as {{squick}}, the scene in the uncut version in which Erika [[spoiler:cuts between her legs and a trail of blood streams down the bathtub's side]], when [[spoiler:Erika appears to be attempting to rape her own mother]] the next-to-last scene in which [[spoiler:Erika forces her young male student to rape her (while her mother is within earshot!) and Erika looks like a corpse]]. The entire thing comes together to conclude: This protagonist is a very, very screwed up human being.
** [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103793/ Benny's Video]], which is about a boy who accidentally murders a girl that he met at a grocery store in his own house. The worst part for me was when [[spoiler:the parents went along with it and detailed their plans to get rid of the body by chopping it up in tiny pieces and flushing the pieces down the toilet]] and then, at the end, we learn just how much of an evil and manipulative devil-child Benny is.
** [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1149362/ The White Ribbon]] is not like many other horror films. There are no monsters, no killers, no jump scares. It is all the people. Imagine this: you live in a small Austrian village in the months leading up to WorldWarOne. Strange events begin to happen to citizens. Someone strings a wire to trip the doctor as he rides his horse, a worker falls through a weak floor and dies, two children go missing at separate times and are found severely beaten, one of which is nearly blinded. What can you do about this? '''Absolutely nothing'''. You can't find out who is behind these crimes, and if you pursue suspicions, your reputation is likely to be ruined. That is what happens to the protagonist and narrator of this film. The cinematography and atmosphere of the film are so cold, it's like you are watching a serious version of ''Film/VillageOfTheDamned'', where the children don't have psychic powers, but are still creepy as hell and are clearly hiding something. And of course, there isn't a single thing you can do about it, so you better just leave.
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* ''Munich'': The movie in general was quite disturbing, but nowhere moreso than in the scenes depicting the actual Munich hostage crisis. ''Especially'' in the scene where [[spoiler: one of the athletes is shot in the mouth at point-blank range. ''And survives''.]] Thanks to Spielberg's brilliant and powerful execution, the intensity and brutality of those scenes will be haunting your nightmares for quite some time, no matter how jaded you are. It's scary enough as it is, but on top of that, ''everything depicted in those scenes actually happened''. [[spoiler: And the guy who got shot in the face? He was played in the movie by the son of the real guy. That had to have taken a hell of a lot of courage.]]
* ''ThereWillBeBlood'' is nightmare fuel before anything nightmarish even ''happens'', thanks to the ruthlessly foreboding soundtrack. The shockingly gruesome finale is just the icing on the cake.
** All I have to say is "I'm finished."
* I'm pretty much horror movie proof, but I was deeply disturbed by the [[BloodBath Mrs. Bathory scene]] in {{Hostel}} Part 2. Especially considering I'm not even bothered by blood, usually.
** [[spoiler: Lorna's]] screaming makes it even more terrifying. I mute my TV every time I watch this scene.
** What [[Tropers/GoatBoy I]] found particularly unsettling was how ''[[FetishFuel turned on]]'' the woman ([[DracoInLeatherPants who I have to admit is kind of hot]]) is before she even starts slashing. Also, there's the fact that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bathory it's based on an actual person]].
* The beginning of ''Ghost Ship'', where a crowd of partygoers [[spoiler: are sliced in one fell swoop by a snapped wire.]] I find the ''lack'' of reaction to be especially eerie - there's a few moments of stunned silence, then everything literally begins to fall apart. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bQ4RGRg8Ps See it here.]]
* ''30 Days of Night'', anyone? For once, there was a [[spoiler: vampire child, which is always extra-creepy]]. But mostly, the entire situation the inhabitants were in was utterly chilling [[spoiler: because there was just no way out and more importantly: Those vampires were the scariest, meanest I've seen in a dozen years of being hooked on vampires. Quick, strong, silent, predatory, sadistic, cold.]] The worst and most lasting bit of nightmare fuel might be that [[spoiler: characters one really cared for got changed into vampires. Nightmare & Heartbreak all in one.]]
** Hmmm... are you sure you're referencing 30 Days of Night in regard to the vampires that "never really did anything?" Because the movie has an extended sequence in which [[spoiler: the vampires annihilate something like 90% of the townspeople in a siwft massive attack.]] I don't know if not surviving that sort of onslaught can really be attributed to "stupidity."
* [[spoiler: The brain bug]] from ''Film/StarshipTroopers''... not just [[spoiler: what it did to people, but what the humans did to it once it was captured]]. [[FanonDiscontinuity Allegedly, the sequels]] expanded on the theme, especially [[spoiler: how it controlled its human victims]].
** I found it largely too cartoony to be nightmare fuel; it was no ''Alien'', that's for sure.
* The original Japanese version of ''Pulse'' (''Kairo''.) Kiyoshi Kurosawa's ([[AkiraKurosawa no relation]]) ghosts are indescribably frightening, not because of what they ''do'', but merely for their ''presence''. As the movie progresses, and mankind [[spoiler:steadily dies off or vanishes]], the ghosts become much more visible, more obvious, and more common. The Lady In Red in the sealed room, with her dreamlike, stumbling gait, creeps up on a hapless protagonist slowly, ever so relentlessly slowly...
** To say nothing of [[spoiler:[[TheGrimReaper Death itself]]]] showing up in human form to claim [[spoiler:the main male lead]], coming closer and closer to the screen (slowly, naturally) until his eyes fill the audience's entire field of vision.
** The fate of those touched by the ghosts' nihilism. They don't die, they don't even scream or writhe in pain. They just... fade, becoming a dark stain on the wall. All they leave behind is a faint "Help me... help me..." barely on the edge of hearing. It doesn't help that, in the director's view, humanity is hopelessly isolated and every person is utterly alone, ''even in death''.
** I was merely intrigued by the existentialist ghost story, but was seriously bothered by the technological aspects, and was for some time unable to sleep with my computer in the room (in no small part because it had a tendency to turn itself on in the night.) While reading this page, my finger hovering over the touchpad (but not actually touching it) caused the page to scroll down, and my first thought was, "I don't want to fade out!"
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'' has two examples in particular: First, the talisman [[spoiler:that sucks out your soul (or at least a part of it), causing you to become nothing more than a body]] and second, [[spoiler:OHGOD BABYSNAKE WHAT THE F- * is hypnotized* ]]
** I will go as far to say that [[spoiler:The Seamstress]] is probably the most frightening film character that I have ever seen. Not only does it [[spoiler: hypnotize its enemies into submission via strobe lights]], but to lure its prey closer it will [[spoiler: sew a corpse of a character (in this case 2) to the end of its tail]] as bait. And once the poor stitchpunk is unconscious, it [[spoiler: draws it into its belly, using a variety of spools and sewing needles to sew its mouth shut and restrain it.]] And, to top it all off, it has a [[spoiler: human skull for a head, but wears the shattered face of a [[{{Uncanny Valley}} china doll]] over it.]] [[{{What Do You Mean Its Not For Kids}} Children who attended the movie]] were inconsolable after seeing that thing.
** When [[spoiler:7 and 9 are escaping the factory]], there's this very brief shot of a spider-machine running over [[spoiler:8's dead body]]. It's only brief, but yet is somehow one of the creepiest things that [[Tropers/KingSonnDeeDoo I]] have ever seen.
** There is a song that chances are everyone knows. It's a sort of melancholy song, but even though it talks about how good things are hard to reach, the singer still seems hopeful. YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO LISTEN TO THIS SONG THE SAME WAY AGAIN!!! Remember folks, it's not the SoundtrackDissonance that scares us, but when the music comes to a screeching halt that really clinches it. [[spoiler: [[Film/{{TheWizardofOz}} If happy little blue birds fly beyond the rainbow... Why, oh why can't I?]]]] *shudder*
* ''{{Phantoms}}'', based on the book by DeanKoontz. While much of the movie is largely B-grade, it has some genuinely unsettling imagery that kept [[Tropers/SpamWarrior3000 me]] awake at night for weeks. [[spoiler:all the people in the vaguely astronaut-like Hazmat suits appearing out of the shadows, their faceplates completely black; the single shot of the empty army command center with a few papers blowing in the wind; and of course the bit at the end where all the people who were the Phantom-creature's snack food are standing assembled in the middle of town, totally still.]] ''Gah.''
* In ''HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'', when Katie Bell [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnooUEuyn_M#t=1m24s puts on the cursed necklace]] and ... oh, god.
** "HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince", the scene where Harry and Dumbledore are in the cave and Harry makes the inferi come out of the lake. Although, I was excited about them from the time I saw the trailer, because they look vaguely like Gollum.
** "HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire", "HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix", and Lupin's transformation into a werewolf in "HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban". And the two most recent, and most likely the last one. There's a reason the movies have been PG-13 since the fourth one, with the exception of the sixth.
** In ''HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Part One'', the opening scene, with Voldemort and the Death Eaters gathering, and the Muggles Studies teacher floating above the table and...*shudder*
** Not even. This one may be more FridgeHorror, but...Bathilda Bagshot, and the moment you realize exactly what is in the room Hermione's looking into.
* ''In Dreams'' scared my ''dad'' so badly that he was unable to reassure his frightened children, and we all had to go outside and sit in the sun for a few hours to calm down. I also incurred a horrible [[spoiler:mirror]] phobia thanks to the final scene.
* I, like my mother, became a big fan of JesusChristSuperstar (specifically the 70s film version) at a young age, but oddly enough, the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDHoTOgeNWE Gethsemane scene]] didn't affect me immediately. But once it ''did'' sink in... My God, I stayed far away from that musical for ''years''. Why oh why did the director have to incorporate ''actual religious paintings'' depicting the crucifixion during this number? It was more scarring than Judas hanging himself, and that is saying something. This isn't to mention the ending: after Jesus is crucified and taken off the cross, everybody gets on the bus, and the credits roll - ''silent''. Brr!
* Covenant Rider, a [[BetterThanItSounds Christian]] [[TheWildWest Western]] by Willie George Ministries and Kenneth Copeland Minstries was the only movie in the Gospel Bill series I could never rewatch as a child. A flashback scene had a young [[TheGunslinger Wichita Slim]] tied to a post and ##[[ColdBloodedTorture branded]]'' for misbehavior. The combination of a [[ScreamDiscretionShot little boy screaming]] and the burn on his shirt ensured that Covenant Rider would never, ever be watched after the first time.
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* Specific to the movie version of ''BattleRoyale'' is [[spoiler: the death of Kazuo Kiriyama]]. He fights with Mimura and friends, [[spoiler: killing them, and Mimura ends the battle by blowing up a massive propane tank bomb]]. The three heroes arrive on the scene after the explosion, and it seems as if everyone died, but then the [[OminousLatinChanting creepy godawful theme music]] starts up again, and he [[UnflinchingWalk walks out]] [[OutOfTheInferno of the fire]], blinded, with {{tears of blood}} [[EyeScream running from his eyes.]] His actual death is anticlimactic, but everything leading up to it is straight up Nightmare Fuel.
* Anacondas in the Water. I didn't even see the movie, so maybe I'm wrong, but it deserves to be here if just the preview gives you nightmares, which is exactly what it did.
* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylzO9vbEpPg Waltz With Bashir]]'', an animated Israeli documentary, is HONF from start (a full-on shot of a nightmarish, wild pack of dogs running at the camera) to finish ([[spoiler: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgmjH1XbqXM actual footage]] of the immediate aftermath of the massacre in Lebanon in the 80s]]). If it's almost bedtime for you, please, for God's sakes, don't click!!
* Film/{{Memento}} is full of an esoteric kind of existential horror. Specifically, the scene [[spoiler: where he is casually talking on the phone in his hotel while he removes the bandage from his new tattoo only to find that it reads "Never answer the phone." He asks who it is on the other line and gets no answer, followed by the photo of him bloody after a killing being slid under the door to his hotel.]]
* ''LittleShopOfHorrors''. It's not the plant. It's not Seymour's gradual fall into insanity. You wanna know what it is? The dentist's REAL demise. Sure, he had it coming with his sadism, and you're setting yourself up for trouble if you insist on getting high from wearing an insanely complicated laughing-gas-pumping mask, but when that release dial breaks...oh God. Oh God. And then the gas causes him to laugh as he slowly realizes that instead of finishing his routine day, he's gonna die just because a valve broke in his hand. ''He''. ''Laughs''.
** Steve Martin's performance in the film version isn't terribly scary thanks to the fact that Steve Martin can make just about anything funny. Except for ''Bringin' Down the House''.
* {{Lon Chaney}} in the title role of ''PhantomOfTheOpera''. The reveal of his face that more resembled a decaying skull than a man caused me to lose all feeling in my testicles.
* ''Junior''. [[UncannyValley The Arnie baby]]. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAY8JaDgNEY That is all]]..
* A ''lot'' of the movie ''{{Heathers}}''.
* I'm shocked and appalled that no one's mentioned ''DeathBecomesHer''. Living forever, even after you've already died, having to maintain that corpse even if it's broken into a zillion pieces. Ernest was right to refuse Lisle's potion.
* Am I the only one who was creeped out by Max's flashbacks in the movie adaptation to Freak the Mighty? At first you don't really know what's happening, but at the end it's revealed that his father murdered his mother ''right in front of him'' and told him he was dreaming. and the flashback? It's his dad going "shhhhhh..."
* In the movie ''{{Strange Days}}'', set in a near future, there's a technology that allows to encode and record on disc someone's entire sensorial experience, allowing another person to experience it later on playing the disc as if watching a movie, re-living everything like if he made it himself. The serial killer in the movie, the main villain, uses it to record his experience while he rapes and kills women, and in the meantime he puts another sensorial machine onto her victims so that they can feel his excitement while he rapes-kills them, enhancing their fear, which would be disturbing enough by itself, BUT the feedback works both way, therefore the assassin himself feels the victim's feelings as if he's being raped and killed himself, only exciting him even more, in a perverted infinite loop of murdering. The whole thing is so sick that when the protagonist find a disc made by the killer and watch it he gets terrifically shocked and he's incapacitated for a few.
* At this point a question must be asked: [[MarathonMan Is it]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64UjaJmC35A safe?]]
* ''{{Carrie}}'' Both the prom scene [[spoiler: where a bucket of pig's blood is dumped on Carrie's head and she goes nuts and kills everybody all the people in the gym and setting it on fire with her telekinetic powers]] and the ending [[spoiler: where her hand suddenly pops out of the grave. It turned out to be a dream but holy God]]. I saw it on TV when he was ten and it scared the living crap out of me.
** I found the scene in the remake evewn worse since when the blood is poured it slows down the scene so it's like there's a whole hose of it spraying at her and when it's over she's completely covered in it.
** For me, it was the statue of Jesus on the cross as the house was collapsing and burning on top of Carrie and her mother at the end. Good God, ''the eyes''...
** To me, those scenes weren't that bad. But what really made me lost my sleep at night was the ending [[spoiler: where the girl who gets alive at the end, Nancy I think, puts some flowers at Carrie's tomb and... Carry's hand come out of the grave and grabs her! It turns out to be a dream, but the fact that she seems to be unable to wake up made it even worse.]]
* The entire movie of ''Begotten''. The suicide scene is bad enough, but by the time the black robed figures show up I felt like I was trapped in Hell.
** Every single frame of Begotten had me convinced it was in fact a documentary filmed in Hell. God disemboweling himself at the beginning, Man writhing helpless in the mud like a child in agony and as if it were badly disabled, the faceless robed figures, the lack of sound save for birdsong or the throaty gurgling of Man and the stark black and white coupled with the grainy footage all comes together to make one of the most uncomfortable and disturbing things once can ever experience. It's like every black metal album cover ever made into a movie directed by David Lynch. I've been scared, frightened and put on edge by films, but it's rare I am actually ''horrified'' by one.
* The end of ''Isadora'' the biopic about ballet dancer Isadora Duncan. Look her up and find out how she died. The movie manages to recreate in '''horrific''' detail.
** Also disturbing is how [[spoiler:her kids die!]]
** [[TheIncredibles NO CAPES!]]
* {{Arachnophobia}} did it for me. Back when it came out on public TV, my family and I sat up all night watching it, because we were all thinking: "There's no way we'll sleep until we find out how to kill those things!"
* I didn't see "The Strangers". After seeing the scene in which one of the intruders appears behind the heroine ''without a single note of fanfare'', ''without her knowledge'', and with no motive other than to prove [[{{ParanoiaFuel}} how anyone can be enter your house or simply watch you without you knowing]]......[[Tropers/{{CaptainObvious}} I didn't see "The Strangers".]]
** While the mentioned scene would have indeed been very unnerving to me, I was graciously given some [[NightmareRetardant Nightmare Retardant]] thanks to the woman behind him in the cinema, who took it upon herself to let out a very loud, very high-pitched "OH NOOOOO!" in response to the scene.
* {{Martin Scorsese}}'s short 1967 film ''{{The Big Shave}}'' begins with some simple shots of a bathroom while some jazz plays (specifically Bunny Berigan's version of 'I Can't Get Started'), and shortly after, a man walks in. He begins to shave. [[spoiler: Then he keeps on shaving. He shaves too much. The film is often seen as an allegory for what the United States was doing to itself in the {{Vietnam War}}]]. The film can be viewed [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g5Y_RUDUE0 here]].
* DeadOfNight is terrifying. Especially scary is the very end part with the [[spoiler:dummy strangling the architect before he wakes up BACK INTO an endless dream loop.]]
* ''TetsuoTheIronMan''. I watched it alone at night and I felt like my skeleton was trying to leap out of my skin just to escape the movie. Over an hour of some of the worst body horror ever put on film, with effects that are amazing and somehow make a guy essentially covered in junk terrifying. The soundtrack is like shoving rusty pipes in your ears, and speaking of rusty pipes... Oh, and the mental trauma the characters goes through, whether they are brainwashed or just driven insane only adds to the horror of pieces of machinery sprouting out of your body.
* In the 2004 movie ''Der Untergang'' (a.k.a. ''Film/{{Downfall}}'') which is about the final days of Adolf Hitler in the bunker, while the whole thing is scary itself, there's one person guaranteed to haunt your dreams. Hint: He's Goebbels, the guy who looks like the freaking crypt keeper himself! You know the world has come to an end when Goebbels makes Hitler himself appear to be nothing more than a raving drunk.
** And the fate of his children. Just in case you started to feel sorry for anyone else.
* Just saw ''TheLovelyBones''. The look on Mr. Harvey's face when he takes the wash-cloth off it, after killing Susie, you almost expect him to growl like a demon. Who knew that Stanley Tucci could be that fucking scary?
* Home Movie. A camcorder movie about two parents video taping their childrens sociopathic behavior. Highlights include...
** The kids [[CompleteMonster behavior]] to others.
** What they did to all of their pets.
** [[CreepyChild Their quiet, calculated looks]].
* Something about the TwistEnding of ''{{Unbreakable}}'' ''really'' creeps me out. Particularly the last line [[spoiler: delivered by Samuel L Jackson: "They called me Mr. Glass."]]
* Eden Lake is a truly terrifying movie, with all too realistic and believable premise of a couple of young adults chased by teenaged hoodies. Especially the gang's leader Brett is a terror incarnate, possibly the most evil form of peer pressure...
* French film ''Inside'' is about a nine month pregnant widow- home alone on Christmas Eve with a creepy woman standing outside her house. [[ItGotWorse It gets worse...]]
* Whatever you do, [[SchmuckBait don't watch the final 12 minutes]] of the K-Horror flick ''WhiteTheCurseOfTheMelody''. If you do, well, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXpsXTjZ2Zc&feature=related let's just say bricks will be shat.]]
* ''Zodiac'' is a lovely example of occasional pant-shitting terror, especially the basement scene. That you never know what was really going on made it oh-so-much worse.
* ''Kill Theory'': You and your friends are stuck out in the middle of nowhere and have three hours to kill each other, or a madman will kill all of you. Add in ''Paranoia fuel'' in the question of which of your friends can you trust and who will betray you to save themselves?
* ''CannibalHolocaust'':
** Where to begin? Hailed as one of the most disturbing films ever made, it contains scenes of rape, mutilation, dismemberment, cannibalism, and pretty much rapes all senses. What's more, real animals were killed onscreen, and footage of real executions were used, convincing the brain that what they are seeing may in fact be real. This isn't helped by the entire film being in clear daylight with all the bright colours of the rainforest, and the creepy music being used as inappropriate times (such as the gentle, almost happy theme song being used in the scene of a woman being decapitated).
*** It was considered so realistic that the Italian government thought the filmmakers had made an honest-to-god snuff film, and it took producing the (very much alive) actors to prove that it wasn't. They had to demonstrate in court how they'd faked the [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impalement]] scene.
* Just the [[http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/buried/teaser-trailer-b teaser trailer]] for "Buried" freaked me out. Everything's black as Ryan Reynold's character calls emergency services, only for the call to crackle off, and the small spark of a lighter revealing a man trapped in a box underground as he begins to gasp for air. Claustrophobics should steer clear.
** Claustrophobics should ''definitely'' steer clear - the film ''never leaves the coffin''. The man is the ''only character you see throughout the whole film''.
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* Though it wasn't meant to be scary, in Jackie Chan's Rumble in the Bronx, a man is fed through an industrial wood chippers that road crews use. To make it worse, his partner is sitting at the base of the chute and you watch from the side as the man is pulled through. Though you don't see the results, the simple fear of getting caught has kept me a fair distance from ANY sort of chipper.
** And then later the partner brings a trash bag full of the first guy back to the gang's hideout. We don't see the contents of the bag, of course, but the idea is still nauseating.
