History NightmareFuel / CorpseParty

** In the "Soulful Testimonials" from the voice actors, many admit to being frightened by the content of the game. One even admits that while just reading the script in a coffee house people started giving him odd looks due to his reactions

* This may be a personal exmaple, but in the first chapter, examining a certain cabinet will display an image of the interior swathed with hair. While unnerving, this wouldn't be a surprise or even a fright to those with a working familiarity with the game. What ''is'' frightening, is the random chance of the image suddenly revealing a creepy face in the hair after a few seconds.

* How about the ghost who lacks an eyeball, leaving a constantly bleeding eye socket? Cause of death? [[spoiler:[[EyeScream Getting stabbed in the eyes with a pair of scissors]]]]. And if she catches you [[spoiler:she does the same to you]]! And for that matter, let's consider the circumstances surrounding her death. [[spoiler:Imagine you and three other children have been kidnapped by your insane teacher. He blindfolds you and lines you up on the floor. You can't see the two before you being killed (via disembowelment and the top half of her head being cut off, respectively), but [[HellIsThatNoise you can hear it]]. Finally, it's your turn. When your blindfold is taken off, what do you see before your eye is stabbed out? Your teacher is cowering in the corner, while ''the fourth kidnapped child has you by the hair, a pair of scissors in her hand, covered in blood with an insane expression on her face''.]] Now imagine that the little girl in question, [[spoiler:upon getting her eye back and letting Ayumi and Yoshiki go back, basically forces Ayumi to experience what she went through. To be fair, the girl DOES warn Ayumi that it would be really bad, and Ayumi insists on seeing what happened, but she probably doesn't realize just how BAD it'll be]].

* Finding your friend Seiko [[spoiler:hung but still alive]] in the toilets. You've got two choices - try to free her or try to find something to help hold her up. [[spoiler:She dies no matter what you do.]] And [[spoiler:if you were foolish enough to take a nap in the infirmary before investigating the newspaper in 3-A, you're "treated" to a Wrong End where the ghost children surround you and force you to stick a pair of sewing scissors in your mouth, far enough that the blades tap against your molars. Then they cut out her tongue.]] And of course, all this happens while [[spoiler: you're facing the dangling body of your best friend]].
* That pile of gore splattered against the wall in the first chapter? The one that's played for (slight) comedic effect when our heroes unwittingly step in it? [[spoiler: It's Mayu.]] Even more disturbing is [[spoiler: it's from being rammed into the wall at supernatural speed]].

* The sad-looking ghost of a five year-old boy with trickles of blood oozing from his mouth. His cause of death? [[spoiler: Repeated stabs to the abdomen, followed by forced tongue amputation]]. And if he catches you, there's a delightful zoom in on his face as [[spoiler: he takes yours]]! Or [[spoiler:buries you alive]]. Or [[spoiler:makes you fall to your death alongside your little sister]]. He's not that picky.
* How about the ghost who lacks an eyeball, leaving a constantly bleeding eye socket? Cause of death? [[spoiler: [[EyeScream Getting stabbed in the eyes with a pair of scissors]]]]. And if she catches you [[spoiler: she does the same to you]]! And for that matter, let's consider the circumstances surrounding her death. [[spoiler:Imagine you and three other children have been kidnapped by your insane teacher. He blindfolds you and lines you up on the floor. You can't see the two before you being killed (via disembowelment and the top half of her head being cut off, respectively), but [[HellIsThatNoise you can hear it]]. Finally, it's your turn. When your blindfold is taken off, what do you see before your eye is stabbed out? Your teacher is cowering in the corner, while ''the fourth kidnapped child has you by the hair, a pair of scissors in her hand, covered in blood with an insane expression on her face''.]] Now imagine that the little girl in question, [[spoiler:upon getting her eye back and letting Ayumi and Yoshiki go back, basically forces Ayumi to experience what she went through. To be fair, the girl DOES warn Ayumi that it would be really bad, and Ayumi insists on seeing what happened, but she probably doesn't realize just how BAD it'll be]].
* While we're talking about creepy children, in the second chapter there is a display case that can be examined to find a child's crayon drawing - four children and [[spoiler: they're stabbing]] their teacher [[spoiler: to death while he's on his knees and screaming in agony]]. Our protagonist is suitably unnerved.

