History NightmareFuel / Rambo

[[caption-width-right:324:"[[TraumaButton Don't move. I don't want you to cut your throat]]."]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Mission...accomplished...]]

** The novelization of the movie [[AdaptationalVillainy ramps this up]] [[UpToEleven PAST eleven]] with a scene (thankfully) not in the movie, as Zaysen orders his dragon, Kourov, to pour acid on a young Afgan prisoner's chest until the boy eventually dies, for no other reason than to antagonize Trautman.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjptQSfuTy8 trailer]] for the first film, unlike future sequel trailers which entranced audiences to a fun action-packed adventure, this trailer instead showcased a FromBadToWorse situation with the music increasingly intensifying until it frighteningly explodes at the end like as though it makes an action film like this one being a some sort of nightmarish PsychologicalHorror experience than some fun rollercoaster. The way it was advertised, it was like the filmmakers were promoting a horror film (not unlike ''Film/TheTerminator'', until it also became an action franchise like the ''Rambo'' sequels that follows).

* Unlike the sequels, the first film had elements of PsychologicalHorror, revolving around Rambo's damaged and dangerous psyche that drives him into becoming a killing machine and how his combat tactics brings fear into others as he stalks them like a {{ninja}}.