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Nightmare Fuel: Web Original
The internet has been responsible for bringing the world a visual medium where there is, for the most part, little to no censorship on any matter, including decency and taste.
This does, as you imagine, have some drawbacks.
NOTE:Weblinks Are Not Examples.Tropers are naturally curious, and having them stumble into links which scar them for life is not to everyone's tastes. Merely adding a link without a description is not enough for an example. Remember, even a description of what's behind the link is still scary on its own.
The game Vorago, though made with intent to scare, had some parts with over-the-top nightmareish-ness. Watch the walkthroughs here, here, here, and finally here. The part after the protagonist's husband gets stung by the monsters is especially scare-worthy.
Closure. This flash game is just plain freakin' unsettling. Especially when you start figuring out what it's about. It's a fun game in spite of it though, with a great gameplay mechanic.
Covetous, a retraux Flash game found on Newgrounds (contains flashing lights). You start off as a single pixel, collecting other pixels in a level shaped like a man's body. As you collect more and more pixels and as the atonal background "music" drones on and on, your pixel-blob and the items it must collect grow and grow as your character slowly transforms into a parasitic twin, the man's face growing progressively less cheerful all the while. The between-round intermission texts become progressively more psychotic and demented; eventually even the music (such as it was) vanishes, replaced by a series of loud beeps. In the final level, you are instructed to mash the left and right arrow keys to help what is now a miniature Eldritch Abomination tear its host open from the inside and unleash itself upon the world. But you can also choose to let the man live; by waiting around on the final stage for long enough, the fetus-in-fetu realizes that two wrongs don't make a right and reduces itself to a quiet existence as a benign tumor.
Die Anstalt: Psychiatry for Mishandled Plush Toys. Everything that made Toy Story worthy of an entry on the Nightmare Fuel pages, but with severe mental disturbances. Take Dolly: After thatBody Horror and Mushroom Samba, as well as the expression on the wolf, you will never look at reversible stuffed toys the same way again. And failing to help is even worse, because if you can't rescue everyone in one try (no second chance), it leads to Offscreen Inertia.
Hotel 626. Start off with the fact that it's only possible to play it between 6pm and 6am. When you can play the game, it's basically you playing a guest trying to escape an incredibly freaky hotel which is full of dark and demonic forces. Among other things, you must play a music box to keep a scary baby asleep, figure out how to escape from a room which you are locked in with a mad man (after three tries, he unties himself, turns out the light, and game over), and get dragged down the hall by evil spirits. And when you do finally escape, you get a cool down moment where the guest sits in his car and starts to pull out of the driveway while calming music plays. Before looking in the rearview mirror and seeing a corpse-like creature in the back seat.
There is now the wonderful game Asylum 626! As with the hotel, it's only playable from 6pm to 6am and is more of a barely interactive short movie than a game. You do, however, have to make a decision on who to kill at the end. Fun Fun!
Get Lost allows you to explore the "unsafe and most assuredly haunted grounds" right away. The place is largely harmless, however...with the exception of one room, which contains an old woman's corpse in a chair and a portrait of a child nestled in the corner. Clicking on the corpse itself does nothing. However, if you click the portrait, the screen goes black, a close-up of the corpse appears for a split second, and you die. But it's never explained how or why you die, which somehow makes it ten times worse.
The Minoto Series is a bunch of cute point-and-click adventure games which are about as far from scary as you can get...until Present of Santa 2. Go two screens right from the start and you come to a scene with a locker. Open the locker, and you're treated to a huge, writhing orange thing with bulging eyes, a gaping mouth and vestigial limbs constantly wiggling. It's actually just the Sun Boy from previous games who's gotten ridiculously fat and wedged inside the locker, but some of the Escape Games 24 players have gotten a nasty shock from it.
Screamers, innocuous-looking websites that lull a casual viewer into a false sense of security by offering a game or some other activity which requires their concentration and then, Bam! Instant picture of a possessed Linda Blair with loud accompanying train whistle. The internet equivalent of sneaking up behind someone with a scary mask and tapping them on the shoulder.
An example of this is "Find the ghost of Elvis in this picture", in which you have to try and spot the ghost of deceased rock icon Elvis Presley, his beautiful singing voice echoing in the background while you look around for him...and then all of a sudden, this monstrous ghoul thing appears on screen.
Spencer: Okay, you may not believe this, but my robot can actually cry. Here, look into its eyes.
(camera moves in closer)
Spencer: Now just keep looking. You'll see the tears in about 15 seconds.
(About 5 seconds later...)
Spencer: RAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Heh... sorry if that scared you, but that's kind of the point.
Even Lego gets in on the act - on the Bionicle Piraka website, an innocuous join-the-dots routine flashes and roars when you get to the eleventh dot.
Curse of the Red Ninja is something of a spiritual successor to Get Lost, and is largely just an adventure game with an element of surreal humor. Just don't go into the dark forest and disturb the nest of sinister-looking birds, because a "protective Tengu mother" will appear right the hell out of nowhere and put a sudden and definitive end to both your fun and your ability to sleep.
Colour My Dreams is full of this. From shadowy demons who suddenly leap offscreen to taunting messages written in blood, it's quite the departure from the previous games. The ending is worth the fear, though.
Some people find the Submachine series disturbing because of the emptiness of the places you explore and the eerie soundtrack, and/or for the sense of being watched and not knowing who to trust. You find evidence that other people have been there before you, including notes left for you, but so far you only really have two-way communication with Murtaugh, and not very often at all... and he is far from trustworthy. Also, while many of the locations look like they've been abandoned for a very long time, some places look as though people were there recently and had to leave in a hurry — and every now and then you'll go someplace you've been before that has apparently been visited in your absence by someone or something who likes to break things.
"Report #173" at location 399 deals with the recurring themes of memory loss and disorientation, and suggests that the Submachine itself could be causing people to lose their memories, confusing and trapping them, and "harnessing their biomatter".
Location 712. The combination of the gun camera stills and the sounds — a faint, steady electronic tone, interrupted by quick bursts of hard-to-make-out human voices, beeping, and static — is very unsettling. Most of the soundtracks and background noises for the entire series are creepy, but this one in particular stands out.
Interactive
Maid of Horror, a small (barely) interactive movie in the Neurotically Yours series. It starts out promising enough as goth chick Germain, decked out in a maid's uniform, starts giving you head, then goes straight into HONF territory when she practically eats your dick. Obviously, NSFW.
"Don't Take This Lolipop":Basically you click on the lolipop and allow the app like you you usually do with apps on Facebook. You then see a man on what looks like an old 90's computer scrolling through YOUR facebook page. Then he looks up your location on google maps. Eek!
This gem Play With Me. Muto is surreal with tons of body-shock horror; this is a moving child's doll, deep in the Uncanny Valley, with interactive body-shock horror. You just click on an object from the doll's house and the doll picks it up and plays with it. Whatever you choose, you're in for a horrific time.
There's an interactive web animation about how chocolate bunnies are made and you're given the choice of something to throw at the poor helpless bunny. When you click on said item something brutal happens to the poor bunny (he even screams in agony) and knocks him out- he is then dipped into a vat of chocolate and comes out as a chocolate bunny. Also the Hamster in the Microwave as well as many other Joe Cartoon ones.
