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** On the topic of ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', the 1960 version added [[FridgeHorror one additional twist]] in the closing minutes: After the bet is aborted, and Carlos' wife is chewing him out for doing this kind of bet again, Creator/SteveMcQueen's character goes to light the cigarette of the woman that had accompanied him. [[WhamShot The lighter fails to light.]][[note]]This is repeated in the 1985 version, but the impact is lessened here as [[AdaptationDeviation here, the gambler manages to light the lighter ten times (albeit a gust of wind blows out the flame) before the bet is aborted]], but the implication remains. As if to make up for that, the amount of fingers remaining Carlos' wife's hand is changed from two [[DarkerAndEdgier to one]].[[/note]]
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** On the topic of ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', the 1960 version added [[FridgeHorror one additional twist]] in the closing minutes: After the bet is aborted, and Carlos' wife is chewing him out for doing this kind of bet again, Creator/SteveMcQueen's [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]]'s character goes to light the cigarette of the woman that had accompanied him. [[WhamShot The lighter fails to light.]][[note]]This is repeated in the 1985 version, but the impact is lessened here as [[AdaptationDeviation here, the gambler manages to light the lighter ten times (albeit a gust of wind blows out the flame) before the bet is aborted]], but the implication remains. As if to make up for that, the amount of fingers remaining Carlos' wife's hand is changed from two [[DarkerAndEdgier to one]].[[/note]]
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* The fact that the Enormous Crocodile of the eponymous story fully planned on eating children. Think about that. Fortunately, [[TooDumbToLive he screwed up his plan from the get-go by telling four other animals of what he intended to do, resulting in them stopping him and ultimately killing him.]]
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* ''Literature/TheEnormousCrocodile'': The fact that the Enormous Crocodile of the eponymous story fully planned on eating children. Think about that. Fortunately, [[TooDumbToLive he screwed up his plan from the get-go by telling four other animals of what he intended to do, resulting in them stopping him and ultimately killing him.]]
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* The darkly humourous "Lamb to the Slaughter", about a housewife who casually kills her husband with a frozen leg of lamb. And ''how'' does she dispose of the murder weapon? She ''[[EatTheEvidence feeds it to the police...]]''
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* The darkly humourous "Lamb to the Slaughter", "Literature/LambToTheSlaughter", about a housewife who casually kills her husband with a frozen leg of lamb. And ''how'' does she dispose of the murder weapon? She ''[[EatTheEvidence feeds it to the police...]]''
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* The Rat Catcher himself is NightmareFuel embodied. Not only does he heavily resemble a rat himself, but he kills rats ''with his teeth''.
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* "Georgie Porgie" is a near-constant stream of NightmareFuel. Examples include George's vivid descriptions of a childhood incident where he witnessed one of his pet rabbits give birth and then almost immediately devour the baby (which leaves him with [[SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny a crippling fear of being both figuratively and literally devoured by women]] which drives the story); George being relentlessly pursued by women who refuse to take no for an answer; one woman serving George a drink that's [[ButLiquorIsQuicker heavily implied to have been spiked with some pretty strong alcohol]]; the descriptions of George's visions of said woman swallowing him whole when she kisses him; and the implied reality of the ending where it seems George attacked the woman, mutilated her mouth in some way, and was sectioned...but is clearly completely happy to continue living in his delusion of being ''trapped inside the woman's stomach'' because he feels "safe" there. Animal lovers will likely also find George's "experiment" with a group of rats ([[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals involving electric wire]]) to be quite disturbing.
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* The fact that the Enormous Crocodile of the eponymous story fully planned on eating children. Think about that. Fortunately, he screwed up his plan from the get-go by telling four other animals of what he intended to do, resulting in them stopping him and ultimately killing him.
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* The fact that the Enormous Crocodile of the eponymous story fully planned on eating children. Think about that. Fortunately, [[TooDumbToLive he screwed up his plan from the get-go by telling four other animals of what he intended to do, resulting in them stopping him and ultimately killing him.]]
