History NightmareFuel / TheCabinInTheWoods

** When Dana and Marty finally put an end to the bloody ritual, they end up [[ApocalypseHow sacrificing all of Earth]], and the angry gods finally emerge from the ground to obliterate the world. In the final shot of the film, we see an Ancient One's colossal arm reach out from the surface, destroying the titular cabin and killing our remaining heroes. Whatever happens after the screen cuts to black is [[NothingIsScarier up to your imagination]].

** When Dana and Marty finally put an end to the bloody ritual, they end up [[ApocalypseHow sacrificing all of Earth]], and the angry gods finally emerge from the ground to obliterate the world. In the final shot of the film, we see an Ancient One's colossal arm reach out from the surface, destroying the titular cabin and killing our remaining heroes. Whatever happens after the screen cuts to black is [[NothingIsScarier up to your imagination]].\\\

* And last but not least, [[EldritchAbomination The Ancient Ones]], the evil deities who threaten to destroy all of humanity, lest they are appeased by the bloody sacrifices of innocent people every year. Keep in mind, these aren't some mindless beasts who simply feed off of death and destruction, they're purely ''evil'' beings who ''relish'' in the deaths of innocents for their own entertainment.\\\
** When Dana and Marty finally put an end to the bloody ritual, they end up [[ApocalypseHow sacrificing all of Earth]], and the angry gods finally emerge from the ground to obliterate the world. In the final shot of the film, we see an Ancient One's colossal arm reach out from the surface, destroying the titular cabin and killing our remaining heroes. Whatever happens after the screen cuts to black is [[NothingIsScarier up to your imagination]].

When Dana and Marty finally put an end to the bloody ritual, they end up [[ApocalypseHow sacrificing all of Earth]], and the angry gods finally emerge from the ground to obliterate the world. In the final shot of the film, we see an Ancient One's colossal arm reach out from the surface, destroying the titular cabin and killing our remaining heroes. Whatever happens after the screen cuts to black is [[NothingIsScarier up to your imagination]].

While ''The Cabin in the Woods'' is a comedy that deconstructs the 'cabin in the woods' and horror genres as a whole to humorous effect, keep in mind that this is still a horror movie.

* Jules' death, brutally having her head sawn off like a tree stump.

* The entirety of '''"The System Purge (aka The Carnage)"'''. Can you even imagine being trapped in a facility that houses every single nightmare creature one can conceive, [[OhCrap and those creatures are free to roam]]?
-->'''Guard: [[MassOhCrap Oh]] [[ThisIsGonnaSuck shit]]. (DING!)'''
** In just the first scene of The Purge alone, we see a tree spewing blood after consuming a security guard, one guy gets devoured whole by a giant cobra while another guy gets crushed in its coils, a killer robot scorpion slicing someone with it's buzzsaw tail, and another guy literally getting ''[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe ripped in half]]'' by gleeful "[[http://dinosaurdracula.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/156.jpg Dismemberment Goblins]]".
** Are you afraid of [[MonsterClown clowns]]?
*** ''[[ImmuneToBullets Bulletproof]]'' clowns?

** One poor guy literally gets his soul sucked out by a witch, and then is taken away to who-knows-where, to have who-knows-what done to him. While everyone else has really painful deaths, at least they die, and their suffering ends. [[FateWorseThanDeath That may never happen to him]].
** There's one guy crawling on the floor slowly being pursued by a StringyHairedGhostGirl who sings an IronicNurseryTune to her intended victim. We also [[TheUnreveal never see]] her face...''and that's probably a good thing''.

