History NightmareFuel / IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade

-->'''Knight:''' [[{{Understatement}} He chose... poorly.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Moral of the story: Don't drink from fancy golden cups.]]

* Donovan's RapidAging after he drinks from the wrong Grail. What's even more terrifying is that he's still attacking Elsa even after he's been reduced to a skeletal corpse, likely realizing she lied to him! You can ever hear his voice going from words into this deafening roar as his flesh literally decomposes off his bones. All the more horrible because, even when he appears to be nothing but bones, he is still mobile, terrified, and in agony... even when he should have already died. It's very possible that drinking from the wrong grail grants [[AndIMustScream both eternal life... and eternal death]].
-->'''Knight:''' [[{{Understatement}} He chose... poorly.]]
* The entire sequence leading up to that moment was pretty freaky, really. People's heads plopping down the steps at the beginning of the tunnel with no indication of what exactly caused it, the blades that come whipping out of the walls when you can't see anything for the cobwebs, the invisible handspan-wide bridge over the bottomless crevasse...following a film that up until then pretty much tried to be [[LighterAndSofter more kid-friendly]] than the previous two Indy movies, that was some serious MoodWhiplash. After one poor soul [[OffWithHisHead gets beheaded]] by the blades with his head rolling back toward Donovan's party, Donovan commands Helmut to send ''another'' volunteer. You hear the horrified reluctance from the group to Donovan's sheer apathy toward their lives. [[GotVolunteered They clearly weren't "volunteers"]]. In fact, if Indy had not been chosen by chance, [[FridgeHorror all of those would have died]].

* When Indy and Elsa have to navigate the catacombs and they notice that it is infested with rats; it doesn't help that they are forced to go really close to the rats when navigating the tunnels. If you're musophobic (afraid of rodents), DO NOT watch this scene.
* Indy nearly grinding up Kazim [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique to get answers]] as the boat they're on gets destroyed by an exposed ship propeller. Possibly a CallBack to the infamous scene in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' also involving propellers...

* If you're ophidiophobic, the sequence where Indy gets his famous fear of snakes will likely make your skin crawl. When he tries to escape the henchmen by crawling across a platform. It collapses and he lands face-to-face with a large snake that hisses at him and when he tries to escape from it, he ends up landing in a crate full of snakes that sliver around his body.

* Donovan's RapidAging after he drinks from the wrong Grail. What's even more terrifying is that he's still attacking Elsa even after he's been reduced to a skeletal corpse, likely realizing she lied to him! You can ever hear his voice going from words into this deafening roar as his flesh literally decomposes off his bones. All the more horrible because, even when he appears to be nothing but bones, he is still mobile, terrified, and in agony... even when he should have already died. It's very possible that drinking from the wrong grail grants both eternal life... [[AndIMustScream and eternal death]].

* Donovan's RapidAging after he drinks from the wrong Grail. What's even more terrifying is that he's still attacking Elsa even after he's been reduced to a skeletal corpse, likely realizing she lied to him! You can ever hear his voice going from words into this deafening roar as his flesh literally decomposes off his bones. All the more horrible because, even when he appears to be nothing but bones, he is still mobile, terrified, and in agony... even when he should have already died. It's very possible that drinking from the wrong grail grants both eternal life... and eternal death.

* The entire sequence leading up to that moment was pretty freaky, really. People's heads plopping down the steps at the beginning of the tunnel with no indication of what exactly caused it, the blades that come whipping out of the walls when you can't see anything for the cobwebs, the invisible handspan-wide bridge over the bottomless crevasse...following a film that up until then pretty much tried to be [[LighterAndSofter more kid-friendly]] than the previous two Indy movies, that was some serious MoodWhiplash.
** After one poor soul [[OffWithHisHead gets beheaded]] by the blades with his head rolling back toward Donovan's party, Donovan commands Helmut to send ''another'' volunteer. You hear the horrified reluctance from the group to Donovan's sheer apathy toward their lives. [[GotVolunteered They clearly weren't "volunteers"]]. In fact, if Indy had not been chosen by chance, [[FridgeHorror all of those would have died]].
* If you're ophidiophobic, the sequence where Indy gets his famous fear of snakes will likely make your skin crawl.
** Actually a few moments from the circus train sequence could freak people out like the angered rhinoceros' horn almost impaling young Indy and one of the excavators. Also when Indy falls into the train car with '''a full-grown lion''' that would've mauled him had he not found the whip. Did we mention Indy is only 13 at this point?
* Even for a more light hearted film than the previous two, the BookBurning in Germany and the close encounter with Hitler himself is nothing short of tense.

