History YMMV / Elvira

* NightmareFuel: As predecessors to ''VideoGame/{{Waxworks}}'', the game has some [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd-cJUuU5mo gnarly and frightening ways to meet an untimely demise]]. While not necessarily as nightmarish as ''Waxworks'', it can still be unsettling to die of, for example, [[OffWithHisHead beheading]], flesh-eating acid burns, massive swelling insect stings, falling into spike pits, and burning to death.

* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: Both games were very well reviewed and won numerous awards, some even being "Adventure Game of the Year".

* GoddamnedBats: The mosquitoes in the spider cave of Jaws of Cerberus are very annoying, pestering and nasty when suck your blood, also the [[DemBones skeletons]] in the catacombs are persistent and numerous, and the goddamned [[NightmareFuel barbed ghosts...]]
* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: Averted, as both games were very well reviewed and won numerous awards, some even being "Adventure Game of the Year".

* NightmareFuel: Both games were among the most frightening on the market when they were released, and years later they still have the power to scare. Some particularly memorable examples...
** Elvira I:
*** Getting killed by the hawk, which results in a screen of first [[http://usera.ImageCave.com/Tokenmaster/OHSHIT.jpg the hawk grasping an eyeball in a spray of blood - with its other claw clearly going for your other eye]], then [[http://usera.ImageCave.com/Tokenmaster/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.jpg an image of your character with his eyes clawed out]].
*** Getting killed by the evil cook. The game over screen shows a boiling cauldron, with your head bobbing up to the top. (It´s more NightmareRetardant if you think about it.)
** Elvira II:
*** There's a scene in the mansion where you come across some shutters that open up into a pantry. You open them, and see nothing but pitch blackne-OH, DEAR GOD, NO. [[spoiler: [[http://usera.ImageCave.com/Tokenmaster/ohshit!.jpg A degenerate leaps at you. His mouth is full of razor-sharp teeth, and zits the size of fingertips stream pus down his cheeks.]] You pass out, and wake up in a meat locker full of mutilated bodies. Three guesses as to who mutilated them...[[http://usera.ImageCave.com/Tokenmaster/huh.jpg and then he comes back for more.]]]]
*** The lower catacombs have these freaky blue ghosts that come flying out of nowhere, right at the screen.
*** The scene listed under FanDisservice.

* [[GoddamnedBats Goddamned Bats:]] The mosquitoes in the spider cave of Jaws of Cerberus are very annoying, pestering and nasty when suck your blood, also the [[DemBones skeletons]] in the catacombs are persistent and numerous, and the goddamned [[NightmareFuel barbed ghosts...]]

*** There's a scene in the mansion where you come across some shutters that open up into a pantry. You open them, and see nothing but pitch blackne-OH DEAR GOD NO. [[spoiler: [[http://usera.ImageCave.com/Tokenmaster/ohshit!.jpg A degenerate leaps at you. His mouth is full of razor-sharp teeth, and zits the size of fingertips stream pus down his cheeks.]] You pass out, and wake up in a meat locker full of mutilated bodies. Three guesses as to who mutilated them...[[http://usera.ImageCave.com/Tokenmaster/huh.jpg and then he comes back for more.]]]]

*** The scene listed under FanDisservice.

* [[GoddamnedBats Goddamned Bats:]] The mosquitoes in the spider cave of Jaws of Cerberus are very annoying, pestering and nasty when suck your blood, also the [[DemBones skeletons]] in the catacombs are persistent and numerous, and the goddamned [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel barbed ghosts...]]

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Both games were among the most frightening on the market when they were released, and years later they still have the power to scare. Some particularly memorable examples...