History NightmareFuel / SilentHillDownpour

** Come to think of it, Dolls are definitely the worst monster Murphy has to face. Even ignoring the fact that they're FlunkyBoss, that they're [[DemonicDummies evil mannequins]], that their Shadows are nigh-invisible speed demons... it's that the Dolls ''are actual dummies''. As in, '''[[NothingIsScarier they don't do anything other than laugh at you and summon shadows]]'''. At least, not while you're looking at them...

* The Wall Corpse, a mangled torso crucified to a metal halo that attacks by [[{{Squick}} squirting viscous jets of blood and other bodily fluids at you]]. Even worse, every single one spawned is designed to prolong your suffering when escaping the Otherworld. One badly-timed move though, and you could be knocked on your back, ''directly in front of The Void'', '''and it's impossible to escape in time before you're ripped apart.'''

** [[SchmuckBait Look closer at the miner that fell]]. It didn't fall over like a statue that was pushed... ''it fell like a human who'd been shot.'' Statues don't change positions for any reason... '''what if these 'things' are alive all along?'''
** Then the train part itself: During the ride, you stop right by an 'exhibit' of miners, all standing in various positions. Suddenly the lights go off...then when they come back up in a brief flash, the miners ''aren't in the same positions they were before''. And they moved ''closer to YOU''. The lighting repeats this off and brief flash pattern, and each time, the miners ''keep getting closer, until they're inside the train itself''. Then the lights go back on permanently, and they're '''right back where they were at the start'''. Unnerving doesn't begin to cover that.

* Anytime the Void manages to get a pretty good grip on Murphy. Time slows down, matter and reality itself warp, and Murphy's painful horrified screams echo through the distortions. It's a sentient ''black hole chasing after you!'' Even when you know the paths, it's impossible to avoid contact with it. And the only reason you actually get away from it? Because the town ''lets you get away''.

** Come to think of it, Dolls are definitely the worst monster Murphy has to face. Even ignoring the fact that they're FlunkyBoss, that they're [[DemonicDummies evil mannequins]], that their Shadows are [[InvisibleMan nigh-invisible]] speed demons... it's that the Dolls ''are actual dummies''. As in, '''[[NothingIsScarier they don't do anything other than laugh at you and summon shadows]]'''. At least, not while you're looking at them...

* Anytime the Void manages to get a pretty good grip on Murphy. Time slows down, matter and reality itself warp, and Murphy's painful horrified screams echo through the distortions. It's a sentient ''black hole chasing after you!'' Even when you know the paths, it's impossible to avoid contact with it. And the only reason you actually get away from it? Because the town is ''letting you get away''.

%%* "Did you enjoy the ride, Murphy?" Monocle Man's face ''in general''.

* The Diner has an odd sound repeating every once and a while. It's part of the soundtrack, but doesn't show up anywhere else, and sounds like ''something'' is there with you, but nothing is. Also, if you wander around the basement, soon, it'll sound like something just closed the door, and the camera even focuses on it, but you know what? ''It was nothing.''

* The 'Ribbons' sidequest, that one was messed up. You find a missing poster of an 8-year old girl who disappeared while walking home from school. The girl was autistic so in order to help guide her through town, her mother placed several ribbons of three different colors to tell her which way to go and which way to not go. So Murphy follows these ribbons around time according to how the girl would have followed them, only for the trail to end at the pier with only a key on the ground and no little girl in sight. The key is for an apartment, and if Murphy were to go there he'll find a note written by the mother. It turns out that she was fed up with her life and unwilling to continue taking care of her autistic daughter, so she purposely placed the ribbons around town so her daughter would follow it to the pier and then drown when she fell over.
** For this troper, the apartment where you find the confession by the mother is creepy, disturbing or both. Not just the note itself, but the room that you find it in. The place is almost dead quiet, but there are little noises even if you stand still, shifting sounds within the building. You never run into a monster in that location, but this troper had a feeling of dread throughout.

* For this troper, the apartment where you find the confession by the mother of her plan to kill her daughter is creepy. Not just the note itself, but the room that you find it in. The place is dead quiet, but there are little noises even if you stand still. You never run into a monster in that location, but this troper had a feeling of dread throughout his time there.

* The first official introduction of the Bogeyman. Despite having a silly name and resembling the offspring of [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis Nemesis]] and [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 HUNK]], he lifts a young boy into the air, and, as he gasps for breath, ''snaps the child's neck'' in front of Murphy. The fact that he is implied to be a memory of Murphy's son Charlie doesn't help. InfantImmortality? What's that?

