History NightmareFuel / OutlastII

* Any chase scene involving crawling under houses or in basements. The first game's features made it impossible for enemies to follow you into small tunnels, but in the sequel, hostiles can and sometimes will chase you in tight crawl spaces, in which Blake can only move slowly. Looking behind you to see a hostile quickly advancing on you in the dark is ''terrifying.''

** The first one explains that the man from the first house you entered in the demo [[DrivenToSuicide commited suicide]] because of his grief over giving his son to be sacrificed. The end of the note claims his wife would at least find [[FromBadToWorse "comfort" in the arms of Papa Knoth.]]

* In the first segment of the town, a creepy old lady follows you around, spouting religious nonsense. At first, she seems harmless, but suddenly she wields a knife and starts trying to stab you!

* Marta, the hooded woman carrying a pick-axe. Her tall and scrawny build makes her reminiscent of a scarecrow, and the entire time she stalks you, she's fanatically hissing prayers bordering on [[MadnessMantra maniacal nonsense]]. She's the sequel's equivalent to Chris Walker.
** Like Chris Walker, she has her own theme music. While his was intimidating and put the player on edge, Marta's theme music is ''utterly demented''.

* Right off the bat, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTXbOh8urp4 trailer]] does a great job at giving nightmares by itself. It starts off with a close up on a burning cross, only the flames seem somewhat...''off''. Then as a creepy-sounding old man recites quotes from [[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+14 Revelation]] about the fall of Babylon and how the hour of God's judgment has come. The camera slowly pulls back to reveal it's actually an ''upside-down'' burning cross[[note]]Granted the scariness is somewhat negated by the fact that the upside-down cross is actually a common Christian motif known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_St._Peter#In_Christianity the Cross of St. Peter]], but it's still creepy[[/note]]. The view then flashes to infrared, revealing a number of eyes staring out of the surrounding forest and into the camera. Sweet dreams!

* Right off the bat, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTXbOh8urp4 trailer]] does a great job at giving nightmares by itself. It starts off with a close up on a burning cross, only the flames seem somewhat...''off''. Then as a creepy-sounding old man recites quotes from [[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+14 Revelation]] about the fall of Babylon and how the hour of God's judgment has come. [[spoiler:The camera slowly pulls back to reveal it's actually an ''upside-down'' burning cross[[note]]Granted the scariness is somewhat negated by the fact that the upside-down cross is actually a common Christian motif known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_St._Peter#In_Christianity the Cross of St. Peter]], but it's still creepy[[/note]]. The view then flashes to infrared, revealing a number of eyes staring out of the surrounding forest and into the camera. Sweet dreams!]]

** [[spoiler: There's a JumpScare when you try to open the window in which a crow flies at your face]].

** And finally, [[spoiler: the well with the tongue-tentacles. '''There are tentacle monsters in Outlast now!''']]
* Outlast II was originally refused classification in Australia. Why? Because of a scene where [[spoiler: the player is sexually assaulted by a monster at some sort of ritualistic orgy.]] In first person.

** One often-overlooked letter proves that not all the horror can be laid at [[spoiler:Murkoff's]] feet. It's from a husband to his wife. He says that he understands the "sadness" she's been going through after their child had to be killed, but that it's getting quite tiresome on him that [[RapeAsDrama she won't fuck him because of it, and that she'd better shape up or he'll have to "get firm with [her]"]].

* In the first segment of the town, a creepy old lady follows you around, spouting religious nonsense. At first, she seems harmless, but suddenly [[spoiler:she wields a knife and starts trying to stab you!]]
* The way that the game brutally depicts DeathOfAChild is disturbing. You'll find plenty of corpses of dead children and even babies. And what do you find written on a chalkboard in a classroom? [[spoiler:"DON'T BE AFRAID, YOU ARE GOING TO HEAVEN," suggesting that sacrificing children at a young age with the promise of entering heaven is a tradition of the cult]].
** At one point you also find an elderly woman singing while [[spoiler: cradling a dead infant. There's several more skeletons of babies in little coffins beside her, all presumably sacrificed.]]

