Nightmare Fuel / Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

• Kevin walking around Central Park at night.
  • What makes this scarier is that it actually counts as example of Truth in Television: New Yorkers know that Central Park, despite how idyllic it is during the day, becomes a rather unsafe area at night, with an unpleasant amount of drug use, wild animals wandering, and even a tragic amount of rape. An adult wandering around Central Park after dusk is not a pleasant thought, let alone a child. And this was in the early 1990s, around the time its murder rate peaked.
    Harry: "Grown men come in the Park and don't leave alive."
• Near the end, when Harry and Marv are standing over Kevin (who slipped on the ice while running away from them), varnish all over them looking like dried blood, crazy slasher smiles...and the line "My, how the tables have turned". Brrrr.
• Harry comes very close to shooting Kevin twice during the film. The first time, he and Marv try to take him into the subway tunnels, but Kevin gets away after goosing a woman and tricking her into thinking they did it. The second time, in Central Park, Harry draws a revolver—dripping with paint and varnish—and levels it at Kevin. Even though it's full of gunk and he can't hold on to the hammer or trigger, it's still unnerving.
  Harry: I never made it to the sixth grade, kid, and it doesn't look like you're gonna either.
• The Oh, Crap! moment when the now Sticky Bandits see Kevin again. When Harry greets Kevin with a very Faux Affably Evil "Hiya paaaal!", Kevin turns around and sees the two towering over him with giant Slasher Smiles.
  • And when he raises his hand towards Kevin, revealing the burn in the shape of the doorknob in the first movie.
• Keep in mind that based on some of the comments they made, Harry and Marv intended to kill Kevin from the moment they saw him in front of the toy store - and they probably had something more grisly in mind than just shooting him. Marv, for example, implies that they could drown him, and Harry mentions something about a subway tunnel.
• The Pigeon Lady standing and watching as her pigeons swarm Marv and Harry, especially when she laughs. There's also when Kevin is alone with the Pigeon Lady for the first time. His ankle gets caught in a branch and he is thrashing to free himself. Even though she ended up being Good All Along, you'd probably be terrified to see anyone covered in birds, not saying anything and appearing to advance on you, especially alone and at night. Plus, you can imagine what would have happened if Kevin had let his fear overcome him and he didn't have her assistance in freeing his ankle.
• The electric sink booby trap. Marv getting electrocuted and turning into a screaming skeleton for a few seconds was enough to scare the crap out of you.
• The cab driver. Especially that creepy shadowed face of his. Double points for showing his face directly into the camera.
  Kevin: It's scary out there!
  Cab driver: It ain't much better in here, kid.
• "Watch it, kid! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
  • Not to mention Kevin walking past a couple of hookers who come onto him. "Hey, lookin' for somebody to read you a bedtime story?"
• The first trailer for the movie includes a creepy CGI Statue of Liberty that suddenly screams the same way Kevin does in the first movie.
• Each and every one of the concierge's Slasher Smiles, especially the one when Kevin is trying to get away from Harry and Marv by heading to the hotel, and the camera lingers on his face for a few seconds.
  • It doesn't help that he's played by Tim Curry.
• What we see of Angels with Even Filthier Souls is not pretty, even if it's meant to be Played for Laughs. Johnny accuses Carlotta of cheating on him, yet there doesn't seem to be any evidence of such. He forces her to get on her knees and declare that she loves him, and when her show of forced affection doesn't entertain him, he murders her with his Tommy gun while Laughing Mad.

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