Although the hamster's snarky remarks and exaggerated southern accent somehow softened the blow.
''The Hospital'' is a game in which you visit interactive photgraphs of an "abandoned hospital". Make sure your sound is turned on and that you wait a few moments in each room before exiting because almost everything starts up after at least 30 seconds of looking around and clicking has passed and don't be shy to mouseover and click anything of interest because some of the scenes actually are interactive.
The 99 rooms is an online gallery featuring the extremely creepy art of Berlin artist Kim Köster displayed in the rooms of a broken down, decaying factory. Clicking on the pictures will cause them to move, and a couple of the rooms contain "jump scares" that will make you hit the ceiling. Not something to be viewed alone in a darkened room at night.
Watch and keep clicking "Next". It starts with a funny little animation of someone removing their flash drive before the computer say it's safe. Then it gets corrupted. Then the world gets corrupted.
Memes
Screamers. Yeah, most are pretty harmless and simple (like the Scary Maze Game). Then you stumble across one that's a mix of gorn, mind rape and horror. This Troper was absolutely traumatized, to the point that she won't watch a video if she even suspects it'll be a screamer. Trust me, there are signs.
It's worse if you come across one randomly on Youtube in the related videos section. If you're looking through the related for Fenton the dog or even 'try to watch this without laughing!'.
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For those who are looking for actual information, Zaldgo is and was a meme based around a fictional Eldritch Abomination representing decay and chaos through the use of The Missing No-esque scrambled images and garbage characters similar to the above. The creepy thing about Zalgo mythology is that it does exist simply because people act like it exists. The moment you mention it's name, it appears, in the form of everyone around you saying his words in his voice. Every time he is mentioned. He can't do anything to you if you don't want him to. He exists because you want him to exist. And there's nothing you can do about it.
The other creepy thing is that Zalgo's influence on people is generally rendered as Eye Scream, usually in the form of blood or some other discharge from the eyes.
The Shadowlurker, a.k.a Horrifying House Guest, Never Alone or Uninvited Guest, a being that could best be described as a mix between Trollface and Kayako from Ju On / The Grudge.
Everybody knows of Suiseiseki because of 'DESU DESU DESU', yes? Well, another Suiseiseki-based meme has been unleashed onto the internet — the super-deformed (emphasis on the deformed) Jissouseki, which was introduced onto 2ch to much revulsion... until the frequenters started drawing fanart of the little things crapping on themselves and getting tortured in the most horrific ways possible. It's enough to make your skin crawl. DO NOT google it if you've got an extremely weak stomach.
Related to this phenomenon are the yukkuris — blobby, deformed heads of Touhou characters that implore you to "TAKE IT EASY!" Unfortunately, for every cute yukkuri fanart on the internet, there's always one where the poor things are tortured and killed, among other atrocities. This is partly justified by the fact that Fanon has declared that they're filled with bean paste and not blood, but still...
Still? The bean paste gives people all the more incentive to chalk up fanart and fanfics of them being subject to all kinds of monstrosities. Most of the fics on the Yukkuri Wiki (i.e. "This Yukkuri") involve yukkuri cruelty. I can't take it easy!
Since depictions of yukkuris are completely Depending on the Writer / Depending on the Artist, a great many abuse fans tend to see them as Always Chaotic Evil little pests so as to flimsily justify the torture and murder inflicted upon them. 'course, that excuse falls flat since portrayals are Depending On The Person, thus yukkuris don't necessarily have to be pests.
Yukkuri abuse? Pah, that's nothing. For real horror I give you the comic Make Babies Easy (NSFW), which shows what happens when a Reimu that wants children shacks up with a Marisa that doesn't. (Answer: utter bugfuck insanity.)
And, of course, there's always Candle Jack. Hell, just writing his name for this page freaked me o
Music/Remixes
The music from Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction. All of it. The way it was transformed from twangy, humorous, and somewhat novelty-ish in Blood Gulch Chronicles to being a legitimate dramatic tool in Reconstruction is nothing short of amazing.
The download of the song has the Turret speak much sooner after GLaDOS says "goodbye," so the creepiness of it is lessened a little. Not by much, though.
"Please proceed to android hell." Cue Rage Sphere.
"The Smote's Lullaby" is a fan-song for Hedone High. Just... Just the little kid weeping at the end... Damn.
This song parody by someone named after a line from Michael Jackson's song "Smooth Criminal" is a nightmarish attempt at a song about Tonight Show host Jay Leno- the song coming off as more of an Alice Cooper-like vibe to it and with the portrayal of Jay being more like Heath Ledger's Joker crossed with Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd. It makes the whole thing look more like a horror novel than a song.
This story about how a little girl saw a horrifying demon in her window that had blood-dripping fangs. You may never hear Rick Springfeild's "Hole In My Heart" the same way again after reading this story. From a website purporting to contain true ghost stories.
On the subject of "true" stories: I can't believe no one mentioned r/nosleep. Best damn stories on the internet, and even the lower rated ones are full of HONF.
Sailor Nothing: Ami. Damn, even the mental image gives nightmares. A villain who seeks to refine evil as an artform abducts her, physically and mentally breaks her, and then presents her as his masterpiece to the rest of the cast.
Sam Hughes' Gorge is about humans happening upon a planet that happens to be a perfect sphere with no atmosphere. Kinetic probes find that the planet's substance is mostly magnesium. They send a drone down, and lose contact immediately. And with another. And another. Then they realize the planet was destroyed by a Grey Goo scenario. Then the planet starts launching rockets. The story ends with the flagship running for Earth, while all the other survey ships are consumed behind them, the nanoships expanding in all directions. The fastest human ship will take six months to reach earth, and the narration points out the nanomachines hadn't learned about spaceflight, not until they sent the drones down.
The darker and/or more perverted stories on Fur Affinity often show that one man's Fetish Fuel is another's horror—for instance, stories in the "Belial" series often feature people being permanently merged together for the rest of their natural existence (e.g. a woman choosing to turn into a penis attached to another woman.) The fact that many of these stories are consensual can actually make it creepier.
Speaking of FurAffinity, a user named Nequ writes SCP FoundationRule 34. You have been warned.
Technically, it's doing to transformation fetishism what SCP does to Urban Fantasy; look at it in a realistic setting. They've stated several times that the stories are supposed to be horror, and participants are rarely doing it consensually. Quite the opposite.
The Ms. Scribe Story is a perfect example of the depths of depravity to which people will sink in the name of fandom involvement—and how rewarding such unconscionable actions can be. The story's finale is even worse: by then, you learn what sort of person the real Ms. Scribe is.
Many transformation and mind control stories can be this, even more so with a little Fridge Logic. Breasts of the Magi, for example, takes place in a world where the World of Fae re-synced with this world after a few hundred years absence. almost all of the Fae happen to look like really hot women. They tend to have very high libidos, and their standard method of proposing sex with a man is to corner them, kiss them, and stick their hand down their pants. That's right; it's sexual assault. This could be standard for fantasies, but later on in the story, some guy hides an aerosol can that causes breast growth and high libido in the girls' locker room. Not only does it cause date rape, but it turns the victims' effectively bisexual, and changes their bodies. Two "minor wish" spells combine in such a way as to cause the male lead to change shape repeatedly over several hours, including one which gives birth to several rapidly maturing kittens, and another which itself can cause alterations in others and make an entire bookstore a Zone of Arousal, so to speak, just by writing runes with a magic marker. And to top off the Unfortunate Implications sundae, it is twice mentioned how these events won't hurt anyone. Maybe a few pregnancies, but nothing serious.
