History NightmareFuel / TheWall

* Most of the animation from the 1982 film adaptation of ''Music/TheWall''.
* Speaking of ''Music/TheWall'', while the entire album is creepy, two tracks stand out. Most of "Don't Leave Me Now" sounds extremely disturbing; think of a funeral dirge with a guy lamenting the collapse of his abusive marriage and you'll get the idea. And then you have "Is There Anybody Out There?", which is reminiscent of something from a horror movie. Thank God it turns into a nice-sounding guitar melody.

* "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" has some pretty scary stuff.

* The meat grinder in "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)". They were getting ground up like Play-Doh.

Whaaaat?! A Music/PinkFloyd album being scary? [[SarcasmMode That's just never been heard of!]]

** Pink's mother is even more frightening. She first flies out of the wall as an airplane, then morphs into a talking labia, grabbing Pink with an umbilical cord.

* You know the "Run Like Hell" sequence where the skinheads are causing all hell to break loose in the streets? Yeah, those "skinheads" aren't mere actors; '''''[[FridgeHorror they're the real deal.]]'''''

*** Roger Waters may be mocking racism, homophobia, antisemitism, ect.; but it could easily be taken out of context.

---->"'''Waiting''' to put on a black shirt!\\

---->"Are there any queers in the theatre tonight?\\

** Speaking of ''Music/TheWall'', while the entire album is creepy, two tracks stand out. Most of "Don't Leave Me Now" sounds extremely disturbing; think of a funeral dirge with a guy lamenting the collapse of his abusive marriage and you'll get the idea. And then you have "Is There Anybody Out There?", which is reminiscent of something from a horror movie. Thank God it turns into a nice-sounding guitar melody.
** "Goodbye Blue Sky", particularly the images seen in the music video. It starts with a soothing guitar riff, then the terror sets in. "D-D-D-DID YOU SEE THE FRIGHTENED ONES? D-D-D-DID YOU HEAR THE FALLING BOMBS?"
*** [[HarbingerOfImpendingDoom "Look mummy, there's an aeroplane up in the sky."]]
*** A dove suddenly becoming a dark metallic eagle.
*** The metallic eagle grabbing a bit of ground that actually bleeds.
*** A warlord with glowing headlights for eyes that morphs into a factory of steel.
*** An army of bombers emerging from the towering structure.
*** The Union Jack (British flag) on a post becoming a blood-red cross.
*** The soldiers with skulls for heads.
*** Strange creatures wearing gas masks running for cover.
*** Anything else becoming a cross.
*** Blood trickling through a storm drain.
** From "The Happiest Days of Our Lives": ''"But in the town it was well known when they got home at night, their fat, psychopathic wives would '''thrash them''' within inches of their lives!''
** The meat grinder in "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)". They were getting ground up like Play-Doh.
** The animated piece for "Empty Spaces" and "What Shall We Do Now?"
*** The two animated flowers. The female quickly snatches the male in her jaws and becomes a horrid creature.
*** The wall being constructed.
*** A sea of beings with the same featureless faces as those in the school.
*** [[AndIMustScream The screaming face emerging from the wall.]]
*** Everything the wall passes becoming corrupted.
** The creepy-ass mantis / butterfly / flower / vagina monster ''thing'' that the shadow of Pink's wife turns into near the end of the "Don't Leave Me Now" sequence.
** The animation that accompanies "The Trial" in the movie also qualifies. Pretty much everything in that sequence counts here.
*** Pink's wife definitely qualifies. She first appears as a scorpion like creature who manifests from the wall, impales Pink (now a ragdoll) with her tail, and then morphs into a siren with elongated limbs and flaming eyes.
*** Pink's mother is even more frightening. She first flies out of the wall as an airplane, then morphs into a talking labia, grabbing Pink with an umbilical cord.
*** The School-master is pretty creepy too, with his sickly grey skin, constantly moving tufts of hair, Magnifying glass-like eyes, hammer shaped head and creepy marionette motif.
*** The judge from "The Trial" is probably the most nightmarish of all. He starts off as a giant worm, and as his verse begins, he transforms into a giant talking pair of buttocks, complete with a judge's wig on top and a pair of backwards facing legs. What makes it all the more frightening is how the animation manages to make it look vaguely like a human face, as the rectum is the mouth and the scrotum is meant to look like a chin. [[SarcasmMode It's not as tame as it sounds.]]
** "Run Like Hell". ''"With your empty smile and your hungry heart / Feel the bile rising from your guilty past / With your nerves in tatters / When the cockleshell shatters / And the hammers batter down the door / You better run!"''
*** Similarly, "Waiting for the Worms":

