Nightmare Fuel / Bird Boy: The Forgotten Children

To begin with, the movie starts with a nuclear disaster, resulting in hundreds of deaths (Dinky's father being one of them) and the beginning of the island's downward spiral.

• Life in the scrapyard. To mention a few things that happen there:
  • The only way to survive is to risk your life every day in search of anything made of copper, often fighting to the death with others who are looking for it too.
  • Anyone just passing through can be robbed and sentenced to torture or death, as the kids learn the hard way.
  • Hell, even the police are scared of going there, knowing how hellish it is.
• The trippy hallucination Birdboy has after taking some drugs of having a tree come out of his chest and two dark birds eating his corpse.
• The One-Winged Angel form of Birdboy. Sure, it saved the kids from being executed, but the carnage that he inflicts on the Forgotten Children is brutal.
• Sandra's inner voices telling her to toss Little Fox off a cliff or refrain from saving Dinky when she is drowning.
• The sentient inflatable duck raft recalls the trauma of living happily with his family at "PVC Lake" until a factory captured him, boxed him up and sold him as a raft, leaving him in the dark since nobody has even opened his box in god-knows how long. Even more frightening and tragic is that the poor inflatable duck is popped in a storm - his body is seen deflated and floating dead on the water with his eyes coloured completely white.
• Dinky's dog brother is nothing short of terrifying. Violent, perverted and physically ugly, he humps his father's leg, makes bizarre guttural noises and tries to murder a sentient alarm clock by drowning it. Maybe even more disturbing is that Dinky's parents love this creature and constantly praise it, while neglecting and abusing Dinky.
• Zachariah's mother, implied to be a heroin addict, is possessed by a giant black spider with an unpleasant female voice that belittles and bullies Zachariah into giving his bedridden mother more drug injections. By destroying the spider, Zachariah inadvertently kills his mother, although she is finally at peace and apologizes to her son.
• The film's children live in a heavily polluted world and regularly deal with parental abuse, police brutality, bullying and mental health issues. Little Fox is physically attacked by bullies, Birdboy is regularly shot at by the cops, Dinky is neglected by her strict parents (who pester her with a rubber Baby Jesus doll that bleeds from its eyes when squeezed), a young adolescent dog (while training to be a police officer) is shocked and horrified after shooting Birdboy, and Sandra is schizophrenic with regular urges to kill and mistreat her companions, although she suppresses these urges.