Nightmare Fuel / Lion

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• When Saroo and the other children in the subway are chased by kidnappers with ill intentions. And the fact a Dirty Cop knows what's going on and doesn't help the children. At all.
• Noor, full stop. She pretends to be a friendly woman when she takes in Saroo and promises her friend Rama will help. However, it becomes clear that Rama is a child seller. The scary part comes from how this situation occurs in real life — someone pretends to be your friend so they can use you for their selfish purposes.
• Upon seeing Saroo ending up at the orphanage, you see all those caged children shouting, akin to prisoners eager to give a brutal initiation to newcomers.
• Shondeep, a boy from the orphanage Saroo is sent to, is woken up at night by one of the workers. He is then given to an unidentified man with the worker explaining to "bring him back before morning".
  • When you think of how Mantosh has the same self-hurting behavior as Shondeep, you start to wonder if he too was taken away in the middle of the night.
• There's the fact that Saroo learned that his brother, Guddu, was dead from that very night they were separated. So, if nothing else happened, Saroo would have been stranded at that train station with absolutely no idea of how to get home and since he was too young to properly pronounce his name or hometown, no one would have had any idea where he lived. Thus, as arduous as his experiences were beginning being trapped on that decommissioned train going across India, that was actually an extraordinary stroke of luck ultimately giving him a happy life eventually.