** The monster is heavily implied to be a manifestation of [[spoiler:the teacher that raped Blake's friend Jessica. It has the same voice as him and at one point appears in the same place the teacher was when Blake finds Jessica dead.]] Adding to this theory, [[spoiler: both the monster and the teacher have the same birthmark on their head.]]
** The IronicNurseryTune that the monster sings as it's advancing on you in some segments. Even worse if you take it as a reference to [[spoiler: Blake witnessing the signs of Jessica's abuse, her subsequent death, and the teacher's coverup.]]

** What happens in the mines is pretty horrible too. [[spoiler:DeathByChildbirth would be one thing, but she also dies apparently having gave birth to TheAntichrist - assuming she gave birth at all, as Blake has been [[UnreliableNarrator so damaged by Murkoff's mind control experiments]] that what he sees and what is real have officially been forever estranged.]]

** Each time Blake is caught in the story proper, their leader Laird[[spoiler: tries to kill Blake so he can be "reborn", the first time being outright crucifixion (and Blake shreds his hands pulling them through the nails to escape). The second time he actually buries him alive.]]
** If you try to lock yourself in a shed nearby when escaping from them early on, [[spoiler:you'll find a guy waiting for you inside.]]
** The Scalled have an especially brutal kill animation, where they, as previously mentioned, throw up in Blake's mouth before unleashing a gratutious NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on his head. It lasts for a whole 20 seconds, and ends with probably the most gut-churning noise in the game: the sound of Blake's head cracking open. You can literally hear his brains spilling out his demolished skull. For once, thank God the game is in first person.
* As Blake finally reaches Lynn, [[spoiler: he sees an unholy orgy taking place. He's suddenly drugged by one of the Heretics while the leader Val begins to rape him as his wife watches.]]

* Just what Murkoff has been up too since Mount Massive went up shit creak without a paddle: [[spoiler:they've been brainwashing and making people crazy by doing experiments in the Arizona Desert. This is why Lynn falls pregnant and dies and why everyone else, ''including her husband'', has gone crazy. Makes Waylon and Miles' adventures seem all for nothing, doesn't it?]]

* Playing Blake's garbled recordings of the school sections backwards, you hear [[spoiler:the priest's voice, specifically his twisted justification for either killing Jessica himself or covering up her death.]]
* The final flashback to Blake's school. [[spoiler: A teacher catches Blake and Jessica, tells Blake to go home, and forces Jessica to stay with the implication that he's going to rape her, with Jessica begging Blake not to leave her.]] It's never shown what happens, and Blake might not grasp what's going on, but the player certainly does, filling an otherwise supernatural horror story. And there's nothing you can do to stop it, no matter how much you want to.

** This eyes belong to what seem to be the crazies in the game. A bunch of creepily-dressed villagers that move away from you into the darkness in a way that almost [[UncannyValley makes it seem like they're beings out of this world.]]

** Her husband, Josiah, got it rough too. His eyes were dug out, "JUDAS" was carved into his chest, and he was likely strung up and essentially crucified for days. There's also the AdultFear of hearing his wife scream at the top of her lungs as she's racked to death.

* The final flashback to Blake's school. [[spoiler: A teacher catches Blake and Jessica, tells Blake to go home, and forces Jessica to stay with the implication that he's going to rape her, with Jessica begging Blake not to leave her.]] It's never shown what happens, and Blake might not grasp what's going on, but the player certainly does, filling an otherwise supernatural horror story with a brutal dose of AdultFear. And there's nothing you can do to stop it, no matter how much you want to.

* Marta, the hooded woman carrying a pick-axe. Her tall and scrawny build makes her reminiscent of a scarecrow, and the entire time she stalks you, she’s fanatically hissing prayers bordering on [[MadnessMantra maniacal nonsense]]. It's almost as if she's the sequel's answer to Chris Walker... and she makes him look like a ''puppy''.

* You have two cults in the game: the New Ezekiel Christians who kill children and infants in order to make sure the Antichrist isn't born and the Heretics who want the Antichrist to be born. Both of the cults are NotSoDifferent from each other in regards to them being violent, unhinged, monstrous rapists who would kill anyone who disagrees with them.

* The way that the game brutally averts InfantImmortality is disturbing. You'll find plenty of corpses of dead children and even babies. And what do you find written on a chalkboard in a classroom? [[spoiler:"DON'T BE AFRAID, YOU ARE GOING TO HEAVEN," suggesting that sacrificing children at a young age with the promise of entering heaven is a tradition of the cult]].

