History NightmareFuel / AChristmasStory

* Raphie's fantasy about himself becoming blind from "soap poisoning" from having to put soap in the mouth for accidental cursing, and his parents blaming themselves for it. Though as {{Narm}} as the sobbing is, there is a reason children don't have soap put in their mouths as punishment anymore as children have suffered accidental poisoning and hospitalization in the first place.

** Schwartz's screaming "uncle!" while being tortured is pretty disturbing.

* Schwartz being the victim of [[AbusiveParents quite audible child abuse]] after Ralphie scapegoats him for the fudge incident. This qualifies more as {{Narm}}, though, since, although child abuse is terrifying in reality, the mom sounds like a chicken or a duck as she's screaming.

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* The adults dealing with Flick's flagpole situation. When a wet extremity is stuck to a cold surface, what you want to do is pour warm water over it until it can be pulled away safely. [[TongueTrauma This does not happen.]]

* [[TheBully Scut Farkus]]: with yellow eyes, so help me God! When he first shows up, he's [[EvilLaugh laughing maniacally]] and chasing Ralphie, Flick and Schwartz.

* Schwartz being the victim of [[AbusiveParents quite audible child abuse]] after Ralphie scapegoats him for the fudge incident. This qualifies more as {{Narm}}, since though child abuse is already terrifying in reality, and this is supposed to be done in a humorous, laughable way (it isn't in the slightest). Part of it is because the mom sounds like a duck as she's screaming.

** Just before that freak gets the beatdown from Ralphie, he taunts the latter with faux-crying. The zoom-in on Scut's face while he does that and the shrill noise he makes is just....*shivers*. Gawd! That's one UGLY kid!

* The expression on Ralphie's face in [[http://cache2.allpostersimages.com/p/LRG/17/1723/RS53D00Z/posters/a-christmas-story.jpg the DVD cover]] for the movie is rather... [[SlasherSmile disturbing]].

* Schwartz being the victim of [[AbusiveParents quite audible child abuse]] after Ralphie scapegoats him for the fudge incident. This qualifies more as {{Narm}}, since though child abuse is already terrifying in reality, this is done in a humorous, laughable way. Part of it is because the mom sounds like a duck as she's screaming.

** Just before that freak gets the beatdown from Ralphie, he taunts the latter with faux-crying. The zoom-in on Scuts face while he does that and the shrill noise he makes is just....*shivers*. Gawd! That's one UGLY kid!

* Schwartz being the victim of [[AbusiveParents quite audible child abuse]] after Ralphie scapegoats him for the fudge incident. This qualifies more as {{Narm}}, since though child abuse is already terrifying in reality, this is done in a humorous, laughable way

* The scary department store Santa going into slow motion, with the music in the background slowing down to match.
** Aided and abetted by the 1st Person POV fisheye camera shots as Ralphie goes up to see him. We see a distorted and fast view of a very bitter Santa (with lurid red nose) and two mean elves! HO... HO... HO.....
* Schwartz being the victim of [[AbusiveParents quite audible child abuse]] after Ralphie scapegoats him for the fudge incident.
** this qualifies more as narm, since though child abuse is already terrifying in reality, this is done in a humorous, laughable way

*** Remember that this is an adult describing his worst bully from decades ago. Odds are he's going to make him seem much worse than he really was.

** Schwartz's screaming "uncle!" while being essentially tortured is pretty disturbing.

** this qualifies more as narm, since though it sounds scary, it is done in a humorous way

* Flick being the victim of [[AbusiveParents child abuse]] after Ralphie scapegoats him for the fudge incident.

* The expression on Ralphie's face in [[http://www.filmoria.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/a-christmas-story-2.jpg the DVD cover]] for the movie is rather... [[UncannyValley disturbing]].

* The expression on Ralphie's face in [[http://www.filmoria.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/a-christmas-story-2.jpg the DVD cover]] for the movie is rather... disturbing.

* Flick being the victim of [[AbusiveParents child abuse]] after Ralphie scapegoats him for the fudge incident.

* Scut Farkus: with yellow eyes, so help me God! When he first shows up, he's [[EvilLaugh laughing maniacally]] and chasing Ralphie, Flick and Schwartz.