Nightmare Fuel / The Incredible Hulk (2008)

• Blonsky's transformation in all its slow, gruesome glory. As his lust for power consumes him, he becomes much paler and starts sweating profusely, giving him an unhinged look. During one scene, his spine is also visibly deformed from the serum injections into his bone marrow.
  • His appearance as the Abomination isn't much better.
  • The exchange he shares with a fellow soldier shortly before the climax. What really sells it is the look he gives as he says it.
  Soldier: How you feeling?
  Blonsky: (grinning)Like a monster.
• Bruce hulking out in the factory, in a nightmarish sequence that rather fittingly feels as if it were ripped straight out of a monster movie.
  • Stand-out moment is Blonsky seeing the Hulk's face half obscured by shadow. The Hulk is often called a monster by other characters and shots like this help prove why they'd find him so frightening.
• The fight between Hulk and (enhanced human) Blonsky at Culver University. At one point, Blonsky keeps firing grenades at Hulk until the latter rips off pieces of metal to use as a shield. Blonsky fires another grenade, and Hulk blocks it...and gives Blonsky a nightmarish snarl, letting him (and us) know that he is well and truly pissed.
• Bruce's transformation in Sterns' lab. His skin distends and swells, and parts of his body grow unevenly. Bruce can be heard screaming in pain until the Hulk takes over, at which point he starts trying to break free of his restraints.
• Sterns makes an offhand reference to "test subjects" when discussing the cure's effects with Bruce and Betty. When Bruce questions him on it, Sterns takes them to another room, which contains rows and rows of blood bags synthesized from the initial sample of Bruce's irradiated blood. Sterns doesn't even seem to grasp the ethical implications of his actions, even as Bruce demands that they destroy all of it.
  • The novelization makes this even worse; rather than just engineering more of Bruce's blood, Sterns experimented on human fetuses. Bruce is horrified to discover this.
  "The room looked as if there had been an explosion in a baby factory. Oversized jars everywhere, everywhere, with floating human fetuses. Each of them looked different, but they were all equally monstrous... and they were all equally him."
• The Abomination's rampage in Harlem is very scary as well, and his challenge issued on Hulk before smashing an escaping Humvee with a cab.
  GIVE ME A REAL FIGHT!
• Stern's grin as exposure to the Hulk's blood begins to transform him into The Leader. It's not shown to completion, but there's enough for the audience to say, "This cannot be good."
• Bruce thought he was doing humanitarian work, researching radiation resistance. He was so convinced he was on the right track that he put himself in a chair in front of a fucking laser beam of gamma radiation... and it turned him into a monster. He wanted to save people, the army wanted a weapon. He ended up a refugee in Brazil, trying desperately never, ever to get angry. They got their weapon.

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