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* ''Literature/GeorgesMarvellousMedicine'' is in many ways more lighthearted than many of his others, but the effects of the medicine are described in a detail that gets rather gruesome. However, one scene that is even more scary precisely ''because'' it's so mundane is the part where the grandmother scares George by talking about NauseaFuel things she's eaten and makes him think she might be an actual witch. There is every indication that she's lying about any magic powers she might have or the vile insects she has eaten... meaning that she's simply a cruel old bitch deliberately terrorising her grandson while his parents are out, in such a way that even if he told them about it she could all too easily use the JustJokingJustification or downplay it. This scene taps into both the childhood fear of being helpless in the face of cruelty without the support of your parents (a main reason for why [[{{Literature/Matilda}} Miss Trunchbull]] is so scary) with the addition of it happening '''[[DomesticAbuse in your own home]]''', and the AdultFear of knowing that your own child could go through something similar, and that you yourself might not treat it seriously because it would inevitably get softened in the retelling.
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* ''Literature/GeorgesMarvellousMedicine'' is in many ways more lighthearted than many of his others, but the effects of the medicine are described in a detail that gets rather gruesome. However, one scene that is even more scary precisely ''because'' it's so mundane is the part where the grandmother scares George by talking about NauseaFuel things she's eaten and makes him think she might be an actual witch. There is every indication that she's lying about any magic powers she might have or the vile insects she has eaten... meaning that she's simply a cruel old bitch deliberately terrorising her grandson while his parents are out, in such a way that even if he told them about it she could all too easily use the JustJokingJustification or downplay it. This scene taps into both the childhood fear of being helpless in the face of cruelty without the support of your parents (a main reason for why [[{{Literature/Matilda}} Miss Trunchbull]] is so scary) with the addition of it happening '''[[DomesticAbuse in your own home]]''', and the AdultFear fear of knowing that your own child could go through something similar, and that you yourself might not treat it seriously because it would inevitably get softened in the retelling.
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I Ate What clean up. The trope is when a character eats something, unaware of what they are consuming, and then reacts in disgust after they find out what it is. Misuse will be deleted or moved to another trope when applicable. Administrivia.Zero Context Examples will be removed or commented out depending on the amount of context within the entry. Also, I Ate What is not a character trope.
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** The part where Mrs Twit gives Mr Twit [[IAteWhat a nice lunch]], consisting of [[NauseaFuel wormy spaghetti!]]
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** The part where Mrs Twit gives Mr Twit [[IAteWhat a nice lunch]], lunch, consisting of [[NauseaFuel wormy spaghetti!]]
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* The fact that the Enormous Crocodile of the eponymous story fully planned on eating children. Think about that. Fortunately, [[WhatAnIdiot he screwed up his plan from the get-go by telling four other animals of what he intended to do, resulting in them stopping him and ultimately killing him]].
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* The fact that the Enormous Crocodile of the eponymous story fully planned on eating children. Think about that. Fortunately, [[WhatAnIdiot he screwed up his plan from the get-go by telling four other animals of what he intended to do, resulting in them stopping him and ultimately killing him]].him.
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* ''Literature/TheWitches'': Easily Dahl's most frightening children's book.
** The Grand High Witch ... once she takes off her mask. In [[TheFilmOfTheBook the movie]] it's just as scary. And when she starts "frying" one of the witches: it's just as awful. Later Grandma informs her grandson that the Grand High Witch fries at least one witch each meeting!
** The chapter where Grandma tells about all the children she knew who became victims of witches.
*** The story about the little girl who was transformed onto a painting in the house of her parents and family. It's worse enough that your child disappears and yet can be seen on a SpookyPainting every day, but apparently her image on the painting changes every day: she even gets older... until she finally disappears entirely!