* ''TheInvisible'': Nick's predicament. Imagine being a spirit doomed to watch helplessly as everyone around you falls to pieces when they believe you're dead, seeing that people you hated or ignored are suffering horribly, while you yourself [[spoiler: are dying, and the only person who can save you is the one who put you in a coma to begin with]].
** I had a little "this is kinda creepy" feeling gnawing at the back of my mind, but it went away [[spoiler: after he tried shooting himself]].
* Pretty much the entirety of ''The Devil's Rejects'', including such moments as [[spoiler: the woman escaping the motel room wearing her husband's face.]]
* ''I am Dina'' is set in 19th century Norway. At the beginning, the heroine, then a little girl, causes a the contents of a huge cauldron full of boiling water (used to wash clothes) to be poured on her mother. First you see the mother, completely scalded. Then [[ItGetsWorse the little girl, waiting on her own in an attic, listening while her mother screams constantly for hours, maybe days, before dying.]]
** It gets worse. It wasn't boiling water, it was boiling ''lye''.
* http://www.cracked.com/article/160_7-horrifying-moments-from-classic-kids-movies/ , and these are from ''kid'' movies.
* You don't think a biopic about the great jazz piano player Ray Charles will be scary? Check out the scene from ''Ray'' where he has a hallucination that his drowned brother is in his suitcase.
* [[ANightmareOnElmStreet "Did you know that the brain can still function for seven minutes after the heart stops beating?]] [[ColdBloodedTorture We still have six minutes to play..."]]
** "Why are you screaming? I haven't even cut you yet..."
* The scene where Lisbeth is [[spoiler:brutally raped]] in "[[TheMillenniumTrilogy ''Men Who Hate Women'']]". Even more effective because we barely see anything, we mostly just hear.
** Also, the scene where [[spoiler:Martin Vanger]] talks to Blomqvist about his favorite part of raping and killing.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPmycZaJYNw Mamá]]. It's a short horror film. It's also bloody terrifying.
** It's going to be remake into a feature film with GuillermoDelToro producing, sweet dreams.
* [[ApocalypseNow FUCKING TIGER!!!]]
** Nothing in the world will ever be more terrifying to me than Colonel Kurtz. Not nessesarily the man himself, or even the things he does. The idea of Kurtz. I've always imagined Kurtz to be all but the physical manifestation of the combined horrors or war, and how war does not merely kill the flesh, but that it kills our very humanity. The insanity, the cold hearted butchery, and the utter lack of emotion except fear he emanates perfectly displays everything terrible that war can do to a person. Everytime I see footage of real warfare, whether it be pictures of no man's land from WWI, the death camps of WWII, the madness of Vietnam, the footage of the dead women and children from the war in Iraq, all I hear in my head is Kurtz's voice saying his immortal last words:
---> "The horror... the horror..."
** For me, it's the "Little arms" story that cinches it.
* ''{{Mimic}}'' made me deathly afraid of roaches. After watching 5 minutes out of the middle. [[spoiler:Roaches the size of PEOPLE!]]
* ''Film/KickAss'': The [[spoiler: torture and attempted execution]] scene is incredibly unbearable to watch.
** They lit [[spoiler:Big Daddy]] on fire, and we watched him burn, complete with blisters and torched flesh in the aftermath as he struggled to breathe, and basically suffocated. That's one way to up the Octane. [[spoiler:I don't think it counts as "Attempted" at that point]]
* There is a collection of four short films based on the writings of Taro Hirai(AKA Edogawa Ranpo) known as Rampo Noir. While I didn't find the first story "Mars Canal" very frightning, she has been assured the original story is quite horrifying. On the other hand "Mirror Hell", "Caterpillar" and "Crawling Bugs" frightened me to the point of extreme paranoia about the men in my life (and my microwave and my bathroom mirror, for reasons that will become clear if you watch the movie).
* The tongue-cutting scene in ''{{Oldboy}}'' still has me running screaming in the opposite direction every time I come anywhere near a pair of scissors.
* ''TheVillage'' scared me not because it was a scary movie in itself, but because I lives in a small community in the middle of the woods where local high schoolers love to scare people at night
* ''{{Kalifornia}}''. Not just the plot, horrifying as it is to contemplate, but specifically the scene where Early makes the store clerk lie down and cover his head, and makes him believe he might get out of it alive. And then, with the guy sobbing in terror, Early SHOOTS him. The image of a yellow smiley-face cushion exploding in fluff and blood still haunts me.
* ''{{Phantasm}}'' from 1979 scared me for years as a kid, and I only saw a SCENE from the movie on tv. But, it was a scene with that terrifying, irrational "flying ball" with knives sticking out...I slept with my back turned to my bedroom door for like a year after that, terrified that the metal ball was going to come flying into my room. I didnt see the actual movie until years later as a teen, at which point I think the Tall Man was much more frightening..."Boooyyyyyy".
** Tall Man's "message" to Mike in the second movie.
* ''{{Inception}}'' has a fair amount, especially the implied horror of Cobb's [[NoodleIncident alluded-to]] past with Mal (until it is explained, though it is still quite creepy) and the scene with the elevator that leads to his subconscious. And [[YourMileageMayVary possibly]] [[spoiler: the very last shot.]]
** ''"WAKE ME UP! WAKE ME UP!"'' Also, it is implied that the projections in Saito's dream literally ''ripped Nash apart'' in the opening dream sequence.
* Just the teaser for the remake of ''Don't Be Afraid of the Dark'' freaks the hell out of me. Dark house...little girl in her bed with a flashlight...little girl hides under covers...[[spoiler:little girl turns shines flashlight under covers to reveal a monster has actually crawled under them with her.]] FFFFFFFFFFF--
* ''Film/LakeMungo.'' Cell phone footage. Don't mind me, I'll be hiding somewhere.
** And the autopsy photos.
* "[[BlueVelvet Now it's dark.]]"
* The entire scene on the alien craft in ''FireInTheSky.'' This film is not billed as a horror but [[OutOfGenreExperience it probably should be]].
* ''{{Braveheart}}'': the ending, where [[spoiler:William Wallace's torso is ripped open and his intestines are scrambled around while he is still alive. It is horrific to imagine enduring that much pain knowing that the damage is irreversible, and you're already as good as dead.]]
** All the more horrible because it's true.
* ''{{Hot Fuzz}}''. For such a comedic film there are gallons of intentional Nightmare Fuel. In particular, the death of [[spoiler:Tim Messenger]] was almost too much. The way he staggers for a while... I mean, ''jesus.''
** I have a pretty strong stomach, but when I first saw that in the theater it almost made me physically sick.
* ''Piranha3D'': EVERY death scene. I love horror, and I love gore, but even I will admit I cringed at the deaths. Maybe it was how good the effects were, maybe it was just how painful it looked. Regardless, I now fear Piranhas.
* The titular painting 1945 ''ThePictureOfDorianGray'' is ''scary as balls.'' First of all, it's in color, when the rest of the movie's black-and-white. Second of all, they always cut to it very suddenly and startlingly, with a piercing music sting to accompany it. And thirdly, it's just fucking freaky-looking. I was totally traumatized whilst flipping the channels as a youngster, and then finally watched it properly a good 15 years later...and still shrieked and jumped back every time it popped up.
* The otherwise hilarious {{Blaxploitation}} film ''Avenging Disco Godfather'' has an incredibly disturbing scene in which a woman high on drugs [[spoiler:''cooks her baby and serves it to her family.'']] The whole movie has a pretty strong DrugsAreBad message, but for the most part it's sort of tongue-in-cheek. BUT NOT THEN.
* Go on, Google ''ASerbianFilm''. We f**king dare you.
** Wiki searching it is bad enough. Basically, it features tons of snuff and rape and what can only be called "rape squared," by which I mean [[spoiler: being drugged and forced to rape a woman who you then kill, then rape her some more, and then forced to rape your SON as your brother rapes your wife.]] I think there's more but I was too horrified to read it throughly. There's also mention (though not shown, thank God) of "[[spoiler: newborn rape.]]"
*** I actually saw that movie, a recomendation from an ex-friend. That scene of [[spoiler: "newborn porn"]] had me sobbing and screaming "Make it stop! MAKE IT STOP!" That is not an exaggeration.
** Milos' rape face. It will haunt your nightmares.
* The movie ''Antichrist'' was this for me. I saw this film three days ago and I still have the [[spoiler:''graphic images of people cutting their own genitalia'']] burnt in my mind. After watching Pan's Labyrinth, I thought I could take anything. Well, I stood corrected. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw03QayJ2fU&feature=player_embedded Trailer]].
* Indio from ''ForAFewDollarsMore''. Even today, [[Tropers/KingCrInuYasha I'm]] scared shitless of this man. One of the first things we see him do is order his henchmen to kill a man's wife and ''newborn child''. Once they're dead, Indio forces the father into a duel for a "chance" to avenge his family using an eerie music watch chime stolen from a woman, [[spoiler: who turns out to be Colonel Mortimer's sister]], Indio raped to the point where she comitted suicide. Then there's the freakouts he has, going from calm to starkraving mad in the blink of an eye. Even his picture on the wanted poster is enough to scare someone, which is showing him ''laughing''.
* Angel Eyes' first appearance in ''TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''. He offs a guy, after the victim offers all of his money so Angel Eyes won't kill him. Angel Eyes then goes to the man who ordered the hit and ''kills him too'', because once he's paid, he always sees the job through.
* ''Film/{{Skyline}}'' has the images of hundreds of people getting sucked up into space ships, all of them screaming.
** Worse still in the movie, where the aliens [[spoiler: DISSOLVE the heads of human victims and leave the brain intact for, all intents and purposes, a BATTERY]].
** The giant "Tank" Aliens, who [[spoiler: use their tentacles to capture humans and forcibly (no doubt painfully) suck them into their bodies]].
* [[http://www.vimeo.com/15013204 This short film]], entitled ''Head'', by Chris Falkowski. Man with an evil Alter Ego consumes pills to control himself, until he doesn't and things [[ItGotWorse don't go so well.]]
* ''[[EvilDead Evil Dead II.]]'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83ciwAd9D8g The laughing scene.]]
* Laugh at me all you want, but I will swear that the absolute creepiest film he has ever seen (and he's seen a number of scary films, from ''TheExorcist'' to ''{{Seven}}'' to ''TheRing'') was ''The Parable'', a film strip I watched on a Catholic retreat in high school. This is partly due to GenreShift: he expected something sappy and uplifting, like most religious films, and instead got what could best be described as FedericoFellini [[XMeetsY directing]] ''{{It}}''. Allow him to explain: The film (which is directed in a [[MindScrew surrealistic black and white style without any dialogue]]) stars a nameless [[MonsterClown creepy clown]] who is also supposed to be a [[MessianicArchetype representation of Jesus]]. This clown walks around [[CircusOfFear a very odd-seeming carnival]], trying to help out his fellow workers, but is met with reactions [[CrapsackWorld ranging from anger to disdain to bemusement]]. Eventually, he enters the main tent, where an [[MarionetteMaster insane puppeteer]] is showing a [[PerversePuppet disturbing puppet show]] to a bunch of traumatized kids, all wearing large, uncomfortable-looking hoodies for some reason. The clown goes and starts to amuse the kids, which enrages the puppeteer, who captures the clown and hangs him on one of the puppet frames. As he forces the clown to perform a manic dance, the clown dies, but not before letting out an ear-splitting scream. And no, he [[SubvertedTrope does not]] get better, either, although there are hints that his sacrifice inspired other members of the troupe. (The year after I saw this, my school got a new retreat director, who decided not to show the film, reasoning that it was not [[InsaneTrollLogic the point of retreat to scare the fuck out of students]].)
* [[AmericanHistoryX "Now say]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV9Oj-vhLkE goodnight!]].
* The TV movie David, about a boy whose father sets him on fire due to a custody dispute. It was based on a true story, and the boy was burned over 90 percent of his body. John Glover played the father, and apparently the role was HighOctaneNightmareFuel for him.
* ''Film/FatalAttraction'' has probably ''the'' quintessential {{Yandere}} moment in western cinema, when Glenn Close's character Alex Forrest [[spoiler:takes the pet rabbit belonging to the daughter of her lover Dan Gallagher and ''boils it alive in a pressure cooker'']]. This grotesque act of evil was chilling enough to earn an entry on the MoralEventHorizon page, has given many people who watched it some serious nightmares, and was enough to coin the phrase "bunny boiler" for {{Yandere}}-types soon afterwards.
* I was always more frightened by the scenes where Alex kidnapped Dan's daughter. You can really feel Beth (Dan's wife) complete panic as she runs around searching for her daughter. Tell me that isn't every parent's worst nightmare--that your kid could so easily go off with a stranger despite your multiple warnings otherwise, that the stranger could be some perfectly normal-looking person rather than the psycho that they truly are, and even though she returns the little girl unharmed, let's face it, she ''could'' have harmed her if she wanted to.
* The mexican film ''Canoa'' holds no surprises: From the very first scene we're told a group of workers got lynched by an entire town who mistook them for communists. It takes one entire hour of build-up to get to the point where the fanatic villagers storm the house where the young victims are. As the aggressions begin, some of the victims watch in horror, as impotent as the spectator. The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HESjrBQx4XY lynching scene]] is so long, graphic and horrible, there's only one thing capable of making it worse: It really ''happened''.
* For me, the film that gave the most nightmares was easily ''Untraceable.'' The first victim wasn't that horrible, but the guy being roasted alive, and the guy being submerged in acid. [[spoiler: add to that the fact that he was a cop.]] Needless to say, many nights were spent awake after that.
* Back in the 1970s, there was apparently a portion of the Turkish film industry who couldn't care less about copyright laws and made unauthorized films about a number of superhero, action/adventure and sci-fi properties. That's just kinda weird, but one of the most infamous was a film called ''3 Dev Adam'' which involved Captain America, a Mexican wrestler known as Santos, and Spider-Man... except it wasn't Spider-Man. It was an evildoer who was called Spider-Man and had a similar costume to Spidey's. Even that wouldn't be so bad, except that this "Spider-Man" doesn't just want to rob banks or take over the world, he's also a serial killer and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapist]]. There's supposed to be some unfathomably freakish imagery and such, like he has some gerbils or hamsters eat someone's eyes out.
** Yeah, I haven't seen it.
* ''NurseBetty'' is a romantic comedy about a woman played by Renée Zellweger starts to believe that her favorite soap opera is real and gets into some wacky hijinks trying to find a character from the show that she's smitten over. Fun stuff, huh... except there's also a scene where Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock tie up her husband and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SWFz6TKK18 proceed to scalp him in brutal detail]].
* [[spoiler:Lindsey]] drowning in the damaged submersible in ''TheAbyss'' (while her husband [[KickTheDog has to watch]], no less). The water's rising and she's clearly terrified, trying to breathe right up until the submersible has completely flooded.
* TheSkeletonKey, especially the ending. What really scared me is, [[FridgeHorror I realised afterwards]] that[[spoiler: the more kind-hearted Caroline believed she was doing the right thing, the closer she went to her FateWorseThanDeath.]]
* What, no love/fear for ''TheHaunting''?! That scene with the wallpaper that looks like a face, with the man singing, the woman laughing and the children CRYING?! I can sit through most anything without batting an eye, but that [[strike: scene]] movie scares her half to death every time.
* ''Biutiful:'' an entire roomful of sleeping immigrant workers (a total of about 25 men, women and children) [[spoiler:all die as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning, presumably. When their boss comes in to wake them, they're just all lying there dead.]] And somehow, [[ItGotWorse it gets worse]]: the main character, Uxbal, can [[spoiler:[[ISeeDeadPeople communicate with the dead]] to some degree, and as he tries to apologize to one of the dead women, a friend of his, you briefly see the 'spirits' of the dead people suspended weirdly against the ceiling, their faces contorted with fear.]] It's all the most disturbing because there's no sound effects or [[JumpScare dramatic music stings]] to highlight it. And towards the end of the film, Uxbal [[spoiler:(who is dying of cancer) [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral sees]] ''himself'' [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral on the ceiling]] in the same way in his final hours.]] It's very, very effective.
* According to Eva, the Tom Green movie ''Freddy Got Fingered''.
-->[[http://www.jabootu.com/fgf.htm Throwing a couple more gallons of high-octane nightmare fuel on the fire...]]
* Disney's ''Disney/DarbyOGillAndTheLittlePeople''. The banshee might be the most terrifying thing to ever appear in a family friendly movie.
* The scene with the vice in ''Casino.'' I can't even describe it that well, because, even though I've seen the film several times and loved it, I just cannot watch that scene at all. Just writing about it will freak me out for a day or two.
* The Canadian zombie film ''{{Pontypool}}''. A virus spread not through blood or air, but ''speech''; you can be infected simply by listening to a term of endearment. The repeated [[MadnessMantra madness mantras]] of the infected are some of the creepiest things ever committed to film, especially combined with their expressions. The fact that the entire movie takes place within a radio studio makes it sometimes almost unbearably claustrophobic. Then of course there's the DownerEnding....
** "For your safety, please avoid contact with close family members and refrain from the following: all terms of endearment, such as 'honey' or 'sweetheart'; baby talk with young children; and rhetorical discourse. For greater safety, please avoid the English language... [[OhCrap Do not translate this message]]."
* The early-90s anthology ''Body Bags'' was for the most part pretty [[{{Narm}} narmy]], but the segment titled "Hair" caused me to have minor panic attacks whenever I got a hair in my mouth...
* The recent sci-fi horror film ''{{Altitude}}''. By and large it's SoOkayItsAverage, but '''damn''' if it doesn't have some creepy shit in it. A small, twin engine plane flies up to go over a storm system, only to encounter a huge wall of black clouds that it can't avoid. Okay, [[DarknessEqualsDeath ominous]], but not too bad...until they realize that they've been flying through the storm for a while, and it doesn't seem to end, and their altimeter says they should be in the stratosphere, and all they can hear on the radio is [[HellIsThatNoise this horrible screaming sound]]. But what '''really''' freaked [[Tropers/{{Enchanter468}} me]] out were the [[CombatTentacles brief]] [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily glimpses]] we got of [[EldritchAbomination the thing that makes the screaming noise:]] [[GiantFlyer something]] ''[[GiantFlyer huge]]'' [[EldritchAbomination moving around in the clouds.]]
* In the 2007 remake of ''IAmLegend'', [[TheAloner the protagonist]] copes with his isolation by populating certain locations (like a video rental) with department-store mannequins, which he gives names to and converses with. Will Smith is driving in one scene when he looks out the side window and sees a brief glimpse of one of his human proxies standing in the middle of the road - and in a quick first-person snap cut, the mannequin '''turns its head to look at you'''.
** "What the hell are you doing out here, Fred?! What the ''hell'' are you... No. ''No! NO! What the hell are you doing out here, Fred?! '''How did you get out here?... Fred, if you're real, you'd better tell me right now! IF YOU'RE REAL YOU BETTER TELL ME RIGHT NOW!'''''"
* ''TheGreenMile'': The execution of Del Delacroix. Deliberately sabotaged by Percy, the sadistic guard, the scene goes on for several excruciating minutes. Instead of wetting the sponge that goes on the head of the person sitting in the chair, he leaves it dry, which interferes with the conductivity. As a result, instead of a relatively quick execution, the poor man's head catches fire and dies an excruciatingly tortured death.
** The flashback to how Wild Bill kidnapped the two little girls is also incredibly disturbing. Seeing it go from shots of a happy family to the family's hired hand threatening the girls before raping and killing them is like something out of a nightmare.
* The smiling family from from {{Insidious}}. Brrr.
** The scene describing the monster's intentions for the first time. At first it seems like a normal introduction to the monster; it talks to the dreaming person, telling her that it (naturally) wants the comatose child's soul. All we see of the creature is its claw pointing at the kid, and then the sequence ends. And, right as she finishes telling her story, it shows up right behind her, screaming at the top of its lungs before running off. Mere words don't do it justice; the scene is pretty horrifying for a JumpScare and can easily catch the audience off-guard.
* ''TheShawshankRedemption'', generally speaking, does NOT sugar-coat how horrific prisons in real life can be. The most disturbing scenes are actually earlier on, which is FridgeBrilliance in that it goes with one of the movie's themes about how prison is always tougher to deal with earlier on.
* Most of the stuff with the ghosts in the original ''ThirteenGhosts'' is just silly, but there's a suddenly terrifying moment where Cyrus sees several of them suddenly bursting into flames while screaming.
* ''Film/HowardTheDuck'': As Dr. Jennings flees with Howard's girl, he begins to run out of energy. The way he recharges sent an entire room of birthday children running screaming, and a pair of parents regretting they had rented the show. Witness it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqkQA6fcOBk#t=6m47s here]].
** The possessed Dr. Jennings, and the horrid aliens, creep out any kid. ANYONE.
*** It's even creepier when you find out quite a few disturbing things about actor Jeffrey Jones.
* "{{Killer Klowns from Outer Space}}". I'm surprised that this hasn't been put on here. HONF in this movie includes, but is not limited to: [[spoiler: Man-eating Shadow Puppets, Klowns luring children around, Killer Puppets, and of course, MonsterClown!]]
* You call this a legitimate page and NOT mention {{Gozu}}? The [[http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/719/snapshot20110619140326.jpg kid]] in the 'yakuza killing' car staring down a barrel of a gun motionless with a smile that could be used for warfare? Perhaps Manami waking up to find a man with a cow's head wasn't surreal enough? And the ending... not even a spoiler could prepare you for what happens.
* ''{{Gladiator}}'': The scene where Maximus finds his wife and son crucified is both Nightmare Fuel and a tear-jerker, not unlike the scene where Commodus [[MoralEventHorizon smothers his father to death]].
