History NightmareFuel / TheCrow

!!The film:
* The blood-curdling scene in which Eric places his palm over the barrel of Fun Boy's gun and dares him to pull the trigger. Fun Boy does so, and Eric at first pretends to scream in pain. But then he pulls away, the bloody hole in his hand starts to ''spontaneously close up'', and Eric starts up a wicked laugh [[TheHyena that builds in intensity until it is high-pitched, screechy, and wild]]. That's when Fun Boy finally realizes that he's fucked.
* "[[https://youtu.be/CdK1NTcr-VM?t=223 THERE AIN'T NO COMIN' BACK! THERE AIN'T NO COMIN' BACK!]]" Spoken by a man not only facing death but who has been evil for his entire existence and now realises there is an afterlife and he's not going to the good place...
* The 30 hours worth of pain Eric inflicts on Top Dollar, taken directly from Shelly's experience of being beaten, gang-raped and left to die slowly. Of course, the bastard deserved every minute of it.
** Plus the scenes in which Eric properly learns about what happened to poor Shelly. He at first doesn't have any idea of his empathic powers, so when he goes home and checks around, he accidentally starts "collecting" the memories "recorded" in the objects and furniture there, and logically it's NOT pleasant at all. And later, when he meets up with Albrecht, he touches him to "properly" learn about Shelly's last minutes since he was there when she expired...
* [[BigBad Top Dollar]] himself is pretty damn creepy. He's not just a crime boss, he's also a twisted pyromaniac who sleeps with his half-sister Myca, and murders their sexual partners so that Myca can use them in occult rituals. How depraved can one man be?
** Not to mention his grand plan for Devil's Night can be summed up as "burn all Detroit to the ground so the inferno can be seen from orbit". For profit? For ego? For revenge? No. [[ForTheEvulz Because it'll be fun.]] What's truly terrifying is, given his power and authority, he could do it.
** His sister contemplated pulling a ''child's eyes'' out of their sockets.

* "[[https://youtu.be/CdK1NTcr-VM?t=223 THERE AIN'T NO COMIN' BACK! THERE AIN'T NO COMIN' BACK!]]"

* "[[https://youtu.be/kI34XFfEfZA THERE AIN'T NO COMIN' BACK! THERE AIN'T NO COMIN' BACK!]]"

* A ''lot'' of scenes, especially [[spoiler:some of Eric's more surreal grief scenes (horse + barbed wire) and his self-mutilation]].

* Quite a few of the vigilante murder scenes, especially Tom Tom's (who [[spoiler: has the lower parts of his legs sliced off by a samurai sword and slowly bleeds to death]]).

* The 30 hours worth of pain Eric inflicts on Top Dollar, taken directly from Shelly's experience of being beaten, gang-raped and left to die slowly. [[AssholeVictim Of course, the bastard deserved every minute of it.]]
** Plus the scenes in which Eric properly learns about what happened to poor Shelly. He at first doesn't have any idea of his empathic powers, so when he goes home and checks around, he accidentally starts "collecting" the memories "recorded" in the objects and furniture there, [[MindRape and logically it's NOT pleasant at all]]. And later, when he meets up with Albrecht, he touches him to "properly" learn about Shelly's last minutes since he was there when she expired...
* [[BigBad Top Dollar]] himself is pretty damn creepy. He's not just a crime boss, he's also a twisted pyromaniac who [[IncestIsRelative sleeps with his half-sister Myca]], and [[SerialKiller murders their sexual partners]] so that Myca can use them in occult rituals. How depraved can one man be?

* Brandon Lee as Eric Draven. Most of his movies prior to this play him as a skilled martial artist, yet with a laid back comedic personality. This movie on the other hand shows him PlayingAgainstType [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct and not only is it successful, it is scary]]. The fact that he died ''in the making of this movie'' makes his performance more haunting.
* "[[https://youtu.be/kI34XFfEfZA THERE AIN'T NO COMIN' BACK!]][[MadnessMantra THERE AIN'T NO COMIN' BACK!]]"

* A real meta example for Creator/MichaelMassee, the actor who played Funboy. He pulled the trigger during the accidental death of Brandon Lee. Before dying in 2016, he said in interviews that he ''still'' had nightmares 20 years later.

* Brandon Lee as Eric Draven. Most of his movies prior to this play him as a skilled martial artist, yet with a laid back comedic personality. This movie on the other hand shows him PlayingAgainstType [[HeReallyCanAct and not only is it successful, it is scary]]. The fact that he died ''in the making of this movie'' makes his performance more haunting.

* A real meta example for Michael Massee, the actor who played Funboy. He pulled the trigger during the accidental death of Brandon Lee. Before dying in 2016, he said in interviews that he ''still'' had nightmares 20 years later.

* [[BigBad Top Dollar]] himself is pretty damn creepy. He's not just a crime boss, he's also a twisted pyromaniac who [[IncestIsRelative sleeps with Myca, his own half-sister]], and [[SerialKiller murders their sexual partners]] so that Myca can use them in occult rituals. How depraved can one man be?

* "Hush little baby, please don't cry... Kali's gonna give you eternal life!" Easily the most chilling scene Thuy Trang of PowerRangers fame has ever done.

** Plus the scene in which Eric properly learned about what happened to poor Shelly, by touching Albrecht aka the police officer who was with her in her last moments.

* Brandon Lee as Eric Draven. Most of his movies prior to this play him as a skilled martial artist, yet with a laid back comedic personality. This movie on the other hand shows him PlayingAgainstType and not only is it successful, it is scary. The fact that he died ''in the making of this movie'' makes his performance more haunting.

* A real meta example for Michael Massee, the actor who played Funboy. He pulled the trigger during the accidental death of Brandon Lee. He has said in interviews that he still has nightmares 20 years later.

* The 30 hours worth of pain Eric inflicts on Top Dollar, taken directly from Shelly's experience of being beaten, gang-raped and left to die slowly. [[KickTheSonOfABitch Of course, the bastard deserved every minute of it.]]

* A real meta example for Michael Massee, the actor who played Funboy. He pulled the trigger during the accidental death of Brandon Lee.
He has said in interviews that he still has nightmares 20 years later.

* "Hush little baby, please don't cry... Kali's gonna give you eternal life."

* Brandon Lee as Eric Draven. Most of his movies prior to this play him as a skilled martial artist, yet with a laid back comedic personality. This movie on the other hand shows him PlayingAgainstType and not only is it successful, it is scary. The fact that he died after his movie makes his performance more haunting.

* A ''lot'' of scenes from the comic, especially [[spoiler:some of Eric's more surreal grief scenes (horse + barbed wire) and his self-mutilation]].
* In the comic, after Eric is shot in the head a second time, drops to the ground. Still alive, he is facing Shelly as she cries his name, is raped, shot in the head and raped some more, (yes, in that order) unable to move or even close his eyes while the crow tells him "Don't look, Eric! Don't look!"
* Quite a few of the vigilante murder scenes in the comic, especially Tom Tom's (who [[spoiler: has the lower parts of his legs sliced off by a samurai sword and slowly bleeds to death]]).
* The movie has a blood-curdling scene (not in the comic) in which Eric places his palm over the barrel of Fun Boy's gun and dares him to pull the trigger. Fun Boy does so, and Eric at first pretends to scream in pain. But then he pulls away, the bloody hole in his hand starts to ''spontaneously close up'', and Eric starts up a wicked laugh [[TheHyena that builds in intensity until it is high-pitched, screechy, and wild]]. That's when Fun Boy finally realizes that he's fucked.