Latex Bloom is about latex plant symbionts that invade womens'...lower bits, and keep them in a constant state of sexual excitement and orgasm. They can also act as pseudopenises. That's weird enough, but the protagonist ends up with one, then spends several weeks with her infected cousin and infected botanist aunt, whose greenhouse spawned the parasites in the first place. Infected gradually get better bodies, and have an enhanced libido and very compelling scent. The trio later progress from just incest to actively trying to infect people with these parasites, and the protagonist rapes a random girl in public through use of her tentacle(and said girllikes it). And they want to take over the world with it. Well, they're under the influence of the parasite, right? Well, no; the aunt specifically points out that all the parasite does is make them feel good, and everything they've been doing has been done of their own free will. Which means that either the parasite makes them think they're still free, or it's basically turned them into sociopaths without using mind control.
The "New Found Form" series involves a series of artifacts that turns people into and gives them the power to transform others into hypersexed furries, usually hermaphrodites. This allows for several interesting forms, including two people fusing into a bear-lizard hybrid, and a dinosaur-spider hybrid. The infection can be spread through nearly anything, including dairy products and the Internet.
An author with the online handle Wyld Blue has some conjoinment horror stories, such as "Tounge-Tied," in which a woman woke up in a tiny room with her tongue fused to another woman's tongue. Neither of the women felt any urge to eat or sleep...and so they stayed, stuck in that tiny room without an exit, for what seems like forever. I could not sleep that night and haven't been back to that site, wherever it was, since.
I have seen that story too. The mention that the other woman was "an unattractive Asian", the part where they both get a cold, and when their tongues shorten and pull them into a kiss did nothing to sell it to me. I used to be interested in conjoinment fics until I found how they almost always have elements of Rape Is Love in them. They're just ugly.
I stumbled upon one story (Warning: Extreme Squick-fuel) involving a sort of merger vampire, that appeared as a woman. If a man had sex with her, he'd become stuck, and eventually be absorbed into her body over a period of weeks. Then she'd turn into him, slowly, complete with his memories, plus the memories of all the previous victims. The lovingly described changes don't help. The initial protagonist figures out how to reverse the changes so she is absorbed into the man instead, effectively killing her. Then the man gets a blowjob. His lover gets stuck... And yes, it's explicitly called "love".
The description of what the female form merge-vampire does to the man sounds very similar to a scene from Neil Gaimans American Gods. Perhaps it's based on a myth?
The author of that story remarked that he had no good ending for it. Someone else came up with one here, in which the latest victim severs their conjoined spinal cord with a knife, killing them both to prevent the cycle from repeating.
I know exactly which site, and that story is nothing compared to another one there called "Mergeopolis". Every day at a certain time, the entire populace gathers in a huge auditorium. Two names are called in slow succession, and they must approach the stage — electric barriers and a numbing effect are used if necessary — and are forced to conjoin, a process described as excruciating. As the two latest... choices... undergo this transformation and are led away, the narrator expresses relief that her name was not called. Then she freezes, realizing that someday it will.
Ted's Caving Story Even with the misspellings and early internet aesthetic, it's still known to be very, very eerie.
John Dies at the End has plenty of examples, but in one of the earliest instances, there were tiny little white worms of supernatural origin. They could fly through the air and drill their way into a person's skin. Once inside a host's soft tissues, a single one could swiftly convert the body mass into a swarm, exploding out at any time. A swarm could infest a person's entire body, turning them into a mind-controlled meat puppet that can choose to act indistinguishably from the original person. Each worm has intelligence comparable to that of a human, and they also hate you so much that just being in the same room as them can cause you physical pain. Despite this, the book is quite funny.
This story, titled "The Dog". The worst part being the fact that the writer insists that it's true, and it's hard not to believe them.
In Cradleland, the ba'thulaz eat brains of living creatures. And no, they do not kill them before eating them, but use the razor-sharp teeth in their lamprey-like mouths to cut open the skull and extract the brain while the organism is still alive. And they prefer the brains of sapient organisms- like humans.
Cor has written hundreds of vignettes and short stories about invisible, amorphous, sociopathic tickle monsters and their victims. The stories range from Black Comedy, Porn and more often than not veer into outright horror. For anyone ticklish enough to be tortured by it this is about as scary as it gets.
Shadow Unit. Just... Shadow Unit: the woman who makes people choke to death on their tongues, the man who can walk unseen in front of a camera and erase himself from human memory, the woman who can kill you at a distance through sheer freakish bad luck — and then there's William Villette, a serial rapist whose power is influencing people's emotions; some of his victims, years later, still believe that they deserved what he did to them, and that's only the backstory to what he does to Chaz, who incidentally happens to be his son. By his sister. Who he sexually assaulted before the anomaly took him over. Two sentences: "It's okay, baby. I just have to let the wings come out." (And that's just the major plot points — some of the cases mentioned in passing are... yeah.)
"Guy was just... cold. And It showed him how to get warm. S'why he tucked them in when he was done with 'em."
"She'd started eating in the middle."
One gamma's power even is intuiting people's personal horrors.
The Dionaea House Something along the lines of "Blair Witch Project" meets "House of Leaves", this 4 part web-based story will definitely make you uneasy of scary noises in your house. Crowning Moments of Scary goes to Mark's texts when he finds the second house, each getting faster and shorter culminating in " THE DOOR IS OPEN", and Danielle's blog and her experience with the bathtub. red rover red rover let Jenny come over.
The Shape Of The Nightmare To Come. A fan created setting based in the Warhammer 40k universe, except it's the Fifty-first millennium instead of the Forty-first. And everything went to hell. Certain examples include the account of the Tersis's voyage into the Deep Warp, the Blood Angels giving into the blood thirst completely, the New Devourer, the Ophilim Kiasoz, and most notably, at least in this troper's opinion, the Star Father. Imagine the Emperor ascended to godhood the day he died and decided the best way to protect humanity is to dominate it utterly, mind, soul, and flesh.
This short story, whilst not being as downright terrifying as some of the other things on here, may put you off of fried eggs for a while.
The Terrible Secret Of Animal Crossing, the Let's Play of Animal Crossing. With such fun things as statues that slowly turn you into animals, and a woman luring kids to an abandoned island so that she can take away their body parts and put them on her own body.
The ending of this animation constantly gives this troper nightmares.
Salad Fingers: A series of animations starring a masochistic green freak with fingers that look like a green Freddy Krueger glove who talks to finger puppets and likes touching rusty spoons and lives in a world with almost nobody else around, and when he meets somebody, he usually freaks out. Also, everything he says appears as text.
Actually, David Firth's entire output [1] qualifies. Salad Fingers is only the tip of the iceberg.
This Youtube video. An entire collection of horror scenes from various games and anime.
Ah, I presume you're talking about when Chuckles gets thrown into a pit, and after the immortal "Wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?" phrase, there's a massive close-up of Uberkleiner accompanied by the aforementioned sound? Don't worry, there's Nightmare Retardant in his appearance in episode 7 where he appears and says the Dumb and Dumber quote extremely fast before beam spamming Chuckles into the air.
