History NightmareFuel / LaMulana

* Grab that out-in-the-open Ankh Jewel in the Twin Labyrinths, we dare you. [[spoiler:It's a trap and will explode into bats if aproached. [[SchmuckBait Did you really think the temple would simply let you walk up and grab a valuable treasure that easily?]]]]

* Speaking of empty rooms, there's the remake's Hell Temple, which has a room that is empty AND is silent.
* The infamous "don't read this again" tablet in the Mausoleum of the Giants in the remake's PC version. When you first read it, it warns you not to read it again or else you will "suffer the pain of death." [[SchmuckBait It's not joking.]] Reading the tablet again not only heralds the trap sound and the game's difficulty increasing [[LostForever permanently]], but also three giant skulls glowing and facing you momentarily (pictured above) before shattering.

** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7JsN-FySM0 music]] of the Gate of Illusion. ''Especially'' when [[spoiler:you activate the Tree of Eden -- dispelling the Eden illusion, revealing the true nature of the Gate of Illusion, ''and'' hear a particularly loud form of the sacrificial maidens' scream!]]

* The remake's Shrine of the Mother looks utterly grisly. Skeletons hang from walls, there are entire shelves of bones, and the place is littered with skull walls and crush traps. It's implied that the skeletons are former life forms that tried to bring Mother back into the sky and [[YouHaveFailedMe failed]]; had Lemeza not come along to put Mother out of her misery, humanity as we know it could've joined them.

* The remake's Shrine of the Mother looks utterly grisly. Skeletons hang from walls, there are entire shelves of bones, and the place is littered with skull walls and crush traps.

* The infamous "don't read this again" tablet in the Mausoleum of the Giants in the remake's PC version. When you first read it, it warns you not to read it again or else you will "suffer the pain of death." [[SchmuckBait It's not joking.]] Reading the tablet again not only heralds the trap sound and the game's difficulty increasing [[LostForever permanently]], but also three giant skulls glowing and facing you momentarily before shattering.

** [[spoiler:In the remake, the baby fights alongside the ghastly skeletal version of Mother's second form by firing a laser beam at you!]]

* [[spoiler:Around the end of the original game's secret [[VideoGame/KnightmareIITheMazeOfGalious Maze of Galious]] area reunites fans of the game that inspired ''La-Mulana'' with [[DemBones Yomar]], the boss of World 1, except he's pajamas -- ''made from'' '''''human skin'''''.]]

* The infamous "don't read this again" tablet in the Mausoleum of the Giants. When you first read it, it warns you not to read it again or else you will "suffer the pain of death." [[SchmuckBait It's not joking.]] Reading the tablet again not only heralds the trap sound and the game's difficulty increasing [[LostForever permanently]], but also three giant skulls glowing and facing you momentarily before shattering.

** [[spoiler:In the remake, it fights alongside the ghastly skeletal version of Mother's second form by firing a laser beam at you!]]

* [[spoiler:The original game's secret [[VideoGame/KnightmareIITheMazeOfGalious Maze of Galious]] area reunites fan of the game inspired ''La-Mulana'' with Yomar, the boss of World 1, except he's pajamas... ''made from'' '''''human skin'''''.]]

* The infamous "don't read this again" tablet in the Mausoleum of the Giants. When you first read it, it warns you not to read it again or else you will "suffer the pain of death." [[SchmuckBait It's not joking.]] Reading the tablet again not only heralds the trap sound and the game difficulty increasing [[LostForever permanently]], but also three giant skulls glowing and facing you momentarily before shattering.

* Activating the hard mode tablet in the Mausoleum of the Giants (shown above) not only heralds the trap sound and the game difficulty increasing [[LostForever permanently]], but also three giant skulls glowing and facing you momentarily before shattering.

[[caption-width-right:340:"Mongrel who disobeyed the warning. [[PrepareToDie Taste]] [[NintendoHard bitter]] [[LostForever death]]."]]

