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Nightmare Fuel: Godzilla
And the city was dropped... by a radioactive dinosaur.
The 'Zilla's from the '98 American Godzilla remake. Same powers as the original, can reproduce asexually, lay eggs that fill the entirety of Madison Square Garden in an 'insanely'' fast amount of time (the movie never clearly specifies if hours, minutes, months, or days had passed), and can appear and disappear within the blink of an eye and without a sound.
A quiet, understated moment of heart-crushing power in the aftermath of Godzilla's attack laid me low: A doctor passes a Geiger counter over a little girl. The counter goes berserk.
Completely intentional, as the big G is (at least in his first appearances) a blatant metaphor for The Bomb.
The Oxygen Destroyer. Oh, god. I have YET to find a more terrifying weapon in the face of fiction. Sure, it's not as awesome as a laser cannon or as stylish as a light sabre. But, the fact that the Oxygen Destroyer causes its victims to have a horrible agonizing death via asphyxiation is nothing short of terrifying.
It doesn't just asphyxiate, it dissolves living things all the way down to the skeleton!
Godzilla himself is rather terrifying. This isn't some random confused animal in the wrong place at the wrong time. No, he knows exactly where he is. Oh, and he's pissed at humanity and wants to kill everyone. Yes, even you. Worse yet, there's almost nothing you can do to stop him. Something that's big, radioactive, and angry is not something to be taken lightly.
The GMK incarnation of Godzilla. He's essentially a giant zombie version of the original Godzilla controlled by the vengeful spirits of forgotten soldiers who died in WWII. White souless eyes, a permanent scowl on his face, wants to wipe out all of Japan (and possibly humanity in general), and even ends up killing three gods (IE: Baragon, Mothra, and Ghidorah) that were sent to save the world from him.
And, at the end of the film his disembodied heart is still beating at the bottom of the ocean. In other words, you can't even kill him meaning he'll soon regenerate and come back to wreak havoc once again.
Destroyah. To quote James Rolfe-"He looks like the goddamn devil!" It doesn't help that his juvenile forms look like a cross between a Xenomorph, a crab, and a scorpion, or that he's able to use the same horrific ability as the Oxygen Destroyer (see above, also where he got his name).
To make things even more unnerving, he does all his atrocious acts (incluing mudering Junior in front of Godzilla) for no reason other than for his own sadistic amusement. In the game Godzilla: Unleashed, he even lets out a rather creepy Evil Laugh after winning a fight.
Oh and the comic version of him doesn't help either. When he's fighting Anguirus, he tries to pry his jaws open.
As much hate as they get, the baby Godzillas in the 1998 fall under this for the fact that there are hundreds of them in Madison Square Garden.
There's a scene in Godzilla VS Hedorah where Hedorah is flying overhead emitting a cloud of sulphiric acid. The innocent bystanders below are shown collapsing and then their flesh melting off of their faces.
Speaking of that scene, Riichiro Manabe's score during it. say what you want about his composing ability, but when it comes to producing horrific cues for this and other films such as Crest Of The Wolf, the Bloodthirsty trilogy, and Jigoku he's actually pretty good.
Hedorah tries to drown Godzilla in sludge. Godzilla's struggles to get out make it all the more unnerving.
One scene in the movie has a character hallucinating that everyone at a dance club has a creepy fish head. It's one of the most disturbing Big Lipped Alligator Moment in any film.
King Ghidorah, even with his Badass Decay, falls under this. Try to imagine a three-headed dragon that travels from planet to planet essentially wiping out all life from it. Oh, and that he's often under the control (or at least a willing servant) of various alien races that want nothing more to take over the planet. Don't think it can get worse? Well, take in the fact that he ENJOYS his job.
The Heisei incarnation's origin is rather terrifying. It pretty much starts out as three cute genetically-engineered pets that are left alone to fend for themselves on an island near Japan. Then the island is hit by a nuclear bomb (the same one that created the original Godzilla) that causes said three pets to fuse with one another into a single giant dragon.
most of people thinks that King Ghidorah's high-pitched roar is Narm...but try to listen with more attention, you'll notice it sounds like a psychotic giggling.
The GMK incarnation of Ghidorah seems to be horribly weak at first, until you realise that's just because he's a juvenile and hasn't grown back all of his heads yet. Oh, did we mention all of his heads? Well, that's because he happens to be the Yamato No Orochi. No wonder his soul was purified prior to the events of the film.