Ah, a short student-film. It follows a young girl who somehow falls into a strange world while eating a bowl of alphabet soup...At first it's not too bad, though a bit ominous. The ground is slightly-soft and cracked, the sky is a brownish color, and look! Letters are floating by! A...H...A...H...The girl decides to follow the letters back to see where they're coming from and... it gets worse.
ThisLasagna Cat video. It's pretty funny until the end, when Garfield's eyes grow so big, they fall off his face and roll on the table, leaving two disturbing empty sockets on his face. Shudder... The fact that it's set to "Eyes Without A Face" did not help.
Then it ends with the same creepy image of Jim Davis all the videos end with... only now his eyes are moving...
Took the Schmuck Bait for ya. Basically what happens is Jon gets put on a diet, he asks Liz out on a date for Thanksgiving, she eventually gives in, and there's a lot of Garfield-removed-related humor. Then eventually they sit down to dinner, and Jon remembers he's on a diet, and completely loses it. The video gives an analysis of his insanity, basically, and then he murders Liz with an chainsaw. The last clip shows a pool of Liz's blood spreading across the floor while Jon talks to Garfield, who of course, is hidden.
Story from North America. A pencil-drawn music video about a father trying to teach his son why you shouldn't kill spiders. Nightmarish moments include the father squishing one of the giant spider's eggs, the father caressing one of the spider's hairy legs, the father's nipples, and...let's just say that the father in general is horrifying.
I dunno, this is definitely in the running — I had to hit "stop" 34 seconds in.
Oh no. The worst thing in the world is definitely this. How the hell could anyone find a cake like that remotely appetizing, even WITHOUT the artist's screaming in pain performance?
This trippy, surreal animation right out of Estonia (the very first shot marks it as made-in-Tallinn).
Did you have any deep-sea nightmares recently? If so, DO NOT LOOK. The author of this also made a Pokemon-like monster collection called "Mortasheen" (a horse plague) which range from human-like zombies to altered animals, sentient objects and even puddles with multiple heads. Almost all of them (except the "mistake" class) have pain-inducing or downright lethal powers, of course.
This trailer for a theoretical 28 Months Later film, which combines clips from various anime series and video games to sound bites from the films to truly terrifying effect.
This extremely trippy animation about cows, complete with some very creepy music. I'll be seeing those spider-cow-things in my nightmares.
The creator of that video, Birmingham-based animator Cyriak Harris specialises in this sort of thing. If memory arecalls correctly, he provided the trippy backgrounds in The Nostalgia Critic's Top 11 Mindfucks. "Watch them at your own risk", indeed.
Another Cyriak example: there's one website where they have "Live webcam from inside a particle accelerator". There's a few minutes of normal footage that makes you think it's real, then alarms go off and and a black hole appears and eats the camera, the lab and (presumably) the world. Eeek!
Most Cyriak's work fits this trope, including, but not limited to, Queenie, BeastEnders, and the adorably horrifying Meow. When he was commissioned to make a music video for a girly pop song, it was predictably less horrifying then usual but it still featured scenes such as a pair of scissors cutting through a landscape made of flesh, interspaced with blinking and moving eyes, and he himself described it as "a foot fetishist's nightmare".
CHAINSAW MAID is a disturbing claymation project that I'm not sure I can even begin to describe. Seeing the red-haired woman vomit out blood and all her internal organs and then collapse face down into them, then after a few moments sit back up with a creepy blank stare and make a terrifying noise that I can only describe as 'hissing' was enough for me to close the tab and go into my happy place. It's safe to say I won't be getting much sleep tonight. The person who sent it to me thought it was hilarious.
Many of Film Cow's Cartoons. Charlie the Unicorn's already been mentioned, but that's just scratching the surface-their other cartoons include sadistic children's show mascots, man-eating Llamas, John Mc Cain's hallucinations, Ferrets who sing joyfully about the Holocaust and murder...and it's all played for laughs.
Kikia. Similar to the "Find the ghost of Elvis" example above, this famous Flash movie has a very soft Japanese song playing, with a cute picture of a relaxing stick figure... and then a horrible ghost face from Fatal Frame pops up with a bloodcurdling scream from nowhere. Hard cut to black. This troper was so terrified that he had to call his mother (who was out of town) and get talked down from his fear. He was still shaking an hour later.
There's a similar one on the Tales From The Crypt website. It has an average photo of an ice cream man in his truck,with the instructions to look closer. When you do look closely at it- the Crypt Keeper appears on the screen cackling and the words The Crypt Keeper fooled you also appear.
This one is particularly cruel, as the page is actually a very interesting read, concerning the urban legend of Polybius. Of course, you can go to wikipedia and get much of the same info.
This troper has seen one that looks like a typical "Where's Waldo?", and at the bottom of the picture there's text recommending that you turn up the volume to get a hint. Suddenly a ghoul's face pops up on the screen, accompanied by a loud screeching noise. The first time I (unwittingly) watched it with some classmates during school, our screams got us banned from the computers.
This version of [[Video Game/Touhou "You Should Drink Cucumber Beer"]], especially when the usual kappa tears a person's head off by the neck.
Lilium. Merging horror, Body Horror, and Soundtrack Dissonance in one convenient package! (NOT for the faint of heart. Or for the pregnant. Or... You get the idea.)
YMMV on the soundtrack dissonance. At the very least anyone who's seen Elfen Lied will associate that song with HONF and Tear Jerkers.
Many Shmorky animations on Something Awful are LOADED with this kind of stuff. One of his animations is a series of AVGN parodies called "Furious Famicom Faggot". The series progresses with the titular character becoming more and more insane, having bizzare hallucinations and freaking out until finally, in the last episode he dies of a brain tumor.
Weebl's original Badger Badger Badger was funny and kinda cute. The sequel however is truly terrifying.
The music for the first Badger Badger Badger itself is nightmare-inducing enough. The sequel did not help in the least.
This video (has flashing lights) is when colourful and garish turns into horrible and pants-wetting. Also counts as Mind Screw.
I can't stop laughing out loud whenever I'm watching that video... Which is creepy in itself, as I see absolutely nothing funny in it.
What I found disturbing was how much the screams brought to mind torture, or even rape.
Unless it's a prank, there's a fan-made video game of this. (Link to game thread; NOTE: I assume the game also has flashing lights).
From There she is!!, of all things. During Step 4 Nabi has a brief Imagine Spot after seeing Nabi attacked by Interspecies Romance protesters. It lasts for all of two seconds, but basically it's... Doki getting more and more beat up, almost as if she's DISINTEGRATING. While she's smiling. Seeing that unsettled this Troper more than most slasher flicks do.
"Bear Bear" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWA7MqDxFNs. Dear lord that teddy bear with the mismatched eyes is all woobieish and cute until it decides that its kid doesn't love him anymore and tries to kill him with the evilest, most insane Slasher Smile ever animated into a stuffed animal. The red paint on the all black and white background doesn't and increasingly distorted scratched-up inner dialogue help either.
The Pier. In this delightful student project, a humanoid bird-like creature goes fishing on an old pier. From underneath the pier, a quadrupedal creature follows the bird-creature unseen. Suffice it to say that the bird-creature's fishing trip does not end well at all. Let this be a lesson to us all: always chew your food carefully.
