It would have done Tim Burton proud. It can be rather amusing in retrospect that Nightmare Land, where all nightmares come from, can be considered Nightmare Fuel. Or: A fictional world responsible for all nightmares in a fictional Earth is also responsible for nightmares in the real world.
- Nemo's nightmare of being pursued by a living homicidal steam train at the beginning most definitely is this in its rawest form. The thing just seems to have this Terminator like determination to run over and kill Nemo as slowly and painfully as possible.
- Eventually, the tracks it's chasing Nemo's flying bed on end at a lake and while the bed is able to float on the water like a speedboat the train submerges into the lake. Nemo sighs in relief, thinking he's safe at last, but then the train suddenly reemerges from the water like a shark and starts thrashing at the floating bed as if to say "You can't get rid of me that easily ya little shit!
- And it's all topped off with Nemo trying frantically to barricade the front door of his house against the force of the train and crying out to his mother for help...who is too preoccupied with baking her pies to notice the situation. The train finally breaks through, sending Nemo flying through the air...which thankfuly, wakes him up from the nightmare.
- The nighmarish essence that Nemo accidentally lets loose when it kidnaps King Morpheus. It most definitely will keep your kids up at night.
- After Nemo's first time experiencing a Catapult Nightmare, he finds the Royal Scepter and starts hearing the almost ghostly sound of King Morpheus's voice coming from somewhere in his house. Going downstairs to find it, he sees a glow coming from the kitchen, where the note stating "Remember your promise" regarding his sneaking pies in the middle of the night changes to the symbol of the key he was given before flooding the house with water. It's a particularly chilling scene and can be reminiscent of dreams that sometimes leave you feeling your own home isn't safe either.
- The batlike creatures that kidnap Nemo's friends and carry them off into the night as he is totally helpless to defend them. It certainly brings the flying monkeys from The Wizard of Oz to mind.