** Hell, Commodus is basically High Octane Nightmore Fuel [[CompleteMonster personified]]. [[EvilPrince He kills his father]], [[BrotherSisterIncest lusts after his sister]], orders Maximus and his family murdered, taunts Maximus about it later, threatens to kill his own nephew [[{{Squick}} unless his sister marry and have sex with him]] and later challenges Maximus to a duel to the death but [[DirtyCoward wounds him beforehand]] so that he'll have the upper hand. He looks increasingly evil and vampiric as the film progresses. Ridley Scott said that he tried to use Commodus's make-up to create the impression that he's slowly turning to stone as he becomes more and more evil.
** Or the scene where the ''female'' gladiator is ''sliced in half''! Heck, that was so brutal and graphic, and the fact that it was a woman (who WouldHitAGirl?!) makes it even scarier!
* ''RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'': Pretty much any scene with the Sheriff and Mortiana as well as the part where Robin returns to his ancestral manor and finds his father's eviscerated carcass.
* What happens to the moms in MarsNeedsMoms: [[spoiler:brain-draning and subsequent ''vaporization'']]. [[spoiler:Gribble]]'s mom went through it too. After that, there's [[spoiler:Milo's death by asphyxiation]] and [[spoiler:[[TearJerker his mother taking off her helmet to bring him back.]]]] WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids
* ''CaltikiTheImmortalMonster'', a 1959 Italian rip-off of The Blob, had a couple good ones, particularly for unsuspecting eight-year-olds. A more memorable one[[hottip:*:at least for me, since I was the eight-year-old!]] involves Max, who has become more deranged throughout the film, as he holds a gun on his girlfriend (long story). Cue monster, which comes up behind him and does what Blob rip-offs do best. Now imagine his agonized face, blood oozing from his mouth as he's crushed, then his face disappears for a second, enveloped by monsta. Then his face, ''a freaking skull by now,'' reappears while his arm is still flailing wildly. An earlier one involves a diver who comes face to face with Caltiki and ends up in a [[IncrediblyLamePun face-off]]. Specifically, the skin of his face is gone (including eyelids but leaving eyes) and you can still see him breathing.
* ''{{Holocaust}}'' (the 1978 NBC miniseries). Most movies about the Holocaust have more than their share of Nightmare Fuel, and this one, possibly the first large-scale film to go into detail about the concentration camps and such, is no exception. While the scenes involving the gas chambers were disconcerting to be sure, their impact was softened a bit by use of fade-to-black techniques. Depiction of the cold-blooded killings done by the Einsatzgruppen, however, left little to the imagination. The Einsatzgruppen, or SS mobile killing units, were the ones whose primary method of execution was by [[spoiler: a firing squad felling groups of people at a time into a mass grave -- after making them undress. Completely.]] Scenes of these killings were shown multiple times, but one particular scene has the highest octane of them all. [[spoiler: After executing a group of men in the usual manner, they all go take a look at the mass grave. We are actually shown what they see: essentially a pile of naked men at the bottom of a pit, bloodied in a manner that suggested strong spurting of blood with each bullet hit. After a deafening silence, we hear some human moaning from the pit. This only angered the commandant, who promptly handed the gunner a pistol, with orders to finish off anyone who might still be breathing.]] What makes the horror worse about this scene is that you can't just say "It's only a movie" since it was based on real-live events. The fact that an earlier scene implied that women and children were being slaughtered the same way (not dramatized) doesn't help. Indeed there might be some {{Truth In Television}} here, as Einsatzgruppen members were starting to get nightmares themselves, particularly from [[spoiler: watching blood shoot out of people's backs unbuffered by clothing,]] and was one reason for the development of the gas chambers later in the war.
* The original ''{{The Amityville Horror}}'' - mostly demonic entity/"imaginary friend" Jodie's antics. First we have the babysitter trapped in a closet with no lock, who proceeds to pound on the door until her knuckles bleed. Then the light goes out and she's stuck inside for hours. When she's finally let out, the little girl she was babysitting explains Jodie wouldn't let her open the door.
** Later, the same little girl is singing "Jesus Loves Me" as her mother walks down the hall. She comes in and we - but not her - see that the rocking chair in the corner of the room has been moving on its own as the daughter sings to Jodie. When the little girl complains her mother scared Jodie away and she went out the window, the mother bemusedly goes to look in order to demonstrate Jodie is imaginary - only to be greeted by two glowing red eyes staring back at her.
* ''{{Red State}}'' - the execution scene. [[spoiler: Guy tied to a pole, they wrap him in clingwrap, including his head, and all the while he's screaming for help, before they put a revolver on top of his head and shoot him. And you can see the blood in the plastic wrap. Even more disturbing were the serene faces of the other sect members...]]
* In ''MeganIsMissing'', a fourteen year old girl meets who she thinks is a harmless boy around her age. When she goes to meet him, she is kidnapped and goes missing. Eventually, [[spoiler: two disturbing photos of a young girl, who is confirmed by the FBI to be Megan, are found on a fetish site.]] The [[spoiler: photos]] themselves definitely fit this trope as this viewer could not get to sleep for several days as the photos kept appearing in his head. Not only are the photos terrifying ([[spoiler:depicting Megan in a dungeon having her mouth and nose stretched open in a permanent scream via a bizarre torture device]]) but they are also [[spoiler: the last photos of her being alive]]. The film only gets worse after the revealing of the [[spoiler: pictures]] because soon Megan's friend Amy [[spoiler: gets kidnapped]]. The final twenty two minutes of the film is [[spoiler: Amy getting raped, tortured, and then finally being buried alive]]. Add to this the fact that during this footage [[spoiler: we see Megan's slimy, defiled, rotting corpse]]. The film isn't for the weak hearted or really anyone for that matter.
** For this viewer, the only things that made me jump were the [[spoiler: photos]] and [[spoiler: the sight of Megan's corpse in the barrel]]. Everything else was neutralized for me because I could point out how different it was from reality (which, in and of itself, was HighOctaneNightmareFuel because how certain plot elements would play out in reality is even scarier).
--> even creepier if you have the same first name.
* ''TheToweringInferno'' has its fair share. The people who get scorched on the elevator come to mind, as do the deaths of [[spoiler:Lisolette and the people who fell from the buyou.]]
* The scene in {{Very Bad Things}} where Jeremy Piven's character accidentally impales a prostitute's head on a towel hook during rough sex and kills her made the rest of the movie impossible to finish. It is still cringe-worthy almost ten years later.
* Jason's face in the FridayThe13th remake. The designs for the face have run anywhere from unsettling to disgusting in the originals, but they outdid themselves in this one.
* The Marley's Ghost scene in ''AChristmasCarol'' is horrifying enough in any film adaptation, but in the 2004 musical, it goes above and beyond the call of duty, with the wandering chained spirits coming out of the walls and joining Marley in the song "Link By Link". [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U_iEjXyPZc View here]].
** In 2009 adaptation, maybe it not the same thing as ''Link By Link'', but it comes right in the second place.
* There's an obscure 90s movie called NoTelling that used to air on IFC a lot. The plot is that a doctor is experimenting on lab mice, but [[ItGotWorse then moves onto bigger things.]] The film remains relatively calm until the last 15 minutes or so. As it turns out, the doctor [[spoiler: stole a little girl's dog, sewed it's legs off, then bought a calf, cut it's legs off, and put the calf legs on the dog.]] The worst part? ''It moves.'' However, the movie does end on a bittersweet note. While [[spoiler: the dog dies]], the doctor's wife leaves him, and he gets [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome punched in the face by a farmer.]]
* IngloriousBasterds - Whenever Brad Pitt's character pulled out his knife, scalped the Nazis and carved swastikas onto the foreheads of the survivors.
* At one point in ''{{Hanna}}'' Marissa brushes her teeth to the point of drawing a lot of blood.
* ''Film/RedEye'' being a WesCraven PsychologicalThriller had a lot. Jackson Rippner in particular can be quite creepy.
* In the 1951 film adaption of ''AStreetcarNamedDesire'' the depiction of Blanche's descent into insanity. Especially her FreakOut moment after Stanley tears the paper lantern off of the lightbulb.
* {{Dahmer}}: Particularly the part at the end when he [[spoiler: slices the one guy's chest and stomach open and sticks his hands in his intestines]].
* Why are they called the IronJawedAngels? It's not because they had their mouths pried open with metal instruments and were force-fed raw eggs through a tube shoved down their throat. But after watching that scene, that's all you'll think of. Made even scarier by the fact that it's TruthInTelevision.
* ''GirlWithAPearlEarring'': Van Ruijven's attempt to rape Griet as well as when Catharina tries to suddenly stab the picture of Griet.
* ''{{Titanic}}'': The second half of the movie [[spoiler: where the ship sinks]] is this and tearjerker fuel.
** The deleted scene where Rose freaks out in her room before almost being DrivenToSuicide.
** Rose and Jack being trapped behind the gate while the ship is rapidly filling with water.
** [[spoiler: Jack and a lot of other people freezing to death.]] Especially the shot of the woman and her baby frozen to death in the water.
** The captain's death.
* The entire concept of ''{{Gamer}}''. It takes place in the future, in which online video games have you controlling real, living, breathing people. If you're playing a first-person shooter, there's no respawning at all, so when your player dies, he's permanently dead.
* ''{{Contagion}}''. The whole thing. Do not watch it if you're a germaphobe, or afraid of getting sick.
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->''"Do not watch this movie on drugs unless you've got a mean hankering for PTSD."''
-->--'''D. [=McCallum=]''', ''{{Cracked}}'', on ''ShutterIsland'' [[hottip:*:Applicable to many of these examples as well]]
Do you remember as a kid, you couldn't wait until you were 17 so you could watch R-rated movies without your parents' permission? Well, the scariness of ''these'' movies [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel may make it feel like it wasn't worth the wait]]. So, to all the kids out there... try not to grow up too fast.
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* [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/OneHundredAndTwentySevenHours 127 Hours]]
* [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/FourteenOhEight 1408]]
* [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001: A Space Odyssey]]
* [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TwoThousandTwelve 2012]]
* [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TwentyEightDaysLater 28 Days Later]]
** [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TwentyEightWeeksLater 28 Weeks Later]]
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Alien}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/AlienAbductionIncidentInLakeCounty
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/ApocalypseNow
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Audition}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Avatar}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/BattleLosAngeles
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Beetlejuice}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheBirds
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheBlackHole
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/BlackSwan
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/BladeRunner
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheBlairWitchProject
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheBrood
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/CabinFever
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheCell
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/ChildrenOfMen
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Chronicle}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheChroniclesOfNarnia
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Cloverfield}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Coraline}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/CowboysAndAliens
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Creepshow}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Cube}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/DarkCity
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheDarkKnightSaga
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/DawnOfTheDead
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheDayAfter
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/DeepImpact
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/DemonCityShinjuku
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheDevilsAdvocate
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{District 9}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Dragonslayer}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Eraserhead}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/EventHorizon
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheExorcist
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheFaculty
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/FightClub
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/FinalDestination
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/FinalFantasyTheSpiritsWithin
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheFourthKind
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Freaks}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/FreddyVsJason
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/FunnyGames
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Gamera}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Godzilla}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Goodfellas}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/GraveEncounters
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Gremlins}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheGrey
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Halloween}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Hellraiser}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/HomeMovie
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Hook}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/HollowMan
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/HowardTheDuck
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheHowling
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheHumanCentipede
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/IndianaJones
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheIronGiant
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/IronMan
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{It}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/ItsAWonderfulLife
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/JacobsLadder
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Jaws}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Jumanji}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Juon}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/JurassicPark
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/KingKong
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/LakeMungo
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheLastBroadcast
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheLastExorcism
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheLastTemptationOfChrist
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheLordOfTheRings
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheMatrix
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Moon}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheMothmanProphecies
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheMummyTrilogy
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheMuppetChristmasCarol
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheNeverendingStory
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/ANightmareOnElmStreet
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/NoCountryForOldMen
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheOmen
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/OneMissedCall
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/PansLabyrinth
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/ParanormalActivity
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/PiratesOfTheCaribbean
* Pixar
** HighOctaneNightmareFuel/ToyStory
** HighOctaneNightmareFuel/ABugsLife
** HighOctaneNightmareFuel/FindingNemo
** HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheIncredibles
** HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Brave}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Poltergeist}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Psycho}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{REC}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/RedPlanet
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/ReturnToOz
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/RequiemForADream
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheRing
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{RoboCop}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/SavingPrivateRyan
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Saw}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Scream}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Se7en}}
* [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Firefly}} Serenity]]
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/ShaunOfTheDead
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheShining
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/ShortCircuit
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/ShutterIsland
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Signs}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheSilenceOfTheLambs
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/SilentHill
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheSorcerersApprentice
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Spider-Man}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/StarTrek
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/StarWars (includes non-film examples as well)
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/StayAlive
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Super 8}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/ATaleOfTwoSisters
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheThing
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Terminator}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Threads}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Transformers}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Tremors}}
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TronLegacy
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/TheWarOfTheWorlds
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/WolfCreek
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/XMenFirstClass
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/ZeroDay
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* OsmosisJones: Read the example for Ebola on the main page? If not do so now. Compare Ebola to dandruff. For the sake of the argument Ebola is X times worse. '''''Now imagine something X times worse than Ebola and a man dying of it and you have the Red Death.'''''
* Margaret Hamilton as [[Film/TheWizardOfOz the Wicked Witch of the West]] has to be one of the most terrifying performances ever committed to film. Everything about her, from the acid-green skin, to the not-quite-human face, to the eery shrill voice seems programmed to give kids nightmares. And with all the scenes of her flying through the sky on a broomstick, teleporting instantly in a ball of fire, and watching the heroes through her crystal ball, there's the implication that she can find you and hunt you down '''''[[FridgeHorror wherever]] [[ParanoiaFuel you are!]]''''' If anything, the fact that it's a family film makes her scarier: she's obviously a sadist with vast magical powers, but we never see her doing anything that violent...[[NothingIsScarier our imaginations get to fill in the details]].
** However, if you've seen [[{{Theatre/Wicked}} Wicked]], this gets a bit NightmareRetardant - it can be hard not to imagine the Wicked Witch suddenly singing about defying gravity.
* ''Film/{{Evilspeak}}''. The plot centered around a student living on the dorm of an academy who became interested in the occult and started to converse with the spirit of a long-dead warlock via computer (don't ask, I don't get it either). The plot included [[FullBoarAction pigs being possessed and eating people]] (including a scene where said pigs break into a woman's bathroom and eat her while she's in her bath), messy decapitations aplenty, and blood and gore all over the place with ominous chanting in the background. And as if that wasn't [[NightmareFuel nightmarish]] enough already, [[spoiler:the movie [[DownerEnding ends]] with the aforementioned computer screen flashing a message saying "I will return."]] I had a LOT of trouble sleeping that night, and have since sworn never to watch that movie again.
* ''{{Cujo}}''. The three most particularly terrifying scenes post-rabies infection, are: when the titular dog mauls his owner and the neighbor; when he takes a bite out of the mom while she and her son are trapped in the car; and the penultimate scene when, having gotten back up from a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown inflicted by the [[MamaBear mom]] with a [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer baseball bat]] moments earlier, he shows up unexpectedly [[spoiler:just before he dies via gunshot inflicted to the head]]. Yep, ParanoiaFuel aplenty.
** Becomes even scarier if you watch it after learning about the symptoms and prognosis of rabies. Can also be FridgeHorror when you consider the possibility that post-bite vaccination can fail in rare cases, and balance that with the fact that the mom had been bitten by Cujo. The book is even worse, what with it's significantly more dramatic ending.
* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYjFKsJjCP0 library scene]] from ''{{Ghostbusters}}'' isn't exactly the scariest scene in a movie, but it can really catch you off guard if you haven't seen it before. It may be NightmareRetardant for some people (including myself).
* TheIncredibleShrinkingMan: The fight between the now very tiny Scott Carey and the spider. Yes, it was made over fifty years ago and on a shoestring budget. However, the whole appearance of the spider was very, very creepy. From when it first appeared crawling out of the crate to when after the basement floods, it tramples on top of the matchbox that Scott now lives in. Finally, the battle when the spider crawls over him is chilling, and when Scott stabs it, it's enough to give one nightmares. Then you see that red hour glass shape on the bottom of the spider, you realize what type of spider it was leading to a FridgeHorror.
* ''SmokinAces'': Specifically the scene when one of the Tremor brothers ''falls on a chainsaw.'' Seriously, the director of ''{{Hostel}}'' would be impressed.
* The 1963 Italian horror film "Black Sabbath" (yes, the one [[Music/BlackSabbath a certain band]] was named after) has three segments. The first two (or last two, if you see the dubbed AIP version) are your typical, run of the mill horror stories. The finale, "Drop of Water", however, is possibly the scariest thing ever filmed. If you've seen the film, that THING's [[NightmareFace face]] has haunted your dreams. If you haven't seen it, [[SchmuckBait look it up]] on Google Video (unless you want to sleep within the next few days).
* [[LooksLikeOrlok Nosferatu]]. I have never even seen the movie, but I still have nightmares about that creature.
** Furthermore, the {{Mockumentary}} film, ''ShadowOfTheVampire'' decides that [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Max Shreck, the actor who played]] Count [[strike:Dracula]] Orlok was a REAL VAMPIRE! To quote [[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd Cinemassacre's Monster Madness]], "He may as well be". Brr...
* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus_%281999_film%29 Virus]]'' was a movie that was shown as M in my video shop. It was certainly 18+ .. I mean I like the horror genre, but maybe because I wasn't prepared it struck deep. If I ever had nightmares, this would be it.
* ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004'' remake. A zombified baby's birth scream and scene cut to show the baby itself. First time I saw that, I froze to my seat.
** The [[PapaWolf subsequent line]] is even worse if you're a dad, or would like to be.
** the early scene where Ana and Luis wake up to be attacked by a zombified little girl, Not specifically for fear of zombies, but it made him realize that whenever you go to sleep you never really know what the world might be like when you wake up.
* ''TheTrial'' (1993 version). The labyrinth of dilapidated corridors as a metaphor for a heartless bureaucracy awakens some childhood fears in some peoplw. A rare case of creating a really unsettling effect without using any horror-associated elements.
* The entire opening scene of [[TheUnborn The Unborn]]. So you're out jogging, and you run into a stray glove in the road. Not so bad...until you turn around and see [[CreepyChild the owner of the matching one]] standing right behind you, just...staring. An odd cut, and you're suddenly faced with a pit bull [[UncannyValley wearing a papier-mâché human mask.]] He waddles off into the woods, and for no real reason, you decide to follow him. You come across the mask lying on the ground, and dig down into the dirt to find the strings attached to a [[FetusTerrible disturbing-looking fetus]] in a jar. Zoom in slowly on its little swollen face...and [[BlueEyes THE EYES]] [[EyeAwaken BURST OPEN.]]
* In RoboCop, during the final shootout between the titular cyborg and Clarence Boddicker's gang in an abandoned chemical plant, one of the gang members crashes a van into a vat of toxic waste...and survives. The effect of the waste on him is both nauseating and terrifying, he is visibly melting and dissolving, while alive, staggering around and moaning desperately for help. It is almost a relief when, later in the sequence, he is accidentally run over by Boddicker and promptly ''[[MadeOfPlasticine explodes]]'' from the impact, showering the windscreen in what appears to be [[NauseaFuel brown water]], rather than blood.
** Also from RoboCop, early in the film, before his resurrection as a cyborg, Murphy is captured by Boddicker's gang, who proceed to graphically dismember him ''with shotguns'', blowing his arm off and blasting endless rounds into his torso from a distance, before finally killing him with a close range shot through the head. Murphy is entirely concious and screaming horrifically throughout, up until the final headshot.
* '' DyingBreed''. Another Australian film, twice as disturbing as wolf creek (which in itself is based on a true story). A group of cannibals grab a few hiker girls and rape them to get more children or else die from inbreeding, and eat the men. What makes this so scary, you ask? ''Based on a true story''. The actual man was a convict who broke free and was found years later. He was a known cannibal, and he had a family in the Australian Outback that practiced cannibalism. ''In Australia''.
** As an Australian resident I'd like to point out that the cannibal and prisoner part of Dying Breed are the only provable facts, originally Alexander Pearce escaped and cannibalized other escapees due to starvation. Tasmania is not a forgiving place. Though apparently he did grow to like human flesh. There's not evidence he ever spawned a family though or that he was ever out long enough to raise them as cannibals. Also he was hung on 19th of July 1894.
** Seconded. I'm a Tasmanian, and the story is overblown incredibly. Alexander Pearce didn't raise a family, nor is WolfCreek a true story. It's inspired (read: the writers have made speculative fiction) by the disappearance of several backpackers. Furthermore, Tasmania is about as opposite to the Outback as you can get.
* ''DragMeToHell'' is filled to the brim with High Octane Nightmare Fuel, but the scene that really stands out is the ending, [[spoiler:in which the final shot is of the female protagonist literally being DraggedOffToHell, as demonic hands grab her and slowly bring her down to Hell as her piercing scream reverberates throughout the whole scene.]]
** The early sequence where Christine has the seer Ram Jas read her fortune. As she holds out her hand for him to try and see into her future the tension starts to build up and the music turns ominous. Then *BAM* out of nowhere a quick flash of the Lamia's face appears, with burning yellow eyes and razor-sharp teeth against a background of flames and accompanied by a high-pitched screech. So many sleepless nights because of that one shot.