* The prelude to the PostFinalBoss. Anne had been showing signs of instability all throughout the game, but here its made clear she has well and truly ''snapped''. It gets worse; at first it's just Murphy facing Anne, trying to reason with her. The camera turns on her as she rants, making it clear exactly how she thinks of him, then it turns back to the angle focusing on Murphy... ''[[WhamShot except we see The Bogeyman, speaking in Murphy's voice]]''. Just when you wonder what the fuck happened, it slowly dawns on you; this creature didn't suddenly show up and shove Murphy out of the way while you weren't looking, or killed him; in Anne's eyes, [[RuleOfSymbolism he IS the Bogeyman.]] But not just appearance-wise, oh no - the next playable sequence shows that the town [[HolyShitQuotient literally TURNED MURPHY INTO THE BOGEYMAN,]] complete with instinctive rampaging on Anne.

* "Did you enjoy the ride, Murphy?"
** Monocle Man's face ''in general''.
* Anytime the Void manages to get a pretty good grip on Murphy. Time slows down, matter and reality itself warp, and Murphy's painful horrified screams echo through the distortions.
** Actually, the Void in general. It's a sentient ''black hole chasing after you!'' Even when you know the paths, it's impossible to avoid contact with it. And the only reason you actually get away from it? Because the town is ''letting you get away''.
* Say you're walking along normally through a creepy environment, only thinking of how to solve the next puzzle...then suddenly, a Weeping Bat drops ''right in front of you'', '''from the ceiling'''.
** The Weeping Bats are plenty creepy on their own by virtue of being in ''earshot'', but not always in ''sight''. You can hear their gurgling growls and even their scurrying on ceilings, but good luck trying to see them until they decide to make themselves visible, and when they do, it almost always causes damage.

** Another creepy thing can be seen using the binoculars, specifically the ones on the level below after fighting the pair of Screamers. Looking at the lower deck [[spoiler:where JP later commits suicide reveals the Wheelman, who rolls along, ''stares directly at Murphy for several seconds'', and then vanishes.]]
** In addition, viewing the lower deck using the binoculars on the upper level will reveal [[spoiler:a hanged corpse]] that can't be seen any other time. This also acts as {{Foreshadowing}}.
* The introduction of the Doll enemy. You enter a pitch-black basement, and in the distance, behind a barred door, you hear someone sobbing hysterically. So eventually you get the door open...[[spoiler:and the sobbing turns into an evil cackle]].
** What's worse, in that house, it's dark, but there are still sources of light. The door is barred, and you have to cut the power plunging the house into full darkness. Walk through the door that's now unlocked, and grab a health pack, when suddenly, [[spoiler: you're attacked by an invisible, invincible, extremely strong shadow out of nowhere!]].
** Come to think of it, Dolls are definitely the worst monster Murphy has to face. Even ignoring the fact that they're [[FlunkyBoss Flunky]] [[BossInMookClothing Bosses In Mook Clothing]], that they're [[DemonicDummies evil mannequins]], that their Shadows are [[InvisibleMan nigh-invisible]] speed demons... it's that the Dolls ''are actual dummies''. As in, '''[[NothingIsScarier they don't do anything other than laugh at you and summon shadows]]'''. At least, not while you're looking at them...
* In the Centennial Building, a chilling "Sequestered does not equal safe" shows up on the wall under UV light in the City Manager's room, next to a corpse where you have to get a Director's ID card for extra room access.
** If you equip the UV-light you'll see that the room is absolutely ''littered'' with the footprints of the invisible creature that's been stalking you since you entered the building. The same creature that dropped an entire walkway on your head not moments before, [[ForTheEvulz just for giggles]]. [[ParanoiaFuel And now we learn it's capable of murder]].
* The Wall Corpse, a mangled torso crucified to a metal halo that attacks by [[{{Squick}} squirting viscous jets of blood and other bodily fluids at you]].
** Even worse, every single one spawned is designed to prolong your suffering when escaping the Otherworld. One badly-timed move though, and you could be knocked on your back, ''directly in front of The Void'', '''and it's impossible to escape in time before you're ripped apart.'''

* If you [[SchmuckBait peek through a hole in a brick wall]] in the Centennial Building garage, [[spoiler:you'll get a [[ShadowDiscretionShot violent flash]] of the Bogeyman brutally bludgeoning some pleading sap (heavily implied to be Napier) to death.]].
** Gets a reprise in the Monastery. [[spoiler:This time you get to pull the axe out of the still-warm corpse]]. [[SarcasmMode Yay]]. Then at least [[FlunkyBoss three Dolls]] appear out of nowhere as soon as you do...