"By accident!". It's a student film featuring CGI people from the Uncanny Valley hanging out. The horror gets more and more potent when one of the characters starts seeing slasher smiles on the people around him.
''Craziest'', a short film about a girl who starts looking for patterns and meaning in the game of Scrabble in her quest to get the "triple-triple". What starts off as innocent enthusiasm becomes almost cult-like obsession- the Ju
The Wotaken... An abomination of a video series. It features a nude man wearing a freaky horse mask, dancing around as he does assorted otherwise normal activities. NSFW.
Follow Me. This video has a vintage blur effect, garbled voices, and someone wearing the same sort of mask as Batman's Scarecrow.
This Neil Cicierega video which features parasitic kittens, puppies, and one lobster who all eat your bone marrow from the inside out. It does not end well for the unlucky carrier.
Soon the eggs we laid in Ryan's urethra will hatch!
I laid the MOST eggs!
In fact, most of his non-Puppet Pals videos tend towards really morbid and surreal humor. This troper laughed at all of them, but still feels frightened at the thought of having a slumber party.
He makes YTP's of King of the Hill. This one has two particularly scary moments. One is where Bobby repeats three times while holding a Dalmatian costume that he wants to dress up like that, and when he lowers it, he has a Nightmare Face with his eyes all big. The second has Hank in a red background, saying, "It's just crap. It's not going to kill you!" He laughs and his voice gets more and more demonic and terrifying the more he laughs.
Youtube Poop: Ruff's Oddysey. It start's out like a normal YouTube Poop,With Mama Luigi,and your everyday jokes. But about 0:26 seconds in, Shit become real,It gets distorted,Disturbing images pop up, And then at all of a sudden it cuts to "The End".
Are you afraid of clowns? Well this will make you fear them even more. A toy clown crawls towards a child trying to get to sleep. Vaugely freaky until the grand finale... The kid, who's pulled the covers over his face, looks back at the clown doll and it's become a real clown with blood around the mouth and stuff... Not only that, but after the end of the video, the toy, with its creepy Slasher Smile, stares at you for a full minute.
The Wyoming Incident. It was part of a goon-made ARG, but Jesus Christ this is unsettling to watch.
No Through Road. The sign... The masked dude... The eerie music loop...
A rather unknown video reviewer named Jacob Rudduck once did a review of Uninvited. First reaction with the Southern Belle was slightly funny. But the ending... If you think The Dark Knight version of Joker scares the shit outta you, you'll be scared of him even more. In a nutshell... After Jacob was finished with the review, he went to the toilet and he saw THAT Southern Belle (and instead of a skull face, she has Joker's face) (though it's obviously someone else). Then the camera proceeds to 'show' how Jacob gets the nasty end against that Ghost Lady, complete with her psycho ripping, her face closeups and her hysterical laugh. Brrr...!
Scissors. Or, what Cosmo Jarvis does when he isn't making awesome music. It's a Tom Waits-esque paranoia trip induced by a suicide. Half-narm, half-legitimate horror.
Or for that matter, the short film based on his song He Only Goes Out on Tuesadays. It's about the horrors perpetrated on a nine year old boy by his father. What's so awful about this is the fact that he just get's away with it.
I have a pretty high tolerance for Uncanny Valley and robots, but this video always, always makes me want to wet myself and cry.
There is, at last, some explanation for this horror — this is Tara, an android built by John Bergeron (scroll down to number 7). It doesn't make her any less terrifying, though.
As if to drive home this point, the sequel features the two ponies bloating disturbingly in mid-conversation, an inexplicable Santa Claus-lizard hybrid that demands Charlie put a banana in his ear (in song!), then bursts into flames, and inexplicable tentacles coming out of a vortex in Charlie's back.
The third sequel or the YouTube Live edition. Between a door that can see into your soul, the "scariest thing ever" at the very beginning, prehensile tongues, legs bending in directions they were not meant to bend, and continued mutilation of Charlie, the third one borders on horror. The portrayal of Rick Astley with tentacles, scary eyes, and snake mouth in the YouTube Live version only makes this troper suspect the entire point of the Charlie franchise is to poke fun at horror.
This video. The human-heads on animal bodies and the awfully slow singing is bad enough, but then throw in a distorted bubbly mutating filter over it all...
WHY? I couldn't click the close tab button quickly enough, and the sound.. the sound persisted...
Behold, Monster Clown zombies. I'm surprised the guy who found Happy Meal didn't click this and post it here.
Mockingbird. It starts innocently enough; with a man listening to his wife singing a lullaby to his son. Then the wife walks in through the front door holding groceries; meaning she couldn't possibly be in the room with the kid.Adult Fear much?
If you don't listen closely to the lullaby like this troper did the first time I watched the video, it left a lot to the imagination. However, when you listen closer...
Woman: And if that diamond ring gets broke, momma's gonna slit your little throat.
Arachnophobes, before using insecticide, be sure to check the label... A guy talks to the camera about a big spider he found in his backyard (cue footage of a pretty big spider) and sprays some insecticide... only he grabs "insect steroids" by accident. Cue CGI spider as big as an entire room and CGI dismemberment.
Five Second Films is mostly comedy; however, that doesn't stop them making the occasional blackened gem such as "Super-Psyched", "Wishbone", or "Untitled". (Untitled actually originally ran around Halloween; they replaced the main page with it, and ran it full screen. So anyone logging in got a face full of rabbit, and that's scarier than it sounds)
It goes something like this: Someone films Brian in front of a TV screen, giving an infinite loop effect of sorts. His TV self then his neck sliced open by someone from off-screen, with his real self asking "What's wrong?" before a Nightmare Faced rabbit-monster appears for the last few seconds, screaming.
The rabbit-monster is the psychotic Nesquik bunny from an earlier episode.
Some youtube user thought it was a fun idea to upload a video of Lady Gaga's Bad Romance in G Major!
Pixels. 80s gaming nostalgia is back, and it wants to destroy everything. Imagine being trapped in those subway tunnels when the exits vanish. Nothing in there but you, your fellow travellers, and a hungry Pac-Man. Or maybe he's eating the stations whole. Imagine seeing one of the cars turning to pixels, then collapsing, then trying to evade the same fate. Imagine seeing the bomb and trying to find cover—
Every episode after episode 5 of Fabulous Life of Bratz, especially any episode where someone dies.
A mysterious video was linked in the comments of a Everyman HYBRID video, and it was pretty freaky. These guys are in the woods, one guy goes missing, cameraman finds the missing guy's dead body IMPALED ON A FUCKING POLE, guys run away, one guy looks for his phone, gets pulled away by someone, cameraman runs outside, SHRIEKS AND SPLATTERS BLOOD ON A TREE. Link for If you wanna see it, but be warned, make sure you have an empty stomach: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzx3TywdETg
The time {Munchie} took over Microsoft Sam's Youtube channel "The Worst Movies Ever". Gave me freaking nightmares and messed with my perception of reality.
The Savannah College of Art and Design put out a few short films that are available on youtube. In one of them, a little girl is playing outside, bored, when she meets a giant, smiling #2 pencil. She picks up the pencil and draws a cake in the air, and it becomes a cake! She draws a kite in the air, and it becomes a kite! She and her pencil friend run around playing with the things they draw! ...Sounds sweet and whimsical? ...It really isn't.