* Any number of Wrong Ends! Let's go through the list... [[spoiler: you can be suffocated by a malicious ghost, forced to cut out your own tongue, buried alive, cut in half, have your ribs broken and your lungs pierced with them, have your eyes torn out, let your best friend drown, accidentally smash her to pieces with the pool drain, get stabbed with scissors, mauled to death, and best of all trapped in a [[StableTimeLoop time warp]] that forces you to relive the nightmare again!]]

** He's just a friendly tough guy helping cute little Yuka try to find her brother. [[spoiler: And as soon as she's in the bathroom, he stabs his friend Kurosaki and kicks him into a pit just for fun.]]

* The memoirs left by previous victims, there's a reason you hit a wrong end simply by reading them all the way through.

* In the first chapter, [[spoiler: Naomi gets the chance to save Seiko from hanging, and succeeds. However, once Seiko gets a good look at her, she screams and runs out of the bathroom. Naomi chases after her, but then Seiko trips and stumbles down the stairs--and gets decapitated by a wire that was at the foot of the stairs. Sachiko arrives and tells Naomi as she cradles her friend's head it was fate. She could delay her death longer, but the way she would die would get worse. [[FromBadToWorse And then Mayu's chapter appears...]]]]
* [[spoiler: Nana's]] fate in Chapter 2 is just frightening as [[spoiler: Mayu finds her lying on the ground with both of her legs severed and still alive and screaming in pain and fear. It gets even worse when Yoshikazu shows up and drags her away as she keeps screaming and trying to get away while crying out to Mayu to help her.]]
** Of course it then gets even worse in Chapter 4 when Sayaka Ooue watches in horror as [[spoiler: poor Nana, still with both of her legs chopped off, is strapped down to a table and dies screaming as Yoshikazu takes a pair of pliers and rips her tongue out of her mouth. The image you're given right after of her face, frozen in fear with both of her bloodshot eyes wide open and a pool of blood in her mouth is something right out of a nightmare.]]
* Chapter 6, "Mire" is probably the most horrifying in the entire game. It starts with a recreation of an optional/bad ending moment in Chapter 5 of Blood Covered where [[spoiler: Kizami is getting ready to cut Yuka open as she's tied up on a table]] and just gets worse from there. Even after you [[spoiler: escape, Yuka falls into the basement]] and you are only able to wander around and realize there's no way out. The absolute worst happens when [[spoiler: Sachiko shows up...pretending to be an innocent girl and wanders with you with the intent on wearing through Yuka's confidence by personally Darkening her spirit.]] Watching all this unfold and knowing there's no way to escape it is truly the stuff nightmares are made of as it gets more and more disturbing and gory and comes to a brutal conclusion.

* In the original PC-98 game, there's a point where Naomi waits outside while Satoshi takes Yuka in to use the restroom. She shuts herself in one of the stalls, with Satoshi asking after her after a while... only to get silence in return. Lots of silence. [[spoiler: Then blood abruptly pools under the stall, and she starts SCREAMING...]]