*** Each anecdote is frightening in itself, but then it turns out she herself was once a victim. She refuses to tell what happened to her, but then her grandson asks "Did it have something to with your missing thumb?". This causes Grandma to freeze in shock, thus abruptly breaking off the conversation. The boy then decides to go to bed, wishes her goodnight and the last image he sees of her before going to his room is that she is still sitting in her chair shaking and unable to register what's happening around her. In the next chapter grandma and son are back on speaking terms, but how she exactly lost her thumb remains ShroudedInMyth, causing many young readers' imaginations to go berserk! A classic example of NothingIsScarier playing into ParanoiaFuel
** The little boy protagonist playing in his tree house, until a strange lady (clearly a witch) tries to talk him into climbing down, so she can give him [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent a pet snake.]] Thanks to learning from his grandmother, he recognizes what she is immediately and flees into the tree, remaining there long after the witch finally leaves and evening sets in...! Then finally his grandmother comes looking for him.
** This book is filled with nightmare fuel, but the worst was when you are told that American witches particularly like turning children into food and getting their parents to eat them.
** Quentin Blake's illustrations to the story are equally terrifying. Some of those witches are just... stuff to lie awake about at night.
** The Grand High Witch ... once she takes off her mask. In [[TheFilmOfTheBook the movie]] it's just as scary. And when she starts "frying" one of the witches: it's just as awful. Later Grandma informs her grandson that the Grand High Witch fries at least one witch each meeting!
** The chapter where Grandma tells about all the children she knew who became victims of witches.
*** The story about the little girl who was transformed onto a painting in the house of her parents and family. It's worse enough that your child disappears and yet can be seen on a SpookyPainting every day, but apparently her image on the painting changes every day: she even gets older... until she finally disappears entirely!
*** Each anecdote is frightening in itself, but then it turns out she herself was once a victim. She refuses to tell what happened to her, but then her grandson asks "Did it have something to with your missing thumb?". This causes Grandma to freeze in shock, thus abruptly breaking off the conversation. The boy then decides to go to bed, wishes her goodnight and the last image he sees of her before going to his room is that she is still sitting in her chair shaking and unable to register what's happening around her. In the next chapter grandma and son are back on speaking terms, but how she exactly lost her thumb remains ShroudedInMyth, causing many young readers' imaginations to go berserk! A classic example of NothingIsScarier playing into ParanoiaFuel
** The little boy protagonist playing in his tree house, until a strange lady (clearly a witch) tries to talk him into climbing down, so she can give him [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent a pet snake.]] Thanks to learning from his grandmother, he recognizes what she is immediately and flees into the tree, remaining there long after the witch finally leaves and evening sets in...! Then finally his grandmother comes looking for him.
** This book is filled with nightmare fuel, but the worst was when you are told that American witches particularly like turning children into food and getting their parents to eat them.
** Quentin Blake's illustrations to the story are equally terrifying. Some of those witches are just... stuff to lie awake about at night.
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* ''Literature/TheWitches'': Easily ''Literature/TheWitches'', easily Dahl's most frightening children's book.
** The Grand High Witch ... once she takes off her mask. In [[TheFilmOfTheBook the movie]] it's just as scary. And when she starts "frying" one of the witches: it's just as awful. Later Grandma informs her grandson that the Grand High Witch fries at least one witch each meeting!
** The chapter where Grandma tells about all the children she knew who became victims of witches.
*** The story about the little girl who was transformed onto a painting in the house of her parents and family. It's worse enough that your child disappears and yet can be seen on a SpookyPainting every day, but apparently her image on the painting changes every day: she even gets older... until she finally disappears entirely!
