Discussion NightmareFuel / Advertising

I have another Baygon ad from the Philippines, but I'm not sure if it fits here because it's a public service message on dengue prevention. (https://youtu.be/pl3aSiiac40?si=JkQ0uXXPVEh7uIT7)

It's pronounced makh-ZOO-ee.

Does this Argentine 2003 Baygon ad count? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_uHJFlJTBQ)

It starts in a dark room with three doors. The first swarm terrorizes a woman in the middle of ironing, the second swarm scares another mid-shower, but when the third swarm is about to enter the last room, it's them who run in terror as the door was sprayed with Baygon previously (one of the roaches even flies toward the screen).

Edited by Mahzui It's pronounced makh-ZOO-ee.

Caritas Manila ad been added the Dead Beggar it shall added also the a hungry street child suffering from a stomachache with a flaming asteroid growing slowly.

The 2nd ad A series of stained glass artworks showing early Christians being tortured and with a male voice saying that a Catholic does not have to be a fallen victim to these torture methods but rather giving alms and charity to the poor and the needy. The persecution methods mentioned (in chronological order) are: burned alive at the stake, fed to the lions, crucified upside down and stoned to death.

Despite the videos are Lost Media let alone to add it.

Removed this as not at all informative, but if anyone knows enough to fix it, I'll leave it here.

• Filipino PSAs could be both Nightmare Fuel and Narm. On one occasion, that ad about bottled [LPG] gas safety depicting a rusty LPG gas named Brand X and warning "beware of dangerous LPG tanks!" But some are truly not to be watched at night, especially the AIDS ads. One example is that saint ad.

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I found another ad for vitamin supplement Calcibon. But I have my doubts if it fits here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaIEGl9W7is

It's pronounced makh-ZOO-ee.

Do any of the recent Trolli ads qualify to be here? (https://youtu.be/BzwdDn89-9M)

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I am very interested in this listing under the "Health products" category:

"There was a commercial for a carb bar, and it took place in a baby shower. One of the women in said shower offered the pregnant woman some cake, to which the pregnant woman declined, instead sticking to eating said carb bar. Then, without warning, the face of the woman who offered the cake went all demonic and scary. Also a case of What Were They Selling Again?, as absolutely no one knows the name of the carb bar being advertised."

I am currently in the process of chasing down this commercial (or attempting to) based on several mentions on Reddit over the years which also failed to recall the brand. Any and all information is appreciated.

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Does this Mexican ad for Bimbo bread fit here or in Fridge Horror?

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I fetched three ads for antiparasitic medicine called Loxcell. The worms and amoebas look more realistic in these ones, though not as nightmarish as the Zentel singing worm family.

Edited by Mahzui It's pronounced makh-ZOO-ee.

Looks like we got another youtube Jump Scare ad, this time for Quibi's 50 States of Fright. The jumpscare is on an extended trailer, but the short version that's getting complaints isn't available via a search. Here's a tweet on it: https://twitter.com/milkblocks/status/1315218907469426688

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Does the Guardian Bambi parody really count as nightmare fuel? It's clearly done for laughs and I don't think anyone would be scared of a joke that burgers are made out of deer balls. It probably fits better under Nausea Fuel.

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I have a PSA that a friend of mine has seen and thinks is the scariest PSA he has ever seen. I obviously don't want to because I'm a pussy. Here's what he had said about it:

• "Scavengers", a theatrical PSA for British animal rights group LYNX, begins with weird shots of flies flying through a ventilation pipe. It then cuts to blurry footage of a wealthy couple entering a clothes shop, where they walk towards a fur coat. The woman reaches out her hand to touch the coat, and it suddenly cuts to a fly landing on a piece of raw flesh accompanied by a loud noise. The woman runs her fingers through the fur coat, and it cuts to maggots crawling under skin. The woman then laughs like some kind of demon, and gets advised by her tailor to go over to a coat that's being kept on a rack. As she moves toward the coat, the sound becomes increasingly higher, before she finally removes the coat from the rack and it turns out to be a genuine rotting animal corpse with maggots and internal organs falling onto the carpet while what sounds like a tone-deaf ear-rape edition of the Psycho theme plays.

Myself, I remember seeing a British PSA online against vivisection named "Smile". I don't even want to look at that again, because when I first saw it, it scared me for more than two years. I don't have enough balls to link to them on this page. Do you?

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Would anyone happen to be able to put up the stuff that was in Advertising for Accidental Nightmare Fuel? Considering this is a place for all Nightmare Fuel now, I think the old examples deserve to be placed here.

Plus, I miss the Food Advertising folder.. those creepy Mc Donald's ads...