* The X-ray puzzle in the Orphanage. You have to reach into the stomach of an apparently dead Screamer to search for a key. [[spoiler:The monster is indeed still alive and very much not pleased about this, in case you were wondering]]. And for that extra bit of fun you have to ''manually'' guide Murphy's hand through its bowels.
* The game indulges in a lovely bit of FridgeHorror; in the mirror sidequest you're made to play a game of Spot the Difference, adjusting the room so it matches its counterpart inside of the mirror. Should you get anything wrong, however, a monster only visible in the mirror will spawn. While normally one would just finish such a task and be on your merry way, when you solve this one you'll acquire a therapist's notes on the apartment's former occupant. She had been driven utterly mad by the fact that if she failed to perform the same ritual of rearranging the room every day, "'''[[YouHaveToBelieveMe the people in the mirror will cause her physical harm]]'''".
** Should you complete the sidequest without causing the monster to attack, just have a look to the left of the door you entered from. [[spoiler:The silhouette of a hanging woman can be seen. [[DrivenToSuicide Apparently the poor occupant couldn't take it any more]]...]]
* An early event in the prison level can pretty much be summed up as "Press this big glowing red button for '''[[spoiler:the ''mother'' of all [[JumpScare jump scares]]!"]]'''
** Probably the [[JumpScare jump scares]] in general: most of them come out of '''NOWHERE''', and are erratically placed throughout the game, screwing with your expectations of when you think they'll appear. And even worse? Some can '''kill you if you don't react fast enough.'''
** Special mention goes to the giggling unseen assailant in the Centennial building, dropping boxes and [[spoiler:entire floors]] on you.

* The hanged body in the Monastery playground. The worst part is is that it [[spoiler:changes from being a corpse to a tire swing]] whenever Murphy looks away, upping the ParanoiaFuel levels for the unwary players that think they just saw something change. Another hanged body can be found at Devil's Pit, using the binoculars to look below the lower deck. It just seems so out of place, until you realize it's probably hinting at [[spoiler:JP's suicide on that very level.]]

* The Hillside Apartments. One of the darkest, creepiest, most ambient areas in the entire game. [[spoiler:Ironically, there are no enemies there.]]
* A few of the sidequests, mostly due to the sheer random levels of BodyHorror and general NightmareFuel. Some gems include reuniting a man with his still-beating heart that has been ''ripped out of his chest'' that is found in a sewer, and summons hordes of howling monsters to pursue you through the maze-like area after it is picked up; attempting to put the spirits of a dead woman and her children to rest while avoiding the axe-wielding, enraged spirit of the husband, who murdered his family; entering a creepy, abandoned movie theater; and entering three horror films, which correspond to the events of [[spoiler:Charlie's kidnapping, molestation and murder.]]
** The telltale beating heart sidequest. It's bad enough that you're in a sewer level looking for a human heart, but [[spoiler: the fact that you have to listen to the [[HeartbeatSoundtrack SPEED and VOLUME of the heartbeat]] to figure out where it is, and the moment that you pick up the heart]] all hell breaks loose.
*** And your reward for the whole ordeal? [[spoiler:[[{{Troll}} One health pack.]]]]