There's a video called Don't Hug Me I'm Scared. It starts out with cute Muppet characters and a catchy song that makes it seem like it's from a children's show. Near the middle we get a Mood Whiplash where everything becomes surreal and gore-filled.
The entire video series of DAYWALT HORROR. There's one about a woman that gets a chair free from Craigslist for her new apartment. As she is sleeping that night, two freakishly horrifying zombies, probably the aunts the previous owner was talking about, climb out of the chair, go over to her, and.....SHE WAKES UP. Phew, that was just a dream, well time to go back to sleep AAHHH!!! That's when the same two things jump up from besides her bed and drag her to the floor screaming. Fade to black. Her body is being dragged down INTO the chair. Fade to black. Two hands come up to "shut" the cushion. Fast forward and the same guy comes to her apartment and answers a phone call. Its someone else wnting the same stinkin' chair, and he tells them they can HAVE it. So this guy knows about what happens with this thing, and he wants it to happen again!
That's actually just the tip of the iceberg if you look at some of their other vids. The channel is ran by the people that ran FEWDIO. A fact they sometimes use to their advantage, setting up a horrifying situation before it takes a turn for the comical.
And they have an ongoing web series called "Camera Obscura". While it's scary as hell and this troper finds it to be an amazing mix of Eternal Darkness and Fatal Frame, it does have a small amount of Nightmare Retardant. For instance, in the very first scene, an old man opens a door with the number 609 in blood on it, and finds a demon with horns and spikes for eyes. What does he say? "Alright, let's do this thing..."
For your information, those things in the demon's eyes weren't spikes, they were BIRD BEAKS, and he was the final "sleeper" (the old man's term for the demons, due to their hibernation) that Clara (the old man's daughter) had to seal within the Camera Obscura (which works similarly to the camera in Fatal Frame), after she sealed the five other demons in previous episodes. There were 6 demons in all. (1) Splinter: The Devourer of Healers, (2) Magoria: The Consumer of The Sickened Mind, (3) The Bag: Killer of Heroes, (4) Mister Hurt: Hunter of Children, (5) Mother: Murderer of Those Who Comfort, and (6) The Bad Place: That Which Eats The Lost. Each fed on different facets of human misery, and all were FUCKING TERRIFYING!
That motherfucking clown in "Terrifier", emphasis on terrifying! It stalks, mutilates, and kills its victims for no other reason than pure sadism. The worse part is that anyone who witnesses it commit its gruesome work will NEVER BE ABLE TO ESCAPE IT!
The 1997 short film, "Elevated". It manages to be scary even when the monster isn't seen. From Vincenzo Natali, before he directed the similarly claustrophobic Cube.
In a video featuring an unnerving puppet, but just becomes satanic and insane the second time round. definitely not for kids
We all know glitches in games can occasionally be creepy. But for the characters in said games? Apparently, for them, glitches are downright TERRIFYING.
So, you thought {Coraline} was scary? ...It's nothing compared to the real-life version of button-eyes Coraline.
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The WTF Subreddit on Reddit is a growing library full of these.
Mortasheen, Bogleech's attempt at making a Mons series. First off, the author apparently has a thing for horrifying parasites that reproduce through body horror, such as the Septiclown, Scumbat, Tachinoid, Fevile and Ragamuffet to name a few. Secondly, there are the Devilbirds, birds whom were subjected to negative psychic energy as eggs and feeding on those energies in the most horriffic manner possible, like driving people to murderous rage (Wrath); causing them to go insane from fear (Bonnagander), stealing their bodies (Envy), making them attached to a blood-red pearl that sucks their minds away and enslaves them to it (Greed), to name a few. Oh, and there is a whole class of Eldritch Abominations, including a tentacle rape monster. And most of the monsters in the "Zombie" class result from zombies attempting to copulate.
GameFAQs will occasionally have the front page themed for a recent game. Once, the "theme" was Condemned 2, and the home-page has a decapitated, fanged clown-head and a dead baby plastered all over the place. Who the HELL decided that this was a good idea?
Rotten.com. Contains graphic, real photos of horrific deaths and injuries, such as actual photos of the famous, gruesome Black Dahlia murder.
The Black Dahlia murder was the murder of Elizabeth Short in 1947. She was found, by a mother walking with a three-year-old girl no less, cut in half at the waist and with her mouth cut open to each ear. She had been deliberately posed and had apparently been forced to eat feces before dying. The killer, who has never been identified, was upset that the case was starting to slip from the media's attention, called the local newspaper and mailed them the contents of her purse. Creepy.
There is a website where people wrote out various alternate history scenarios. Several of them were frightening, but the one that takes the biscuit the most basically had North Korea nuking the whole world and everybody dying, which was horrific enough, except that the writer described the Mars Rover Opportunity continuing to explore Mars and beaming back data of past life on Mars to a dead Earth.
The Speculative Dinosaur Project. An Alternate History that asks the question "what if the asteroid had missed and dinosaurs had continued to evolve to the modern day?" The answer, earth becomes a Death World. In Our timeline plants got a break of a few million years between the dinosaurs and the first large mammals. On this world they didn't, so there are many kinds of plants that contain deadly neuro-toxins that can kill you in seconds just by touching them. The classic dinosaur predators continued to evolve of course, giving us creatures like the Abelisaurs (convergently similar to T-Rex), the "Ninja" (an aptly named stealthy killer that descends from raptors), and the Imperial Saber Tyrant, the largest predator on earth that combines traits of Tyrannosaurs and saber cats. The giant crocodiles are still around, as are new groups like "cutter crocs" "cruncher crocs" and "croclions". There are many kinds of "near birds" still around, many of whom have sharp teeth. One of them sprays toxic puke when threatened. There are also many kinds of "true birds" that are just as bad. The "gobbler" is a lot like our timeline's terror birds, the "city finches" live in eusocial colonies (like ants, bees, mole rats) and swarm anything that threatens them, (killing even an Abelisaur in seconds), carnivorous "Penguins of death" in Antarctica (including one species called the "piranhakeet" that swarm giant squid-whales tearing them apart from the inside-out), and to top in all off, there are entire ecosystems of fish, parasites, and tadpoles living inside the colons of some dinosaurs, and a species off bird called the "rectal probe" that eat them.
Fortunately, there are quite a few relatively cuddly things to act as Nightmare Retardant, a lot of them mammals (who are on average much smaller here) particularly what happens with all the offshoots of the humble platypus; then again there is a platypus species with fangs that enjoy popping open bloated birds and biting off their feet.
You wanna talk about cute cuddly mammals? There's a group of primates, offshoots of lemurs who evolved as small tree dwelling mammalian predators similar to house cats or racoons. They go on to describe in detail their complex social systems, how some of them live as far north as Sweden and can hibernate in winter, how they can't see in color, how very effect they are at killing their prey with their combination of opposable thumbs and retractable claws, how some of them have been known to use tools. Then the Fridge Horror comes in, they split from the lemurs at around the same time as, in our timeline, the group of primates that produced monkeys, apes, and HUMANS branched off. The page even asks the question "Is a tree fox a sort of failed human... or is a human, ultimately a failed tree fox?"
