Nightmare Fuel / Walled In

• The opening scene with young Julie waking up to find she's been snatched from her bed (as indicated by the fact that she is barefoot in her nightdress), quite possibly in the middle of the night, and trapped inside a hollow column with no way out, no one knowing she's there or hearing her cries for help, then someone starts pumping cement into the column. The poor girl can only pound at the walls and scream for her father as the cement rises higher and higher until it is just inches from her mouth...then the screen fades to black.
  • It's bad enough no one would have been aware of what happened to Julie until it was too late, only that she went missing from her apartment.
  • Worse still, setting cement generates heat and expands slightly, so poor Julie would have been burned, crushed and drowned all at once. The only saving grace, if you can call it that, is that her eventual suffocation would have spared her from the prolonged agony of the cement taking many hours or even days to fully harden.
    • Later in the movie, Jimmy shows Sam the now hollowed-out column where Julie was found. Now imagine how horrified everyone who was on the scene would have been when her corpse was discovered!
  • Since there were 15 other victims, including Julie's father, who's to say there weren't other child victims if not a whole family?
  • One victim (implied to be Malestrazza but later revealed to be Thomas Sullivan) is said to have had their face ripped off by the cement.
  • Such a Death Trap scenario becomes even worse if you're afraid of drowning, enclosed spaces or just plain being buried alive.
• After Julie's demise, there's the title sequence which includes an imprint of one of the other victims' faces in the cement after their corpse was removed and a blurred shot of another victim's corpse about to be covered up.
• The initial suspect Thomas Sullivan is said to have a history of violence and a prior rape conviction.
• Malestrazza's face etched on the wall where he is believed to have suffered the same fate as his victims.
• Sam nearly drowning in the bath.
• Sam's Catapult Nightmare in which something pounds at her apartment wall, causing the mirror to shake. Sam goes to investigate and takes the mirror down, revealing a small hole from which blood starts seeping out. Sam looks away for a moment only for a pair of arms to extend out of the wall and try to pull her in. We're then treated to a repeat of the opening scene with Sam in place of Julie and because it's a Nightmare Sequence, we actually get to hear Sam screaming at the top of her lungs and her eyes almost withdrawing into her skull as the cement reaches her neck. Is it really any wonder that such a nightmare shakes Sam up so much that she is unable to get back to sleep?
• The murder of Peter, you can actually see blood spilling out from his body and all over Sam as he keels over.
• The promotional posters for the movie:
  • One depicts Sam about to be buried alive in cement.
  • Others depict arms coming out of a wall and pulling Sam in.
  • One poster depicts Sam partially immured in a cracked wall.
  • Another depicts a statue (possibly meant to represent Sam) with head in hands and empty eyes and surrounded by darkness.
  • Another depicts a wall with a great, gaping hole in it, implying it was smashed open.
• The twisted version of One, two, buckle my shoe that describes the fate of Malestrazza's victims:
  • One, two
  • He's coming for you
  • Three, four,
  • cement will pour...
  • Five, six,
  • it fills up quick
  • Seven, eight
  • You're too late...
  • Nine, ten
  • He'll wall you in.
    • Since it's a girl's voice reciting said rhyme, it's either Julie or possibly another child victim of Malestrazza.
• Burnett coming at Sam with an axe.
• Jimmy's dog ends up beheaded.