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*** Even more unsettling is how they pulled off the effect without actually harming the actor: [[http://www.makeupfx.no/UPfx/FO_Universal_HHN_Silicone.html by making a complete 100% replica of the jester's face out of silicone.]] The results are shockingly convincing.
** The radio ads for Halloween Horror Nights 13 qualify too. Especially the Coca-Cola radio ad. The victim screams loudly while getting killed and tortured by the Director.

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*** Even more unsettling is how they pulled off the effect without actually harming the actor: [[http://www.makeupfx.no/UPfx/FO_Universal_HHN_Silicone.html by making a complete 100% replica of the jester's face out of silicone.]] The results are shockingly convincing.
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* The radio ads for Halloween Horror Nights 13 qualify too. Especially the Coca-Cola radio ad. The victim screams loudly while getting killed and tortured by the Director.


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*** Even more unsettling is how they pulled off the effect without actually harming the actor: [[http://www.makeupfx.no/UPfx/FO_Universal_HHN_Silicone.html by making a complete 100% replica of the jester's face out of silicone.]] The results are shockingly convincing.

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* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIsIS6uF0Tk Halloween Horror Nights 13 commercial]] featuring the Director doing a SlasherSmile after electrocuting his victim in a [[ElectrifiedBathtub bathtub]]. Needless to say, you would not want to go to bed after watching it.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwol6OZfNas commercial]] where he's forcing a jester to smile by putting hooks in his mouth is even more horrifying.

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* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIsIS6uF0Tk Halloween Horror Nights 13 commercial]] featuring com/watch?v=DA1ZgafawL4 1997]]: This ad is rather tame compared to the Director doing ones below, but nonetheless still contains the unpleasant imagery of a SlasherSmile after electrocuting his victim in small goblin-like creature lifting up a [[ElectrifiedBathtub bathtub]]. Needless to say, you would not want to go to bed after watching it.
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man's eyelid and then biting into it.
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[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwol6OZfNas commercial]] com/watch?v=odsnWGUGn24 2000]]: A couple is shown walking into a photo booth, and as they have their pictures taken, they are suddenly attacked and killed by "Jack the Clown"; which is shown in a twisted variation of the PhotoBoothMontage.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqNXY5EdtTw 2001]]: Jack the Clown sinisterly watches as a group of people wonder
where he's forcing he is, just before a jester to smile by putting hooks in his mouth is even more horrifying.chainsaw maniac [[DangerousWindows bursts out of a window]] and attacks them.



* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7lydPoqgLU 2002 Islands of Fear ad]] where The Caretaker says "Eenie, meenie, miney, moe." in an eerie voice while deciding which weapon of torture he will use to tear his victim apart from the inside out.
** That [[JumpScare Jump Scare]] at the end too.