* Thought the murder of the ghost children was bad already? The trailer for the OVA makes the scene worse.Yeah, the detail on the frightened childrens' faces doesn't make it better,
* The ''Tortured Souls'' OVA doesn't hold back at all. [[spoiler:Remember the kid who had half her head cut off? The OVA '''shows''' that half of the head as its discarded.]] Not to mention the horrible deaths of [[spoiler:Yoshiki, Yuka, and Satoshi]], in all their gory detail. [[spoiler:Well, maybe not that last one.]] Including:
** Seeing the ghost children move is horrifying. In the game, the children were frightening but they were still images and had a relatively peaceful face on. In the OVA, their expressions are more fit for serial killers than children. Hell, the boy ghost has the most deranged look on his face, [[spoiler:when he attacks Ayumi for his tongue.]]
** Morishige takes multiple levels in crazy after finding out the corpse the likes the most is [[spoiler: Mayu]]. In the game he [[spoiler:commits suicide]], while in the OVA he [[spoiler:goes Axe Crazy by killing anyone he finds and taking a picture of their corpse in a sad way of giving Mayu company. As he believes Mayu is in his phone. His death is upped as well, in the game he dies off screen. In the OVA, Kizami kills him by stabbing him in the neck.]]
** Kizami is even more [[spoiler: messed up, he goes from friend to manic in less than 5 minutes.]] We also get proof that [[spoiler: Kizami is the anatomical model in chapter 5 when he kidnaps Yuka, he is half transformed into the model.]]
** [[spoiler: Yoshiki's death is depressing. He holds by a door to stop Yoshikazu from killing everyone. Yoshikazu just breaks through the door and piece Yoshiki's stomach and then through his mouth. You even see his head get deformed by Yoshikazu's hand.]]
** Even Satoshi gets hit by this. [[spoiler: He blocked a scissor attack from Sachiko, which pierces his hand. He attempts to fight off Sachiko, but she slowly overpowers him and slows stabs him with the scissor. At the end, Satoshi sacrificed himself by using Kizami's scrap and all that's left of Satoshi is his arms.]]
** [[spoiler: Yui's death was just cruel. In the game, she performed an epic heroic sacrifice. In the OVA she was beheaded by a random board that fell.]]

** [[spoiler:Morshige]]'s reactions to the body count as well. [[spoiler:To begin with, he seems to fetishize the body, going so far as to dig through it and apparently masturbate over it while taking pictures. Later, he laughs about how shameful the body looks in death, prompting Mayu to contact him from beyond the grave to tell him not to look. He goes LaughingMad from the revelation and commits suicide by jumping out of a window]].

* Finding your friend Seiko [[spoiler:hung but still alive]] in the toilets. You've got two choices - try to free her or try to find something to help hold her up. [[spoiler:She dies no matter what you do.]] And [[spoiler:if you were foolish enough to take a nap in the infirmary before investigating the newspaper in 3-A, you're "treated" to a Wrong End where the ghost children surround you and force you to stick a pair of sewing scissors in your mouth, far enough that the blades tap against your molars. Then they start to move...]] And of course, all this happens while [[spoiler: you're facing the dangling body of your best friend..]].

* Sad-looking ghost of a five year-old boy with trickles of blood oozing from his mouth - cause of death = [[spoiler: repeated stabs to the abdomen, followed by forced tongue amputation]]. And if he catches you [[spoiler: he takes yours]]! Or [[spoiler:buries you alive]]. He's not that picky.
* How about the ghost who lacks an eyeball, leaving a constantly bleeding eye socket? Cause of death = [[spoiler: [[EyeScream getting stabbed in the eyes with a scissor]].]] And if she catches you [[spoiler: she does the same to you]]! And for that matter, let's consider the circumstances surrounding her death: [[spoiler:Imagine you and three other children have been kidnapped by your insane teacher. He blindfolds you and lines you up on the floor. You can't see the two before you being killed (via disembowelment and the top half of her head being cut off, respectively), but [[HellIsThatNoise you can hear it]]. Finally, it's your turn. When your blindfold is taken off, what do you see before your eye is stabbed out? Your teacher is cowering in the corner, while ''the fourth kidnapped child has you by the hair, a pair of scissors in her hand, covered in blood with an insane expression on her face''.]] Now imagine that the little girl in question, [[spoiler:upon getting her eye back and letting Ayumi and Yoshiki go back, basically forces Ayumi to experience what she went through. To be fair, the girl DOES warn Ayumi that it would be really bad, and Ayumi insists on seeing what happened, but she probably doesn't realize just how BAD it'll be]].

* What about those green heads that damage you for stepping over them? They have faces, for a start...
* Any number of Wrong Ends! Let's go through the list... [[spoiler: you can be suffocated by a malicious ghost, forced to cut out your own tongue, buried alive, cut in half, have your ribs broken and your lungs pierced with them, have your eyes torn out, let your best friend drown, accidentally smash her to pieces with the pool drain, get stabbed with scissors, mauled to death, and best of all trapped in a [[StableTimeLoop time warp]] that forces you to relive the nightmare again and again!]]