Gigan. Sure, he's not the scariest-looking Kaiju out there. But, take into consideration that he's the first monster to make Godzilla bleed. Oh, and there's the little fact that he absolutely loves causing mayhem and destruction and prefers to hack his opponents with either his scythe-arms or his buzzsaw-belly rather than use his optic blasts.
Biollante, Anti-Villain and Dark Is Not Evil applying her second form is still really scary to look at. In spite of being the monster to root for it's disturbing when she pierces Godzilla's hand with a vine and then easily fits his whole head into her mouth and snarling. Less than five minutes of footage and no one forgets that monster.
Monster X. Its appearance goes into Uncanny Valley immediately, it's pretty much the only opponent to hold the big G up (apart from Caesar, Anguirus and Rodan teaming up) and its roar/Evil Laugh scares the shit out of this troper. And guess what? It's Keiser Ghidorah, and he's even worse.
The Godzillaverse itself qualifies! imagine living in a Crapsack World choke-full of Kaiju, aka humongous, near-indestructible and VERY pissed-off monsters who gleefully screw the square-cube law(aka something so big should not exist, yet it does). they include mutants, ancient deities and alien planet-destroyers. at any moment they may attack your city and raze it to the ground, millions of people will die, there is no time to rebuild because probably they have already spread death and destruction somewhere else, humanity can't do anything to stop them. the kicker? the most heroic of them (Godzilla himself) is a dinosaur mutated into a walking nuclear holocaust, and he is one of the most destructive. Sure, he's more of a Chaotic NeutralAnti-Hero, but he still doesn't give a shit about mankind.
For some, even Godzilla's iconic roar has a hell of a lot of scare potential. No living thing should ever be able to produce that kind of eerie, high-pitched wail. It makes him sound less like a roaring dinosaur and more like some kind of ethereal demon—which actually makes sense, when you consider that a life-form that big isn't scientifically possible in Real Life.
This is intentional. Toho Studios couldn't find a suitable animal-like roar that would fit a creature Godzilla's size. So, composer Akira Ifukube created the trademark roar by running a leather glove over a double bass. It's changed slightly over the years, but the general "SKREEEOOOOONK" aspect has pretty much stayed the same.
In the Dark Horse Comics series of Godzilla, G-Fans were given plenty of scary moments. What really stuck out was the arc when Godzilla got poisoned and started to bleed from his mouth and his eyes. It doesn't really help when he's acting like a rabid animal... a giant rabid animal that breathes fire.
The first Dark Horse Comics Godzilla comic. All of it. The creepy atmosphere, Godzilla's design and that worm-''thing'' that was sleeping in the slab that summoned Godzilla in the first place.
Burtannus. Although she is not what you'd call scary, she has her moments. The first is when she is attacking a village in Brazil and she kills someone with her lightning. You can actually see the guy's skeleton! Also, her first appearance in the comic when Burton Helzer and Kino come across her young.
Bagorah. Just Bagorah. From his design, his method of attack and his insatiable appetite for flesh. He even tries to make a meal out of Godzilla.
Mechagodzilla's first appearance was pretty frightening as well. One of the first monsters he goes after is Godzilla's longtime sidekick, Anguirus. At first, it just looks like the Godzilla we all know and love has snapped and is on a destructive rampage. Anguirus tries to stop him, only to get the stuffing beaten out of him. Then "Godzilla" reaches down, grabs Anguirus' jaws and breaks them. He more or less breaks his lower jaw in half. What makes this even more disturbing is that, at this point, Anguirus has no idea this isn't the real Godzilla, his friend doing this to him.
The ending of the ongoing IDW Godzilla comic issue 11 which has Godzilla going up against Space Godzilla and Monster X who, up to this point of the comic, have proven to be some of the most powerful monsters so far.
Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters has a ton of this. The first issue has Godzilla kill two kids just by rising up from the ground. And it gets worse. We are then introduced to the evil psychic twins who manage to gain control over Rodan and Battra and hope to take control of Godzilla later on in the series, lots of unsettling apocalyptic imagery and the undeniably brutal monster fights. But the creepiest and scariest moment comes in issue 5 where there is an exodus of people evacuating Los Angeles due to Godzilla's attack and, while a fight breaks out on the road, Godzilla shows up and outright vaporizes everyone on the road except for a little girl who ends up traumatized. In fact, the aftermath looks just like a nuclear bomb hit the area. Then there's the animal deaths which precede a monster showing up.