* Shortly after leaving Devil's Pit and before moving towards Silent Hill, the large covered walkway Murphy is on is shake violently as ''something'' large and monstrous moves around the area, making grotesque animal sounds. [[spoiler:Nowhere in the game is anything fitting this description ever fought.]]
* The first official introduction of the Bogeyman. Despite having a silly name and resembling the offspring of [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis Nemesis]] and [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 HUNK]], he [[spoiler:lifts a young boy into the air, and, as he gasps for breath, ''snaps the child's neck'' in front of Murphy. The fact that he is implied to be a memory of Murphy's son Charlie doesn't help. InfantImmortality? What's that?]]
* The Wheelman, full stop. While his appearance in the [[spoiler:final boss fight]] can be underwhelming, his earlier appearances from afar definitely give him an aura of mystery and fear. He is first seen watching Murphy from a window of the Devil's Pitstop motel when he is talking to Blackwood, can be seen briefly at Devil's Pit using the binoculars, is seen moving through a newly unlocked gate on time-lapsed, grainy security camera footage in the Centennial Building parking lot, is seen watching Murphy as he rides in a cage/elevator in the Centennial Building Otherworld and finally, [[spoiler:watches Murphy through the bars of his cells as he awakens in the Overlook Penitentiary building.]]
** Gets worse if you search everywhere with the UV flashlight: in some places, there are ''wheelchair skid-marks''. ''Meaning he's always one step ahead of you, no matter what you do...''
* Thanks to the more advanced graphics, the Otherworld transtitions may count now. In previous games, you either were suddenly in the Otherworld after a pitch-black shift, or you see the area around you rust/blood over, but either way, ''you never saw much of the [[RealityWarper shift]] from 'normal' world to AlienGeometry type''... but here, you see the world around you outright '''dissolve or outright melt away, like it never existed'''.
** And who knows? Maybe the foggy town you wander into is just a fake... Silent Hill already twists its monsters to each individual, ''why not the entire town as well''?
* The 'Ribbons' sidequest, that one was messed up.
** To elaborate, you find a missing poster of an 8-year old girl who disappeared while walking home from school. The girl was autistic so in order to help guide her through town, her mother placed several ribbons of three different colors to tell her which way to go and which way to not go. So Murphy follows these ribbons around time according to how the girl would have followed them, only for the trail to end at the pier with only a key on the ground and no little girl in sight. The key is for an apartment, and if Murphy were to go there he'll find a note written by the mother. [[spoiler:It turns out that she was fed up with her life and unwilling to continue taking care of her autistic daughter, so she purposely placed the ribbons around town so her daughter would follow it to the pier and then drown when she fell over.]] Also could count as a TearJerker.
* The Diner has an odd sound repeating every once and a while. It's part of the soundtrack, but doesn't show up anywhere else, and sounds like ''something'' is there with you, but [[spoiler: nothing is]]. Also, if you wander around the basement, soon, it'll sound like something just closed the door, and the camera even focuses on it, but you know what? ''[[spoiler: It was nothing.]]''
* The Centennial Building parking garage has a part where Murphy must drain a room of water. He goes down there and finds a security guard, brutally murdered with a ''wheelchair'' next to him. You grab his ID Card, and suddenly, the room starts to fill back up with water. Murphy makes it out and finds the entire garage has become positively ''filled'' with [[GoddamnBats Weeping Bats]], who have murdered a police dog and have torn everything up. They appeared in the span of ''30 seconds'' at least, and no explanation is given for why the water filled back up, or where the Bats came from.
** When Murphy uses the ID card to open the elevator, you can see The Wheelman on the security monitor, wheeling away. At one point, it looks like he ''glances up at the camera for a bit''. He knows.
* The third floor of the Centennial Building first has Murphy balancing on some precariously-placed beams stretching over missing sections of floor, while that cackling, semi-invisible creature that's been stalking him runs around beneath. Also, ''multiple'' Dolls can be heard laughing and moaning ''somewhere'' nearby (in fact, [[spoiler:they ambush Murphy as soon as he dismounts the last balance beam]] and the floor is ''infested'' with them).
* Deciding to examine the vehicles in the Centennial Building garage rewards the player with some glorious [[JumpScare jump scares]]. Examining the back seat of the police car results in [[spoiler:a police dog leaping up at the windows and barking]]. The worst one, however, happens if you examine the back of the van (which, upon approaching, causes the walkie-talkie to emit static). [[spoiler:Murphy slowly opens the doors... and finds nothing but bloodstains. After a long, deathly silence, a Screamer suddenly launches itself out of the shadows and latches onto his back.]]
** Added ParanoiaFuel when you realise it's the same creepy white van that's in the background of every silent hill game. That Van that blocks Heather in the mall back alley in ''VideoGame/SilentHill3''? Same. Freaking. Van.
* The prelude to the [[spoiler:PostFinalBoss. Anne had been showing signs of instability all throughout the game, but here its made clear she has well and truly ''snapped''.]]
** It gets worse; at first it's just [[spoiler:Murphy facing Anne, trying to reason with her. The camera turns on her as she rants, making it clear exactly how she thinks of him, then it turns back to the angle focusing on Murphy... ''[[WhamShot except we see The Bogeyman, speaking in Murphy's voice]]''. Just when you wonder what the fuck happened, it slowly dawns on you; this creature didn't suddenly show up and shove Murphy out of the way while you weren't looking, or killed him; in Anne's eyes, [[RuleOfSymbolism he IS the Bogeyman.]] But not just appearance-wise, oh no - the next playable sequence shows that the town [[HolyShitQuotient literally TURNED MURPHY INTO THE BOGEYMAN,]] complete with instinctive rampaging on Anne.]]
* While the "Execution" ending can seem quite disconnected from the overall narrative, it still has some very potent nightmare fuel in the form of... [[spoiler:Murphy himself, who's revealed to be a complete psychopath who murdered not only Frank Coleridge, but also ''his own son Charlie'', purely to spite his wife and prevent her from getting custody. He shows no trace of either remorse for his actions or fear regarding his impending execution, and only speaks to toss out some defiant last words towards Sewell. In a game full of monsters, both human and otherwise, the protagonist can be revealed as the most cold-blooded and evil of them all.]]
* The Monastery has a pretty chilling series of letters/journal entries you can find laying around following the time one boy spends there. It turns out his parents admitted him, and his physician either doesn't seem aware of or just doesn't care that the boy is obviously autistic (as the symptoms described in her notes and letters make perfectly clear) - he writes to his parents at one point, begging them to let him come home because the people there are mean and the medicine they give him hurts his stomach (and can be heard crying at one point), and one of the staff posts a notice that any and all incoming or outgoing correspondence to and from the boy is to be brought to her first for review, with no exceptions. The physician subjects the boy to various harmful medicines and treatments in an effort to "cure" him (including electroshock therapy), ultimately deciding that the treatments can do nothing to help him, and schedules to have the boy lobotomized. [[spoiler: One of the letters you can find has her subsequently writing the parents to inform them that their son died during "routine" surgery, and a reminder to them that they authorized these procedures when they brought him in.]]