*** Each anecdote is frightening in itself, but then it turns out she herself was once a victim. She refuses to tell what happened to her, but then her grandson asks "Did it have something to with your missing thumb?". This causes Grandma to freeze in shock, thus abruptly breaking off the conversation. The boy then decides to go to bed, wishes her goodnight and the last image he sees of her before going to his room is that she is still sitting in her chair shaking and unable to register what's happening around her. In the next chapter grandma and son are back on speaking terms, but how she exactly lost her thumb remains ShroudedInMyth, causing many young readers' imaginations to go berserk! A classic example of NothingIsScarier playing into ParanoiaFuel
** The little boy protagonist playing in his tree house, until a strange lady (clearly a witch) tries to talk him into climbing down, so she can give him [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent a pet snake.]] Thanks to learning from his grandmother, he recognizes what she is immediately and flees into the tree, remaining there long after the witch finally leaves and evening sets in...! Then finally his grandmother comes looking for him.
** This book is filled with nightmare fuel, but the worst was when you are told that American witches particularly like turning children into food and getting their parents to eat them.
** Quentin Blake's illustrations to the story are equally terrifying. Some of those witches are just... stuff to lie awake about at night.book, has [[NightmareFuel/TheWitches its own page]].
** The Grand High Witch ... once she takes off her mask. In [[TheFilmOfTheBook the movie]] it's just as scary. And when she starts "frying" one of the witches: it's just as awful. Later Grandma informs her grandson that the Grand High Witch fries at least one witch each meeting!
** The chapter where Grandma tells about all the children she knew who became victims of witches.
*** The story about the little girl who was transformed onto a painting in the house of her parents and family. It's worse enough that your child disappears and yet can be seen on a SpookyPainting every day, but apparently her image on the painting changes every day: she even gets older... until she finally disappears entirely!
*** Each anecdote is frightening in itself, but then it turns out she herself was once a victim. She refuses to tell what happened to her, but then her grandson asks "Did it have something to with your missing thumb?". This causes Grandma to freeze in shock, thus abruptly breaking off the conversation. The boy then decides to go to bed, wishes her goodnight and the last image he sees of her before going to his room is that she is still sitting in her chair shaking and unable to register what's happening around her. In the next chapter grandma and son are back on speaking terms, but how she exactly lost her thumb remains ShroudedInMyth, causing many young readers' imaginations to go berserk! A classic example of NothingIsScarier playing into ParanoiaFuel
** The little boy protagonist playing in his tree house, until a strange lady (clearly a witch) tries to talk him into climbing down, so she can give him [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent a pet snake.]] Thanks to learning from his grandmother, he recognizes what she is immediately and flees into the tree, remaining there long after the witch finally leaves and evening sets in...! Then finally his grandmother comes looking for him.
** This book is filled with nightmare fuel, but the worst was when you are told that American witches particularly like turning children into food and getting their parents to eat them.
** Quentin Blake's illustrations to the story are equally terrifying. Some of those witches are just... stuff to lie awake about at night.
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* The non-friendly giants in ''Literature/TheBFG''. Especially in the film version, which gives the giants blue skin, horrible voices and slobbery jaws. They were pretty much designed to cause nightmares and lack of sleep in children, particularly because they prey on children while they sleep in their beds.
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* The non-friendly giants in ''Literature/TheBFG''. Especially in the film version, which gives the giants blue skin, horrible voices and slobbery jaws. They were pretty much designed to cause nightmares and lack of sleep in children, particularly because they prey on children while they sleep in their beds.''Literature/TheBFG'' has [[NightmareFuel/TheBFG its own page]].
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* "Beware of the Dog": A short story told from the perspective of a downed British fighter pilot who's in Occupied France the whole time.
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* "Beware of the Dog": A short story told from the perspective of a downed British fighter pilot who's who crashes his plane after losing his right leg in a dogfight, and wakes up in hospital in Brighton. Piecing together clues that something's off and quickly reaching a chilling conclusion, he realizes he's in Occupied France the whole time.time when he sees a sign in French saying the titular phrase. The hospital staff surrounding him are Germans pretending to be British, and with only one leg, he's trapped. It's implied there's a guard dog outside to prevent him from escaping, hence the sign.