* There's a creepy scene in the ''{{MST3K}}'' episode ''Film/DevilDoll'', where DemonicDummy Hugo is sitting motionless in his cage. After a long lingering shot in dead silence, his eyes make a slight movement (reminding us that he is indeed, alive) and the camera pans across the room. Not even Mike and the bots' excellent riffing can diffuse the terror of that horrifyingly subtle little moment.
** Speaking of MST3K, "Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders" isn't an episode to watch alone late at night. It's a terrible film and not scary during the day, but disturbing enough--in part ''because'' it's so badly made--to be rather spooky at the time of night/morning when ''everything'' is spooky.
* ''PinkFloyd: TheWall''. In particular, [[BodyHorror Comfortably Numb]] and Goodbye Blue Sky are nightmare fuel.
** Comfortably Numb never scared me. I remember hearing the song when I was younger and feeling mostly relaxed when it would come on the radio or something. Later, as I got older, I listened to the lyrics more closely and realized it was actually pretty disturbing but I still really like it. The complete opposite happened with TheEagles' ''Hotel California''. I thought it was a nice, relaxing song until I actually paid close attention to it when I got older. Creeped me right the hell out and still does.
** While the song in itself isn't scary, the ending of Confortably Numb (when Pink [[BodyHorror gets rid of his own skin]]) probably counts. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt0b77N5kWg And let's]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q68Qwgz1aXQ just say everything]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE2t6HWmquc gets worse]] [[ItGotWorse from there]]. Hell, probably all the animated sequences count as well.
** ''The Trial,'' as a song, isn't really that bad. The ''[[DerangedAnimation film]]'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jViTte8VAzU version,]] on the other hand...
* ''Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari'', also a brilliant example of ParanoiaFuel. Contains the most messed-up set design in anything ever, as well as a psychotic sleepwalking Conrad Veidt.
** ''TheManWhoLaughs'' has more Veidt, this time as the most unbelievably disturbing-looking protagonist in all of film. See the page on SlasherSmile, and you too will understand.
* The intro to ''{{Eraserhead}}''. That's not to say that the rest of the movie isn't nightmarish as well, mind you, but the simple sight of The Man In The Planet crouched motionless by the window, wrapped in shadows, and then twitching slightly, is probably the single most disconcerting thing in the universe.
** Don't forget the artificial chickens served for dinner by Mary's parents. "Just cut them up like regular chickens..."
** Scarier still are the mysteries surrounding the special effects. The rumor that the baby puppet is a modified cow fetus seems mostly debunked, but the opposite is true for another facet--it's been ''confirmed'' that the umbilical cords used in the film are not only real, but ''human''. A crew member relates [[http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Interview/4749/Eraserheadfaq.htm#9.%20Is%20it%20true%20that%20Lynch%20used%20hospital%20refuse%20for here]] how one landed on another crewman's shoe and he was so {{Squicked}} that they had to cease filming for several days.
* The scene in the movie '*Film/MasterAndCommander: The Far Side of the World, when [[spoiler:Midshipman Hollom commits suicide by jumping off the side of the ship while holding a cannonball.]] The sight of his upturned face slowly fading out of sight as he sank downwards into the water haunted her for ''years''.
** Also another scene, during a huge storm where the Surprise looses a mast, and the sailors have to cut it loose fast or the ship will turn sideways to the waves and be rolled over. And there's one man still clinging to the ropes, watching his shipmates cut him loose, screaming for them to just wait for him...
** Despite the [[GoryDiscretionShot bloodlessness]], the [[spoiler:amputation scene]] almost made me [[NauseaFuel sick]]. The fact that the assisting sailors--all familiar with wounds and battles--were so obviously disturbed just struck a chord with me that's made it almost impossible for me to watch that scene ever since. The fact that, drugged though he was, Blakeny was still somewhat ''aware'' just makes it ten times worse.
* The 2004 remake of ''TheManchurianCandidate'' includes a graphic depiction of a murder by asphyxiation with plastic wrap. The victim gags and vomits while his eyes bulge and he claws desperately at his assailant, all to no avail. This editor still can visualise it with disturbing clarity despite not having touched the film since two years back.
** "Do you remember me?" "No." [[ParanoiaFuel * cheerful grin* "Good! Come with me."]] ''My eyes are watering just typing that.'' Don't even get me started on CompellingVoice + ArtShift; I have a tendency to trail off into "ohnonononononononono..."
** Oh, and while we're on the subject of gruesome movie deaths (and near deaths) from asphyxiation: Anyone remember the scene in ''TotalRecall'' where [[spoiler:ArnoldSchwarzenegger and two other characters]] are trapped on an airless Mars? Their gagging, eye-bulging antics are so over the top that the scene almost CrossesTheLineTwice into NightmareRetardant. ''Almost.'' Admittedly, the scene's scariness and plausibility are ''slightly'' reduced by the fact that [[spoiler:two of the three characters somehow survive. Not only do they survive, but they are ''perfectly fine'']].
* ''When a Stranger Calls Back'', (The made-for-TV sequel to the original ''WhenAStrangerCalls.''), has an innocent schoolgirl stalked by [[spoiler:William Landis, a psychopathic ventriloquist who, in the film's climax, paints himself to look like the wall behind him, so if the lights are off, he's practically invisible.]] It sounds cartoony, but when you see him do it, and realize that it could actually be done in real life, it's utterly creepy.
* If the part of ''[[TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' where HAL deactivates the crewmembers' life support systems doesn't creep you out, you are a freak. A ''freak'', sir!
** The monolith scene with the [[HellIsThatNoise hellish]] [[DroneOfDread droning]] [[OminousLatinChanting choral]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgqI32JX_jY music]].
** I never found that scene scary. I did, however, find the infamous ''Daisy, daisy...'' scene quite scary, and a TearJerker too. As a YouTube comment I saw once put it, "It's like watching the execution of an invalid".
* [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Humma Kavula]] is a semi-insane missionary living amongst the Jatravartid people of Viltvodle VI, and a former space pirate. (It was presumably during his time as a pirate that he lost his legs and had them replaced with telescoping mechanical spider appendages). He wears thick glasses, which make his eyes appear normal when worn; however, when he removes the glasses, he appears to have shrunken black pits where his eyes should be.
** Don't worry, it becomes NightmareRetardant [[HeyItsThatGuy once you realise he's]] [[OfMiceAndMen Lennie]]...or does that make it worse?
* The 2007 ''{{Film/Beowulf}}'''s portrayal of Grendel. Crispin Hellion Glover is a scary man.
* While ''El Orfanato'' was a pretty scary film all around, three things in particular merit this list: 1) the bit with the medium and [[spoiler: the screaming, invisible children]], 2) the car-crash, 3) Tomas.
* ''[[http://imdb.com/title/tt0069738/ The Asphyx (UK, 1973)]]''
* The original ''TheLastHouseOnTheLeft''. Just... ''TheLastHouseOnTheLeft''.
** Really any thing by Wes Craven, but yes, my god that movied freaked me the fuck out, simply because IT CAN (and most likely does) REALLY HAPPEN.
* ''{{Suspiria}}'' ; Pat's Murder. The wire scene.
* The truck pull scene in the original ''Film/TheHitcher''. It makes you look ''away'' from the screen before [[spoiler: a cut to black]]. Take ''that'', Hack Wade Wall.
* TerryGilliam's surreal movie ''{{Brazil}}'' (1985)
--> "This is a professional relationship"
* Science gone horribly wrong! The original movie ''TheFly'' was creepy and psychologically horrible (imagine you were the poor wife), and the 1986 reimagining was just plain {{Squick}}tastic BodyHorror descent into madness and horror.
* The Russian movie ''Nochnoy dozor'' (2004) (aka {{Nightwatch}}).
** Having seen the movie numerous times...which part or parts did you consider Nightmare Fuel?
** The freaky doll with the spider's legs and the sequence in the beginning with the frying pan. This editor is still creeped out by those two.
* In ''Film/HeavyMetal'', the most disturbing story is hands down "B-17." Whether is the ''extremely'' graphic death toll on the plane's crew during the plane's bombing run, or the rampaging zombies the dead turn into or the fact that the only survivor lands on an island utterly surrounded by the living dead aircrews is a matter of opinion.
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* The ''Manga/DeathNote'' film spinoff ''Film/LChangeTheWorld'' pulls this off with the symptoms of the killer virus at the centre of the plot. The various sores with the severe bleeding and the tears of blood make its victims look disturbing, not to ignore their moans and screams of pain. The named character who uses a syringe of infected blood to commit suicide and deny the villains use of him continues screaming even when the camera isn't focused on him, and when he is "neutralised" the last shot the audience (and his preteen daughter) gets of him is his wholly bloodshot eyes along with his severely charred face. L describes his impending death by heart attack as peaceful, and [[@/GentlemensDame883 this editor]] is inclined to agree if the alternative is so much worse. There is, also, the [[FridgeLogic after-the-film consideration]] of how horrible such a virus, described as a mix of influenza and Ebola but "100 times" as infectious, would be. Sometimes thinking too hard is bad...
** [[NightmareRetardant Think harder.]] If it's that deadly, it kills its hosts too fast to spread, and the symptoms are obvious enough to prevent accidental infection.
* The ''[[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1c/Zombi2poster.jpg poster alone]]'' for ''Film/{{Zombi 2}}''/''Zombie Flesh Eaters''/''Zombie''. The menacing tagline doesn't help at all either.
** The movie also contains an excellent and painfully slow scene of a [[EyeScream face being pulled toward a very long splinter of wood]]. Lucio Fulci, the director, was apparently known for including lots of gore in his movies. And doing it well.
* ''Recorded Live'', a student film by S.S. Wilson, the man behind the ''Tremors'' series. A man goes to a job interview, only to find there's nothing in the office but a film reel with "do not erase" written on it. Suddenly the film comes to life and advances on the man, who runs for his life. He discovers the film can be driven off with a magnet, but eventually it outsmarts him by moving under the carpet and springing up from beneath him, enveloping the poor bastard and leaving nothing behind when it moves away. Then it sends out another letter to a job applicant, and returns to its reel. Did I mention the film makes a "fast forwarding" noise every time it moves? You'll never hear that sound the same way again.
** And you can watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Qeee8D2Ro here]]...
* The exact fate of [[spoiler:Marlena]] in ''{{Cloverfield}}''.
** For those who [[JitterCam get motion sickness easily]] and didn't watch it: [[spoiler:While the main characters are walking through a SinisterSubway tunnel, a scene which is [[NothingIsScarier pretty creepy in it's own right]] , Marlena gets bitten by one of the parasites that fall off of the giant monster-thing. A few minutes later, when they end up at a first-aid center set up by the Military, her eyes start bleeding uncontrollably. Everyone starts freaking out, they drag her behind a curtain and we see a huge splatter of blood against it. They never explain exactly ''what'' happened behind the curtain, but it's pretty much set in stone that it's either: A, her stomach exploded, or B, they shot her so she wouldn't give birth to another parasite or something along those lines.]]
* The movie ''BarefootGen'' shows graphic animated depictions of people's eyeballs and skin melting in the 1945 Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings. ''Graphic''. It even has a dog trying to escape the blast but melting along with the others. What's even worse, however, is that some of the people with their skin and eyes melted off actually survived, at least temporarily. They are shown walking through the rubble, holding out their half-melted arms like zombies... Scenes from the movie exist on Youtube, but will not be linked to here.
** The manga is ''just as bad.'' * whimper*
* If the [[spoiler:dead baby]] in the movie ''{{Trainspotting}}'' didn't creep you out, Renton's withdrawal hallucination of it crawling on the ceiling will.
** How about the entire withdrawal scene? Creepy shit.
** That hallucination still makes cameos in my nightmares and I haven't seen the movie in ten years.
* Before we get into the new ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' movies, let me tell you about the first time I saw an ad for ''BatmanReturns''. I was just innocently sitting in the back of my parents' car when I glanced out the window and saw the horrid face of The Penguin staring back. He's supposed to look like UnclePennybags! [[{{Taxi}} Danny DeVito]] in a tux should look like a plump, cuddly penguin. Not that monstrosity!
* ''Film/{{Batman}}'' (1989) - The scenes with Joker wearing skin colored make up in place over his now bleach white skin. Also, the scene where Joker challenges Batman to reveal himself after the Joker himself "took off his make up". Bruce then pauses the video on Joker's sinister grin and then we are treated to a flashback where it is revealed that The Joker as a young Jack Naiper killed his parents. The scene flashes back to Bruce who then turns to the screen in complete shock and the very next scene show is a [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel CLOSE UP AND FREEZE FRAME]] picture of Joker's [[SlasherSmile sinister grin]] looking straight at the viewer.
** When I first saw ''Batman'', I was about ten or so, and it was all fine until the end, when the Joker calmly gives a lighthearted speech to the city that ends on the note "Oh, by the way, I've randomly decided that I'm going to kill you all with the grossest-looking gas ever." I saw it coming and everything, but the way he played it creeped me out beyond reason.
* The twitchy, headshaking ghosts in the ''Film/HouseOnHauntedHill'' remake, especially the scene where Melissa finds herself videotaping a ghostly vivisection (in an empty room), and then senses something behind her. She turns, sees a shadowy figure peer around a corner wayyyyyy down the hallway, and in an eyeblink it's RIGHT THERE IN HER FACE OH MY GOD HEADSHAKING TEETH BLOOD ARGH ARGH ARGH...
** Oh god, the whole film. The tank full of blood. The bizarre nightmarish images from the "Saturation Chamber" made even more horrifying as it's suggested these were real things that prowled the Asylum and still lurk somewhere down there. Melissa's remains. Steven Price's wife rotting to nothing by "the Evil". And the final shot at the end of the credits, showing the characters devoured by the "Evil" in a nightmarish scene right out of Vanacuts depraved "Home movies", suggesting they're still trapped in an endless hell within the Asylum. Hell, even the opening credits are creepy as hell.
** The original has a fantastic JumpScare. I have no clue why it's so damn effective, but it gets me every time.
* The Spanish horror film ''Film/{{REC}}''. Locked into an apartment complex with a mysterious and creepy infection rampaging, risking death if you try to leave the building, and a [[spoiler: frightening once-a-girl monster corpse in the attic]].
** It may be the single scariest thing ever committed to celluloid.
*** This scene in the remake is frame for frame ''identical'' and just as terrifying.
** The American version, ''Quarantine'', has some traumatic scares of its own, specifically, ''the freaking Thin Man''.
*** Man-in-the-Suit legend Doug Jones, actually, playing by far the most disturbing carrier (short of the UndeadChild, that is) in the entire film.
* ''DonnieDarko''. Frank.
** The [[http://www.donniedarkofilm.com/ website]] is an interactive nightmare. Even worse is finding it months prior to the movie's release, thus thinking it's a game that will be explained, thus being left confused and nervous when it seems to abruptly terminate with a sinister last page. For maximum fun, click on one of the links in any of the pop-up "websites". It will tell you the link is broken, and offer a link to contact the webmaster about the problem. Click on that, and... yeah, you may be afraid of your computer for a while.
* The "[[IronicNurseryRhyme Once there was a pretty fly]]" montage from ''TheNightOfTheHunter''.
* ''RosemarysBaby''. The scariest part is the nightmare sequence, where Rosemary dreams [[spoiler:(correctly) that she is raped by a demon]].
* I gained a fear of skinny people thanks to the BodyHorror happy ''{{Thinner}}'', based on a StephenKing story.
** Fear of skinny people? More like fear of pie...
** Actually it was more than that, it was [[UnfortunateImplications a fear of gypsies as well.]]
** Dude, muppets themselves have massive horror potential.
* ''FourteenOhEight'': "''Five. This is five. Ignore the sirens. Even if you leave this room, you can '''never''' leave this room...''"
** Scary on its own, but the [[spoiler: false ending]] gives way to a worse piece: [[spoiler: the evil fucking room trots out Kusack's dead daughter, lets him hold her as she begs him not to let "them" take her away, then she crumbles to ash in his arms.]]
* ''{{Videodrome}}''. If anybody is able to watch this film without even so much as even flinching, my only words to them is "get away from me, you sick, soulless psychopath."
** [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne Hey, I'm not sick!]]
** [[BodyHorror "Long live the new flesh"]]
* Speaking of DavidCronenberg, ''Shivers'' is easily one of the most fucked-up things ever put onto film. However, the part when [[spoiler: one of the penis monsters comes out of the guy's mouth]] easily takes the cake as the squickiest part. And that's really, REALLY saying something.
* The last scene of ''The Black Dahlia'', where Josh Hartnett's character is talking with Scarlett Johansson's character, then looks back to see [[spoiler:the Dahlia's corpse spread out on the lawn just like it was when she was found]]. The [[ScareChord sharp violin music]] really makes it a O_o moment.
* The 2007 ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' is riddled with HighOctaneNightmareFuel, and even NightmareRetardant. However, one unintentionally terrifying scene scared me more than anything else in the movie. The scene? Sweeney holds up his razor while singing "My Friends", and Mrs. Lovett's face is directly behind the razor. Not exactly frightening, except the camera focuses on the razor, and as a result, Mrs. Lovett's face is blurred. Maybe as a result of the make-up around the eyes, or just how wide the eyes are at this point, her eyes look as if they're about to pop out of her head. Ugh.
** When [[spoiler:Mrs. Lovett meets her KarmicDeath]]. I laughed through most of the over-the-top blood effects, but watching someone being [[spoiler:''[[http://es.tinypic.com/r/2lbgs9h/3 burned alive in an oven]]'']] almost made me lose my lunch.
** Beadle Bamford. Where to even begin? I guess when we learn that Judge Turpin raped Benjamin Barker's/Sweeney Todd's wife, and while he raped her the Beadle was looking on with ''[[NightmareFetishist entirely]]'' [[NightmareFetishist too much interest]]. Later, he praises Turpin for sentencing a ''nine-year-old boy'' to death for stealing... A pretty small, insignificant something. Then there's the beating he gave Anthony, and we more than believed Beadle when he said, "Next time, I'll beat out your pretty little brain." Plus, throughout the movie it's implied that he's a pedophile. Who knew a mere [[TheDragon sidekick]] could end up almost more monstrous and terrifying than the BigBad himself? (Considering, of course, that almost ''everyone'' in this movie is either a CompleteMonster or repeatedly crosses the MoralEventHorizon.)
* ''TheGodfather'' has Sonny Corlene's death and of course the famous horsehead in the bed scene. Of course Marlon Brando's portrayal of the Godfather could also qualify.
* Peter Lorre in ''Film/{{M}}''.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUDUbxsNjV0#t=9m27s "How I must! Don't want to! MUST! DON'T WANT TO! MUST! And then, a voice screams - I can't bear to hear it! I can't... I can't..."]]
* Peter Lorre in ''Mad Love''. It came out in 1935, but that neckbrace/metal glove costume remains FREAKY, and Lorre was never freakier. "Yes, they cut off my head. But that Gogol, he put it back . . . HERE!"
* The complete {{Squick}}-fest that was ''HollowMan'', particularly the invisible rape scene in the neighbor's apartment.
* The traps in ''Film/ResidentEvil'', in particular, [[spoiler:the lasers that cut off one commando's limbs, decapitate another and finally cut up Colin Salmon into square chunks using a laser grid - ''milliseconds before they're shut off'' - after he dodges the first two. The close angle on his eye as he fell apart did not help.]] I refuse to watch the ''{{Cube}}'' series for similar reasons.
* I got my first nightmare in a long time from the movie ''Titus'', in the exquisitely shot but horrific scene where [[spoiler:Lavinia is found on a stump, having been raped and with her hands and tongue cut off. Twigs have been stuck in the stumps, and when she opens her mouth, blood streams out.]]
* In ''Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}'', after Lance Henriksen's character has called up the demon to avenge his young son's death, he's driving with the boy's body wrapped up on the front seat of his truck. A bump causes the body to roll off, unraveling, and ask in a soft, scared, little-boy voice, "What'd you do, daddy?" To this day it still makes me shiver.
** Just for funzies: I was old enough by the time I saw ''Pumpkinhead'' to consider the sneering, leonine demon to be made of [[RuleofCool pure, unrefined, 200-proof win]].
** Unusual for a low-budget horror film, Pumpkinhead had a few subtle moments. [[spoiler: Every scene the monster's in, it has a slightly different face... until, at last, it has Henriksen's.]] More terrifying for me, though, is that it subverts usual horror movie fare as the monster stalks the reckless teens. [[spoiler: The child's killer is one of the first to die.]]
* ''Film/TheChangeling'' (1980) has two blood-freezing scenes, neither with a single drop of blood in them. In the first, listening to the audio tape recording made of a spirit-writer's attempt to contact the ghost haunting George C. Scott's house, [[spoiler:the murdered boy's voice can be heard desperately whispering ... something that was completely inaudible during the scene in which the tape was made.]] When the hero figures out where the body has been buried, he goes there and finds that a house has been built on the spot with a mother and her little girl living there. The girl asks him [[spoiler:if he's come about ''"the boy under the floor"''.]] Brrrr.
* Gomer Pyle's [[spoiler:suicide]] in ''FullMetalJacket''.
** [[spoiler:The actual suicide itself is quick, but EXTREMELY concentrated in HONF. Seeing somebody's (squib) brains splattered all over the wall directly behind them will do that.]]
** Made worse by the CreepyMonotone leading up to it.
-->'''Gomer Pyle''': Seven-six-two millimeter, full...metal...jacket.
** The end, where Joker [[spoiler: marches across what can be only described as a hellscape]] and then fade to black...and the opening bars of Paint It Black...*shiver*
* The Zuni fetish doll in ''Film/TrilogyOfTerror''. Pure, uncut, nightmare fuel.