** Two people held against their will are pleading for their lives as they're about to be tortured by the [[http://thecabininthewoods.wikia.com/wiki/Fornicus,_Lord_of_Bondage_and_Pain "Hell Lord"]] and his minions (akin to The Cenobites from ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'')
*** Judging from his name, [[FateWorseThanDeath it doesn't sound like he wants to kill them]].
*** To clarify in case you didn't click the link, his full name is ''[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil Fornicus, Lord of Bondage and Pain.]]'' '''Oh God.'''
*** The Hell Lord, a reference to the Hell Priest AKA Pinhead from the ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'' series, one of the "throwaway" monsters given the most screentime. Like Pinhead, he is a tall, pale bald man dressed in bondage leathers, but instead of pins, his skull has been filled with ''sawblades''. He even holds his own puzzle box, though this one is spherical, rather than square like the Lament Configuration. Whats really creepy is that you never see just what his methods are, but if they are anything like his predecessor, it would make the rest of the Carnage look like childs play.
** "[[http://thecabininthewoods.wikia.com/wiki/Merman The Merman]]", can you say NightmareFace?
** Just before their deaths, Mission Control are looking at a whole lot of small screens which are showing various people being killed by the various nightmares/creatures. Don't look too hard at these small screens. You won't like what you see. One of them shows a man being repeatedly and forcibly ''vomited on'' (what is presumed to be a corrosive acid of some kind) by what looks like mutant hospital zombies. A man gets suffocated in a plastic bag by a crazy man. One woman, out of fear, is DrivenToSuicide and shoots herself. One guy gets "operated on" [[note]] read: vivisected [[/note]] by the Evil Hospital Doctors. The Doll Mask Killers tie up a group of people, pour gasoline on them and drop a match as they leave the room. A woman is stalked by a monster she doesn't notice. A man is set on fire by a pumpkin-head creature. Another man is beaten against lockers by none other than Sasquatch.

** The giant octopus. Especially for people with an irrational fear of them plus the fact that they should NOT be making crunching noises.
*** It's not just any octopus; it's ''[[KrakenAndLeviathan The Kraken.]]''
** The Dragonbat which looks exactly what it sounds like. From its general appearance; to its high-pitched, screeching roars; as well as its frighteningly fast speed during flight picking up and ''munching'' on any poor soul it captures.
** It's hard to spot amidst everything else (and because the Angry Molesting Tree is in the way), but the third elevator back on the left side of the opening carnage attack is the one the ''non''-redneck-torture-family zombies came out of. The first few tackle and pile onto a couple of the soldiers, and then several more come out to join the feeding dog-pile. And then more. And then more. And then ''more''. That particular cubicle must've been packed ''to the ceiling'' with zombies.
** Speaking of zombies, in a FreezeFrameBonus, one can see [[VideoGame/Left4Dead a Boomer, a Witch, a Tank, a Smoker and a Hunter]] in the cells. That is terrifying in and of itself, but the question remains: [[FridgeHorror where did they and all the other zombies come from?]] Are they traditional zombie forces, or an example of TheGameComeToLife?
* That fucking wolf head. Just as all the other monsters have triggers, it is blatant foreshadowing to the Werewolf's release.
** There's actually a bit of NightmareRetardant mentioned in the DVDCommentary: the dust all over the wolf head is actually powdered sugar.
* And last but not least, [[EldritchAbomination The Ancient Ones]], the evil deities who threaten to destroy all of humanity, lest they are appeased by the bloody sacrifices of innocent people every year. Keep in mind, these aren't some mindless beasts who simply feed off of death and destruction, they're purely ''evil'' beings who '''relish''' in the deaths of innocents for their own entertainment.
** The DownerEnding, Good '''LORD''' the DownerEnding. When Dana and Marty finally put an end to the bloody ritual, they end up [[ApocalypseHow sacrificing all of Earth]], and the angry gods finally emerge from the ground to obliterate the world. In the final shot of the film, we see an Ancient One's colossal arm reach out from the surface, destroying the titular cabin and killing our remaining heroes. Whatever happens after the screen cuts to black is [[NothingIsScarier up to your imagination]].

** And of course, the incredibly unsettling, silent Dolls, presumably based on the creepy serial killers from ''Film/TheStrangers''. Who are seen on a monitor circling some tied-up facility people and preparing to ''burn them alive''.
** It's hard to spot amidst everything else (and because the Angry Molesting Tree is in the way), but the third elevator back on the left side of the opening Carnage attack is the one the ''non''-redneck-torture-family zombies came out of. The first few tackle and pile onto a couple of the soldiers, and then several more come out to join the feeding dog-pile. And then more. And then more. And then ''more''. That particular cubicle must've been packed ''to the ceiling'' with zombies.