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** Some parents tried to ban this story, because it contained alarming similarities to the real-life case of the toddler James Bulger, who was abducted by two ten-year old boys, who tortured him to death, and left him on a railway line.
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--> '''The mere sight of her digging her filthy fingers into a jar of sweets would have caused a starving tramp to go running from the shop.'''
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--> '''The The mere sight of her digging her filthy fingers into a jar of sweets would have caused a starving tramp to go running from the shop.'''shop.
* Some memories described in his second autobiography ''Going Solo'' are similarly disturbing: watching the "snake man" capture a deadly green mamba which had entered a house, being made to confront armed and angry German civilians the day war was declared (and seeing their leader shot dead), crash-landing a fighter plane in the desert, and escaping from the burning wreck, having been literally (but not permanently) blinded by the crash.
* Some memories described in his second autobiography ''Going Solo'' are similarly disturbing: watching the "snake man" capture a deadly green mamba which had entered a house, being made to confront armed and angry German civilians the day war was declared (and seeing their leader shot dead), crash-landing a fighter plane in the desert, and escaping from the burning wreck, having been literally (but not permanently) blinded by the crash.
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* Dahl's descriptions of some of the misadventures he actually suffered as a child in the memoir ''Boy'', including almost losing his nose in a car accident and having his tonsils removed without anethstetic, are enough to make your skin crawl. The description of the horrid old woman who ran the local sweet shop, digging her filth-encrusted fingernails into a jar of toffee, is also the stuff of nightmares.
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* Dahl's descriptions of some of the misadventures he actually suffered as a child in the memoir ''Boy'', including almost losing his nose in a car accident and having his tonsils adenoids removed without anethstetic, are enough to make your skin crawl. The description of the horrid old woman who ran the local sweet shop, digging her filth-encrusted fingernails into a jar of toffee, is also the stuff of nightmares.nightmares.
--> '''The mere sight of her digging her filthy fingers into a jar of sweets would have caused a starving tramp to go running from the shop.'''
--> '''The mere sight of her digging her filthy fingers into a jar of sweets would have caused a starving tramp to go running from the shop.'''
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* The fact that the Enormous Crocodile of the eponymous story fully planned on eating children. Think about that. Fortunately, he screwed up his plan from the get-go by telling four other animals of what he intended to do, resulting in them stopping him and ultimately killing him.
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* The fact that the Enormous Crocodile of the eponymous story fully planned on eating children. Think about that. Fortunately, [[WhatAnIdiot he screwed up his plan from the get-go by telling four other animals of what he intended to do, resulting in them stopping him and ultimately killing him.him]].
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* ''The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More'' includes "The Swan", in which a little boy is bullied by two larger boys with guns. One of their first acts is to tie him to a train track, thinking that'll kill him. The boy survives, but the story details his feelings and fears as the train ''rushes over him''. The last act of bullying includes cutting the wings off a dead swan, strapping them to the boy's arms, making him climb a tree, telling him to "fly," and then shooting him in the leg when he refuses to jump off.
** It's not so scary when you realize that he ''does'' fly away. The final paragraphs of the story have him crashing sobbing and bloody through the door of his family house, where his Dad promptly calls the authorities...before cutting the severed wings from the harnesses on his son's arms.
** It's not so scary when you realize that he ''does'' fly away. The final paragraphs of the story have him crashing sobbing and bloody through the door of his family house, where his Dad promptly calls the authorities...before cutting the severed wings from the harnesses on his son's arms.
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* ''The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More'' includes "The Swan", in which a little boy Peter is bullied by two larger boys with guns. One of their first acts is to tie him to a train track, thinking that'll kill him. The boy survives, but the story details his feelings and fears as the train ''rushes over him''. The last act of bullying includes cutting the wings off a dead swan, swan (whom the ruffians had shot, to Peter's chagrin) strapping them to the boy's arms, making him climb a tree, telling him to "fly," and then shooting him in the leg when he refuses to jump off.
off. This is to taunt Peter who was upset when the bullies shot the swan, so one of the bullies jeers "that I'm a magic man, I'll have that swan flying through the air again".