* The opening of ''TheFearlessVampireKillers.'' The MGM lion roars twice and... well, see for yourself: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvTSjcpbQS4 original version]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j91DQKsXpwk American version]].
* Several things about the movie ''Film/FrightNight'' especially the transformation scenes such as when "Evil Ed" changes from wolf to human and the particularly freaky scene where Amy (the main character's girlfriend) turns into a freakishly cartoonish vampire with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily.
* ''Film/TheDescent''. The crawlers are creepy enough to start off with, but when you realize they might be [[spoiler:figments of Sarah's imagination as she kills all her friends down there in the cave...]] For that matter, Sarah herself. She's like [[spoiler:Carrie]] gone ActionGirl, for God's sake.
* ''MinorityReport'' did it for me. Have a nice trip to containment. Saw it once, judged it to be a good movie, and ''never saw it again because of that scene''.
* In the {{Blaxploitation}} flick ''Film/{{Blacula}}'': one of Blacula's female victims reanimates in the local morgue, and the viewer gets treated to a POV shot of a luckless morgue attendant, as said victim comes charging down a hallway towards him in slow-motion, all fangs and crazed staring eyes...
* Having laughed his way through ''[[Film/TwentyEightDaysLater 28 Days Later]]'', I believed that its sequel, ''[[TwentyEightWeeksLater 28 Weeks Later]],'' would be more of the same. [[http://vimeo.com/17083028 The first non-flashback infection scene]] [[spoiler:in which a woman in full-body restraints is kissed by her husband who subsequently contracts the virus, puts out her eyes, and beats her to death in a series of extreme close-up shots]] put that notion to rest and marked the end of the movie-viewing experience for my wife.
** Private Mailer looking in through the window. [[Tropers/SpamWarrior3000 I]] couldn't look at a dark window for MONTHS after that, and to this day gets creeped out if she's home alone at night.
** ''28 Days Later'' as a whole frightens me more, I think, than it generally frightens other people. I think it's the concept I have nightmares about. Most zombie films are set in America, on the other side of the Atlantic, and the zombies are comically slow and realistically wouldn't have a chance against the US military. ''28 Days'' is set in Britain, far, far closer to home, and features a massively lethal HatePlague that rolls over the entire country in 28 days flat. I just find that, coupled with the shots of an empty London, terrifying to contemplate.
** A lot of discussion about ''28 Days Later'' talks about the Infected. And they certainly are pretty terrifying. But probably the most effective nightmare fuel is the first ten minutes, when the main character wakes up and wanders around London -- and it's completely empty. Not even that trashed or destroyed or ruined, compared to most post-apocalyptic visions of the world, just... empty. Like the main character woke up one day and found that the entire world had just disappeared -- and he was the only one left, isolated and alone in this massive, empty city...
* Kevin from ''SinCity'', full stop.
** Ladies and gentlemen, [[LordOfTheRings Frodo]] has left the building....
* The lobotomy in ''FromHell''. I mean, god. Tied down and she can see it coming and it ''doesn't even kill her''.
** I've only seen the film once but the scene with the Elephant Man (I'm pretty sure it was this film) bing unveiled creeped me out; what he looked like, not the unveiling in and of itself.
** The monolauge at the end[[spoiler: Where Jack is going insane as he cuts up the last woman]]. I will never EVER look at the heart the same way again. Informative, though...
* ''Film/{{Martyrs}}'', not the least because it's pretty much made of ItGotWorse.
* ''Film/TheInnocents'' based on the novella ''Literature/TheTurnOfTheScrew'' is completely bloodless and devoid of violence but it is ''extremely'' scary because of the stark black and white scheme and the atmosphere.
** Also, of course, the ending, the full implications of which ([[spoiler:necrophiliac pedophilia]]) are...more than a little disturbing.
* ''{{Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory}}''s infamous tunnel scene still creeps me right out.
** The fact the Gene Wilder's never-quite-sane voice is constantly rising in volume and growing more unhinged as he sings his bizarre poetry until he's finally bellowing at the top of his lungs and visibly shaking is what clinches it.
* ''TheMothmanProphecies'': I still get chills just from remembering the sound of Indrid Cold's voice on the phone.
** I was terrified of my BATHROOM SINK after watching that movie, due to the voice coming out of the motel sink's drain.
** Don't forget the closet. I was claustrophobic enough ''before'' seeing that.
** I was scared of the beginning when they're driving down the street, and the mothman CRASHES INTO THEIR WINDSHIELD. It was just so unexpected!
* ''Film/DeadSilence''. I barely watched any of it due to keeping my eyes covered, and was still terrified... Plot and {{Narm}} aside, every single closeup of that goddamn ventriloquist's dummy and its GIANT EYES THAT SLOWLY START TO MOVE ON THEIR OWN AND... BRRRRRRRRRR.
* Despite its age, the ''TheThingFromAnotherWorld'' manages a couple of moments; in one scene, the Thing is doused with gasoline and set ablaze in a dark and claustrophobic room, and [[ManOnFire continues to rampage around unimpeded]], spreading flames everywhere. At another point, the heroes know the Thing is lurking somewhere nearby. They come up with a plan, yank the door of their refuge open, and the towering Thing is standing ''right there'' in the doorway.
* How about ''Film/{{Manhunter}}''? Tom Noonan's performance as the Tooth Fairy has to be one of the most disturbing bits of acting ever committed to film.
* ''Saturn 3'' had '''the''' most terrifying robot in history. It's introduced to us from the feet up ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NENxIu02bvg around 1:40 in this trailer]]), looking for all the world like a skinned, metallic corpse with tubes for veins and metal plates where its muscles would be. Slowly, more of it is revealed, until we come to its head... or lack of one. All it has on top are two insectile, twitching, glowing eyes on an arm. It doesn't talk -- it merely flicks its eyes around to stare at you. When you combine those attributes with its measured tread, its deliberately inhuman movements and the fact that it's learning directly from [[spoiler:the thoughts of the murderous, psychotic handler who has a stalkercrush on Farrah Fawcett]], it invokes the eeriest elements of the UncannyValley, essentially recreating FrankensteinsMonster [[RecycledInSPACE in space]]. But scarier. What happens near the end of the film isn't pretty either: [[spoiler:the handler places ''his own brain'' inside the robot, which wears the front of his face like a mask]].
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* ''Coma''. Unconscious victims go from the OR to the Jefferson Institute, where you think is a nice care home for the terminally ill, but [[spoiler:in reality keeps them naked and tube-fed hanging on wires from the ceiling, and the people in charge steal their organs to sell on the black market.]] If you're in any way afraid of hospitals or medical paraphernalia, don't watch this movie.
** I was in a convalescent home once after a long illness--and one of the therapists selected this particular movie for Movie Night. Talk about something that you really shouldn't want patients brooding about! Needless to say, I gave that social event a miss.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xG74Vr5_fQ This lovely little scene]] from ''Ichi the Killer''. And, while not creeping me out in the slightest, to any who have seen the film: tempura oil.
* ''TheHowling'' movies, all except the third one which was more Nightmare Retardant than anything.
** I would like to especially highlight the transformation scene in ''Howling 4'' where the woman's husband slowly melts into a puddle of blood (completely conscious at least most of the time) before being reformed as a werewolf. All the goofy-looking townspeople chanting "Satan call you" as it happens does add enough unintentional silliness to somewhat curb the effects, though.
*** My father, a man who does not scare easily, describes a scene from the first movie, wherein one of the heroes is attempting to find information on the werewolves in the local doctor's office. She combs through the office, looking very thoroughly, finally finding the documents she was looking for in a file cabinet. A hairy, clawed hand then reaches down from the top of the screen and pulls the file out of her grasp, with the implication that the hand's owner was in the office with her, watching her search the whole time.
* The very end of ''{{Session 9}}'', when the baby stops crying. Alright, so it's not ''really'' a [[FauxHorrorFilm horror movie]]. That doesn't make it any better.
* The original ''BlackChristmas''. As a kid, I was terrified just by the ads -- featuring the body of a woman, suffocated by plastic wrap, propped up in a rocking chair and surrounded by Christmas lights and mistletoe. When I finally saw the film as an adult, the death-by-Saran-wrap didn't bother me, but the killer's voice on the phone kept me up at night for weeks..
* ''ReservoirDogs''. When [[PsychoForHire Mr.]] [[AxCrazy Blonde]] is through, you'll never listen to "Stuck in the Middle With You" quite the same way. And that ''dance''...
** Having lost an ear to an untreated childhood infection, I love to {{squick}} out my friends during that moment with statements such as 'Been there, done that, got the massive scarring'. The fact that all the scarring is internal, the outside of the ear having been sewn back on, invariably leads to at least one friend peering into the aforementioned ear.
* The entirety of ''The Poughkeepsie Tapes.'' There's no part of the movie that doesn't qualify as Nightmare Fuel, actually. It makes ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'' look like a ''Care Bears Movie'' sequel.
** I stumbled on an online ad for the film made to resemble a disturbing news item. I attend college in Poughkeepsie.
* ''TheBeyond'', by Lucio Fulci. Even with the heavy [[ExecutiveMeddling Executive Meddling]], there are still plenty of scenes that make me squick - so much so that I've only watched it through once, even though I have the DVD. A small sample includes: [[spoiler:[[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RvEAi-0-eqY Tarantulas eating out a guy's tongue]]]], [[spoiler:[[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aBAK8mLEhgQ a girl seeing her mother's face getting melted off]]]], oh, and [[spoiler:[[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=p_3Uc5mHJaQ This]]]]. '''Do not''' watch it in the dark and '''do not''' watch it alone.
* ''Turistas'', a 2006 thriller about a group of American tourists in Brazil, after a mishap with a bus, decide to head to a local bar for some drinks. Only it goes downhill from there as [[spoiler: they are drugged, have all their possessions stolen, and are lured into a house where a mad doctor guts them for organs to sell on the black market]]. Needless to say, Brazil wasn't too happy about this movie.
* Johnny 5's near-death beatdown in ''ShortCircuit 2''. It wasn't as much the fact that the directors had the gall to try and kill off the lovable, innocent star of the show in such a brutal manner, nor was it as much how they emphasized that he was being ''killed'' by his impassioned, pained cries of agony and ''his mech fluid splattering on his assaulters like blood'', but the fact that, for the better part of 10 minutes, we're forced to watch him get up, take his severed arm, limp a good ways to a parked car, steal the battery from it to hook it up to himself as a backup life support system, write out in broken English on a dirty brick wall in an alleyway a plea to his friend to help fix him, and then use a computer to instruct the guy on how to perform the robotic equivalent to trauma center surgery fast enough so he won't die from power loss. In essence, they took your standard, horrific near-fatal movie beating, and instead of merely skipping to the hospital scene, they show you, in every gruesome detail, all of the horrible fight for survival the character had to endure to get to that hospital scene. That isn't just dramatic or sad, that is downright ''sadistic''. It traumatized me so much after I first saw it, I couldn't go past a Radio Shack without breaking up.
* In Danny Boyle's film ''Film/{{Sunshine}}'', several characters [[spoiler:die by simply being roasted by the sun, due to having no atmosphere or objects blocking the sun from them]]. While for one, it was something akin to a [[spoiler:religious experience]], the crew got to listen to the other screaming in pain for about a minute while [[spoiler:the sun's rays coming through his visor destroyed his face and head, and the rest of his body simply superheated and boiled]].
** What about that movie is ''not'' nightmare fuel? To paraphrase [[TheOffice Michael Scott]], that movie taught me that the sun is about trying to kill you in outer space. In oh-so-many ways. Let's not forget Pinbacker's character and the fact that he was just [[spoiler:hanging out ''all alone'' in outer space for seven years or so, and then went [[AxCrazy completely apeshit]] and [[AloneWithThePsycho sneaked aboard the Icarus]] and started trying to kill everyone. Oh, and he's been horribly burnt by the sun all the time, and when Capa finally fights with him, his SKIN RIPS OFF. OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD.]]
* Even ''hearing'' about the plot of ''TheRing'' scared me for days...
** ''Seven'' days?
*** Dr. NightmareRetardant hereby prescribes you a viewing of ''Scary Movie 3'', which will both inoculate you if you haven't seen ''TheRing'', and cure you if you have. SoBadItsGood. "Seven days? Willie Mays?"
* ''IndependenceDay''. "Release me..."
** "I know there is much we can learn from each other, if we can negotiate a truce. We can find a way to coexist." "Peace... no peace." "What is it you want us to do?" "Die..." (There is also a great song by Infected Mushroom aptly called ''Release Me'' which uses sound clips from that scene.)
*** Though followed up with a CrowningMomentofAwesome when you realize it's [[{{Firefly}} Jayne]] who shoots through the window to try to save [[StarTrek Data]]
* ''CapeFear''. Mostly the old one, where just the way Max Cady spoke was scary enough to give me nightmares.
** [=DeNiro=] riding under the car still haunts my nightmares. Heck, it even freaked me out when Sideshow Bob did the same thing in "the Simpsons".
*** [[{{NightmareRetardant}} "Hey, kids! Who wants to drive through that cactus patch?"]]
* ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'': The saw bit during the prison riot, oh my ''God''. Also, a fair chunk of the flashback Rorshach tells.
** Doctor Manhattan's origin story, in which he's ''ripped apart'' into what is essentially nothing, then slowly reassembles himself.
** It started off pretty scary with the floating nervous system, but the kicker was when he reassembled himself '''without skin''' on accident, screamed bloody murder and disappeared. Third time's a charm though.
* ''MulhollandDrive'' isn't nearly as nightmarish as ''Eraserhead'' or even ''BlueVelvet''. But it's still one of DavidLynch's most disturbing films. Some examples:
** The infamous scene featuring two guys, a diner, and [[spoiler:something resembling a zombie hobo out back]].
*** Which had a decidedly {{narm}}y effect on me, but-- gah.
*** When I saw that scene, all he could think was "[[TheMightyBoosh Old Gregg!]]"
** Sierra Boniokayta. This is when the film takes a much darker turn, as Betty and Rita investigate the apartment of Diane Selwyn, looking for answers regarding Rita's true identity. Do they find anything? Yes... [[spoiler:Diane's decaying corpse in a bed.]] The neighbor's knocking on the door somehow makes it worse.
** The ending. It could have been [[NightmareRetardant completely ridiculous]], but the way it's done...
*** The old couple with the ghastly grins and then they... I wish I could erase it from my head.
* ''{{Inland Empire}}'' - David Lynch apparently can't get enough of creepy faces OR suffocating suspense and so, being David Lynch, distilled this to an even worse extreme in this film. You'll know the scene when you see it. And then you will never...EVER...forget it. As someone who first watched (and loved!) Aliens at age 7 and used to watch Event Horizon in bed at night to lull him to sleep, that goddamned FACE from Inland Empire is the only movie scene in history to give me nightmares. I still wake up expecting to see it hovering outside my window at 3 AM.
** [[http://api.ning.com/files/-jTS6W3nJqm58uuppaYSG0nyNTVVOTjcc1HUbl4TWuI_/InlandEmpireScream2.jpg THIS]] wouldn't be the face you're talking about, would it?...
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1V4v0CPyMo The scene in question]].
** Let's not forget some of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmMwKBMse_w David Lynch's short films]], now.
* (Spoilers inserted to hide triggers) The [[spoiler:gang rape]] scene in ''Film/TheAccused'' is just horrible. [[spoiler:The rape on its own is bad enough, but it's the cheering of the men watching and the ringleader picking out who gets to go next all while Sarah is screaming and crying that pushes it into true Nightmare Fuel territory]]. That, and the fact that the premise of the movie was based on a true story.
** That scene was apparently serious HighOctaneNightmareFuel for the actors who were playing the [[spoiler:rapists]]; Jodie Foster had to repeatedly reassure them.
*** Tim Roth was pretty disturbed after filming the scene in ''Rob Roy'' where [[spoiler:Archibald rapes Mary]] and was pretty nervous around Jessica Lange for a while. It serves as a bit of NightmareRetardant to know that while they play {{Complete Monster}}s in the movies, the actors themselves are decent guys, at least when it comes to certain scenes.
*** Lawrence Fishburne only had a couple takes in him for the rape scene in ''What's Love Got to Do With It''. Afterwards, the crew kept a wide berth. More disturbingly, Fishburne was approached in a restaurant by Ike Turner, who complimented him on the performance.
* The 1988 Czech version of ''Alice In Wonderland'' features [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aezgBUPgrOc reanimated skeletons of small animals]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K663tPpSACM a scene of pure madness at the tea party.]] Makes it even more eerie that there is no music whatsoever in the movie except for the squeeks and clinks of old clothing, footsteps, and winding-gears.
** This is, of course, a Jan Švankmajer film. The same guy made a film where a dude ''[[spoiler:eats his own dick with mustard]]''. Yeah, HighOctaneNightmareFuel is pretty much a given for his films.
* The original ''Film/DayOfTheDead''. The only Romero zombie flick to be personally bothersome with the scene of [[spoiler:the solider's head getting ripped off and ''he's still screaming'']]. Yes, it's just special effects. ''It does not help''.
* ''The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover'' is very, very high-octane nightmare fuel. In particular:
** Most of Michael Gambon's ''monologues'' alone are nightmarish: particularly when he lectures his wife, loudly enough so that everyone in the restaurant can hear, that she's not allowed to masturbate because as her husband, only he gets to decide when she gets touched.
*** And it is a massive testament to Gambon's talent that anybody who watched this movie could also watch him as ''Albus freakin Dumbledore'' in the ''Film/HarryPotter'' movies, without having nightmare flashbacks.
** Helen Mirren (the wife) and her lover concealing their affair from said abusive husband by stowing away, naked, in a truck full of slaughtered pig parts.
** The [[spoiler:murder of her lover.]]
** The ending, which becomes high-octane NauseaFuel as well.
* The 1989 movie ''Film/{{Leviathan}}''. THE ENTIRE FRICKING MOVIE!
** Of particular note is the scene where [[spoiler:the creature (in the form of an arm-sized leech-eel, clamps onto a character's chest and he can't pull it off.]] A combination of sheer revulsion and sympathetic terror.
* The Australian creature-feature ''Film/{{Rogue}}'', which features a boatload of tourists getting attacked by a MASSIVE crocodile. It's more terrifying than Lake Placid, if only for the fact that the people in that film could simply call for a helicopter to get them out of there. In ''Rogue'', the tourists make it to "safety" by swimming to a small island in the middle of the river. At least, until they realise they're standing on a tidal island that will eventually disappear as the water rises. They can't call for help either, they're in the middle of the outback with no reception. They've got no chance but to try and swim for it. ItGetsWorse from here. As an aside, on the special features the director mentions that even bigger crocodiles are on record as having been around in living memory in Australia. And tourists still go swimming in northern Australia.
* In ''ThePhiladelphiaExperiment,'' from 1984, a man and a destroyer are sent forward through time as a result of the experiments, which were meant to make the ship temporarily invisible. Time travel certainly isn't all that scary, but that way that the movie pointed out the mechanics of molecularizing the objects moving through time and putting them back together.......Let's just say the crew of that destroyer has a rather permanent tour, and that they've never felt closer to their ship.
** [[ConspiracyTheorist In case you guys didn't know, that movie was based on a very true story. As the real story goes, scientists were trying to find a way to make whole battleships invisible to enemy radar. They put a bunch of machines on the ship, and when turned on, the ship was surrounded by a green glow. Suddenly, the ship AND the glow disappeared. Instantly, the ship was seen SEVERAL MILES down the coast. The ship disappeared again and returned to its original spot. When the boat was searched, most of the crew was either violently ill or insane. Some of them had vanished, and some had even FUSED INTO THE WALLS OF THE SHIP!]]
** A similar scene is shown in the move ''Supernova.'' When it was in the theaters, this movie was rated PG-13. It has since been re-rated to R. The crew members of the ship all die in very creepy ways. One of them, I believe they were the first to die, [[BodyHorror melts into the structure of the suspended animation pod]] that [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace should have kept him safe during the hyperspace jump]]. Unfortunately, his doesn't seal completely. The rest of the deaths are just about as bad. I walked out at some point.
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* The horror movie ''Frayed'' draws its high octane nightmare fuel from several sources: slasher movies, birthday clowns, mental hospitals and [[spoiler:child molestation.]] The worst is a prolonged and ''extremely'' graphic sequence near the beginning of the movie where a person gets their head beaten to a pulp. The sound effects alone ensure that the viewer will have a tough time getting to sleep that night.
* In the 1970s there was the ''Film/ItsAlive'' horror trilogy about an experimental fertility drug causing babies to be born as monsters that would kill when scared. I was disturbed by the very idea and did my best to ignore them- and years later, while reading a book about cinema, ran into the image of the "demon baby" in full detail - without any warning, either. Just remembering it now brings back chills.
** I was about five when the first movie came out, and I remember the local TV station showing a commercial for it in the early afternoon, the one where the camera revolves around an innocent-looking basinette, and then suddenly you see the lizard arm hanging out of it and that awful whining scream sounds...I was frightened so badly that I still can't watch the movie, and my mother wanted to burn down the TV studio.
* The "cookout" scene in ''{{Doomsday}}''. The worst part is that it doesn't bother with discretion, it really just keeps on going and going.
* ''EasternPromises'' has a lot of other violence, but it's the throat-slitting that gets me. It helps that I was watching it in another window while I was typing something online, and so rather than seeing what was going on, I could only listen. Coupled with the amount of rape in that movie... agh. Also, the very first scene, with a heavily pregnant fourteen year old girl stumbling into a shop and asking for help, then collapsing into the blood that's been dripping down from between her legs, is crazy squicky. [[spoiler:A sexually abused fourteen year old girl miscarrying is bad enough. The fact that she dies, worse still. The fact that the person who'd been doing the abusing was [[CompleteMonster Semyon]]...]]