** The Dragonbat which looks exactly what it sounds like. From its general appearance, to the freakish, high-pitched wails, as well as its speed during flight picking up and ''munching'' on any poor soul it captures.

** The [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/b/bc/Dragonbat.png/revision/latest?cb=20131205031754 Dragonbat]] which looks exactly what it sounds like. From its general appearance, to the freakish, high-pitched wails, as well as its speed during flight picking up and ''munching'' on any poor soul it captures.

** The [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/gigan389/images/2/2b/Screengrabs_demoreel_2012_0053.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150222224834 Dragonbat]] which looks exactly what it sounds like. From its general appearance, to the freakish, high-pitched wails, as well as its speed during flight picking up and ''munching'' on any poor soul it captures.

** One of the most horrifying things contained in the cells is Kevin. Kevin is a seemingly ordinary StepfordSmiler with the power to drain people's blood. To make matters worse, [[NothingIsScarier it's never explicitly stated ''how'' he drains said blood]]...

** In just the first scene of The Purge alone, we see a tree spewing blood after consuming a security guard, one guy gets devoured whole by a giant cobra, a killer robot scorpion slicing someone with it's buzzsaw tail, and another guy literally getting ''[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe ripped in half]]'' by gleeful "[[http://dinosaurdracula.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/156.jpg Dismemberment Goblins]]".

** One poor guy literally gets his soul sucked out, and then is taken away to who-knows-where, to have who-knows-what done to him. While everyone else has really painful deaths, at least they die, and their suffering ends. [[FateWorseThanDeath That may never happen to him]].

While ''The Cabin in the Woods'' is a comedy that plays all the horror cliches by the book to humorous effect, keep in mind that this is still a horror movie.

!All spoilers are unmarked. Read at own risk.

It's a horror film about what makes horror films, so it naturally will have scary moments.

* The entirety of '''"The System Purge (aka The Carnage)"'''. Can you even imagine being trapped down there with almost every nightmare creature imaginable?

** One of the most horrifying things contained in the cells is Kevin. Kevin is a seemingly ordinary [[StepfordSmiler Stepford Smiler]] with the power to drain people's blood. To make matters worse, it's never explicitly stated ''how'' he drains said blood...

** Tarantulas are scary as they are, imagine a 50-foot one.

*** The Hell Lord, a reference to Pinhead from the ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'' series, one of the "throwaway" monsters given the most screentime. Like Pinhead, he is a tall, pale bald man dressed in bondage leathers, but instead of pins, his skull has been filled with ''sawblades''. He even holds his own puzzle box, though this one is spherical, rather than square like the Lament Configuration. Whats really creepy is that you never see just what his methods are, but if they are anything like his predecessor, it would make the rest of the Carnage look like childs play.

!All spoilers are unmarked. Read at own risk.

All spoilers are unmarked. Read at own risk.

** Are you afraid of [[KillerClown clowns]]?

** Are you afraid of [[KillerClowns clowns]]?

** Are you afraid of clowns?
*** ''Bulletproof'' clowns?

** That fucking wolf head. Just as all the other monsters have triggers, it is blatant foreshadowing to the Werewolf's release.
*** There's actually a bit of NightmareRetardant mentioned in the DVDCommentary: the dust all over the wolf head is actually powdered sugar.

** Just before their deaths, Mission Control are looking at a whole lot of small screens which are showing various people being killed by the various nightmares/creatures. Don't look too hard at these small screens. You won't like what you see. One of them shows a man being repeatedly and forcibly ''vomited on'' (what is presumed to be a corrosive acid of some kind) by what looks like mutant hospital zombies. A man gets suffocated in a plastic bag by a crazy man. One woman, out of fear, is DrivenToSuicide and shoots herself. One guy gets "operated on" [[note]] read: vivisected [[/note]] by the Evil Hospital Doctors. The Doll Mask Killers tie up a group of people, pour gasoline on them and drop a match as they leave the room. A woman is stalked by a monster she doesn't notice. A man is set on fire by a pumpkin-head creature.