Nightmare Fuel / Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

Her daughter's going to be delicious... but not as delicious as the taste of revenge.

Overall, this film is Lighter and Softer than its predecessor... but that doesn’t mean it is any less harrowing.

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• As it's shown, Ginger still has nightmares about Mrs. Tweedy, and flashbacks of her time trapped on Tweedy farm, from the first film. The fact that her past comes back to haunt her is just as terrifying.
  • The one nightmare we actually see is quite harrowing, especially since the audience is initially led to believe it's not a dream sequence. Ginger is shown sneaking towards a parked Fun-Land Farms truck, approaching the back doors in an attempt to see inside...and then the doors slam open to reveal an axe-wielding Mrs. Tweedy backlit by an eerie white light.
    Mrs. Tweedy: Your daughter is going to be DELICIOUS! (lunges at Ginger)
• In Fun-Land Farms, the chickens are fitted with mind-controlling collars. All it takes is the push of a button, and they’re sent to be killed and processed into nuggets. The most unnerving part of it? Thanks to the collars, they’re actively excited about it, and go enthusiastically to their demise.
  • The way the collars are fitted isn’t exactly a pleasant situation; when the chickens arrive in the farm, they’re sent through a trapdoor onto a conveyer belt where a mechanism grabs them by the neck, fitting the collars, then it swings them (by the neck) onto a separate conveyor belt and then they’re sent via a chute to the main area. It happens quickly, but it’s still an indicator that this place has a darker side to it, and maybe chickens aren’t so safe there.
  • The chickens with collars are shown to get themselves into accidents - being hit by things, or falling off the scenery in the farm. What makes it disturbing is that even when they get hurt, they still have wide smiles on their faces and don’t even react to what’s happening. One is knocked over by Molly whilst she goes down a slide, then buried under a mound of other hens, and doesn’t seem to have even noticed it.
  • The nugget making process is shown one time. However, what makes it even worse is that Molly, a child, is there to witness it. Though she only hears the sound of the machinery when the chicken goes into the processor, the look on Molly’s face make it clear just how shocked and scared she is. Ginger pulls her away, covers her ears and tells her "Look at me, and do not look away," trying to spare her daughter from witnessing something so dreadful, exactly like what a real parent would do in a similarly scary situation.
    • If that wasn't terrifying enough, then the assumption that Frizzle, in any case, HAD been chosen would have definitely traumatized Molly for life with the fact that she'd be powerless to save her friend.
    • Molly could very easily have felt that way before Ginger decides to go back to save the flock, since Frizzle is still in the farm and the nugget production is so imminent.
  • One YouTuber worded it perfectly in the comment section of this video:
  "Imagine being a state where you are you at one moment but then you faded to sudden blurred mind and vision, just blankness. Just mindless bliss that you can’t even feel. Your body just moving and you don’t even know that it is. But then you feel a sharp agonizing pain of being physically torn apart and your mind just woke up to recognize the excruciating agony for little more than a couple of a seconds then everything turn to white as you last feel a burning sensation. Then…nothing. That’s exactly how the chicken must have felt as soon as she disappeared into that curtain. This scene is more brutal than Edwina’s death. With hers, it ended with one hacked. But with this one, she experienced so much more than just one quick death. And what is even worse, is she didn’t even know what led to it until it happened."
  • Seeing a chicken being sent into a machine to be killed and processed into food may have also given Ginger flashbacks to the time she was sent into the pie machine. She knows just how horrific it is (and this time, she knows that the poor chicken has absolutely no hope of surviving), but still keeps herself composed in front of Molly.
  • At one point, Mrs. Tweedy captures Ginger and puts a collar on her. While Ginger does a good job of resisting it at first, she nonetheless starts to show symptoms of mind control, like Mind-Control Eyes and crazy laughter, with the whole scene coming across as a straight up torture scene for her. The experiment seemingly fails... only for the collar to activate as she and Molly try running to safety. There's something so unnerving about seeing the usually strong-willed and serious Ginger be brainwashed into being creepily happy — in fact, at one point, she straight up says that Mrs. Tweedy is the best woman in the world.
  • The other chickens watching the security cameras get quite a scare upon seeing Mrs. Tweedy again as all the screens show her laughing maniacally before subjecting Ginger to the mind-control treatment. Babs, Bunty and Mac scream in terror, then Babs faints on the spot.
• Mrs. Tweedy in general has only become more horrible and insane since her defeat from the last film.
  • Now that she knows the chickens are intelligent (and sapient), her attitude towards chickens is even more sadistic. She married Dr. Fry to destroy the minds of strong-willed chickens so they will happily walk to their death. She had her new chicken farm be built as a near-impenetrable fortress in response to Ginger's escape. And she deliberately torments Ginger whenever she gets the chance, relishing in her pain and fears before going for the kill.
  • Whilst a chicken is being sent to the nugget processing machine, she gives a sinister chuckle and a smile. Whilst it’s not as fear-inducing as her evil grin in the first film before killing Edwina, it still perfectly conveys her vengeful motives and the fact she takes pleasure in being so cruel to the chickens.
  • During one scene, Mrs. Tweedy has a slip of the tongue regarding her plans, saying that she’ll have her revenge (which she then corrects herself by saying she meant revenue). Her schemes aren’t just a business, they’re her way of making chicken-kind pay for what happened in her first farm.
    • Made even worse is that her eye was twitching, showing that she has not completely recovered from what has happened to her in the last film.
  • Ginger and Mrs. Tweedy's responses to seeing each other again. After Mrs. Tweedy reappears for the first time, Ginger has a PTSD flashback and whispers, in a terrified voice, "It's her!". Later, Mrs. Tweedy sees Ginger, flashes back to her defeat from the first film, and furiously shouts "YOU!" at her.
  • When Mrs. Tweedy finds out that the chickens are trapped in the corn silo, she doesn’t hesitate to activate the corn grinder. Luckily, thanks to a spare firework and Mac’s glasses, the chickens are able to escape, but they came very close to a brutal death.
  • Mrs. Tweedy activates the nugget processor machine, intending to put every chicken in the farm through it. At this point, Cliff Richard’s ‘Summer Holiday’ starts playing and the brainwashed chickens sing along as they walk towards the escalator. The song juxtaposed with the situation is quite unnerving.
  • During the climax of the film, Ginger grabs the remote control that will deactivate the collars, only for Mrs. Tweedy to respond by pinning down Molly and holding an axe over her. The clear implication is that Ginger can either allow her friends to be slaughtered en masse or watch her only child be executed in front of her. It thankfully doesn't come to that, but the threat was still there.
  • A bit further on in the climax, she gets hit in the face by an axe. Luckily, it’s only the handle and not the blade that hits her, but it’s still quite close to being a very violent injury.
  • After the above, she gets knocked into the nugget processor, eventually coming out at the nugget loading bay covered in breadcrumbs. At this point, she just continues to go after the chickens, and, similarly to the climax of the first film, she seems to just fully succumb to pure aggression and hatred towards them. Not helping matters is how the breadcrumbs give her the appearance that the skin around her mouth is melting.
  • In the last film, she was at ground zero of a boiling hot gravy explosion, and had a barn door fall on her. Here, she goes through getting put through a meat grinder, battered and fried. And she still survives! If neither of those were able to take her down for good, then what will?!

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