Still reading? There is even a type of cryptid that is similar to giant squid; except that it has fingers on it's tentacles and wicked-hooks instead of suckers. The last words of the first researcher to see one were "My god, is that thing a tentacle or...?". To finish it's name is the Great Ktulu.
There's an extraordinarily scary website which is about Elvis Presley's death and various stories concerning it. One of them is the rather gory story of how Elvis died.
"Texas", detailing her experience at a track meet in Texas...while having a horrible fever that caused her to hallucinate.◊ Being horribly sick away from home is terrible enough, but then she has to get lost.◊ It goes to show the skill of the blogger that you can feel the horror of her situation and still laugh like a loon at her LSD-esque reaction to fireflies.◊
Ditto. For added horror, see the picture sections.
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In Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction, as the Meta is about to assimilate Delta, the other AIs it's abducted appear and welcome him. Especially creepy is the sing-songy, child-like voice: "Delta! We missed you, Delta! Dellllltaaaaa!!!!!" That was the point when this troper knew, for sure, that the Red Vs. Blue transition from comedy to drama was absolutely going to work. It's legitimately freaky.
The surprise at the end of ScrewAttack.com's "Lost VGV Jack Golf" was simply pure evil.
I believe it was from a German coffee commercial.
After years of absurd humor, X-Entertainment served up some horror for the 2007 edition of its Advent Calendar feature. Hidden links led to cryptic clues, unnerving videos, and alarming images.
Then Leviathan finally appeared in person at the climax of the story. For those of us who assumed he'd be a giant sea-monster, the form he actually took on was different. It was worse.
Also from X-Entertainment: There was an article about a Teddy Ruxpin toy that a girl took to church with her and the toy suddenly became possessed- sprouting devil horns, eyes turning red and speaking in a demonic voice. Now that's a literally a Demonic Dummy!
This fanart of an alternative demise of Zira, there she didn't fell off the cliff but got clawed and bled to death, but not before going out with a laugh. After seeing this fanart, you'll thank God and the Disney suits for not coming up with this idea, 'cause it would put Light Yagami'sVillainous Breakdown to shame.
Harry S. Plinkett'sreviews. It starts out like any other armchair/nerd youtube review, but every so often we are...'treated' to a glimpse into the life of Mr.Plinkett, a centenarian serial killer who has killed his three wives, at least a dozen hookers and an entire Korean family. His methods are...unorthodox to say the least as they have involved such things as wells, cars, razors, Raid, cockroaches, and a rusty old refrigerator. Huh. Made worse by the fact that he seems to mention such atrocities in passing while he treats the Star Wars prequel series as a sort of cinematic holocaust.
Survival of the Fittest can fall into this at times, for obvious reasons based on the site's premise (as it is based off of Battle Royale). Sometimes the violence can slide into Narm territory, or even darkly humorous. Other times, though... well, it can get downright disturbing. The gore of some scenes is simply unbelievable, including firecrackers being shoved into... *ahem* a part of a woman's anatomy - need more be said? Another, somehow creepier example is the death of Damien Carter-Madison, whereupon he is swamped by the ghosts/zombies of all of his deceased classmates and dragged through a door into a realm which is strongly applied to be hell. The knowledge it is the hallucination of a dying teenager does little to comfort the reader. It gets worse when you remember that these characters are most of the time Ordinary High School Students.
Billy-Jay Clarke of SotF Evolution. 'Superpower' failure. His eyes melt in his skull. That is all.
Sarah Atwell's descent into madness begins with her tying down and torturing Eve-Walker Luther, then stabbing her to death, bleeding out Miranda Merchant and carving the words 'selfish bitch' onto her chest, and rigging up a Jigsaw-like contraption onto Brock Mason involving pointing a sniper rifle at his own head, making sure that if he even moves he dies. He kills himself rather than take part.
Going back to Evolution again, some of the abilities can be fairly horrifying in a Body Horror sort of way if you think about them too hard. For example, Johnny Marsh has his skin become transparent, but everything else is still visible, making him look similar to an anatomical model. Now imagine that you wake up on a Deserted Island knowing that there are a bunch of potentially Ax Crazy people about and looking like that under a scuba suit that you're now wearing. Or how about Taryn Gregory's power, whose blood crystallizes upon exposure to oxygen and can be used as knives. Aside from the idea of crystallizing blood, the concept of what happens during certain times of the monthhas been brought up and discussed by handlers. Or the ability where you can turn parts of your body to stone, but you can't change it back. There's a lot of Fridge Horror in Evolution overall.
The character deaths of Guy Rapide and Mary McKay. Mary, the girl who got pregnant to Guy (who doesn't want anything to do with the kid), snaps, ties an unconscious Guy to a chair, saws halfway through one ankle and completely through the other, then saws through his penis, and then saws his neck off. And then eats the penis. Meanwhile, local crazy Wade Wilson arrives, and has hallucinations about a chestburster popping out of Mary's stomach. So he stabs her stomach repeatedly, and then wipes the unborn foetus, which got stuck to his knife, onto Guy's bloody torso. Read it all in its bloody, horrifying glory here.
There is a lovely Canadian woman who has created her own youtube channel called theLittleFears.
Protect and survive: A timeline by Macragge1 on Alternate History Dot Com. It's an alternate history involving a nuclear war in 1984 and it's effect on the North East of England. Of particular note is the update where A bomb scare turns out to be a dead baby. Nearly all of it is on a similar level though.
There is another one, more of a story, about a hacked Red version being called Black Version(no relation to the official Black/White version). After starting and defeating your rival for the first time, you see you have 2 pokemon, the starter and a Ghost one(named Ghost). Searching the video on Youtube gives a long story about it, but here is part of the story that happens in this hacked game. The Ghost has Curse, that's it. However, instead of stealing health or decreasing health for power, the screen turns black, you hear a distorted rival/wild/foe's pokemon, and it says *name of enemy pokemon* is gone(the remake on Fire Red will most likely say died instead of gone). This can be used on the trainers as well, and if it is on a trainer battle, you can either run or use curse again. If you used curse on the trainer after their pokemon "died," you noticed they are gone now, returning to the same screen shows a tombstone where they should be. After you beat the game and check the hall of fame, it goes from bad to worse. You see a screen of a sizable amount of tombstones, and a movable old character(which is revealed to be you many years later). After returning to the place you started, it shows all the pokemon and trainers you used curse on, then you fight Ghost without anything. You only struggle, and at a certain point when you have critical health, Ghost uses Curse on you and the screen turns black forever. Restarting will show that the save is gone. Short version of it is: Ghost's Curse attack KILLS your opponents, the trainers, and you see a parade of victims that you KILLED. And at the end, that same monster kills you.
If you want to read the full story of "Pokemon Black," go here.
There's a homebrew NDS file that is basically that same story, except it's got a bunch of pictures and music that fits well with the story. The ending, however... Oh god, just play it on a flash cart in an actual DS. Emulating this homebrew file doesn't give the same effect.
YMMV on some of them, though. I tought that Electabuzz was cute. If you ignore the source, others could fit in works like D&D of McGee's Alice. The rest of them...groan. I shouldn't have done that...
Voltorb looks like a strawberry muffin, and Cubone looks like a Pyramid Head to me...