* How about the [[spoiler: {{Attempted Rape}} scene]] in the ''Planet Terror'' half of ''{{Grindhouse}}''? Especially when [[spoiler: the guy's balls start to ''melt off'']]. Sure there's a lot of {{Gorn}} in this movie, but that scene stood out to me as being especially {{Squick}}-y.
* The movie ''TheRuins''. Because not only do you not know WHY they're being forced to stay on top of the ruins you then DO find out and it leads to an hour of [[spoiler: VINES inside people. And the one girl character trying to CUT the vines out of herself]]. I now have a fear of plants.
** [[Tropers/{{Enchanter468}} I]] was officially terrified when I saw that [[spoiler:The Plant had mimicked the sound of a cell phone ringing, because that meant ''it knew humans would come to that sound.'' Knowing that ItCanThink made everything that followed ''so much worse.'']]
** If you need some NightmareRetardant, I couldn't help but keep thinking of LittleShopofHorrors the whole film.
* The film ''Film/{{Mirrors}}''. Especially the part where [[spoiler: the MC's sister's reflection RIPS HER OWN JAW OFF]] had me frightened of mirrors for weeks afterwards and feeling more than a little sick. Also the [[spoiler: woman in the mirror on fire that jumped out screaming]] scared me so much that I actually CRIED at 19 years old and my mother almost had to take me out of the theatre.
** [[Tropers/{{Tsaalyo}} I]] found pretty much every scene meant to be scary as either laughable or {{Nausea Fuel}}, especially the [[spoiler: opening scene where we're forced to watch a throat being sliced, in graphic detail, without even the benefit of a murderer's hand or knife to obscure some of it.]] Or the [[spoiler: jaw ripping scene.]] The only scary part I saw was [[spoiler: when the MC looks in his rearview mirror and sees his dead sister there with her jaw ripped off.]]
* Speaking of mirrors - [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Candyman Candyman. Candyman. Candyman.]] Sleep tight.
* [[PetSematary "Hello daddy, I want to play! First I played with mommy, then I played with Judd...now I want to play with ''you!''"]]
* John Singleton's ''BoyzNTheHood'' is notable for its disturbing realism. ''Especially'' [[spoiler: Ricky's murder]].
* The horrible, horrible scene in the ''GorillasInTheMist'' movie that depicts the murder of Dian Fossey's favorite gorilla Digit at the hands of poachers. But the worst is when they find his corpse propped up against a tree in a sitting position, with bloody stumps where his head and hands used to be. The whole thing gave me nightmares for weeks. Also a TearJerker and TruthInTelevision.
* The nightmare scene from ''OneHourPhoto'', in which Robin Williams's character's eyes [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9ciLO_LeKU& explode with blood]]. Made all the more disturbing for coming in what is otherwise a fairly conventional thriller film and therefore being completely out of context, blindsiding me entirely. And I speak as someone who went through THAT scene in EventHorizon in slow motion.
** The entire concept is pretty creepy: The idea of people you only see in passing and take for granted finding ways to [[ParanoiaFuel maliciously invade your privacy.]]
* ''The Messengers'' may not have been too scary, but I couldn't sleep for three days after the scene with [[spoiler: the little kid reaching for the corpse on the ceiling.]] And the ''noise''. Oh god, the ''noise''.
* ''Men Behind the Sun'' (1988). A dramatization of the medical experiments of the Imperial Japanese Army's Unit 731 during the Second World War, this film was known for its ''very'' graphic depictions of surgical procedures, including human vivisection. Most of it can be found on Youtube; if you feel particularly brave you may do a search. Suffice to say that a single scene where a child is vivisected is the only piece of cinema to date to completely horrify me, to the extent that I simply could not bring myself to finish watching it, even though I knew it was completely fictional. For reference, I watched the Japanese version of ''{{The Ring}}'' alone, at midnight, and had a very peaceful night's sleep afterward.
** That's because Unit 731 was ''real''.
*** I checked on wikipedia and is a lot less happy with life in general for it. Entry should be moved to real life folder.
* ''[[TheExorcist Exorcist: The Beginning]]'', while being otherwise a lame, horrid excuse for a movie, had one scene that made me so horrified/disturbed Ie had to leave the theatre and vomit. In it, we see a young boy being killed and torn to pieces by hyenas. It takes a few moments, too, not a few seconds. As I type this, I am getting the chills and sweating, all these years later. Barely finished the film, will never watch it again.
** For me, the scene in which a native woman gives birth to a dead, ''rotten'', '' '''maggot-ridden''' '' corpse was worse.
** Another genuinely frightening scene involves an extremely stressed English commander trying to calm his nerves by arranging his butterfly collection, only to find that his latest butterfly has transformed into a dead crow. Slowly, his collection begins fluttering to life... and falls silent. Then [[BodyHorror a newborn butterfly begins forcing its way out of the commander's mouth]].
* ''AngelsAndDemons'' has EyeScream, branding, drowning, choking to death on dirt... oh, yeah, and immolation. [[spoiler:Self-immolation, too.]] Freaky beyond measure. Also, the [[spoiler:Pope after his impromptu exhumation is really, really disturbing-looking.]] In another [[IncrediblyLamePun vein]], Vittoria attempts CPR on one of the four kidnapped Cardinals, only for it to come to her attention (and the viewer's) that the man's lungs are punctured-- because blood squirts out of the open wound in his chest to hit Robert in the face. Gahhhhh.
* The opening sequence in the film version of ''TheTwilightZone'': "Wanna see something ''really'' scary?"
* The French film ''{{Irreversible}}'' has several scenes with extremely graphic violence. Within the first few minutes, a man's arm is broken and the film's protagonist bashes the face of another man into pulp with a fire extinguisher. The camera stays on the violence for long, nauseating, unflinching shots. Later in the film, a woman is cornered in an under-street tunnel and brutally raped and beaten. The sequence lasts for over ten minutes, again without a single cut.
** The first half of this movie is essentially one long MoralEventHorizon, and somehow, [[ItGotWorse it becomes worse]] when it gets better.
* The last five minutes of the film ''One Point Zero''. Full stop.
* There's something about the acting in ''The Red Skulls'' that makes for a film that actually could disturb even a dedicated B-flick horror fan too much to continue watching it all the way through - it's easy to forget it's supposed to be a "Gang War of the Quasi-Zombies" movie because even though the special effects are bottom-line cheesy, some of the actors actually seem to be demented in a way that's not fake...which either means they're better actors than this film deserved, or that they really ARE that messed-up in the mind.
* While the film itself looks promising enough, this freaky [[http://www.impawards.com/2009/pandorum_ver3.html poster]] for the upcoming Sci-Fi/Horror feature {{Pandorum}} deserves a mention for looking utterly terrifying.
** Try the [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/Pandorumposter.jpg other poster.]]
* One of the most disturbing examples of SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou comes at the climax of another [[AlfredHitchcock Hitchcock]] film ''{{Spellbound}}''. Dr. Murchison threatens to kill Dr. Peterson, but with a few choice words on Peterson's part her life is spared. The camera switches to Murchison's point of view as the aim of his gun follows her out of the room. She shuts the door, and the hand holding his gun turns, as though he's pondering his next action. Then, slowly, the hand turns some more: at [[strike: himself]] [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou you]]. That's right; you're experiencing a first-person ''suicide''. It also doesn't help that the hand and the gun are highly detailed models, so their movement is highly unnatural.
* What happens to Edmond Delhurst in ''Film/{{Food of the Gods 2}}''. Although the movie is ostensibly about the [[RodentsOfUnusualSize giant rats]], the deaths they cause are shown in quick cuts, whereas Delhurst's death by turning into a bubbling puddle of "super cancer" is drawn out to ludicrous lengths (almost a full two minutes) with many loving closeups of his swollen, pus-oozing, tumor-covered face. It's frankly a relief when he ''finally'' keels over and dies.
* Anyone seen those signs for a new ''Film/AliceInWonderland 3D'' movie? That Mad Hatter terrified me and my friends while we waited to see "Transformers 2: Revenge of The Fallen". He looks as though he stares into your soul and watches you.
** The eyes, the eyelashes...
*** The Red Queen's castle. The moat is ''filled. With.'' '''HEADS.'''
**** Apparently, one of the heads was Tim Burton's.
* I managed to watch ''ReAnimator'' and be fairly unfazed. Until, y'know, [[spoiler: Dr. Hill's reanimated severed head raping Dan's sweet, innocent girlfriend.]] And for some reason the fact that in the final scenes all the reanimated cadavers are stark naked makes it much less {{narm}}y and much more cringeworthily freaky.
* In ''TheLastKingOfScotland'', there's the scene where Garrigar finds [[spoiler: Kay's mutilated body]]. It's utterly horrific and built my nightmares for a few days.
** How about Garrigan being [[spoiler:suspened from the ceiling by ''hooks through his chest''? I was crying with my hands over my face for that entire sequence--and the [[ParentalNeglect ridiculously too-young KIDS]] in the aisle near me seemed undisturbed. That was just as upsetting as the fucking movie.]]
* I had nightmares for weeks after renting ''Something Wicked This Way Comes'' as a child. That movie should not have been in the children's section.
** [[CaptainObvious No shit.]]
* ''ShaunOfTheDead''. You'd expect it to be a simple AffectionateParody of a zombie movie, not a full-fledged ZombieApocalypse with zombies as scary as Romero ones (that even tear apart and eat a character with their bare hands at a certain point).
** The worst part that I can bear to think of was the stomach-eating sequence. YEESH.
*** Never saw ''DayOfTheDead'', which that scene was homaging? '''"[[FamousLastWords CHOKE ON 'EM!]]"'''
* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AClockworkOrange "I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain! What a wonderful feeling..."]]
** That [[NightmareFace face]] the Writer makes when he realizes that Alex raped his wife. I was only creeped out by the rape scene, [[CrossesTheLineTwice laughed when Alex killed the woman with a giant phallic statue]], and had minor jibblies during the Ludovico procedure. But that ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQzR3IBH-c4 face]]''... Nightmare Central.
** Alex's voice as he tells his story; it's just as creepy as any of the acts of ultraviolence he commits.
* ''Film/{{Coraline}}''. Yeah it's supposed to be creepy, not like that makes it any less scary. "Kids' fairytale" + "horror story" == sleeping with the light on.
** [[BodyHorror Button.]][[EyeScream Eyes.]] Yes, this is a family movie.
*** What was more upsetting, perhaps, was stapled smile Wybie gets later.
* ''Blindness'' was quite impressive in this regard. Specifically, I found the [[spoiler: uncomfortably extended group rape scene]] to be VERY difficult to sit through. It was so amazingly vulgar, while showing surprisingly little (in comparison). A list was quickly compiled of people who would be warned to NEVER see this film.
** For me, it was the pained cries of the victims that pushed this into nightmare territory. If I think a movie is really good, and ''Blindness'' was an otherwise very good movie, I can watch it over and over. Not this one.
* Have you ever noticed how today's horror flicks and thrillers have that "greenish dark icky look"? Watch ''{{Se7en}}'' or any episode of ''{{CSI}}'' or even some Sci-Fi type shows. Washed-out colors, greenish-yellowish....blecchiness! It truly adds to the "Creepy yuck factor". Apparently, good ol' Technicolor went out with the dinosaurs and 8-track tapes. Even the surroundings of the reconned ''BattlestarGalactica'' seem darker.
** Well Se7en at least was re-silvered to make it darker. If you don't like it I wouldn't worry; it's quite an expensive process and just used to, y'know, make things darker and scarier.
* ''{{Testament}},'' which takes place in a single town and focused on the effects a nuclear war has on a small group of people. The intimacy was what did it for me, especially when it came to the main character [[spoiler: nursing her children through radiation sickness and watching them die one by one]].
* [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0359734/ Michael Haneke]]'s films, especially:
** ''FunnyGames'' (see above for more details)
** [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/ The Piano Teacher]], based on a novel by Elfriede Jelinek. It features Isabella Huppert as the most screwed up woman ever, named Erika. Notable scenes: the opening scene in which Erika and her mother fight about the fact that Erika came home late (and she's 40-plus years old!) and the fight turns physical, Erika's seduction of her student could count as {{squick}}, the scene in the uncut version in which Erika [[spoiler:cuts between her legs and a trail of blood streams down the bathtub's side]], when [[spoiler:Erika appears to be attempting to rape her own mother]] the next-to-last scene in which [[spoiler:Erika forces her young male student to rape her (while her mother is within earshot!) and Erika looks like a corpse]]. The entire thing comes together to conclude: This protagonist is a very, very screwed up human being.
** [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103793/ Benny's Video]], which is about a boy who accidentally murders a girl that he met at a grocery store in his own house. The worst part for me was when [[spoiler:the parents went along with it and detailed their plans to get rid of the body by chopping it up in tiny pieces and flushing the pieces down the toilet]] and then, at the end, we learn just how much of an evil and manipulative devil-child Benny is.
** [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1149362/ The White Ribbon]] is not like many other horror films. There are no monsters, no killers, no jump scares. It is all the people. Imagine this: you live in a small Austrian village in the months leading up to WorldWarOne. Strange events begin to happen to citizens. Someone strings a wire to trip the doctor as he rides his horse, a worker falls through a weak floor and dies, two children go missing at separate times and are found severely beaten, one of which is nearly blinded. What can you do about this? '''Absolutely nothing'''. You can't find out who is behind these crimes, and if you pursue suspicions, your reputation is likely to be ruined. That is what happens to the protagonist and narrator of this film. The cinematography and atmosphere of the film are so cold, it's like you are watching a serious version of ''Film/VillageOfTheDamned'', where the children don't have psychic powers, but are still creepy as hell and are clearly hiding something. And of course, there isn't a single thing you can do about it, so you better just leave.
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* ''Munich'': The movie in general was quite disturbing, but nowhere moreso than in the scenes depicting the actual Munich hostage crisis. ''Especially'' in the scene where [[spoiler: one of the athletes is shot in the mouth at point-blank range. ''And survives''.]] Thanks to Spielberg's brilliant and powerful execution, the intensity and brutality of those scenes will be haunting your nightmares for quite some time, no matter how jaded you are. It's scary enough as it is, but on top of that, ''everything depicted in those scenes actually happened''. [[spoiler: And the guy who got shot in the face? He was played in the movie by the son of the real guy. That had to have taken a hell of a lot of courage.]]
* ''ThereWillBeBlood'' is nightmare fuel before anything nightmarish even ''happens'', thanks to the ruthlessly foreboding soundtrack. The shockingly gruesome finale is just the icing on the cake.
** All I have to say is "I'm finished."
* I'm pretty much horror movie proof, but I was deeply disturbed by the [[BloodBath Mrs. Bathory scene]] in {{Hostel}} Part 2. Especially considering I'm not even bothered by blood, usually.
** [[spoiler: Lorna's]] screaming makes it even more terrifying. I mute my TV every time I watch this scene.
** What [[Tropers/GoatBoy I]] found particularly unsettling was how ''[[FetishFuel turned on]]'' the woman ([[DracoInLeatherPants who I have to admit is kind of hot]]) is before she even starts slashing. Also, there's the fact that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bathory it's based on an actual person]].
* The beginning of ''Ghost Ship'', where a crowd of partygoers [[spoiler: are sliced in one fell swoop by a snapped wire.]] I find the ''lack'' of reaction to be especially eerie - there's a few moments of stunned silence, then everything literally begins to fall apart. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bQ4RGRg8Ps See it here.]]
* ''30 Days of Night'', anyone? For once, there was a [[spoiler: vampire child, which is always extra-creepy]]. But mostly, the entire situation the inhabitants were in was utterly chilling [[spoiler: because there was just no way out and more importantly: Those vampires were the scariest, meanest I've seen in a dozen years of being hooked on vampires. Quick, strong, silent, predatory, sadistic, cold.]] The worst and most lasting bit of nightmare fuel might be that [[spoiler: characters one really cared for got changed into vampires. Nightmare & Heartbreak all in one.]]
** Hmmm... are you sure you're referencing 30 Days of Night in regard to the vampires that "never really did anything?" Because the movie has an extended sequence in which [[spoiler: the vampires annihilate something like 90% of the townspeople in a siwft massive attack.]] I don't know if not surviving that sort of onslaught can really be attributed to "stupidity."
* [[spoiler: The brain bug]] from ''Film/StarshipTroopers''... not just [[spoiler: what it did to people, but what the humans did to it once it was captured]]. [[FanonDiscontinuity Allegedly, the sequels]] expanded on the theme, especially [[spoiler: how it controlled its human victims]].
** I found it largely too cartoony to be nightmare fuel; it was no ''Alien'', that's for sure.
* The original Japanese version of ''Pulse'' (''Kairo''.) Kiyoshi Kurosawa's ([[AkiraKurosawa no relation]]) ghosts are indescribably frightening, not because of what they ''do'', but merely for their ''presence''. As the movie progresses, and mankind [[spoiler:steadily dies off or vanishes]], the ghosts become much more visible, more obvious, and more common. The Lady In Red in the sealed room, with her dreamlike, stumbling gait, creeps up on a hapless protagonist slowly, ever so relentlessly slowly...
** To say nothing of [[spoiler:[[TheGrimReaper Death itself]]]] showing up in human form to claim [[spoiler:the main male lead]], coming closer and closer to the screen (slowly, naturally) until his eyes fill the audience's entire field of vision.
** The fate of those touched by the ghosts' nihilism. They don't die, they don't even scream or writhe in pain. They just... fade, becoming a dark stain on the wall. All they leave behind is a faint "Help me... help me..." barely on the edge of hearing. It doesn't help that, in the director's view, humanity is hopelessly isolated and every person is utterly alone, ''even in death''.
** I was merely intrigued by the existentialist ghost story, but was seriously bothered by the technological aspects, and was for some time unable to sleep with my computer in the room (in no small part because it had a tendency to turn itself on in the night.) While reading this page, my finger hovering over the touchpad (but not actually touching it) caused the page to scroll down, and my first thought was, "I don't want to fade out!"
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'' has two examples in particular: First, the talisman [[spoiler:that sucks out your soul (or at least a part of it), causing you to become nothing more than a body]] and second, [[spoiler:OHGOD BABYSNAKE WHAT THE F- * is hypnotized* ]]
** I will go as far to say that [[spoiler:The Seamstress]] is probably the most frightening film character that I have ever seen. Not only does it [[spoiler: hypnotize its enemies into submission via strobe lights]], but to lure its prey closer it will [[spoiler: sew a corpse of a character (in this case 2) to the end of its tail]] as bait. And once the poor stitchpunk is unconscious, it [[spoiler: draws it into its belly, using a variety of spools and sewing needles to sew its mouth shut and restrain it.]] And, to top it all off, it has a [[spoiler: human skull for a head, but wears the shattered face of a [[{{Uncanny Valley}} china doll]] over it.]] [[{{What Do You Mean Its Not For Kids}} Children who attended the movie]] were inconsolable after seeing that thing.
** When [[spoiler:7 and 9 are escaping the factory]], there's this very brief shot of a spider-machine running over [[spoiler:8's dead body]]. It's only brief, but yet is somehow one of the creepiest things that [[Tropers/KingSonnDeeDoo I]] have ever seen.
** There is a song that chances are everyone knows. It's a sort of melancholy song, but even though it talks about how good things are hard to reach, the singer still seems hopeful. YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO LISTEN TO THIS SONG THE SAME WAY AGAIN!!! Remember folks, it's not the SoundtrackDissonance that scares us, but when the music comes to a screeching halt that really clinches it. [[spoiler: [[Film/{{TheWizardofOz}} If happy little blue birds fly beyond the rainbow... Why, oh why can't I?]]]] *shudder*
* ''{{Phantoms}}'', based on the book by DeanKoontz. While much of the movie is largely B-grade, it has some genuinely unsettling imagery that kept [[Tropers/SpamWarrior3000 me]] awake at night for weeks. [[spoiler:all the people in the vaguely astronaut-like Hazmat suits appearing out of the shadows, their faceplates completely black; the single shot of the empty army command center with a few papers blowing in the wind; and of course the bit at the end where all the people who were the Phantom-creature's snack food are standing assembled in the middle of town, totally still.]] ''Gah.''
* In ''HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'', when Katie Bell [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnooUEuyn_M#t=1m24s puts on the cursed necklace]] and ... oh, god.
** "HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince", the scene where Harry and Dumbledore are in the cave and Harry makes the inferi come out of the lake. Although, I was excited about them from the time I saw the trailer, because they look vaguely like Gollum.
** "HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire", "HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix", and Lupin's transformation into a werewolf in "HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban". And the two most recent, and most likely the last one. There's a reason the movies have been PG-13 since the fourth one, with the exception of the sixth.
** In ''HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Part One'', the opening scene, with Voldemort and the Death Eaters gathering, and the Muggles Studies teacher floating above the table and...*shudder*
** Not even. This one may be more FridgeHorror, but...Bathilda Bagshot, and the moment you realize exactly what is in the room Hermione's looking into.
* ''In Dreams'' scared my ''dad'' so badly that he was unable to reassure his frightened children, and we all had to go outside and sit in the sun for a few hours to calm down. I also incurred a horrible [[spoiler:mirror]] phobia thanks to the final scene.