* Or the toilet that screams at you when you open the door...
** That's not the toilet screaming, that's the Gentlemanly Ghost that is talked to by Nana and friends in their chapters.
** YMMV, this troper [[NightmareRetardant thought it was hilarious.]]
** The horror is pretty much completely evaporated by the first extra chapter, where it is revealed that the ghost inside said toilet is basically the nicest dude around.
* How do you reveal that someone's a NightmareFetishist? Easy! Just have them [[spoiler: stand over a smeared, smashed-up corpse, smiling, blushing and snapping photographs]]! Or you could just [[spoiler:have a terrified little girl cry in front them]]. That works, too.
* Kizami:
** Or the friendly tough guy helping cute little Yuka try to find her brother... [[spoiler: and as soon as she's in the bathroom he stabs his friend Kurosaki and kicks him into a pit just for fun.]]
** He's so nice, acting like a big brother to Yuka. [[spoiler:In the manga, he actually catches her, ties her hands to a table, and begins to cut at her throat. The worst part? He does this as he starts to climb on top of her in what looks ''unnervingly'' like a rape scene. The fact that he unbuttons his shirt does not help.]]

* One of Chapter 5's many Wrong Ends involves [[spoiler:Ayumi]] deciding to MurderTheHypotenuse by ensuring Naomi can't escape Tenjin, destroying her own chance for survival before her very eyes. Ultimately, [[spoiler:she screws herself over by murdering Naomi for Yuka's paper scrap, only to realize too late she was the only other survivor and she just destroyed her ''own'' lifeline]]!

* One of Chapter 5's many Wrong Ends involves [[spoiler:Ayumi]] deciding to MurderTheHypotenuse by ensuring they can't escape Tenjin, destroying their own chance for survival before their very eyes. But don't worry, because [[spoiler:she screws herself over by murdering Naomi for another paper scrap, only to realize too late she was the only other survivor and she just destroyed her ''own'' lifeline]]!

** Seeing the ghost children move is horrifying. In the game, the children were frightening but they will still images and had a relatively peaceful face on. In the OVA, their expressions are more fit for serial killers than children. Hell, the boy ghost has the most deranged look on his face, [[spoiler:when he attacks Ayumi for his tongue.]]

** Kizami is even more [[spoiler: messed up, he goes from friend to manic in less than 5 minutes.]] We also get proof that [[spoiler: Kizami is the anatomical model in chapter 5, when he kidnaps Yuka he is half transformed into the model.]]
** [[spoiler: Yoshiki's death is depressing. He holds by a door to stop Yoshikazu from killing everyone. Yoshikazu just breaks through the door and piece Yoshiki's stomach and then through his mouth.]]
** Even Satoshi gets hit by this. [[spoiler: He block a scissor attack from Sachiko, which pierces his hand. He attempts to fight off Sachiko, but she slowly overpowers him and slows stabs him with the scissor. At the end, Satoshi sacrificed himself by using Kizami's scrap and all that's left of Satoshi is his arms.]]

* The ''Tortured Souls'' OVA doesn't hold back at all. [[spoiler:Remember the kid who had half her head cut off? The OVA '''shows''' that half of the head as its discarded.]] Not to mention the horrible deaths of [[spoiler:Yoshiki, Yuka, and Satoshi]], in all their gory detail. [[spoiler:Well, maybe not that last one.]]

* Thought the murder of the ghost children was bad already? The trailer for the OVA makes the scene worse.Yeah, the detail on the frightened childrens' faces doesn't make it better,

* Chapter 6, "Mire" is probably the most horrifying in the entire game. It starts with a recreation of an optional/bad ending moment in Chapter 5 of Blood Covered where [[spoiler: Kizami is getting ready to cut Yuka open as she's tied up on a table]] and just gets worse from there. The worst is easily after [[spoiler: Yuka falls into the basement]] and you are only able to wander around and realize there's no way out. It only gets worse from there when [[spoiler: Sachiko shows up...pretending to be an innocent girl and wanders with you with the intent on wearing through Yuka's confidence by personally Darkening her spirit.]] Watching all this unfold and knowing there's no way to escape it is truly the stuff nightmares are made of as it gets worse and worse and more graphic.