* The letters. Dear GOD, the letters:

* One of the earlier things you record with your camera is a small memorial with pictures of babies and little kids, showing just a few of all those who were sacrificed. The protagonist is quick to point out how this is fucked up.

* While escaping from Marta in a barn, Blake has to crawl through a ditch full of cow feces, getting it all over his hands. This might seem tame, compared to deformed psychos hunting him, but it's just such a grim reminder of how incomprehensibly disgusting and visceral a situation like this would actually be. Remember: these people don't bathe or brush their teeth ''whatsoever''. They're constantly surrounded by flies and their teeth are a sickening, rotten yellow. Some of them have definitely lived their ''entire lives'' without a care for hygiene. [[Main/NauseaFuel Imagine how overwhelmingly awful every inch of Temple Gate must smell]].

** Certain elements, like the dead men next to the first batteries you encounter, the gorily-slaughtered cow, and the [[HellIsThatNoise screams nearby that resemble those of your wife]], are anything but calming.

* While escaping from Marta in a barn, Blake has to crawl through a ditch full of cow shit, getting it all over his hands. This might seem tame, compared to deformed psychos hunting him, but it's just such a grim reminder of how incomprehensibly disgusting and visceral a situation like this would actually be. Remember: these people don't bathe or brush their teeth ''whatsoever''. They're constantly surrounded by flies and their teeth are a rotten yellow. Some of them have definitely lived their ''entire lives'' without a spec of hygiene. [[Main/NauseaFuel Imagine how overwhelmingly awful every inch of Temple Gate must smell]].

* The number of dangerous diseases Blake may have contracted. Laird force feeds him his own infected blood which will likely have contained Syphilis and Gonorrhoea. He's also crucified with rusty, blood coated nails.

* The thing that drags you down to the bottom of the lake if you try swimming across it. If you hear someone say, "Let me help you," that's your cue to get out of the water as quickly as possible.
** Even worse, the thing looks an awful lot like the monster in the school segments. Just what the heck is in that water, anyway?

* The Scalled. People so twisted by untreated disease and suffering that they almost look like monsters, some of them routinely throwing up (on Blake, in some instances), and some of them actually missing their noses. They would be more pitiful than scary if not for the fact that at any moment they can be whipped into a violent frenzy, thinking Blake is their new Christ figure and wanting to devour his flesh to cure them.

* The number of dangerous diseases Blake gets. Laird force feeds him his own infected blood which will have contained Syphilis and Gonorrhoea. He's also raped by Val who is seemingly a messily made male-to-female transsexual. In RealLife, trans-women who have undergone a vaginoplasty have months of recovery before sex can safely take place. He's also crucified with rusty, blood coated nails.

* The number of dangerous diseases Blake gets. Laird force feeds him his own infected blood which will have contained Syphilis and Gonorrhoea. He's also raped by Val who is seemingly a messily made male-to-female transsexual. In RealLife, trans-women who have undergone a vaginoplasty have months of recovery before sex can safely take place.

** Her followers are even worse. While the other cultists -including the Scalled- are still rational to a degree, the Heretics are ''utterly unhinged'', rambling and laughing and snarling after you like wild beasts. They stalk around completely naked, and their strange headwear - seemingly made out of branches- makes nigh-impossible to identify their faces, making them even more terrifying. And then there's all the grotesquely mutilated bodies they adorn their turf with...

* The final flashback to the Blake's school. [[spoiler: A teacher catches Blake and Jessica, tells Blake to go home, and forces Jessica to stay with the implication that he's going to rape her, with Jessica begging Blake not to leave her.]] It's never shown what happens, and Blake might not grasp what's going on, but the player certainly does, filling an otherwise supernatural horror story with a brutal dose of AdultFear. And there's nothing you can do to stop it, no matter how much you want to.

** And finally, [[spoiler: the well with the tongue-tentacles. '''There are tentacle monsters in Outlast now!!''']]

* The final flashback to the Blake's school. [[spoiler: A priest catches Blake and Jessica, tells Blake to go home, and forces Jessica to stay with the implication that he's going to rape her, with Jessica begging Blake not to leave her.]] It's never shown what happens, and Blake might not grasp what's going on, but the player certainly does, filling an otherwise supernatural horror story with brutal dose of AdultFear. And there's nothing you can do to stop it, no matter how much you want to.