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* 2002: This is where the ads ''really'' [[GrowingTheBeard start to get scary]].
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The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7lydPoqgLU 2002 Islands of Fear ad]] where The Caretaker says "Eenie, meenie, miney, moe." first commercial]] is done in an eerie voice while deciding a very quiet and creepy manner as "The Caretaker" is shown picking out which weapon of torture tool he will use to tear dissect his victim apart from alive with, via "eenie meenie minie moe". Upon uttering the last "moe", he picks up the chosen weapon, which looks like a dreadful combination of a surgical clamp and a pair of garden shears. The victim then silently gives an OhCrap look before the information for the event is given, with the ad's quiet mood then being broken as it ends with a JumpScare.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UwjHk5tirA The second commercial]] features a couple walking down an ominous dark alley, not noticing that they're being watched. The wife then briefly suspects that something's up; only to soon have that suspicion confirmed when The Caretaker closes in on them with his surgical clamp, followed by the wife's scream.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLudX9WupHM third commercial]] has The Caretaker creepily messing around with the toes of his dead victims, while doing the "[[IronicNurseryTune This little piggy...]]" rhyme.
* 2003:
** Perhaps the scariest out of all of them, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwol6OZfNas first commercial]] features "The Director" forcing a jester to smile by ''impaling two hooks into each side of his cheeks'' and then pulling said hooks upwards. A single tear is briefly shown coming out of the jester's eye before The Director moves closer, and the last shot is of a jester bell that has a drop of blood on it falling down.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIsIS6uF0Tk The second one]] is not as bad as the first, but that's not saying much. It shows The Director filming a victim he's placed in a ElectrifiedBathtub. He films the victim's sheer terror for a bit before turning on the bathtub, sporting a major SlasherSmile on his face as he does so. There's also a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVhX-PgkSkw black and white version]] of the ad that has the victim ''screaming'' in pain as he's being electrocuted to death. Both of these ads were considered extremely controversial when they were first released, [[http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2003-10-04/news/0310030517_1_halloween-horror-nights-shock-value-howl with many upset viewers attempting to get them taken off the air]].
** This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln3dmK6dg-c trio]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akvldPeDq-8 of]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2R0yRTPYT0 commercials]], features The Director talking about how he makes snuff films because of a very twisted form of DoingItForTheArt; along with showing some extra footage of the two above commercials.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ_s0eeFqWk 2004]]: A man is shown walking into a completely white room, when arms and faces begin to start coming out of the wall. In terror, he flees out the door, only to find himself right back in the same room. This time, he sees a body bag get up and begin to unzip itself. In vain, he tries to run again but ends up in the room once more; where [[BloodyHorror the walls now begin to bleed]] while he watches in horror.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ908sh_TSw 2005]]: What appears to be a kind old lady reading a bedtime story to a young man turns out to not be what it seems when she pulls back the bedsheets to reveal that the man is laying on a bed of nails. The camera then shows that there's a giant anvil hanging right above him, which the lady ("The Storyteller") is about to cut; but not before wishing him "sweet dreams". The anvil then falls towards the man as he lets out a horrific scream just before being forced into the nails.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIVUqpoIQis 2006]]: A victim finds himself waking up
inside out.
** That
a giant glass box. As a series of feet are shown walking towards his location, he panics and desperately tries to get out, but to no avail. Looking above him, he now sees the event's four icons above him, here to celebrate the "Sweet 16" of the event. The Caretaker is about to "cut the cake" before the commercial ends.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOo_UPnSdpk 2007]]: A sketchy-looking carnival is shown as a man gets into a fortune teller tent. He sits in front of the fortune teller as said teller then brings out cards of [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]], [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]], and [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]]. The man, puzzled, asks, "So what's my future?", to which the fortune teller then reveals himself as Jack the Clown, responding, "You don't have one!". Freddy and Jason then appear and briefly terrorize the man before Leatherface comes in for the kill.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvNzsG7NNr0 2008]]: [[MirrorMonster Bloody Mary]] is shown preparing herself (including ''[[BloodLust using blood as her lipstick]]'') as a man begins to summon her. As he says "Bloody Mary" the third time...