*** And "In the Flesh", the song that directly precedes these two:

** "Hey You" starts with a frail, haunting guitar riff accompanied by a few notes played on a fretless bass and a Fender Rhodes electric piano. The song gets more and more desperate in tone throughout, right up to its climactic end with Roger Waters wailing at the top of his lungs. Also notable is the line directly preceding a reprise of the song's intro: "No matter how he tried, he could not break free -- and the worms ate into his brain." This is easily one of Pink Floyd's darkest songs.
** "One of My Turns" describes the decline of Pink's marriage in rather excruciating detail. ''"Day after day, love turns grey, like the skin on a dying man." "I feel cold as a razor blade, tight as a tourniquet, dry as a funeral drum!"'' Then he goes through one of his "turns" -- a psychotic break where he goes berserk.
** "Goodbye Cruel World". Despite not ''actually'' having anything to do with suicide, the lyrics certainly make it seem that way, especially if they're taken out of context from the rest of the album. Fun fact: The [[GoodbyeCruelWorld trope of the same name]] uses an excerpt from this song as part of its introduction.

* Despite being [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome beautifully animated]], [[DerangedAnimation the animation sequences]], namely "The Trial".
* The "What Shall We Do Now?" sequence is '''''haunting.''''' To wit:
** The two flowers are ''really'' unnerving, especially when one of them eats the other.
** The face coming out of the wall, as seen above.
** After the wall destroys a church, the animation REALLY gets fucked up.
* The kids being ground in the meat grinder.
* The Teacher in the live show. The sheer size of it changes it from being a simply creepy character into a particularly horrifying one, while simultaneously being a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome in the show.
** During "Another Brick," the puppet visibly deflates when the kids stand up to him. He reinflates, as if trying to get his power back up, but keeps deflating until the song ends.
* The marching hammers, and what they mean symbolically.
* When seeing the film with someone who's seeing it for the first time, gleefully await their reaction to the moment in the "Don't Leave Me Now" sequence when the shadow of Pink's wife suddenly transforms into a Freudian monster, complete with LastNoteNightmare.
* Doubles with {{tearjerker}}, but in the film, when Pink yells '''''"STOOOOOOOOOOP!"''''', it's enough to haunt you for a long time.
* You know the "Run Like Hell" sequence where the skinheads are causing all hell to break loose in the streets? Yeah, those "skinheads" aren't mere actors; '''''[[FridgeHorror they're the real deal.]]'''''
* The thought of having to deal with Pink during one of his turns.
** '''''TAKE THAT, FUCKERS! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!'''''
* Hell, the whole ''concept'' of ''The Wall'' is terrifying in and of itself. [[Synopsis/TheWall Click here for more details]].

* [[DerangedAnimation The Gerald Scarfe animation sequences]], namely "The Trial".

** '''''TAKE THAT, FUCKERS! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!'''''

* Hell, the whole ''concept'' of ''The Wall'', is terrifying in and of itself. [[Synopsis/TheWall Click here for more details]].

* The thought of having to deal with Pink during one of his turns.

** The two flowers are ''really'' unnerving'', especially when one of them eats the other.

** The flowers animation for "What Shall We Do Now?", as well as the face coming out of the wall and ''screaming''.

** The flowers animation for "What Shall We Do Now?", as well as the face coming out of the wall.

* You know the "Run Like Hell" sequence where the skinheads are causing all hell to break loose in the streets? Yeah, those "skinheads" aren't mere actors; '''''[[FridgeHorror they're the real deal.]]'''''

* You know the "Run Like Hell" sequence where the skinheads are causing all hell to break loose in the streets? Yeah, those "skinheads" aren't mere actors, '''''[[FridgeHorror they're the real deal.]]'''''

* The Gerald Scarfe animation sequences, namely "The Trial".

* Doubles with {{tearjerker}}, but in the film, when Pink yells '''''"STOOOOOOOOOOP!"''''', it's enough to haunt you for a long time.

* '''YOU! YES, YOU! STAND STILLLL, LLLAAADDDDDEEEHHHH!'''
** '''WROOOOOOOOONGGG! DO IT AGAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIINNNNNNNN!'''
* ''hammer! hammer! [=HAmmer! HAMmer!=] '''HAMMER! HAMMER! HAMMER!'''''
** '''STOOOOPPPPP!!!!!'''
* The animated sequences during "What Shall We Do Now?".

* hammer! hammer! HAmmer! HAMmer! HAMMER! HAMMER! HAMMER! '''STOOOOPPPPP!!!!!'''

* hammer! hammer! HAmmer! HAMmer! HAMMER! HAMMER! HAMMER! '''STOOOOPPPPP!!!!!'''

** '''WROOOOOOOOONGGG! DO IT AGAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIINNNNNNNN!'''