History NightmareFuel / SpiderMan1

* The entire wrestling match scene, right up until Peter wins, is extremely troubling. The entire set-up comes off as a sleazy BloodSport where contestants sign their life away with a legal waiver (and they don't seem to mind a ''teenager'' stepping in), the sadistic crowd is absolutely loving the violence, and Bonesaw is apparently willing and able to seriously injure his opponents with very little effort.

** There's another, even more effective, jump scare later in the movie when an uneasy hug between Norman and Harry is interrupted by Peter dreaming about the Green Goblin coming to get him, shrieking. Peter is only just out of high school, and dealing with a sadistic super-villain like the Goblin is clearly taking it's toll on him.

** That moment where you ask, "[[FridgeHorror How did the Green Goblin get the audio clip of the screaming woman anyways?]]"

** A dose of FridgeHorror for you: note that the weapon he brings up as he says that line [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything looks somewhat phallic.]] ''[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil Yep.]]''

--->'''Goblin:''' MJ and I...we're gonna have one ''hell of a time!''

-->'''Norman''': ''Back to formula?''

** There's another, even more effective, jump scare later in the movie when an uneasy hug between Norman and Harry is interrupted by Peter dreaming about the Green Goblin coming to get him, shrieking. Peter is only just out of high school, and dealing with a sadistic super-villain like the Goblin is taking it's toll on him.

* Peter's mutation is depicted as pretty intense, giving him a nasty fever and showing his DNA mutating. It has a mild BodyHorror vibe to it.

--->'''Goblin:''' Let die the woman you love or...suffer the little children!

* Green Goblin presenting Spider-Man with a SadisticChoice: save Mary Jane or a Roosevelt Island Tram car full of passengers.
--->'''Goblin:''' Let die the woman you love or...suffer the little children!

* The Green Goblin decides to interrupt a parade, whereby he terrorizes Mary Jane. Just before doing so? He ''vaporizes an entire balcony of people into skeletons and then into ash with a single bomb''. '''On-screen.'''
* Norman hallucinating that the Green Goblin is [[EvilLaugh laughing]] and talking to him.

* Green Goblin presenting Spider-Man with a SadisticChoice.

* The scene where Spidey tries to save a woman from a burning building. He approaches her from behind, at which point she turns around, throws off the blanket she's wearing, and is revealed to be the Green Goblin, who plays the soundbite of the woman screaming once more for surprise value.
** For a bit of FridgeHorror: How do you suppose the Green Goblin got the soundbite of the woman screaming?
* For Aunt May, a quiet moment of prayer is interrupted by the Green Goblin crashing into her bedroom and taunting her. For Peter, the realization that not even his beloved aunt is safe from his archnemesis must have been a shock.

* Green Goblin's beatdown on Spidey (though it turns from scary to ''awesome'' when Spidey gains HeroicResolve and then [[CurbStompBattle completely turns the tables on the Goblin]]). But it starts with the Goblin blowing a Grenade at his face that tears off his mask and leaves him a bloody mess and proceeds to become the most brutal one-on-one fight scene in superhero films until ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' between Batman and Bane.

-->''"Back to formula?"''

* The depiction of Norman's and Harry's SanitySlippage in general.

* Green Goblin's beatdown on Spidey (though it turns from scary to ''awesome'' when Spidey gains HeroicResolve and then [[CurbStompBattle completely turns the tables on the Goblin]].)

* The scene where Spidey tries to save a woman from a burning building. He approaches her from behind, at which point she turns around, throws off the blanket she's wearing, and is revealed to be the Green Goblin, who plays the soundbyte of the woman screaming once more for surprise value.

* The birth of the Green Goblin. His costume is close to {{Narm}}, but when it's just Willem Dafoe strangling someone to death, then making a psychotic facial expression while giving a primal scream, it's ''terrifying''.
* Norman hallucinating that the Green Goblin is laughing and talking to him.

* In the scene where Harry finds Norman passed out, we get a quick flashback of his transformation into the Green Goblin in the form of an extremely-effective JumpScare, showing him struggling in the machine with his eyes rolled back into his head.
* The Green Goblin decides to interrupt a parade, whereby he terrorizes Mary Jane. Just before doing so? He ''vaporizes an entire balcony of people into skeletons and then into ash with a single bomb. On-screen.''
* Peter himself is quite terrifying [[MookHorrorShow when he's hunting down the carjacker that killed Uncle Ben]]. He first lands on the killer's car, ''punches a hole right through the top of it'' and grabs his face (and later breaks the car's windshield as well). But it gets even worse when Peter confronts the carjacker in the warehouse. He appears out of nowhere and brutally attacks him, smashing his head into glass multiple times as well as twisting and breaking his wrist with little effort. The sheer terror the carjacker expresses towards him just before his demise really says it all.

* Following that, there's the Goblin's beatdown on Spidey (though it turns from scary to ''awesome'' when Spidey gains HeroicResolve and then [[CurbStompBattle completely turns the tables on the Goblin]].)

* Then scene Spidey tries to save a woman from a burning building. He approaches her from behind, at which point she turns around, throws off the blanket she was wearing, and is revealed to be the Green Goblin, who plays the soundbyte of the woman screaming once more for surprise value.
* For Aunt May, a quiet moment of prayer is interrupted by the Goblin crashing into her bedroom and taunting her. For Peter, the realization that not even his beloved aunt is safe from his nemesis must have been a shock.
** The next scene with Peter rushing into May's hospital room is just as bad, too.
-->"Those eyes! Those ''horrible yellow eyes!''"

* The birth of the Green Goblin. His costume to come is {{Narm}}, but when it's just Willem Dafoe strangling someone to death, then making a psychotic facial expression while giving a primal scream, it's ''terrifying''.

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* Peter himself is quite terrifying when he's hunting down the carjacker that killed Uncle Ben. He first lands on the killer's car, ''punches a hole right through the top of it'' and grabs his face (and later breaks the car's windshield as well). But it gets even worse when Peter confronts the carjacker in the warehouse. He appears out of nowhere and brutally attacks him, smashing his head into glass multiple times as well as twisting and breaking his wrist with little effort. The sheer terror the carjacker expresses towards him just before his demise really says it all.

* In the first movie, the birth of the Green Goblin. His costume to come is {{Narm}}, but when it's just Willem Dafoe strangling someone to death, then making a psychotic facial expression while giving a primal scream, it's ''terrifying''.