[[JumpScare Jump Scare]] at you can imagine what happens from there]]. Along with that, an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9554npInvmk unaired version]] of the commercial ends with Bloody Mary appearing behind a female victim and then [[NeckLift grabbing her by the throat and lifting her up]] as she desperately gasps for air.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIfCjWK60A0 2009]]: As the intermission song, "[[SoundtrackDissonance Let's All Go To The Lobby]]" plays, a trip to the concession stand goes horribly wrong as a man walks out to see that the area has been trashed, not noticing that [[Film/TheWolfman2010 The Wolfman]] and [[Film/ChildsPlay Chucky]] are hiding within the wreckage. He is then met with [[Franchise/{{Saw}} Billy]] riding in on his tricycle and announcing, "Let the game begin." Immediately after, the man finally notices The Wolfman and Chucky and screams as they lunge in for him. For the event in Hollywood, a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89DHKnqcVGE different version of the commercial]] was made, which replaces The Wolfman with one of Jigsaw's pig-masked minions.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC5AnQilDm8 2010]]: A security guard patrols a warehouse filled with props from the event's past years until he notices a sole lantern acting strangely, realizing all too late that said lantern contains [[EldritchAbomination the personification of fear itself]], which then busts out of the lantern and kills the guard.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PcfQT-cZtE 2011]]: Music/FrankSinatra's "[[SoundtrackDissonance Luck Be A Lady]]" is heard as a much more sinister version of Lady Luck spins a victim on a wheel, [[EvilLaugh laughing]] the whole way through before eventually revealing her [[NightmareFace true face]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=965JWyULGYA 2012]]: A group of people appear chatting together, before someone comes in and screams at them to run, with it being revealed that he's running from a horde of zombies. They all desperately run and [[HopeSpot eventually manage to trap the zombies behind a gate]]...before it's shown that on the group's side of the gate lie ''far'' worse monsters that are threateningly standing behind them. Cue GoryDiscretionShot.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6WiIegtHlU 2013]]: A group of people are once again shown, this time standing in the middle of a forest. To their terror, they see an army of monsters running right towards them. They get down on the ground, only to be confused when all the monsters run right past them. It turns out that those monsters were actually running away from a much bigger creature (one that's [[TheUnReveal never shown]]). Via ShakyPOVCam, we see the creature moving right in for the group before the ad cuts to black. The commercial itself is actually a slightly shortened version of an advert that was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rbfb5stzjI used for Hollywood's event in 2010 and 2011]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll6jHbAVV54 2014]]: The [[Series/TheWalkingDead Walkers]] are shown breaking into an airport and wreaking havoc, with the commercial ending with one of them about to kill a ScreamingWoman. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqOJu8tnmJk The radio ad for the event]] acts a prequel to this, themed as a DistressCall a plane flight attendant is sending out, saying that all of the plane's passengers have been turned into the zombies and that she and the captain have locked themselves in the cockpit. Shortly after, the zombies can be heard breaking in, with the screams of the flight attendant quickly following.
* [[https://youtu.be/1CCkyVXYb80 2015]]: A couple is shown strapped to some chairs that's on top of an oversized spin board, before being greeted with "Chance", a demented-looking clowngirl, giving them a creepy smile. She then walks off and begins to spin the two while a vinyl record plays a creepy-version of "Pop Goes The Weasel". It's shown that there's three cages the spin board could
end too.up facing, one that has [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] in it, one with [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]] in it, and one with a horde of [[Series/TheWalkingDead Walkers]] inside. The spin board, along with the couple, end up facing the Walkers. Jack the Clown then emerges from the shadows and declares, "Looks like I win...again!", before releasing the undead monstrosities. As the Walkers close in on the now-screaming for dear life couple, Jack decides to also release Freddy and Jason just for the heck of it.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYTWNc78Fz0 2016]]: A man screams in horror as the camera pulls back to reveal [[Series/AmericanHorrorStory Twisty]], [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]], [[Series/TheWalkingDead Walkers]], and [[Film/TheExorcist Regan [=MacNeil=]]], before moving to show "Chance" screaming with sinister excitement. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYVTPG_Jxmo An alternate version]] of the commercial released for the Hollywood event instead ends on Regan doing her infamous ExorcistHead move. '''[[SensoryAbuse It's best to lower your volume before watching both ads.]]'''
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbPVDMfbJvI 2017]]: This commercial, directed by Creator/EliRoth, depicts a group of friends being led into a freaky-looking house party where things quickly take a turn for the worst as they come across [[Film/TheShining the Grady Twins, Jack Torrance]], and [[Franchise/{{Saw}} a woman struggling in a reverse-bear trap as Billy watches]], before the group is attacked by the [[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryRoanoke Piggy Man]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKc5F8gtSJg 2018]]: A woman is wandering through the sensory-deprivation world from ''Series/StrangerThings''. She first comes across the television screen from ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}'', where a ghostly hand suddenly tries reaching out for her. She then encounters [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Micheal Myers]], and finally the Demogorgon, which roars at her just as she screams.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQs2njo6DHY 2019]]: A party between friends goes awry as they all meet their demise in various ways. Two guys are pulled into the [[Series/StrangerThings Upside Down]] where they see the Mind Flayer and a Demodog, which attacks them. Meanwhile, a woman is slain by a [[Film/{{Us}} Tethered clone of herself]]. Finally, another woman preparing food in the kitchen suddenly has the lights shut off on her. She only gets a few seconds to wonder what's going on before [[Franchise/UniversalHorror Dracula]] yanks her away.



* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj0-lNfjhLk one for the 2004 Halloween Horror Nights.]] Just imagine being in a room that's going completely insane. And it's a room you can never escape from.



* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYTWNc78Fz0 26 commercial]] has [[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryFreakshow Twisty]], [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]], [[Series/TheWalkingDead Walkers]], and [[Film/TheExorcist Reagan MacNeil]] going after a guy who screams in terror, which is bad enough. But the opera music "O mio babbino caro" somehow makes it creepier. Chance's own scream at the end [[SensoryAbuse doesn't help either]]. "Face horror beyond your wildest screams" indeed.

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* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYTWNc78Fz0 26 commercial]] com/watch?v=U4dq7PeyNrU 2023]]: A group of friends wandering the park come across an open doorway leading down to [[TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday an eerie little shop that's not on the park map]]. When the group notice the occult symbol carved onto the table, all the candles are blown out by a mysterious force and they all find themselves transported to different locations. One woman finds herself alone in a dark corridor being menaced by the Infected from ''Series/TheLastOfUs''; the man of the group finds himself shackled to a chair and being menaced by a possession victim from ''Film/TheExorcistBeliever''; the third friend wanders a hall and [[HopeSpot is initially relieved to see her friend there... but she's not responding]]. [[Series/StrangerThings She's in the Upside-Down, and the Vecna has [[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryFreakshow Twisty]], [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]], [[Series/TheWalkingDead Walkers]], set his sights on her]].
* The commercials for the Universal Studios Singapore version of Halloween Horror Nights:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLIFkpyuWLc 2011]]: An aspiring actress arrives at a seedy-looking location for a film audition, where she ends up receiving far more than what she had bargained for as The Director comes out
and [[Film/TheExorcist Reagan MacNeil]] terrorizes her while filming everything with his camera.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuSq9h8-dGo 2012]]: A couple is shown desperately trying to escape from a narrow space, and are then cornered by two demented figures, one of which takes the woman away. The man desperately tries to run after her, but is met with a dark Egyptian priest that breathes demonic bats at his face, knocking him out. Upon waking up, he sees that his girlfriend has been turned into a human-marionette by "The Puppet Master", who then offers the screaming man to "join his collection".
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osv96mYoMEw 2013]]: Not really containing much of a plot, this commercial consists of a series of shots depicting three twisted sisters
going nuts and tormenting two victims.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNismv7PCZw 2014]]: A powerful world leader walks past an adoring crowd of citizens and into his office, where he shows his true self as he transforms into a demon while giving the camera a KubrickStare.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-bmnKYYDK4 2015]]: Probably worth noting that this one flat-out starts off with a [[ContentWarnings viewer discretion warning]]. In it, the moon is shown being experiencing an eclipse that turns it into the "Blood Moon", which causes numerous dark forces to start appearing; which all eventually builds up to the graphic ending shot of a bloodied body being dragged away. Most notably of all, the commercial's [[TheStinger stinger]] contains a ''very'' effective JumpScare.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h0f04mP6pg 2016]]: This ad is quite unrelentless, to say the least. A man is shown investigating a mirror... that a MirrorMonster suddenly appears out of and pull him in. The man finds himself inside a seafood restaurant, where he is attacked by the restaurant's diseased and zombie-like employees before being saved in the nick of time by a glamourous woman that not too long
after reveals that she's actually a guy who screams in terror, which is bad enough. But werewolf-like monster and attempts to kill him. After seemingly escaping her, the opera music "O mio babbino caro" somehow makes man ends up inside a morgue where the bodies start coming back to life. He attempts to dash towards the exit, but discovers that he's still trapped within the mirror and is then taken down by the inhabitants he came across earlier.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSvIQPBHvhg These]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBLQMJHtiCU three]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcQg05lvvts commercials]] for Universal Studios Japan's HHN start off scary, but then very swiftly become NightmareRetardant as, unlike all of the above ads, the victims shown in
it creepier. Chance's own scream at are in the end [[SensoryAbuse doesn't help either]]. "Face horror beyond your wildest screams" indeed.''hardly'' scared by the terrifying situations they get into.
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* Hollywood's 2014 clown factory is just as nightmarish. '''Clowns 3D: Music By Slash''' tells the story of Sweet Licks Family Fun Center & Ice Cream Emporium, an old ice cream factory/roadside attraction run by clowns who turn people into "all natural, high protein" ice cream that's later sold to the public. It really makes you wonder if that strawberry ice cream really is made of strawberries.

