History NightmareFuel / Gremlins1984

* The sequence where Stripe meets his end. He reaches the fountain in the Montgomery Ward garden department and sticks a finger in the water, but Gizmo opens an overhead tarp to hit him with sunlight before he can start multiplying. [[WeakenedByTheLight Stripe convulses, sizzles,]] [[ImMelting and melts,]] falling into the fountain -- and then after a long, silent moment, [[JumpScare his skeleton lunges out in a final strike]] [[ImMelting before disintegrating into a puddle of revolting green slime on the floor]]. It's so nasty, even Barney the dog wants nothing to do with it.

* For starters, there's Stripe, the most sociopathic of the Gremlins, especially in the climax when he goes AxCrazy trying to kill Billy and Gizmo with a chainsaw [[ProphetEyes initially showing completely white eyes]], which make it look even creepier than its usual red-eyed look. Even as a Mogwai, he had a sinister look about him, not to mention how he gets the dog hung up with Christmas lights while playing dumb and smirking at his accomplishment- [[EnfantTerrible he did it while still in his infantile stage, thus was evil from the very beginning and the transformation that would amplify his maliciousness that was already there- rather than the transformation bringing up the aggressive traits]]. Then there's his FamilyUnfriendlyDeath, when he essentially decomposes at an alarming speed and then pulls a JumpScare one last time with his skeleton. Even pre-pupa, Stripe constantly wears a sadistic grin on his face, when planning to hurt you or orchestrating horrible things, and got much worse when he metamorphosed into his Gremlin form, leading his children [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking killing almost an entire town's populace in inventively cruel ways, causing anarchy over the town and killing his kin for cheating at cards]]. [[PetTheDog When he wasn't letting them all watch Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.]]

* The sequence where Stripe meets his end. He reaches the fountain in the Montgomery Ward garden department and sticks a finger in the water, but Gizmo opens an overhead tarp to hit him with sunlight before he can start multiplying. Stripe convulses, sizzles, and melts, falling into the fountain -- and then after a long, silent moment, his skeleton lunges out in a final strike before disintegrating into a puddle of revolting green slime on the floor. It's so nasty, even Barney the dog wants nothing to do with it.

* The heart-stoppingly terrifying scene of Stripe jumping into the pool while being pursued by Billy. Easily the best example of "Oh shit" in the entire movie.

* Billy and Kate accidentally catch the attention of a theater auditorium packed with gremlins while trying to sneakily rig the building to explode with them inside. We're treated to the striking and terrifying image of dozens of the vicious little bastards cast in shadow as they quickly gather against the theater screen and start clawing their way through it.

-->'''Rand:''' Well, that's the story. So if your air conditioner goes on the fritz, or your washing machine blows up, or your video recorder conks out; before you call the repairman, turn on all the lights, check all the closets and cupboards, look under all the beds, 'cause you never can tell --there just might be a ''gremlin in your house''...

* Billy calls his mom Lynn to warn her that the gremlins have hatched and to get out of the house. The stereo suddenly begins playing Christmas music seeming by itself, which unnerves Lynn because she thought she was home alone. After shutting it off, she finds herself fighting for her life against Stripe and his gang. [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath She shreds one in a dough mixer, stabs a second to death, and blows up a third in the microwave -- and two of these three deaths are shown in full, gory detail.]] A fourth one pins her under the Christmas tree, but Billy arrives home just in time to grab a sword and decapitate it, sending its head into the blazing fireplace for good measure. The moral: ''do not mess with the Peltzer clan.''

* The heart-stoppingly terrifying scene of Stripe jumping into the pool while being pursued by Billy -- followed by his skeleton lunging out of it in a final attempt to kill Billy and company. Easily the best example of "Oh shit" in the entire movie.

* Billy calls his mom Lynn to warn her that the gremlins have hatched and to get out of the house. The stereo suddenly begins playing Christmas music seeming by itself, which unnerves Lynn because she thought she was home alone. After shutting it off, she suddenly finds herself fighting for her life against Stripe and his gang. [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath She shreds one in a dough mixer, stabs a second to death, and blows up a third in the microwave -- and two of these three deaths are shown in full, gory detail.]] A fourth one pins her under the Christmas tree, but Billy arrives home just in time to grab a sword and decapitate it, sending its head into the blazing fireplace for good measure. The moral: ''do not mess with the Peltzer clan.''

* The scene where Billy's mom is in Billy's room with the hatched pupae. Silence....then the turntable starts playing "Do You Hear What I Hear?" from downstairs. For Christmas music, it's quite terrifying (as it is to Lynn, who believes she's home alone and that record players don't just turn themselves on). She then is in a fight of her life as she desperately tries to whittle the now monstrous Gremlins down, but she's almost killed by Stripes and his brethren when Billy comes to save his mother. [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath The Mother microwaving one until it explodes and killing another with a blender, then talk about badass she stabs a third one to death with a carving knife. The reason these gremlin deaths fall under this category is because they are extremely graphic and they happen on-screen--it doesn't cut away from the gore]].

* The heart-stoppingly terrifying scene of Stripe jumping into the pool while being pursued by Billy. Easily the best example of "Oh shit" in the entire movie.

* Gremlin birth. 1) Mogwai -> mogwai. Gizmo-screaming as [[BodyHorror puffballs explode from his back]] and form into additional, but [[EvilCounterpart malign versions of himself that willingly cause harm onto others and actively manipulate others into reaching their matured state- aware of the chaos they'll cause]]. 2) Pupa -> gremlin. The fluffy Gremlins encase themselves into grotesque, [[Film/{{Alien}} Xenomorph like]] cocoons as they start cracking open while Gizmo hides in the motorcycle helmet as they emit creepy smoke. 3) Gremlin-> gremlin- [[RedEyesTakeWarning red-eyed]] [[OurDemonsAreDifferent big-eared, scaly, demonic looking monsters]] with matured, but [[AxCrazy murderously insane personalities]] [[GripingAboutGremlins that use their gremlin technical know-how to cause untold destruction by causing car collisions, driving a car into a couple, etc.]] [[SurpriseCreepy A surprisingly dark reproduction cycle from what was seemingly an odd looking yet harmless creature.]]