Line #4 NightmareFuel/Paprika

Context NightmareFuel / Paprika

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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/paprika_nightmare_fuel.jpg]]
2	* Himuro's [[BodyHorror dried shell of a body inhabited by nothing but tree root branches]] (pictured above), what doesn't help is that once we get to see the entirety of him, he appears to be naked and [[TheUnSmile smiling]]... And then the branches begin [[WhamShot moving]].
3	* People start going insane as their minds are hauled into a freakish dream parade full of THE [[CreepyDoll creepiest dolls]] you will ever see. To make it worse, the dream parade ends up in real-world Tokyo, and a Godzilla-sized doll goes after the main characters with a glass-shattering EvilLaugh.
4	** The dream parade is full of disturbing imagery: salarymen committing suicide like synchronized swimmers, women and their children turning into golden statues, grown men with cellphone heads looking up the skirts of schoolgirls, hordes of homeless people and people trapped in miniature houses marching down streets, dwarvish men wrestling over who will be emperor and religious statues in drag proclaiming that God and Buddha will change religions. All of which represent ''[[RealismInducedHorror real life problems and trends in Japanese society]]''.
5	* Depending of whose mind you're in, it can be easily one of them. And it doesn't have to be a megalomaniac to be one: Just take Himuro's.
6	* Tokita's faces as he's in the robot suit in the movie theater. His voice acting in the English dub makes him sound much more deranged, too.
7	* "AND NOW, IT'S A-SHOW TIME!" The scene of the businessmen jumping off the roof, like synchronized swimmers, with the same smiles as the one Tokita had earlier.
8	* Everything about the doll. Every scene.
9	* The DC Mini burrowing into Himuro's head.
10	* The scene of the two doctors who went insane and had to be driven off in an ambulance.
11	* The scene of Konakawa's panic attack is disturbingly realistic.
12	* The rape-ish scene in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XuRLCIO6bk butterfly room.]]
13	** "I love you, Paprika. I love you just the way you are."
14	* The very first scene of the parade, with Dr. Shima jumping out of the window, You'd be forgiven if you thought he died.
15	* When the doll is speaking and the face morphs into Himuro's.
16	** And then once Himuro laughs the dolls' heads begin to shake with him.
17	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIMu8VmzoUQ Himuro's creepy apartment]], especially with the robot holding the "Help Me" sign, with Tokita's face pasted over its head...

Context NightmareFuel / Paprika