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For the James Bond NightmareFuel index, see [[NightmareFuel/JamesBond here]].
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* This film courteously reminds us that our "Hero" is NOT a nice person with this simple, chilling exchange. Although Bond is so sarcastic and openly contemptuous throughout the chat that it's hard to take any of his answers too seriously.
-->''"Murder?"\\
[[TheSociopath "Employment."]] ''
* The effortless destruction of [=MI6=]'s Vauxhall Cross office, their RealLife HQ. Knowing that it's one of the most secure buildings in the UK which has shrugged off a rocket fired at it's windows with not even a scratch is unnerving when out of nowhere, the part which houses M's office gets blown to hell by Silva's tampering with the building's gas main. Furthermore, a scene was cut showing the aftermath of the blast, along with the dead and dying remains of "M's" staff.
* Silva's teeth were rotted by cyanide. This means that when he [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMOYiV7hUR0&t=3m39s removes a wicked-looking dental prosthetic]], the left side of his face...''sags.'' It's not just his teeth--his upper jaw and left cheek bones seem to be all but absent, explaining the sag. It even explains his odd "accent" - it's actually a ''lisp''. Even if cyanide doesn't actually work that way, [[RuleOfScary it is still effective]], and makes you wonder if there wasn't something ''else'' in that tooth instead of cyanide.
** After Silva displays his disfigurement to M and is left alone in his cell, he pops his prosthetic in and starts giggling. It later emerges he's right where he wants to be, but it's also a very creepy case of LaughingMad.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4gdhsVKTcs title sequence]], which manages to be [[BloodIsSquickerInWater exceptionally]] [[RuleOfSymbolism creepy,]] almost to ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' levels. Let's see-constant shots of a graveyard, the house lit up in an ominous red, TWO skulls, burning and bleeding paper targets of Bond plus the house crumbling when blood rains on it. The theme song itself is extremely unsettling and creepy as heck- musically and lyrically.
* Every time Silva's virus showed up to M (first time) and Q, it managed to creep out a lot of people.
* Silva in general. He manages to take basically every Bond Villain trope, turn it on its head, and make a scary as hell character out of it. Even before he gets to his more monstrous actions, there's something just subtly creepy about the guy that gets worse as the film goes on.
** When he's conducting his first assassination attempt on M while Bond is frantically running across London to try and intercept him, his expression is like the Terminator, absolutely nothing is going to get in the way of what he wants and he's willing to kill an entire roomful of civilians just to kill M.
** In the second assassination attempt when he brings two hit squads to kill everyone in the Skyfall lodge, he starts to come unglued as Bond picks apart his assault. By the time he reaches M, he's trying to force his gun into her hand and screaming at her to kill them both like an animal.
* Silva's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0dFsAtAlEo childhood story]] of how his grandmother dealt with the rats that infested her island. ''Jesus christ''. That's too unfathomably cruel even for rats. And the fact that Silva is relating this little story with both him and Bond as the rats makes for one hell of a EstablishingCharacterMoment.
** The story isn't original. People in Asia used to do that sort of thing as part of a ritual known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodoku Kodoku]] (Normally using insects and snakes rather than rats), believing that so long as they then cared for the last surviving vermin, good fortune would come to them. Alternatively, they would send the vermin to an enemy, who wouldn't know how to care for it, at which point the Kodoku would kill them. Strangely, despite a large portion of the movie taking place in China, the connection to Asian folklore isn't brought up.
** Early efforts to control mice in New Zealand, in the hopes of allowing native birds to breed in safety, used more or less the same trap design too[[note]]as detailed in ''[[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10830103-rat-island Rat Island]]''[[/note]]. However, these traps [[MercyKill dropped the mice into a bucket of water]], rather than forcing them to eat each other.
* Sévérine at first seems to be a Call Back to other Bond Girls from previous films (with her [[SmokingIsGlamorous smoking]] and seemingly being a FemmeFatale). Then you realize that she isn't simply the Bad Guy's girlfriend who will turn good because of Bond, she is a former SexSlave who is only with Silva as her ticket out of that, which is pretty horrific. Then you get the way she dies, shaking, clearly terrified that Bond will miss the glass on her head, and that Silva will kill her, which he does.
** What's also disturbing is [[TheSociopath the lack of effect this has on Bond;]] even more if it is because Bond, now no longer being a rookie spy agent, has {{seen it all}} before by this point. With the [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 first time]] [[TearJerker being the most personally tragic for him]]. He does clench his jaw for a brief second and is very calm when he says "Waste of good scotch" which implies that [[TranquilFury that he's beyond pissed off]].
* When Silva dismisses the "little gadgets from those fools in Q branch," it seems to be nothing more than general contempt for old-fashioned practices. [[FridgeHorror Not until later]] does it become clear that his some of his ire springs from the failure of one those of gadgets when he needed it most.
* Okay, is nobody discussing the way Bond ends that fight scene in the Macau casino? He and that Chinese hired gun tumble into a big pit in the casino, and after grappling for a few moments, the thug grabs Bond's gun and tries to shoot him with it, only to fail because the gun only responds to Bond's fingerprints. But that's not the scary part. The scary part is that said pit they're fighting in is occupied by a massive [[MaliciousMonitorLizard Komodo dragon]], and as soon as the two men trade blows, the commotion lures the Komodo out of its den, and it starts creeping up on them, then grabs the thug by his leg and hauls him away into its little alcove to consume him. And the thug is still screaming all the time that lizard's hauling him off. Bond's very casual [[BondOneLiner "Circle of life"]] right after he vacates the pit doesn't help.
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