History NightmareFuel / BladeRunner2049

* K drowning Luv. Not only is it the cap on an incredibly tense fight sequence, but Luv's muffled screams under the water as she desperately tries to fight back [[HellIsThatNoise sound like the pure, feral, animalistic embodiment of rage]].

* "99.9% detoxified water." Not only is it creepy that they have to state that everytime but it indicates the water table is as polluted and dead as everything else. Also what's in the .1% they can't clean? Chances are humanity is slowly poisioning itself everytime it drinks or tries to clean up.

** Even more so when you realize this test was coldly engineered to ensure that legal replicants can take the day-to-day abuse of an openly racist/human-supremacist culture without flinching, much less actually snapping and doing anything like running amok or organizing a massive revolutionary army]].

** Even more so when you realize this test was coldly engineered to ensure that legal replicants can take the day-to-day abuse of an openly racist/human-supremacist culture without flinching, much less actually snapping and doing anything like running amok or [[spoiler:organizing a massive revolutionary army]].

* Wallace's creepy meeting with the female replicant he creates and then kills. [[spoiler:Or more precisely, guts directly in the stomach and laments about angels, godhood, and replicant reproduction. It's all very disturbing.]]

* The entire setting of the film is nightmarish. Despite fantastic technological advances, planet Earth has been all but completely scoured of life due to unchecked industrial expansion and corporate interests. The corporations have so much power, in fact, that one high ranking agent is able to infiltrate the city police headquarters, commit theft and two separate acts of murder, and walk out without even a hint of facing consequences. Common folk live desperately lonely lives even though they dwell in boroughs so crammed that they make [[Comics/JudgeDredd Megacity One]] look like an open park, and most of them don't have access to anything beyond the barest subsistence commodities. The one glimpse we see of children in the film is a hellish sweatshop run by an openly abusive and greedy proprietor who claims to be performing a public service. And outside LA proper we see nothing but vast wastelands and empty space. Overall, life is brutal, short, and cheap. Sweet dreams.

* Wallace's creepy meeting with the female replicant he creates and then kills.

** Even more so when you realize this test was coldly ensured to ensure that legal replicants can take the day-to-day abuse of an openly racist/human-supremacist culture without flinching, much less actually snapping and doing anything like running amok or [[spoiler:organizing a massive revolutionary army]].

* The control procedure each [[spoiler:Replicant Blade Runner (K in this case) has to be submitted to after a mission]], which is somewhat reminiscent of the Voigt-Kampf test. Instead of being calmly asked questions, you are peppered with very personal verbal abuse ("Do they keep you in a cell when they don't need you? Do you wish you could connect with people?") and required to repeat canned responses, trying to maintain your composure.
* Luv's killing of [[spoiler:Coco, simply by cracking the back of his neck and causing him to bleed out his face. For extra horror points, viewers who look closely will notice that his upper row of teeth are overextended when he hits the ground - Luv hit him so hard his ''entire skull'' was dislocated.]]
* Wallace's creepy meeting with the female replicant he creates [[spoiler:and then kills.]]
* K's fight with [[spoiler:Deckard takes place in his hideout, an abandoned casino in what used to be Vegas, that has a holographic projector of famous performers such as Music/ElvisPresley and Creator/MarilynMonroe that ends up turning on during their fight. The problem is the projector is ''very'' old, and results in scenes where the Elvis and his dancers are performing in total silence, and whenever the sound does come on, it's for a quick second and it's very glitchy and unrecognizable like a faulty radio broadcast. The effect coupled with the flashing lights and the sounds of K's and Deckard's punches is incredibly unnerving.]]

* Luv's killing of [[spoiler:Coco, simply by cracking the back of his neck and causing him to bleed out his face.]]

* K's fight with [[spoiler:Deckard takes place in his hideout, an abandoned casino in what used to be Vegas, that has a holographic projector of famous performers such as Music/ElvisPresley and Creator/MarilynMonroe that ends up turning on during their fight. The problem is the projector is ''very'' glitchy, and results in scenes where the Elvis and his dancers are performing in total silence, and whenever the sound does come on it's very glitchy and unrecognizable like a faulty radio broadcast. The effect coupled with the flashing lights and the sounds of K's and Deckard's punches is incredibly unnerving.]]

* The control procedure each [[spoiler:Replicant Blade Runner (K in this case) has to be submitted to after each mission]], which is somewhat reminiscent of the Voigt-Kampf test. Instead of being calmly asked questions, you are peppered with very personal verbal abuse ("Do they keep you in a cell when they don't need you? Do you wish you could connect with people?") and required to repeat canned responses, trying to maintain your composure.

* The new version of the Voigt-Kampf test is much more unsettling than the original. Instead of being calmly asked questions, you are peppered with very personal verbal abuse ("Do they keep you in a cell when they don't need you? Do you wish you could connect with people?") and required to repeat canned responses, trying to maintain your composure.

* Wallace's creepy meeting with the female replicant he creates [[spoiler:and then kills.]]