** Added ParanoiaFuel when you realise it's the same creepy white van that's in the background of every silent hill game. That Van that blocks Heather in the mall back alley in SilentHill3? Same. Freaking. Van.

* [[spoiler:The prelude to the PostFinalBoss. Anne had been showing signs of instability all throughout the game, but here its made clear she has well and truly ''snapped''.]]
** [[spoiler: It gets worse; at first it's just Murphy facing Anne, trying to reason with her. The camera turns on her as she rants, making it clear exactly how she thinks of him, then it turns back to the angle focusing on Murphy... ''[[WhamShot except we see The Bogeyman, speaking in Murphy's voice]]''. Just when you wonder what the fuck happened, it slowly dawns on you; this creature didn't suddenly show up and shove Murphy out of the way while you weren't looking, or killed him; in Anne's eyes, [[RuleOfSymbolism he IS the Bogeyman.]] But not just appearance-wise, oh no - the next playable sequence shows that the town [[HolyShitQuotient literally TURNED MURPHY INTO THE BOGEYMAN,]] complete with instinctive rampaging on Anne.]]
* [[spoiler: While the "Execution" ending can seem quite disconnected from the overall narrative, it still has some very potent nightmare fuel in the form of...Murphy himself, who's revealed to be a complete psychopath who murdered not only Frank Coleridge, but also ''his own son Charlie'', purely to spite his wife and prevent her from getting custody. He shows no trace of either remorse for his actions or fear regarding his impending execution, and only speaks to toss out some defiant last words towards Sewell. In a game full of monsters, both human and otherwise, the protagonist can be revealed as the most cold-blooded and evil of them all.]]

** Gets a reprise in the Monastery. [[spoiler:This time you get to pull the axe out of the still-warm corpse]]. [[SarcasmMode Yay]].

** Actually, the Void in general. ''It's a sentient'' '''BLACK HOLE''' ''chasing after you!'' Even when you know the paths, it's impossible to avoid contact with it. And the only reason you actually get away from it? Because the town is '''letting you get away'''.

** [[SchmuckBait Look closer at the miner that fell]]. It didn't fall over like a statue that was pushed... ''it fell like a human who'd been shot. Statues don't change positions for any reason...'' '''what if these 'things' have been alive all along?'''
** Then the train part itself: During the ride, you stop right by an 'exhibit' of miners, all standing in various positions. Suddenly the lights go off...then when they come back up in a brief flash, the miners ''aren't in the same positions they were before''. And they moved '''closer to YOU'''. The lighting repeats this off and brief flash pattern, and each time, the miners ''keep getting closer, until they're inside the train itself''. Then the lights go back on permanently, and they're '''right back where they were at the start'''. Unnerving doesn't begin to cover that.

* The X-ray puzzle in the Orphanage. You have to reach into the stomach of an apparantly dead Screamer to search for a key. [[spoiler:The monster is indeed still alive and very much not pleased about this, in case you were wondering]]. And for that extra bit of fun you have to ''manually'' guide Murphy's hand through its bowels.

** Gets worse if you search everywhere with the UV flashlight: in some places, there are ''wheelchair skid-marks''. '''Meaning he's always one step ahead of you, no matter what you do...'''
* Thanks to the more advanced graphics, the Otherworld transtitions may count now. In previous games, you either were suddenly in the Otherworld after a pitch-black shift, or you see the area around you rust/blood over, but either way, ''you never saw much of the [[RealityWarper shift]] from 'normal' world to AlienGeometry type''... but here, you see the world around you '''dissolve or outright melt away, like it never existed'''.