* The encounter with UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler himself deserves a special mention. Indiana Jones is jostled by the crowd gathered to meet the Fuhrer and by chance, is pushed to meet the man face to face. No words are exchanged, and luckily, Hitler doesn't know what Indiana looks like. Thanks to his disguise, he mistakes Indiana for a fanboy officer and signs the journal, which he thinks is an autograph book, and Indiana Jones escapes meeting with one of the most powerful and evil men in the world by pure chance. The terror on Indiana's face during the meeting is obvious.

* The look in Elsa's eyes when she picks up the grail and tries to leave with it. Her obsession and the trials she faced to get it have driven her insane.
** Indy has the ''exact same look'' when he falls down the crevice and is trying to reach the Grail. It's easy to read as a mystical compulsion, luring the greedy to their doom.

-->'''Knight:''' [[BondOneLiner He chose... poorly.]]

** Actually a few moments from the circus train sequence could freak people out like the angered rhinoceros' horn almost impaling young Indy and one of the excavators. Also when Indy falls into the train car with '''a full-grown lion''' that would've mauled him he not found the whip. Did we mention Indy is only 13 at this point?

[[caption-width-right:350:''"What... is happening to me? '''''Tell me''''', what is happening!?"'']]

** Actually a few moments from the circus train sequence could freak people out like the angered rhinoceros' horn almost impaling young Indy and one of the excavators. Also when Indy falls into the train car with '''a full-grown lion''' that would've mauled him he not found the whip. Did we mention Indy [[AdultFear is only 13 at this point?]]

* Donovan's RapidAging after he drinks from the wrong Grail. What's even more terrifying is that he's still attacking Elsa even after he's been reduced to a skeletal corpse, likely realizing she lied to him! You can ever hear his voice going from words into this deafening roar as his flesh literally decomposes off his bones.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"He chose -- '''poorly'''."'']]

* Indy nearly grinding up Kazim [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique to get answers]] as the boat they're on gets destroyed by a capsized boat propeller. Possibly a near CallBack to the infamous scene in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' also involving propellers...

* If you're musophobic (afraid of rodents), DO NOT watch the sewer scene.

* When Indy and Elsa have to navigate the catacombs and they notice that it is infested with rats; it doesn't help that they are forced to go really close to the rats when navigating the tunnels.

** After one poor soul [[OffWithHisHead gets beheaded]] by the blades with his head rolling back toward Donovan's party, Donovan commands "Send ''another'' volunteer." You hear the horrified reluctance from the group to Donovan's sheer apathy toward their lives. [[GotVolunteered They clearly weren't "volunteers"]]. In fact, if Indy had not been chosen by chance, [[FridgeHorror all of those would have died]].

** After one poor soul [[OffWithHisHead gets beheaded]] by the blades with his head rolling back toward Donovan's party, Donovan commands "Send ''another'' volunteer." You hear the horrified reluctance from the group to Donovan's sheer apathy toward their lives. They clearly weren't "volunteers".

-->'''Knight:''' [[BondOneLiner He chose...poorly.]]

* Donovan's RapidAging after he drinks from the wrong Grail. [[BondOneLiner "He chose poorly"]] indeed. What's even more terrifying is that he's still attacking Elsa even after he's been reduced to a skeletal corpse, likely realizing she lied to him! You can ever hear his voice going from words into this deafening roar as his flesh literally decomposes off his bones.

[[caption-width-right:350:"He chose -- ''poorly''."]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"He chose -- [[Understatement ''poorly'']]."]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"He chose -- ''poorly''."]]