The Voltorbs reminds me of the Toclafane... *shudder*
And Arcanine looked awesome. Seriously, I want one of those!
It used Slipknot and fell into Nightmare Retardant somewhat for this trope, though indeed that picture is fucking creepy.
The Lavender Town Tone, also referred to as Lavender Town Syndrome, is another creepy story about the things that would scar you for life that were in the original Japanese version 1 cartridges of Pokemon Red and Green. There was also a sequel that had picture proof that the things described in the original story were actually in the game.
Oh wow. Not only is it somehow creepier when it's all in Japanese and you expect a screamer (thankfully there is none) but the end... oh god oh god. Dick move on the part of the creator, but a brilliant one. No, I won't spoil it.
I will. It's about an Urban Myth of a specific pop-up; you close it, you die. Two friends were talking about it, and one of them searches it up on the internet. He couldn't find much, so he went back to looking at his normal sites instead. But then appear the very pop-up, and a child's voice, both asking him 'Anata wa - suki desu ka?' ("Do you like - "). Every time he closes the pop up, it'd reappear with the voice mangled until finally, it fully asks him 'Do you like the Red Room?' and there's a website listing names. He notices his friend's name is the last entry. And then he realized there's something behind him. Next scene is their school's student gossiping about two students who killed themselves and painted their own room red with their blood. And then the pop-up appears on your screen.
My GOD. Fear Clinic gets progressively more terrifying. Especially as the patients don't survive being treated for their fears.
ThisLet's Play of Pokémon Quartz has Foxy's breakdown at the end. The music linked to it does not help. But by far the worst of it comes with this◊ picture and the accompanying caption;
HELP ME, SOMEONE, HELP! THE VOICES WON'T STOP, THOSE HIDEOUS VOICES, THOSE WRETCHED DAMNABLE FUCKING VOICES, CALLING FOR ME, DEMANDING ME, SCREAMING FOR ME!!!!!!
A Let's Play of The Path by thevoiceofdogSA isn't too bad...he narrates each girl's journey like a fairytale, and has some nice Black Comedy jokes thrown in...but then he plays Ginger's route. After the seemingly-happy playdate with a girl in red, the LPer starts talking about how what a nice ending this was—only to start screaming and panicking when he sees Ginger shuffling towards the house. The video is slowed down, distorting the sounds, the guy is screaming so loud that it warps his voice on the microphone...And just his dialogue is creepy too. "GINGER! DON'T GO IN THE HOUSE, PLEASE! GINGER, CAN YOU HEAR ME? IF YOU GO INTO THE HOUSE I WON'T BE ABLE TO SAVE YOU! GINGEEEEER!" And then after the final animation, where there was once a calm and neutral "The End," there is now a broken and horrified whisper of "It's never going to end...is it?"
To clarify, refer to the other wiki - apparently, the video was leaked after the boys had been taken into custody, meaning that someone with access to the evidence room decided to upload the thing.
The "Mr. Bucket" episode of Board James is full of this. If you weren't afraid of a plastic bucket with a clown nose and an affinity for balls... YOU WILL BE. especially the part where James attempts to kill Mr. Bucket by drowning him in the sink, all while Mr. Bucket is gurgling his theme song. "I'm miiiiister buuuuuuckeeeeet..."
And this is in Dirty Potter, a series that runs entirely on Rule of Funny. At least it had Ron Weasley's triumphant return (and subsequent banning) and the Four Horsemen of the Stinkpocalypse, and their 666 fire-breathing penises.
Doomsday Arcade, when Cooking Mama appears, if her eyes don't scare the fuck out of you, then the part where she stabs someone while maintaining a sociopath's smile will.
British Website/YouTuberRandomDCE released a series of videos in response to the people who said he was too negative known as Percy Positive reviews, introducing a high-pitched penguin thing known as Percy Positive, who would deliver cheerful reviews of movies. Percy would go over the top however and say creepy lines such as "Isn't mass murder GREAT?" and "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go take my pills.". Many fans said Percy was creepy and wished him dead. They all soon regretted this when DCE, for Halloween, made This.
Percy Positive: Hello everyone. My name is Zombie Positive, and I love those organs in your nice warm bodies.
In a discussion about Squick on a newsgroup, someone mentioned a dream... he had incredibly bad acne, and went to the doctor, who injected a drug that opened the pores on his face to an inch wide, then removed the bits of acne grue with tweezers. Bad enough, but then the doctor dripped a bit of sweat and part of his face dissolved. That was over ten years ago, and I still have nightmares about it occasionally, and those creepy-ass dried seed husks that some places sell for flower arrangements bring it back...
I believe you're talking about lotus pods. That is exactly why the shock-meme "lotus breast" was devised. (Don't look it up!)
Oh god, why did I succumb to morbid curiousity? 'Breasts, seeds and pods? Can't be that ba-AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!'
Since we're talking about acne... Some people have mentioned, that when they had extremely bad acne, they imagined all sorts of creepy stuff what was going on, such as flesh growing inside the pores, pulsing sickenly and how you would pull a string of flesh out of it.
Urban legends being urban legends, though, I am extremely reluctant to believe that. Besides, I also use face-washing stuff to deal with his acne, so it's not as much of a threat as people hype it up to be. Having mouth ulcers on the other hand, is not fun in any way.
Arch Oboler, creator of the horror/suspense radio show Lights Out, issued an album (which I own) called Drop Dead! An Exercise in Horror. One of the audio plays in this is called "The Dark," about a strange black mist that turns people inside out. Never, even in Customs, will a rubber glove ever sound so dire.
Heh. That just reminds me of The Simpsons Halloween V where they all got turned inside out at the end and started singing..."One! Chorus line of people, dancing till they make us stop...Too! Many dancing people, covered with blood gore and glop..." As Bart is dragged away by Santa's Little Helper...
For that matter old time radio horror as a format. You have to go into it with the right state of mind since the overly melodramatic style and genre defining "over explaining things for the audience" can quickly turn them into Narm or Nightmare Retardant if you're not in the right mood, but go into some of them right state of mind and you will never be creeped out as much. Many websites have MP3 files of many of the old shows which have long since fell out of copyright like Lights Out, Quiet Please, Inner Sanctum, and the Mysterious Traveler.
The viral marketing for 2010's The Last Exorcism included a short online video that was circulated on chat sites like Chat Roulette and Facebook. In this clip, a young woman teases the other person chatting by unbuttoning the top of her blouse and smiling seductively, then she puts her head down for a moment. When she puts her head back up, her eyes roll into the back of her head, her mouth opens (revealing sharp fangs) and she screams as she lunges at the camera - and again right after the screen cuts to black. The worst part was that you could be a kid surfing innocently and just happen to come across this clip while randomly searching for people to chat with.
Although the shock value for the child would probably be lessened after the fifty people masturbating they just sifted through.
On the Ask Ms. Fortune blog from Tumblr, when Skullgirls character Ms. Fortune was asked how she felt about Double, she said she wasn't too worried about her and seemed confident in fighting her. Next thing you know, she's not quiteherself.
The Wikipedia page for Encyclopedia Horrifica used to be pretty creepy, with the hidden skull gif that would rotate and stare at you after a couple of seconds. Of course, it was justifiably taken out by an administrator.
