History NightmareFuel / SPIRITEDAWAY

* The baby. Good ''God'', the baby.

* When Noh Face eats the workers, especially since he's normally a "[[{{Pun}} no]] [[TheBlank face]]".
** Noh Face's behavior towards Chihiro is pretty disturbing after he is affected by the greedy atmosphere of the bathhouse. He tries to forcefully give Chihiro the gold and then threatened to eat her after she hesitates in taking it. It gets worse when Chihiro gives him the medicine ball she used to cure Haku with and it causes him to vomit up all the things he ate which resulted in an intense chase scene with No Face chasing Chihiro throughout the bathhouse (pictured above).

* The theme of losing oneself. Haku being reduced to following rules and orders from and hating Yubaba, No Face getting..."sick" from being in the bath house, "Sen" changing so subtly over fewer than 24 hours that neither she nor the audience notices when she first ''ceases to realizes that she was anyone else''.
* Everyone in the bath house is a SLAVE. Yubaba clearly did to everyone what she did to Chihiro and Haku, i.e. taking away their name and replacing it with something less individual (e.g. Lin, Kamaji which means old boiler man) and then they're all forced to work there for eternity, doing the same thing every day. It's so creepy how all the men and women look the same as each other. The men all look like frogs and the women look weirdly stretched out. I wonder if they become more homogenous looking the more they stay in the bath house and Lin will end up looking like them eventually. And the scary thing is, they don't really seem to have anywhere else to go - even if they could get on the train, the outside world looks completely inhospitable - it's basically an endless sea. So it's a life of slavery from which there can be no escape. That is deeply disturbing. And there's no resolution to this at the end - Chihiro escapes, but everyone else is just left there.
** Some NightmareRetardant to this is that the events of the film likely resulted in Yubaba losing a lot of the control she had over the bathouse, possibly due to Haku taking over, which would have likely resulted in everyone who works there being able to remember their original names and leave on the train if they so wish. It also likely means that the bathouse will become a much more pleasant place to work and live on top of that.

* The very end: the fact that the car is so dusty, the trees have grown, and other little details suggest that Chihiro and her parents have been gone far, far longer than a few weeks. It might even be twenty to thirty years.

** Chihiro's parents also didn't realize that it was enchanted food. [[GoodParents They were actually going to pay the bill as soon as someone appeared]] and gave in to their hunger. Yet Yubaba tells Chihiro that [[KickTheDog they deserved to be turned into pigs]] for [[BlueAndOrangeMorality eating the food meant for the bathhouse customers]].

* The theme of Chihiro’s parents transforming into pigs is quite disturbing, especially for the film’s [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids target audience]]. The face of Chihiro’s dad, in his pig form, as he turns to look at Chihiro can also be somewhat disturbing, due to how detailed the face is.

** And when she sees them again for the first time after they transform, they're surrounded by hundreds, if not ''thousands'' of other pigs who were, in all likelihood, former humans. There's even a baby piglet, which makes Yubaba's threats to Chihiro all the more unnerving.

* When Noh Face eats the workers, especially since he's normally a "[[IncrediblyLamePun no]] [[TheBlank face]]".

[[caption-width-right:350:He is hungry...]]

** The reason why most of the men and women who work there look UncannyValley is because of the type of spirits they are. The majority of the men are frog spirits while most of the women are slug spirits, which means that Lin thankfully won't end up looking like them, as she is a weasel spirit. There are also other more humanlike spirits working in the bathouse seen briefly throughout the film.

Some of what happens in the film is quite graphic and disturbing.

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* The opening sequence seems specifically designed to tap into the childhood fear of being left alone in a strange place. When the hero Chihiro's parents eat some cursed food that turns them into pigs, the sun goes down, and all kinds of creepy black blob monsters flood into the streets. Chihiro runs to the river, where more weird creatures disembark from a riverboat. Finally, she starts to fade into nothing.

*** And then just to make matters worse, she starts to disappear.

** Noh Face's behavior towards Chihiro is pretty disturbing after he is affected by the greedy atmosphere of the bathhouse. He tries to forcefully give Chihiro the gold and then threatened to eat her after she hesitates in taking the gold. It gets worse when Chihiro gives him the medicine ball she used to cure Haku with and it causes him to vomit up all the things he ate which resulted in an intense chase scene with No Face chasing Chihiro throughout the bathhouse (pictured above).

** The worst part is that [[HiddenDepths Chihiro]] can sense that something is off with the place. The abandoned amusement park and the dark tunnel have bad vibes, especially when paired with freshly made food and no vendors in sight. Because she is a bit spoiled and bratty, however, her parents dismiss her worries when she begs them not to go into the tunnel. Then she meets Haku, who harshly tells her to leave, and she immediately goes to tell her parents. She goes OhCrap on seeing them turned into pigs, and [[AdultFear starts running through the stalls calling for them.]] Then by the time she gets to the river and tries to cross, she realizes that she can't because the sudden water that has appeared is too deep, and the current would drown her. Brr.

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*** Most likely they were only gone as many days as they spent in the spirit world, so only around 4-5 days. Still long enough to get people worried and leave Chihiro and her family very confused when they return to find people had been worrying about them and that they were gone for days instead of hours (although less so for Chihiro in the English dub as it's implied she remembers her experience as opposed to the original Japanese version).