History NightmareFuel / Titanic1997

* the 1996 FramingDevice heavily featuring the actual real life wreck, gives an ever present sense of dread to the voyage that only increases the closer the plot gets to the night of the 14th, and with each and every hint and reminder that Titanic is in fact sailing off into tragedy.

** And it becomes flat-out hellish if you think about the time passage in these moments. People are splashing about in the ice cold water, trying hard to stay afloat and screaming at the top of their lungs for the lifeboats, which at this precise moment are quite far away. Survivor accounts state that the screaming lasted for about 20 minutes after the ship vanished into the Atlantic waters. After which, they slowly faded as people fell into unconsciousness and death due to hypothermia. If the screaming of their fellow passengers and crew in the water didn't haunt the nightmares of the survivors, [[NothingIsScarier the haunting silence from their deathly pale bodies did]].

* When the ''MIR'' submersibles make their pass over the officers' quarters, you can distinctly hear shouting from the ship's final moments, including First Officer Murdoch calling for women and children, and an eerie snippet of the band playing ''Nearer, My God to Thee''.

** Made even worse by the fact that Titanic's final message was interrupted by a fight breaking out between a fireman and the Marconi operators. Nothing more is heard from the ship. For the wireless operators listening in, this would have been like being next to someone whose afraid to die and pleading to be saved, only to die in mid-sentence.

** Made even worse when we cut to the lifeboat and Molly Brown pleads for them to go back and help, tearfully telling the women "it's your men out there!" We then pan over to Ruth, who's covering her ears in an attempt to block out the screams.

* The deleted scene in which Lovejoy hunts for Jack and Rose in the flooding dining saloon. There's no music as he slowly stalks through the room, only the increasingly loud metallic groans as ''Titanic'' sinks. Plus, he's a former PinkertonDetective, who were famous for using excessive force. He would have ''killed'' both of them had he been given the chance, and for the moment when he finds Rose right before Jack gets him, it looks like he will.

** The freezing, foamy sea water overflowing onto the boat deck, as the passengers and crew frantically try to escape before the water overwhelms everyone.

** The freezing, foamy sea water overflowing onto the boat deck as the passengers and crew frantically try to escape before the water overwhelms everyone.

** The speed of how fast the ''Titanic'' sinks during the final plunge. ''Titanic'' held on for about two hours, but once the water floods the boat deck, it only takes ten minutes for the largest moving man-made object in the world to sink. And every single nightmarish moment in that final plunge is haunting.