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* Hollywood's 2014 clown factory is just as nightmarish. '''Clowns 3D: Music By Slash''' [[Music/SlashMusician Slash]]''' tells the story of Sweet Licks Family Fun Center & Ice Cream Emporium, an old ice cream factory/roadside attraction run by clowns who turn people into "all natural, high protein" ice cream that's later sold to the public. It really makes you wonder if that strawberry ice cream really is made of strawberries.
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* The '''La Llorona''' houses from Hollywood's Horror Nights events feature some particularly frightening scenes of the urban legend in question, such as her [[http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/636/228/ac2.gif eating a little girl whole]]. Pictures from these houses have become very popular on the internet to use for creepypastas or other scary content.

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* The '''La Llorona''' houses from Hollywood's Horror Nights events feature some particularly frightening scenes of the urban legend in question, such as her [[http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/636/228/ac2.gif eating a little girl whole]]. Pictures from these houses have become very popular on the internet to use for creepypastas or other scary content. There’s a reason why it’s the current page image.
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** One of the particular promo images of the Caretaker (shown right) certainly sticks out as, well, frightening. (Hence why we used it for this page).

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** One of the particular promo images of the Caretaker (shown right) certainly sticks out as, well, frightening. (Hence why we originally used it for this page).

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Yes, the quote on top is ''not joking''. While every single aspect about Universal's Halloween Horror Nights is basically HighOctaneNightmareFuel, there are plenty of specific examples we can describe of things that, well, stick out to us in particular when it comes to this trope.

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Yes, the quote on top is ''not joking''. While every single aspect about Universal's Halloween Horror Nights is basically HighOctaneNightmareFuel, high-octane NightmareFuel, there are plenty of specific examples we can describe of things that, well, stick out to us in particular when it comes to this trope.
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Yes, the quote on top is ''not joking''. While every single aspect about Universal's Halloween Horror Nights is basically high octane nightmare fuel, there are plenty of specific examples we can describe of things that, well, stick out to us in particular when it comes to this trope.

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Yes, the quote on top is ''not joking''. While every single aspect about Universal's Halloween Horror Nights is basically high octane nightmare fuel, HighOctaneNightmareFuel, there are plenty of specific examples we can describe of things that, well, stick out to us in particular when it comes to this trope.
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* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYTWNc78Fz0 26 commercial]] has [[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryFreakshow Twisty]], [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]], [[Series/TheWalkingDead Walkers]], and [[Film/TheExorcist Reagan MacNeil]] going after a guy who screams in terror, which is bad enough. But the opera music somehow makes it creepier. Chance's own scream at the end [[SensoryAbuse doesn't help either]]. "Face horror beyond your wildest screams" indeed.

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* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYTWNc78Fz0 26 commercial]] has [[Series/AmericanHorrorStoryFreakshow Twisty]], [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]], [[Series/TheWalkingDead Walkers]], and [[Film/TheExorcist Reagan MacNeil]] going after a guy who screams in terror, which is bad enough. But the opera music "O mio babbino caro" somehow makes it creepier. Chance's own scream at the end [[SensoryAbuse doesn't help either]]. "Face horror beyond your wildest screams" indeed.

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