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Who is dead...?
- Those dismembered dolls, especially how they appear in brief snippets without explanation... and Mei's insinuation that the dolls are trying to suck out your soul doesn't help.
- In Episode 3, things go from zero to sixty in about three seconds. To wit, Yukari Sakuragi sees Mei in the hall, panics, and flees down the stairs, whereupon she trips and gets Impaled with Extreme Prejudice on her umbrella. And it's shown in graphic detail.
- The worst part is seeing her fingers twitch in her own blood.
- Then there's Episode 4... not only does it recap Sakuragi's death in the Cold Open, Mizuno is killed in a malfunctioning elevator. They don't show her face being crushed in as she falls down once, but three times!
- In Episode 5, we get a close-up of Tabakayashi's face as he suffers a fatal heart attack. His eyes are practically bulging out of his head.
- The ending of Episode 6. Mr. Kubodera stumbles into the classroom, apologizes to the students for allowing the Calamity to start, then howls like a crazed animal as he pulls out a giant butcher knife. Cut to credits.
- Then there's Episode 7. JESUS GODDAMN CHRIST.
- The class' Freak Out at their teacher's suicide. Genki Girl Aya Ayano gives a Big "NO!", half the class bolt for the doors while poor Aya is in hysterics and holding her head, Yumi Ogura sits on the floor having a Heroic BSoD, ill student Daisuke Wakui throws up, and in the background, Tomohiko Kazami just sits at his desk covered in blood looking traumatised...
- The dream sequence. Specifically, the face melting part. The way Kouichi screams during it is in no way better.
- For the most part, Episode 8 is a Breather Episode. Then the ending happens. Nakao suffers an aneurysm while swimming after a beach ball. Then a boat speeds by, not seeing him as he bobs in the water, and chops his body to pieces. It stains the water red. Then we get to see his limp, bloodied body launched into the air. The accompanying music does not help.
- The atmosphere of sheer panic as the others think something has happened to Nakao. It makes the above that much worse when it actually happens, because at first, everything seems to be fine. They all thought they were safe outside the town, but it seems the Calamity can happen anywhere now. Even when the audience learns that Nakao's demise was a Time-Delayed Death that would've happened whether in Yomiyama or not, by that time the revelation really doesn't help.
- Sakakibara's dream from Episode 9, where he sees the bodies of his dead classmates, who all blame him for their deaths.
- "It's your fault!"
- During the flashback to the year the Calamity was stopped mid-year, Matsunaga describes how the first student to die on the trip was struck by lightning. The kid, Jun Hamaguchi, was standing right in front of him, and the audience gets to watch Hamaguchi be struck. Matsunaga even describes what Hamaguchi's burning flesh smelled like. After that, his classmate Yuki Hoshikawa tries to escape with the others back home, and she's shown slipping on the wet road and falling off a cliff to her death, her body hitting several trees and rocks on her way down...
- And there's how the Calamity was stopped. By Matsunaga killing the extra student via pushing him to the ground in the middle of a fistfight and accidentally causing him to get his throat pierced on a tree branch.
- All of Episode 11. Highlights include:
- Everyone puts on a Nightmare Face with Slasher Smile when Takako announced that Mei might be the dead one, and then they all slink out to kill her...slowly and quietly.
- Takako popping up behind Kouichi and saying "It wasn't me" calmly is also an extremely creepy Jump Scare.
- Kazami is still alive after he was pushed off a balcony.
- Teshigawara and Mochizuki opening one of the hotel room doors to find the insane, blood spattered, knife-wielding old lady who lives in the house, who then proceeds to try and stab them. Then there's the later Jump Scare when they try to enter the fire exit, only to find the old lady's husband's dead body already in there, staring at them wide eyed.
- Takako's death, when she gets strangled slowly with cables as she gets caught in them while trying to kill Mei.
- Yumi Ogura's psychotic breakdown. She joins the chase to kill Mei, and tries to follow her and Sakakibara out a window, determined to avenge the death of her brother, panting and screaming and waving around a knife. When she thinks she has Mei cornered, she has a horrible, blood-spattered Slasher Smile... and then she falls off the window to her death by a broken neck.
- The dining hall at the lodge has caught on fire, and two boys in the class smell the smoke. One of them, Makoto Ouji, opens the door to check it out, and is immediately engulfed in flames. After the gas in the kitchen causes two giant, exploding fireballs, the action cuts back to poor Makoto's charred remains and his friend looking on in horror.
- Episode 12: Kazami systematically slaughtering his classmates to figure out who the Dead One is. He casually and calmly strolls up behind a girl who has run to Sakakibara for help, and stabs her right through the back of her neck. Then he decides that Sakakibara must be the Dead One, and loses his shit trying to kill him.