* The voice acting can get a little hard to listen to. The characters can sound so terrified that it can be hard to hear what they're saying exactly.

* In the first chapter, [[spoiler: Naomi gets the chance to save Seiko from hanging, and succeeds. However, once Seiko gets a good look at her, she screams and runs out of the bathroom. Naomi chases after her, but then Seiko trips and stumbles down the stairs--and gets decapitated by a wire that was at the foot of the stairs. Sachiko arrives and tells Naomi as she cradles her friend's head it was fate. She could delay her death longer, but the way she would die would get worse. [[ItGotWorse And then Mayu's chapter appears...]]]]

* The final chapter of ''Book of Shadows'' sees Ayumi and Naomi attempting to fight fate by attempting another ritual, with this one involving [[spoiler:resurrecting Mayu]]. The results aren't pretty: [[spoiler:It works, but Mayu comes back wrong, shambling and moaning... and when her paper doll ignites, those moans rise into strangled screams as sigils appear on her joints, then ''explode''. While Ayumi and Naomi are still freaking out over that, the sigils appear on ''Ayumi's'' arms -- ''her'' doll caught fire, and Naomi's attempts to put it out spread it to ''hers''...]]

* The escape sequence after [[spoiler:appeasing Sachiko]]. You have to get outside before [[spoiler:the seventh toll of the bell]], with the frightening knowledge that if you can't get out before then, then you have lost the only way to escape the horrid place, [[spoiler:as the other children can never pass on]].

* In the original PC-98 game, there's a point where Naomi waits outside while Satoshi takes Yuka in to use the restroom. She shuts herself in one of the stalls, with Satoshi asking after her after a while... only to get silence in return. Lots of silence. [[spoiler: Then blood abruptly pools under the stall, and she starts SCREAMING...]]

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vPp4qUqoCs The English launch trailer.]] Gory, frightening images from the game flashing by in a second, the swelling, harrowing music, and all of it is broken up by black text being typed on a grey background, describing [[spoiler:the states of the four missing children when they were finally found by police.]]
** At one point, the screen flickers and part of the text from the report changes into [[spoiler:"You will surely die here."]]
* The final chapter of ''Book of Shadows'' sees Ayumi and Naomi attempting to fight fate by attempting another ritual, with this one involving [[spoiler:resurrecting Mayu]]. The results aren't pretty: [[spoiler:It works, but Mayu comes back wrong, shambling and moaning... and when her paper doll ignites, those moans rise into strangled screams as sigils appear on her joints, then ''explode''. While Ayumi and Naomi are still freaking out over that, the sigils appear on ''Ayumi's'' arms -- ''her'' doll caught fire, and Naomi's attempts to put it out spread it to ''hers''...]]
** Good thing [[spoiler:Ayumi's older sister [[OneeSama Hinoe]]]] is there to [[BigDamnHeroes save the day]]! Except, as soon as [[spoiler:she]] is giving Ayumi a comforting hug, [[spoiler:[[OffWithHisHead her head abruptly comes off]]]] right in front of Ayumi.
* The escape sequence after [[spoiler:appeasing Sachiko]]. You have to get outside before [[spoiler:the seventh toll of the bell]], with the frightening knowledge that if you can't get out before then, then you have lost the only way to escape the horrid place, [[spoiler:as the other children can never pass on]].

* Okay Yuka, we ''finally'' found you a goddamn working toilet. Now get in there and relieve yourself already. ... What? You can't go because the toilets are 'all full'? ''Goddammit'', you stupid girl, it doesn't matter if the toilet's haven't been flushed, just get in a stall and [[spoiler:HOLY MOTHER OF GOD THEY'RE ALL FULL OF HANGED GIRLS!]]

** YMMV, this troper [[Nightmare Retardant thought it was hilarious.]]