* I, like my mother, became a big fan of JesusChristSuperstar (specifically the 70s film version) at a young age, but oddly enough, the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDHoTOgeNWE Gethsemane scene]] didn't affect me immediately. But once it ''did'' sink in... My God, I stayed far away from that musical for ''years''. Why oh why did the director have to incorporate ''actual religious paintings'' depicting the crucifixion during this number? It was more scarring than Judas hanging himself, and that is saying something. This isn't to mention the ending: after Jesus is crucified and taken off the cross, everybody gets on the bus, and the credits roll - ''silent''. Brr!
* Covenant Rider, a [[BetterThanItSounds Christian]] [[TheWildWest Western]] by Willie George Ministries and Kenneth Copeland Minstries was the only movie in the Gospel Bill series I could never rewatch as a child. A flashback scene had a young [[TheGunslinger Wichita Slim]] tied to a post and ##[[ColdBloodedTorture branded]]'' for misbehavior. The combination of a [[ScreamDiscretionShot little boy screaming]] and the burn on his shirt ensured that Covenant Rider would never, ever be watched after the first time.
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* Specific to the movie version of ''BattleRoyale'' is [[spoiler: the death of Kazuo Kiriyama]]. He fights with Mimura and friends, [[spoiler: killing them, and Mimura ends the battle by blowing up a massive propane tank bomb]]. The three heroes arrive on the scene after the explosion, and it seems as if everyone died, but then the [[OminousLatinChanting creepy godawful theme music]] starts up again, and he [[UnflinchingWalk walks out]] [[OutOfTheInferno of the fire]], blinded, with {{tears of blood}} [[EyeScream running from his eyes.]] His actual death is anticlimactic, but everything leading up to it is straight up Nightmare Fuel.
* Anacondas in the Water. I didn't even see the movie, so maybe I'm wrong, but it deserves to be here if just the preview gives you nightmares, which is exactly what it did.
* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylzO9vbEpPg Waltz With Bashir]]'', an animated Israeli documentary, is HONF from start (a full-on shot of a nightmarish, wild pack of dogs running at the camera) to finish ([[spoiler: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgmjH1XbqXM actual footage]] of the immediate aftermath of the massacre in Lebanon in the 80s]]). If it's almost bedtime for you, please, for God's sakes, don't click!!
* Film/{{Memento}} is full of an esoteric kind of existential horror. Specifically, the scene [[spoiler: where he is casually talking on the phone in his hotel while he removes the bandage from his new tattoo only to find that it reads "Never answer the phone." He asks who it is on the other line and gets no answer, followed by the photo of him bloody after a killing being slid under the door to his hotel.]]
* ''LittleShopOfHorrors''. It's not the plant. It's not Seymour's gradual fall into insanity. You wanna know what it is? The dentist's REAL demise. Sure, he had it coming with his sadism, and you're setting yourself up for trouble if you insist on getting high from wearing an insanely complicated laughing-gas-pumping mask, but when that release dial breaks...oh God. Oh God. And then the gas causes him to laugh as he slowly realizes that instead of finishing his routine day, he's gonna die just because a valve broke in his hand. ''He''. ''Laughs''.
** Steve Martin's performance in the film version isn't terribly scary thanks to the fact that Steve Martin can make just about anything funny. Except for ''Bringin' Down the House''.
* {{Lon Chaney}} in the title role of ''PhantomOfTheOpera''. The reveal of his face that more resembled a decaying skull than a man caused me to lose all feeling in my testicles.
* ''Junior''. [[UncannyValley The Arnie baby]]. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAY8JaDgNEY That is all]]..
* A ''lot'' of the movie ''{{Heathers}}''.
* I'm shocked and appalled that no one's mentioned ''DeathBecomesHer''. Living forever, even after you've already died, having to maintain that corpse even if it's broken into a zillion pieces. Ernest was right to refuse Lisle's potion.
* Am I the only one who was creeped out by Max's flashbacks in the movie adaptation to Freak the Mighty? At first you don't really know what's happening, but at the end it's revealed that his father murdered his mother ''right in front of him'' and told him he was dreaming. and the flashback? It's his dad going "shhhhhh..."
* In the movie ''{{Strange Days}}'', set in a near future, there's a technology that allows to encode and record on disc someone's entire sensorial experience, allowing another person to experience it later on playing the disc as if watching a movie, re-living everything like if he made it himself. The serial killer in the movie, the main villain, uses it to record his experience while he rapes and kills women, and in the meantime he puts another sensorial machine onto her victims so that they can feel his excitement while he rapes-kills them, enhancing their fear, which would be disturbing enough by itself, BUT the feedback works both way, therefore the assassin himself feels the victim's feelings as if he's being raped and killed himself, only exciting him even more, in a perverted infinite loop of murdering. The whole thing is so sick that when the protagonist find a disc made by the killer and watch it he gets terrifically shocked and he's incapacitated for a few.
* At this point a question must be asked: [[MarathonMan Is it]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64UjaJmC35A safe?]]
* ''{{Carrie}}'' Both the prom scene [[spoiler: where a bucket of pig's blood is dumped on Carrie's head and she goes nuts and kills everybody all the people in the gym and setting it on fire with her telekinetic powers]] and the ending [[spoiler: where her hand suddenly pops out of the grave. It turned out to be a dream but holy God]]. I saw it on TV when he was ten and it scared the living crap out of me.
** I found the scene in the remake evewn worse since when the blood is poured it slows down the scene so it's like there's a whole hose of it spraying at her and when it's over she's completely covered in it.
** For me, it was the statue of Jesus on the cross as the house was collapsing and burning on top of Carrie and her mother at the end. Good God, ''the eyes''...
** To me, those scenes weren't that bad. But what really made me lost my sleep at night was the ending [[spoiler: where the girl who gets alive at the end, Nancy I think, puts some flowers at Carrie's tomb and... Carry's hand come out of the grave and grabs her! It turns out to be a dream, but the fact that she seems to be unable to wake up made it even worse.]]
* The entire movie of ''Begotten''. The suicide scene is bad enough, but by the time the black robed figures show up I felt like I was trapped in Hell.
** Every single frame of Begotten had me convinced it was in fact a documentary filmed in Hell. God disemboweling himself at the beginning, Man writhing helpless in the mud like a child in agony and as if it were badly disabled, the faceless robed figures, the lack of sound save for birdsong or the throaty gurgling of Man and the stark black and white coupled with the grainy footage all comes together to make one of the most uncomfortable and disturbing things once can ever experience. It's like every black metal album cover ever made into a movie directed by David Lynch. I've been scared, frightened and put on edge by films, but it's rare I am actually ''horrified'' by one.
* The end of ''Isadora'' the biopic about ballet dancer Isadora Duncan. Look her up and find out how she died. The movie manages to recreate in '''horrific''' detail.
** Also disturbing is how [[spoiler:her kids die!]]
** [[TheIncredibles NO CAPES!]]
* {{Arachnophobia}} did it for me. Back when it came out on public TV, my family and I sat up all night watching it, because we were all thinking: "There's no way we'll sleep until we find out how to kill those things!"
* I didn't see "The Strangers". After seeing the scene in which one of the intruders appears behind the heroine ''without a single note of fanfare'', ''without her knowledge'', and with no motive other than to prove [[{{ParanoiaFuel}} how anyone can be enter your house or simply watch you without you knowing]]......[[Tropers/{{CaptainObvious}} I didn't see "The Strangers".]]
** While the mentioned scene would have indeed been very unnerving to me, I was graciously given some [[NightmareRetardant Nightmare Retardant]] thanks to the woman behind him in the cinema, who took it upon herself to let out a very loud, very high-pitched "OH NOOOOO!" in response to the scene.
* {{Martin Scorsese}}'s short 1967 film ''{{The Big Shave}}'' begins with some simple shots of a bathroom while some jazz plays (specifically Bunny Berigan's version of 'I Can't Get Started'), and shortly after, a man walks in. He begins to shave. [[spoiler: Then he keeps on shaving. He shaves too much. The film is often seen as an allegory for what the United States was doing to itself in the {{Vietnam War}}]]. The film can be viewed [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g5Y_RUDUE0 here]].
* DeadOfNight is terrifying. Especially scary is the very end part with the [[spoiler:dummy strangling the architect before he wakes up BACK INTO an endless dream loop.]]
* ''TetsuoTheIronMan''. I watched it alone at night and I felt like my skeleton was trying to leap out of my skin just to escape the movie. Over an hour of some of the worst body horror ever put on film, with effects that are amazing and somehow make a guy essentially covered in junk terrifying. The soundtrack is like shoving rusty pipes in your ears, and speaking of rusty pipes... Oh, and the mental trauma the characters goes through, whether they are brainwashed or just driven insane only adds to the horror of pieces of machinery sprouting out of your body.
* In the 2004 movie ''Der Untergang'' (a.k.a. ''Film/{{Downfall}}'') which is about the final days of Adolf Hitler in the bunker, while the whole thing is scary itself, there's one person guaranteed to haunt your dreams. Hint: He's Goebbels, the guy who looks like the freaking crypt keeper himself! You know the world has come to an end when Goebbels makes Hitler himself appear to be nothing more than a raving drunk.
** And the fate of his children. Just in case you started to feel sorry for anyone else.
* Just saw ''TheLovelyBones''. The look on Mr. Harvey's face when he takes the wash-cloth off it, after killing Susie, you almost expect him to growl like a demon. Who knew that Stanley Tucci could be that fucking scary?
* Home Movie. A camcorder movie about two parents video taping their childrens sociopathic behavior. Highlights include...
** The kids [[CompleteMonster behavior]] to others.
** What they did to all of their pets.
** [[CreepyChild Their quiet, calculated looks]].
* Something about the TwistEnding of ''{{Unbreakable}}'' ''really'' creeps me out. Particularly the last line [[spoiler: delivered by Samuel L Jackson: "They called me Mr. Glass."]]
* Eden Lake is a truly terrifying movie, with all too realistic and believable premise of a couple of young adults chased by teenaged hoodies. Especially the gang's leader Brett is a terror incarnate, possibly the most evil form of peer pressure...
* French film ''Inside'' is about a nine month pregnant widow- home alone on Christmas Eve with a creepy woman standing outside her house. [[ItGotWorse It gets worse...]]
* Whatever you do, [[SchmuckBait don't watch the final 12 minutes]] of the K-Horror flick ''WhiteTheCurseOfTheMelody''. If you do, well, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXpsXTjZ2Zc&feature=related let's just say bricks will be shat.]]
* ''Zodiac'' is a lovely example of occasional pant-shitting terror, especially the basement scene. That you never know what was really going on made it oh-so-much worse.
* ''Kill Theory'': You and your friends are stuck out in the middle of nowhere and have three hours to kill each other, or a madman will kill all of you. Add in ''Paranoia fuel'' in the question of which of your friends can you trust and who will betray you to save themselves?
* ''CannibalHolocaust'':
** Where to begin? Hailed as one of the most disturbing films ever made, it contains scenes of rape, mutilation, dismemberment, cannibalism, and pretty much rapes all senses. What's more, real animals were killed onscreen, and footage of real executions were used, convincing the brain that what they are seeing may in fact be real. This isn't helped by the entire film being in clear daylight with all the bright colours of the rainforest, and the creepy music being used as inappropriate times (such as the gentle, almost happy theme song being used in the scene of a woman being decapitated).
*** It was considered so realistic that the Italian government thought the filmmakers had made an honest-to-god snuff film, and it took producing the (very much alive) actors to prove that it wasn't. They had to demonstrate in court how they'd faked the [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impalement]] scene.
* Just the [[http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/buried/teaser-trailer-b teaser trailer]] for "Buried" freaked me out. Everything's black as Ryan Reynold's character calls emergency services, only for the call to crackle off, and the small spark of a lighter revealing a man trapped in a box underground as he begins to gasp for air. Claustrophobics should steer clear.
** Claustrophobics should ''definitely'' steer clear - the film ''never leaves the coffin''. The man is the ''only character you see throughout the whole film''.
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* Though it wasn't meant to be scary, in Jackie Chan's Rumble in the Bronx, a man is fed through an industrial wood chippers that road crews use. To make it worse, his partner is sitting at the base of the chute and you watch from the side as the man is pulled through. Though you don't see the results, the simple fear of getting caught has kept me a fair distance from ANY sort of chipper.
** And then later the partner brings a trash bag full of the first guy back to the gang's hideout. We don't see the contents of the bag, of course, but the idea is still nauseating.
* ''TheInvisible'': Nick's predicament. Imagine being a spirit doomed to watch helplessly as everyone around you falls to pieces when they believe you're dead, seeing that people you hated or ignored are suffering horribly, while you yourself [[spoiler: are dying, and the only person who can save you is the one who put you in a coma to begin with]].
** I had a little "this is kinda creepy" feeling gnawing at the back of my mind, but it went away [[spoiler: after he tried shooting himself]].
* Pretty much the entirety of ''The Devil's Rejects'', including such moments as [[spoiler: the woman escaping the motel room wearing her husband's face.]]
* ''I am Dina'' is set in 19th century Norway. At the beginning, the heroine, then a little girl, causes a the contents of a huge cauldron full of boiling water (used to wash clothes) to be poured on her mother. First you see the mother, completely scalded. Then [[ItGetsWorse the little girl, waiting on her own in an attic, listening while her mother screams constantly for hours, maybe days, before dying.]]
** It gets worse. It wasn't boiling water, it was boiling ''lye''.
* http://www.cracked.com/article/160_7-horrifying-moments-from-classic-kids-movies/ , and these are from ''kid'' movies.
* You don't think a biopic about the great jazz piano player Ray Charles will be scary? Check out the scene from ''Ray'' where he has a hallucination that his drowned brother is in his suitcase.
* [[ANightmareOnElmStreet "Did you know that the brain can still function for seven minutes after the heart stops beating?]] [[ColdBloodedTorture We still have six minutes to play..."]]
** "Why are you screaming? I haven't even cut you yet..."
* The scene where Lisbeth is [[spoiler:brutally raped]] in "[[TheMillenniumTrilogy ''Men Who Hate Women'']]". Even more effective because we barely see anything, we mostly just hear.
** Also, the scene where [[spoiler:Martin Vanger]] talks to Blomqvist about his favorite part of raping and killing.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPmycZaJYNw Mamá]]. It's a short horror film. It's also bloody terrifying.
** It's going to be remake into a feature film with GuillermoDelToro producing, sweet dreams.
* [[ApocalypseNow FUCKING TIGER!!!]]
** Nothing in the world will ever be more terrifying to me than Colonel Kurtz. Not nessesarily the man himself, or even the things he does. The idea of Kurtz. I've always imagined Kurtz to be all but the physical manifestation of the combined horrors or war, and how war does not merely kill the flesh, but that it kills our very humanity. The insanity, the cold hearted butchery, and the utter lack of emotion except fear he emanates perfectly displays everything terrible that war can do to a person. Everytime I see footage of real warfare, whether it be pictures of no man's land from WWI, the death camps of WWII, the madness of Vietnam, the footage of the dead women and children from the war in Iraq, all I hear in my head is Kurtz's voice saying his immortal last words:
---> "The horror... the horror..."
** For me, it's the "Little arms" story that cinches it.
* ''{{Mimic}}'' made me deathly afraid of roaches. After watching 5 minutes out of the middle. [[spoiler:Roaches the size of PEOPLE!]]
* ''Film/KickAss'': The [[spoiler: torture and attempted execution]] scene is incredibly unbearable to watch.
** They lit [[spoiler:Big Daddy]] on fire, and we watched him burn, complete with blisters and torched flesh in the aftermath as he struggled to breathe, and basically suffocated. That's one way to up the Octane. [[spoiler:I don't think it counts as "Attempted" at that point]]
* There is a collection of four short films based on the writings of Taro Hirai(AKA Edogawa Ranpo) known as Rampo Noir. While I didn't find the first story "Mars Canal" very frightning, she has been assured the original story is quite horrifying. On the other hand "Mirror Hell", "Caterpillar" and "Crawling Bugs" frightened me to the point of extreme paranoia about the men in my life (and my microwave and my bathroom mirror, for reasons that will become clear if you watch the movie).
* The tongue-cutting scene in ''{{Oldboy}}'' still has me running screaming in the opposite direction every time I come anywhere near a pair of scissors.
* ''TheVillage'' scared me not because it was a scary movie in itself, but because I lives in a small community in the middle of the woods where local high schoolers love to scare people at night
* ''{{Kalifornia}}''. Not just the plot, horrifying as it is to contemplate, but specifically the scene where Early makes the store clerk lie down and cover his head, and makes him believe he might get out of it alive. And then, with the guy sobbing in terror, Early SHOOTS him. The image of a yellow smiley-face cushion exploding in fluff and blood still haunts me.
* ''{{Phantasm}}'' from 1979 scared me for years as a kid, and I only saw a SCENE from the movie on tv. But, it was a scene with that terrifying, irrational "flying ball" with knives sticking out...I slept with my back turned to my bedroom door for like a year after that, terrified that the metal ball was going to come flying into my room. I didnt see the actual movie until years later as a teen, at which point I think the Tall Man was much more frightening..."Boooyyyyyy".
** Tall Man's "message" to Mike in the second movie.
* ''{{Inception}}'' has a fair amount, especially the implied horror of Cobb's [[NoodleIncident alluded-to]] past with Mal (until it is explained, though it is still quite creepy) and the scene with the elevator that leads to his subconscious. And [[YourMileageMayVary possibly]] [[spoiler: the very last shot.]]
** ''"WAKE ME UP! WAKE ME UP!"'' Also, it is implied that the projections in Saito's dream literally ''ripped Nash apart'' in the opening dream sequence.
* Just the teaser for the remake of ''Don't Be Afraid of the Dark'' freaks the hell out of me. Dark house...little girl in her bed with a flashlight...little girl hides under covers...[[spoiler:little girl turns shines flashlight under covers to reveal a monster has actually crawled under them with her.]] FFFFFFFFFFF--
* ''Film/LakeMungo.'' Cell phone footage. Don't mind me, I'll be hiding somewhere.
** And the autopsy photos.
* "[[BlueVelvet Now it's dark.]]"
* The entire scene on the alien craft in ''FireInTheSky.'' This film is not billed as a horror but [[OutOfGenreExperience it probably should be]].
* ''{{Braveheart}}'': the ending, where [[spoiler:William Wallace's torso is ripped open and his intestines are scrambled around while he is still alive. It is horrific to imagine enduring that much pain knowing that the damage is irreversible, and you're already as good as dead.]]
** All the more horrible because it's true.
* ''{{Hot Fuzz}}''. For such a comedic film there are gallons of intentional Nightmare Fuel. In particular, the death of [[spoiler:Tim Messenger]] was almost too much. The way he staggers for a while... I mean, ''jesus.''
** I have a pretty strong stomach, but when I first saw that in the theater it almost made me physically sick.
* ''Piranha3D'': EVERY death scene. I love horror, and I love gore, but even I will admit I cringed at the deaths. Maybe it was how good the effects were, maybe it was just how painful it looked. Regardless, I now fear Piranhas.
* The titular painting 1945 ''ThePictureOfDorianGray'' is ''scary as balls.'' First of all, it's in color, when the rest of the movie's black-and-white. Second of all, they always cut to it very suddenly and startlingly, with a piercing music sting to accompany it. And thirdly, it's just fucking freaky-looking. I was totally traumatized whilst flipping the channels as a youngster, and then finally watched it properly a good 15 years later...and still shrieked and jumped back every time it popped up.
* The otherwise hilarious {{Blaxploitation}} film ''Avenging Disco Godfather'' has an incredibly disturbing scene in which a woman high on drugs [[spoiler:''cooks her baby and serves it to her family.'']] The whole movie has a pretty strong DrugsAreBad message, but for the most part it's sort of tongue-in-cheek. BUT NOT THEN.
* Go on, Google ''ASerbianFilm''. We f**king dare you.
** Wiki searching it is bad enough. Basically, it features tons of snuff and rape and what can only be called "rape squared," by which I mean [[spoiler: being drugged and forced to rape a woman who you then kill, then rape her some more, and then forced to rape your SON as your brother rapes your wife.]] I think there's more but I was too horrified to read it throughly. There's also mention (though not shown, thank God) of "[[spoiler: newborn rape.]]"
*** I actually saw that movie, a recomendation from an ex-friend. That scene of [[spoiler: "newborn porn"]] had me sobbing and screaming "Make it stop! MAKE IT STOP!" That is not an exaggeration.
** Milos' rape face. It will haunt your nightmares.
* The movie ''Antichrist'' was this for me. I saw this film three days ago and I still have the [[spoiler:''graphic images of people cutting their own genitalia'']] burnt in my mind. After watching Pan's Labyrinth, I thought I could take anything. Well, I stood corrected. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw03QayJ2fU&feature=player_embedded Trailer]].
* Indio from ''ForAFewDollarsMore''. Even today, [[Tropers/KingCrInuYasha I'm]] scared shitless of this man. One of the first things we see him do is order his henchmen to kill a man's wife and ''newborn child''. Once they're dead, Indio forces the father into a duel for a "chance" to avenge his family using an eerie music watch chime stolen from a woman, [[spoiler: who turns out to be Colonel Mortimer's sister]], Indio raped to the point where she comitted suicide. Then there's the freakouts he has, going from calm to starkraving mad in the blink of an eye. Even his picture on the wanted poster is enough to scare someone, which is showing him ''laughing''.
* Angel Eyes' first appearance in ''TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''. He offs a guy, after the victim offers all of his money so Angel Eyes won't kill him. Angel Eyes then goes to the man who ordered the hit and ''kills him too'', because once he's paid, he always sees the job through.
* ''Film/{{Skyline}}'' has the images of hundreds of people getting sucked up into space ships, all of them screaming.