[[caption-width-right:340:"Mongrel who disobeyed the warning. [[PrepareToDie Taste]] [[NintendoHard bitter]] [[LostForever death."]]]]

** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7JsN-FySM0 music]] of the Gate of Illusion. ''Especially'' when [[spoiler: you activate the Tree of Eden--dispelling the Eden illusion, revealing the true nature of the Gate of Illusion, ''and'' hear a particularly loud form of the sacrificial maidens' scream!]]

* The sacrificial pit of Shu in the Confusion Gate, where a seemingly endless line of virgins fall down a tall pit to their death on the spikes below. Their blood is dripped onto the mini-boss Shu, who regenerates HP whenever a drop of blood drips onto him. Somehow, the old 8-bit graphics do not make this any less shocking and disturbing, and the creepy music (which by now has been drilling itself into your head for an hour or more) doesn't help matters, either.

** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7JsN-FySM0 music]] of the Confusion Gate.

* In the remake, if you enter a DevelopersRoom without the correct software combination, [[NothingIsScarier there will be no one there, but the developer's corresponding BGM will still be playing]]. Prepare for a JumpScare if you're enterting the room in the Gate of Illusion, because that room triggers the "scream" version of "Wonder of the Wonder"!

* The first time you get blasted by a BoltOfDivineRetribution will make you paranoid as hell, [[ProperlyParanoid justifiably so]]. The remake somewhat lessens this by putting blue eyes in rooms where you can get zapped, although arguably, knowing which rooms can get you zapped can make solving puzzles much worse.

* The sacrificial pit of Shu in the Confusion Gate, where a seemingly endless line of virgins fall down a tall pit to their death on the spikes below. Their blood is dripped onto the miniboss Shu, who regenerates HP whenever a drop of blood drips onto him. Somehow, the corny 8-bit graphics do not make this any less shocking and disturbing, and the creepy music (which by now has been drilling itself into your head for an hour or more) doesn't help matters, either.
* The Confusion Gate is filled with large head-statues which look '''entirely''' too happy. The aforementioned sacrificial pit has several of them.
* [[spoiler:The Mother]]'s third form, [[spoiler:a giant, pale-faced version of the Virgin Mary who rains crosses and tears of blood that explode into walls of flame. Also, it's holding ''a skeletal baby''.]]
** [[spoiler:FridgeBrilliance: The Mother's Japanese name is 聖母 (''seibo'') which means "Holy Mother," which is another name for the Virgin Mary.]]

* Tiamat. She has a very creepy distorted facial expression when doing a certain attack and another one after losing a certain amount of health, and if she kills you, this SlasherSmile tends to be the last thing you see before the GameOver screen...

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* The trap sound itself can send many a player into a panic, especially since the traps they entail force {{Puzzle Reset}}s at best and outright kill the player at worst.

* The trap sound itself can send many a player into a panic, especially since the traps they entail force {{Puzzle Reset}}s at best and outright kill the player at worst.

* The remake's Shrine of the Mother looks utterly grisly. Skeletons hang from walls, there are entire shelves of bones, and the place is littered with skull walls and crush traps.

** The Confusion Gate is filled with large head-statues which look '''entirely''' too happy. The aforementioned sacrificial pit has several of them.
** [[spoiler:The Mother]]'s third form, [[spoiler:a giant, pale-faced version of the Virgin Mary who rains crosses and tears of blood that explode into walls of flame. Also, it's holding ''a skeletal baby''.]]
*** [[spoiler:FridgeBrilliance: The Mother's Japanese name is 聖母 (''seibo'') which means "Holy Mother," which is another name for the Virgin Mary.]]
** The background in the Temple of the Moonlight has demonic faces woven into walls made out of red vines or tentacles.
** Tiamat. She has a very creepy distorted facial expression when doing a certain attack and another one after losing a certain amount of health, and if she kills you, this SlasherSmile tends to be the last thing you see before the GameOver screen...
** The remake's Shrine of the Mother looks utterly grisly. Skeletons hang from walls, there are entire shelves of bones, and the place is littered with skull walls and crush traps.