** Worse still in the movie, where the aliens [[spoiler: DISSOLVE the heads of human victims and leave the brain intact for, all intents and purposes, a BATTERY]].
** The giant "Tank" Aliens, who [[spoiler: use their tentacles to capture humans and forcibly (no doubt painfully) suck them into their bodies]].
* [[http://www.vimeo.com/15013204 This short film]], entitled ''Head'', by Chris Falkowski. Man with an evil Alter Ego consumes pills to control himself, until he doesn't and things [[ItGotWorse don't go so well.]]
* ''[[EvilDead Evil Dead II.]]'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83ciwAd9D8g The laughing scene.]]
* Laugh at me all you want, but I will swear that the absolute creepiest film he has ever seen (and he's seen a number of scary films, from ''TheExorcist'' to ''{{Seven}}'' to ''TheRing'') was ''The Parable'', a film strip I watched on a Catholic retreat in high school. This is partly due to GenreShift: he expected something sappy and uplifting, like most religious films, and instead got what could best be described as FedericoFellini [[XMeetsY directing]] ''{{It}}''. Allow him to explain: The film (which is directed in a [[MindScrew surrealistic black and white style without any dialogue]]) stars a nameless [[MonsterClown creepy clown]] who is also supposed to be a [[MessianicArchetype representation of Jesus]]. This clown walks around [[CircusOfFear a very odd-seeming carnival]], trying to help out his fellow workers, but is met with reactions [[CrapsackWorld ranging from anger to disdain to bemusement]]. Eventually, he enters the main tent, where an [[MarionetteMaster insane puppeteer]] is showing a [[PerversePuppet disturbing puppet show]] to a bunch of traumatized kids, all wearing large, uncomfortable-looking hoodies for some reason. The clown goes and starts to amuse the kids, which enrages the puppeteer, who captures the clown and hangs him on one of the puppet frames. As he forces the clown to perform a manic dance, the clown dies, but not before letting out an ear-splitting scream. And no, he [[SubvertedTrope does not]] get better, either, although there are hints that his sacrifice inspired other members of the troupe. (The year after I saw this, my school got a new retreat director, who decided not to show the film, reasoning that it was not [[InsaneTrollLogic the point of retreat to scare the fuck out of students]].)
* [[AmericanHistoryX "Now say]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV9Oj-vhLkE goodnight!]].
* The TV movie David, about a boy whose father sets him on fire due to a custody dispute. It was based on a true story, and the boy was burned over 90 percent of his body. John Glover played the father, and apparently the role was HighOctaneNightmareFuel for him.
* ''Film/FatalAttraction'' has probably ''the'' quintessential {{Yandere}} moment in western cinema, when Glenn Close's character Alex Forrest [[spoiler:takes the pet rabbit belonging to the daughter of her lover Dan Gallagher and ''boils it alive in a pressure cooker'']]. This grotesque act of evil was chilling enough to earn an entry on the MoralEventHorizon page, has given many people who watched it some serious nightmares, and was enough to coin the phrase "bunny boiler" for {{Yandere}}-types soon afterwards.
* I was always more frightened by the scenes where Alex kidnapped Dan's daughter. You can really feel Beth (Dan's wife) complete panic as she runs around searching for her daughter. Tell me that isn't every parent's worst nightmare--that your kid could so easily go off with a stranger despite your multiple warnings otherwise, that the stranger could be some perfectly normal-looking person rather than the psycho that they truly are, and even though she returns the little girl unharmed, let's face it, she ''could'' have harmed her if she wanted to.
* The mexican film ''Canoa'' holds no surprises: From the very first scene we're told a group of workers got lynched by an entire town who mistook them for communists. It takes one entire hour of build-up to get to the point where the fanatic villagers storm the house where the young victims are. As the aggressions begin, some of the victims watch in horror, as impotent as the spectator. The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HESjrBQx4XY lynching scene]] is so long, graphic and horrible, there's only one thing capable of making it worse: It really ''happened''.
* For me, the film that gave the most nightmares was easily ''Untraceable.'' The first victim wasn't that horrible, but the guy being roasted alive, and the guy being submerged in acid. [[spoiler: add to that the fact that he was a cop.]] Needless to say, many nights were spent awake after that.
* Back in the 1970s, there was apparently a portion of the Turkish film industry who couldn't care less about copyright laws and made unauthorized films about a number of superhero, action/adventure and sci-fi properties. That's just kinda weird, but one of the most infamous was a film called ''3 Dev Adam'' which involved Captain America, a Mexican wrestler known as Santos, and Spider-Man... except it wasn't Spider-Man. It was an evildoer who was called Spider-Man and had a similar costume to Spidey's. Even that wouldn't be so bad, except that this "Spider-Man" doesn't just want to rob banks or take over the world, he's also a serial killer and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapist]]. There's supposed to be some unfathomably freakish imagery and such, like he has some gerbils or hamsters eat someone's eyes out.
** Yeah, I haven't seen it.
* ''NurseBetty'' is a romantic comedy about a woman played by Renée Zellweger starts to believe that her favorite soap opera is real and gets into some wacky hijinks trying to find a character from the show that she's smitten over. Fun stuff, huh... except there's also a scene where Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock tie up her husband and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SWFz6TKK18 proceed to scalp him in brutal detail]].
* [[spoiler:Lindsey]] drowning in the damaged submersible in ''TheAbyss'' (while her husband [[KickTheDog has to watch]], no less). The water's rising and she's clearly terrified, trying to breathe right up until the submersible has completely flooded.
* TheSkeletonKey, especially the ending. What really scared me is, [[FridgeHorror I realised afterwards]] that[[spoiler: the more kind-hearted Caroline believed she was doing the right thing, the closer she went to her FateWorseThanDeath.]]
* What, no love/fear for ''TheHaunting''?! That scene with the wallpaper that looks like a face, with the man singing, the woman laughing and the children CRYING?! I can sit through most anything without batting an eye, but that [[strike: scene]] movie scares her half to death every time.
* ''Biutiful:'' an entire roomful of sleeping immigrant workers (a total of about 25 men, women and children) [[spoiler:all die as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning, presumably. When their boss comes in to wake them, they're just all lying there dead.]] And somehow, [[ItGotWorse it gets worse]]: the main character, Uxbal, can [[spoiler:[[ISeeDeadPeople communicate with the dead]] to some degree, and as he tries to apologize to one of the dead women, a friend of his, you briefly see the 'spirits' of the dead people suspended weirdly against the ceiling, their faces contorted with fear.]] It's all the most disturbing because there's no sound effects or [[JumpScare dramatic music stings]] to highlight it. And towards the end of the film, Uxbal [[spoiler:(who is dying of cancer) [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral sees]] ''himself'' [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral on the ceiling]] in the same way in his final hours.]] It's very, very effective.
* According to Eva, the Tom Green movie ''Freddy Got Fingered''.
-->[[http://www.jabootu.com/fgf.htm Throwing a couple more gallons of high-octane nightmare fuel on the fire...]]
* Disney's ''Disney/DarbyOGillAndTheLittlePeople''. The banshee might be the most terrifying thing to ever appear in a family friendly movie.
* The scene with the vice in ''Casino.'' I can't even describe it that well, because, even though I've seen the film several times and loved it, I just cannot watch that scene at all. Just writing about it will freak me out for a day or two.
* The Canadian zombie film ''{{Pontypool}}''. A virus spread not through blood or air, but ''speech''; you can be infected simply by listening to a term of endearment. The repeated [[MadnessMantra madness mantras]] of the infected are some of the creepiest things ever committed to film, especially combined with their expressions. The fact that the entire movie takes place within a radio studio makes it sometimes almost unbearably claustrophobic. Then of course there's the DownerEnding....
** "For your safety, please avoid contact with close family members and refrain from the following: all terms of endearment, such as 'honey' or 'sweetheart'; baby talk with young children; and rhetorical discourse. For greater safety, please avoid the English language... [[OhCrap Do not translate this message]]."
* The early-90s anthology ''Body Bags'' was for the most part pretty [[{{Narm}} narmy]], but the segment titled "Hair" caused me to have minor panic attacks whenever I got a hair in my mouth...
* The recent sci-fi horror film ''{{Altitude}}''. By and large it's SoOkayItsAverage, but '''damn''' if it doesn't have some creepy shit in it. A small, twin engine plane flies up to go over a storm system, only to encounter a huge wall of black clouds that it can't avoid. Okay, [[DarknessEqualsDeath ominous]], but not too bad...until they realize that they've been flying through the storm for a while, and it doesn't seem to end, and their altimeter says they should be in the stratosphere, and all they can hear on the radio is [[HellIsThatNoise this horrible screaming sound]]. But what '''really''' freaked [[Tropers/{{Enchanter468}} me]] out were the [[CombatTentacles brief]] [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily glimpses]] we got of [[EldritchAbomination the thing that makes the screaming noise:]] [[GiantFlyer something]] ''[[GiantFlyer huge]]'' [[EldritchAbomination moving around in the clouds.]]
* In the 2007 remake of ''IAmLegend'', [[TheAloner the protagonist]] copes with his isolation by populating certain locations (like a video rental) with department-store mannequins, which he gives names to and converses with. Will Smith is driving in one scene when he looks out the side window and sees a brief glimpse of one of his human proxies standing in the middle of the road - and in a quick first-person snap cut, the mannequin '''turns its head to look at you'''.
** "What the hell are you doing out here, Fred?! What the ''hell'' are you... No. ''No! NO! What the hell are you doing out here, Fred?! '''How did you get out here?... Fred, if you're real, you'd better tell me right now! IF YOU'RE REAL YOU BETTER TELL ME RIGHT NOW!'''''"
* ''TheGreenMile'': The execution of Del Delacroix. Deliberately sabotaged by Percy, the sadistic guard, the scene goes on for several excruciating minutes. Instead of wetting the sponge that goes on the head of the person sitting in the chair, he leaves it dry, which interferes with the conductivity. As a result, instead of a relatively quick execution, the poor man's head catches fire and dies an excruciatingly tortured death.
** The flashback to how Wild Bill kidnapped the two little girls is also incredibly disturbing. Seeing it go from shots of a happy family to the family's hired hand threatening the girls before raping and killing them is like something out of a nightmare.
* The smiling family from from {{Insidious}}. Brrr.
** The scene describing the monster's intentions for the first time. At first it seems like a normal introduction to the monster; it talks to the dreaming person, telling her that it (naturally) wants the comatose child's soul. All we see of the creature is its claw pointing at the kid, and then the sequence ends. And, right as she finishes telling her story, it shows up right behind her, screaming at the top of its lungs before running off. Mere words don't do it justice; the scene is pretty horrifying for a JumpScare and can easily catch the audience off-guard.
* ''TheShawshankRedemption'', generally speaking, does NOT sugar-coat how horrific prisons in real life can be. The most disturbing scenes are actually earlier on, which is FridgeBrilliance in that it goes with one of the movie's themes about how prison is always tougher to deal with earlier on.
* Most of the stuff with the ghosts in the original ''ThirteenGhosts'' is just silly, but there's a suddenly terrifying moment where Cyrus sees several of them suddenly bursting into flames while screaming.
* ''Film/HowardTheDuck'': As Dr. Jennings flees with Howard's girl, he begins to run out of energy. The way he recharges sent an entire room of birthday children running screaming, and a pair of parents regretting they had rented the show. Witness it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqkQA6fcOBk#t=6m47s here]].
** The possessed Dr. Jennings, and the horrid aliens, creep out any kid. ANYONE.
*** It's even creepier when you find out quite a few disturbing things about actor Jeffrey Jones.
* "{{Killer Klowns from Outer Space}}". I'm surprised that this hasn't been put on here. HONF in this movie includes, but is not limited to: [[spoiler: Man-eating Shadow Puppets, Klowns luring children around, Killer Puppets, and of course, MonsterClown!]]
* You call this a legitimate page and NOT mention {{Gozu}}? The [[http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/719/snapshot20110619140326.jpg kid]] in the 'yakuza killing' car staring down a barrel of a gun motionless with a smile that could be used for warfare? Perhaps Manami waking up to find a man with a cow's head wasn't surreal enough? And the ending... not even a spoiler could prepare you for what happens.
* ''{{Gladiator}}'': The scene where Maximus finds his wife and son crucified is both Nightmare Fuel and a tear-jerker, not unlike the scene where Commodus [[MoralEventHorizon smothers his father to death]].
** Hell, Commodus is basically High Octane Nightmore Fuel [[CompleteMonster personified]]. [[EvilPrince He kills his father]], [[BrotherSisterIncest lusts after his sister]], orders Maximus and his family murdered, taunts Maximus about it later, threatens to kill his own nephew [[{{Squick}} unless his sister marry and have sex with him]] and later challenges Maximus to a duel to the death but [[DirtyCoward wounds him beforehand]] so that he'll have the upper hand. He looks increasingly evil and vampiric as the film progresses. Ridley Scott said that he tried to use Commodus's make-up to create the impression that he's slowly turning to stone as he becomes more and more evil.
** Or the scene where the ''female'' gladiator is ''sliced in half''! Heck, that was so brutal and graphic, and the fact that it was a woman (who WouldHitAGirl?!) makes it even scarier!
* ''RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'': Pretty much any scene with the Sheriff and Mortiana as well as the part where Robin returns to his ancestral manor and finds his father's eviscerated carcass.
* What happens to the moms in MarsNeedsMoms: [[spoiler:brain-draning and subsequent ''vaporization'']]. [[spoiler:Gribble]]'s mom went through it too. After that, there's [[spoiler:Milo's death by asphyxiation]] and [[spoiler:[[TearJerker his mother taking off her helmet to bring him back.]]]] WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids
* ''CaltikiTheImmortalMonster'', a 1959 Italian rip-off of The Blob, had a couple good ones, particularly for unsuspecting eight-year-olds. A more memorable one[[hottip:*:at least for me, since I was the eight-year-old!]] involves Max, who has become more deranged throughout the film, as he holds a gun on his girlfriend (long story). Cue monster, which comes up behind him and does what Blob rip-offs do best. Now imagine his agonized face, blood oozing from his mouth as he's crushed, then his face disappears for a second, enveloped by monsta. Then his face, ''a freaking skull by now,'' reappears while his arm is still flailing wildly. An earlier one involves a diver who comes face to face with Caltiki and ends up in a [[IncrediblyLamePun face-off]]. Specifically, the skin of his face is gone (including eyelids but leaving eyes) and you can still see him breathing.
* ''{{Holocaust}}'' (the 1978 NBC miniseries). Most movies about the Holocaust have more than their share of Nightmare Fuel, and this one, possibly the first large-scale film to go into detail about the concentration camps and such, is no exception. While the scenes involving the gas chambers were disconcerting to be sure, their impact was softened a bit by use of fade-to-black techniques. Depiction of the cold-blooded killings done by the Einsatzgruppen, however, left little to the imagination. The Einsatzgruppen, or SS mobile killing units, were the ones whose primary method of execution was by [[spoiler: a firing squad felling groups of people at a time into a mass grave -- after making them undress. Completely.]] Scenes of these killings were shown multiple times, but one particular scene has the highest octane of them all. [[spoiler: After executing a group of men in the usual manner, they all go take a look at the mass grave. We are actually shown what they see: essentially a pile of naked men at the bottom of a pit, bloodied in a manner that suggested strong spurting of blood with each bullet hit. After a deafening silence, we hear some human moaning from the pit. This only angered the commandant, who promptly handed the gunner a pistol, with orders to finish off anyone who might still be breathing.]] What makes the horror worse about this scene is that you can't just say "It's only a movie" since it was based on real-live events. The fact that an earlier scene implied that women and children were being slaughtered the same way (not dramatized) doesn't help. Indeed there might be some {{Truth In Television}} here, as Einsatzgruppen members were starting to get nightmares themselves, particularly from [[spoiler: watching blood shoot out of people's backs unbuffered by clothing,]] and was one reason for the development of the gas chambers later in the war.
* The original ''{{The Amityville Horror}}'' - mostly demonic entity/"imaginary friend" Jodie's antics. First we have the babysitter trapped in a closet with no lock, who proceeds to pound on the door until her knuckles bleed. Then the light goes out and she's stuck inside for hours. When she's finally let out, the little girl she was babysitting explains Jodie wouldn't let her open the door.
** Later, the same little girl is singing "Jesus Loves Me" as her mother walks down the hall. She comes in and we - but not her - see that the rocking chair in the corner of the room has been moving on its own as the daughter sings to Jodie. When the little girl complains her mother scared Jodie away and she went out the window, the mother bemusedly goes to look in order to demonstrate Jodie is imaginary - only to be greeted by two glowing red eyes staring back at her.
* ''{{Red State}}'' - the execution scene. [[spoiler: Guy tied to a pole, they wrap him in clingwrap, including his head, and all the while he's screaming for help, before they put a revolver on top of his head and shoot him. And you can see the blood in the plastic wrap. Even more disturbing were the serene faces of the other sect members...]]
* In ''MeganIsMissing'', a fourteen year old girl meets who she thinks is a harmless boy around her age. When she goes to meet him, she is kidnapped and goes missing. Eventually, [[spoiler: two disturbing photos of a young girl, who is confirmed by the FBI to be Megan, are found on a fetish site.]] The [[spoiler: photos]] themselves definitely fit this trope as this viewer could not get to sleep for several days as the photos kept appearing in his head. Not only are the photos terrifying ([[spoiler:depicting Megan in a dungeon having her mouth and nose stretched open in a permanent scream via a bizarre torture device]]) but they are also [[spoiler: the last photos of her being alive]]. The film only gets worse after the revealing of the [[spoiler: pictures]] because soon Megan's friend Amy [[spoiler: gets kidnapped]]. The final twenty two minutes of the film is [[spoiler: Amy getting raped, tortured, and then finally being buried alive]]. Add to this the fact that during this footage [[spoiler: we see Megan's slimy, defiled, rotting corpse]]. The film isn't for the weak hearted or really anyone for that matter.
** For this viewer, the only things that made me jump were the [[spoiler: photos]] and [[spoiler: the sight of Megan's corpse in the barrel]]. Everything else was neutralized for me because I could point out how different it was from reality (which, in and of itself, was HighOctaneNightmareFuel because how certain plot elements would play out in reality is even scarier).
--> even creepier if you have the same first name.
* ''TheToweringInferno'' has its fair share. The people who get scorched on the elevator come to mind, as do the deaths of [[spoiler:Lisolette and the people who fell from the buyou.]]
* The scene in {{Very Bad Things}} where Jeremy Piven's character accidentally impales a prostitute's head on a towel hook during rough sex and kills her made the rest of the movie impossible to finish. It is still cringe-worthy almost ten years later.
* Jason's face in the FridayThe13th remake. The designs for the face have run anywhere from unsettling to disgusting in the originals, but they outdid themselves in this one.
* The Marley's Ghost scene in ''AChristmasCarol'' is horrifying enough in any film adaptation, but in the 2004 musical, it goes above and beyond the call of duty, with the wandering chained spirits coming out of the walls and joining Marley in the song "Link By Link". [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U_iEjXyPZc View here]].
** In 2009 adaptation, maybe it not the same thing as ''Link By Link'', but it comes right in the second place.
* There's an obscure 90s movie called NoTelling that used to air on IFC a lot. The plot is that a doctor is experimenting on lab mice, but [[ItGotWorse then moves onto bigger things.]] The film remains relatively calm until the last 15 minutes or so. As it turns out, the doctor [[spoiler: stole a little girl's dog, sewed it's legs off, then bought a calf, cut it's legs off, and put the calf legs on the dog.]] The worst part? ''It moves.'' However, the movie does end on a bittersweet note. While [[spoiler: the dog dies]], the doctor's wife leaves him, and he gets [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome punched in the face by a farmer.]]
* IngloriousBasterds - Whenever Brad Pitt's character pulled out his knife, scalped the Nazis and carved swastikas onto the foreheads of the survivors.
* At one point in ''{{Hanna}}'' Marissa brushes her teeth to the point of drawing a lot of blood.
* ''Film/RedEye'' being a WesCraven PsychologicalThriller had a lot. Jackson Rippner in particular can be quite creepy.
* In the 1951 film adaption of ''AStreetcarNamedDesire'' the depiction of Blanche's descent into insanity. Especially her FreakOut moment after Stanley tears the paper lantern off of the lightbulb.
* {{Dahmer}}: Particularly the part at the end when he [[spoiler: slices the one guy's chest and stomach open and sticks his hands in his intestines]].
* Why are they called the IronJawedAngels? It's not because they had their mouths pried open with metal instruments and were force-fed raw eggs through a tube shoved down their throat. But after watching that scene, that's all you'll think of. Made even scarier by the fact that it's TruthInTelevision.
* ''GirlWithAPearlEarring'': Van Ruijven's attempt to rape Griet as well as when Catharina tries to suddenly stab the picture of Griet.
* ''{{Titanic}}'': The second half of the movie [[spoiler: where the ship sinks]] is this and tearjerker fuel.
** The deleted scene where Rose freaks out in her room before almost being DrivenToSuicide.
** Rose and Jack being trapped behind the gate while the ship is rapidly filling with water.
** [[spoiler: Jack and a lot of other people freezing to death.]] Especially the shot of the woman and her baby frozen to death in the water.
** The captain's death.
* The entire concept of ''{{Gamer}}''. It takes place in the future, in which online video games have you controlling real, living, breathing people. If you're playing a first-person shooter, there's no respawning at all, so when your player dies, he's permanently dead.
* ''{{Contagion}}''. The whole thing. Do not watch it if you're a germaphobe, or afraid of getting sick.
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