** It's not so scary when you realize that he ''does'' fly away. The final paragraphs of the story have him crashing sobbing and bloody through the door of his family house, where hisDad mum promptly calls the authorities...before cutting the severed wings from the harnesses on his son's arms.
** It's not so scary when you realize that he ''does'' fly away. The final paragraphs of the story have him crashing sobbing and bloody through the door of his family house, where his
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** The vicious Knids on "Space Hotel USA" who casually, yet threateningly, tell Wonka and company to "SCRAM"
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** The vicious Vermicious Knids on "Space Hotel USA" who casually, yet threateningly, tell Wonka and company to "SCRAM"
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* ''Literature/GeorgesMarvelousMedicine'' is in many ways more lighthearted than many of his others, but the effects of the medicine are described in a detail that gets rather gruesome. However, one scene that is even more scary precisely ''because'' it's so mundane is the part where the grandmother scares George by talking about NauseaFuel things she's eaten and makes him think she might be an actual witch. There is every indication that she's lying about any magic powers she might have or the vile insects she has eaten... meaning that she's simply a cruel old bitch deliberately terrorising her grandson while his parents are out, in such a way that even if he told them about it she could all too easily use the JustJokingJustification or downplay it. This scene taps into both the childhood fear of being helpless in the face of cruelty without the support of your parents (a main reason for why [[{{Literature/Matilda}} Miss Trunchbull]] is so scary) with the addition of it happening '''[[DomesticAbuse in your own home]]''', and the AdultFear of knowing that your own child could go through something similar, and that you yourself might not treat it seriously because it would inevitably get softened in the retelling.
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* ''Literature/GeorgesMarvelousMedicine'' ''Literature/GeorgesMarvellousMedicine'' is in many ways more lighthearted than many of his others, but the effects of the medicine are described in a detail that gets rather gruesome. However, one scene that is even more scary precisely ''because'' it's so mundane is the part where the grandmother scares George by talking about NauseaFuel things she's eaten and makes him think she might be an actual witch. There is every indication that she's lying about any magic powers she might have or the vile insects she has eaten... meaning that she's simply a cruel old bitch deliberately terrorising her grandson while his parents are out, in such a way that even if he told them about it she could all too easily use the JustJokingJustification or downplay it. This scene taps into both the childhood fear of being helpless in the face of cruelty without the support of your parents (a main reason for why [[{{Literature/Matilda}} Miss Trunchbull]] is so scary) with the addition of it happening '''[[DomesticAbuse in your own home]]''', and the AdultFear of knowing that your own child could go through something similar, and that you yourself might not treat it seriously because it would inevitably get softened in the retelling.
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** On the topic of ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', the 1960 version added [[FridgeHorror one additional twist]] in the closing minutes: After the bet is aborted, and Carlos' wife is chewing him out for doing this kind of bet again, Creator/SteveMcQueen's character goes to light the cigarette of the woman that had accompanies him. [[WhamShot The lighter fails to light.]][[note]]This is repeated in the 1985 version, but the impact is lessened here as [[AdaptationDeviation here, the gambler manages to light the lighter ten times (albeit a gust of wind blows out the flame) before the bet is aborted]], but the implication remains. As if to make up for that, the amount of fingers remaining Carlos' wife's hand is changed from two [[DarkerAndEdgier to one]].[[/note]]
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** On the topic of ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', the 1960 version added [[FridgeHorror one additional twist]] in the closing minutes: After the bet is aborted, and Carlos' wife is chewing him out for doing this kind of bet again, Creator/SteveMcQueen's character goes to light the cigarette of the woman that had accompanies accompanied him. [[WhamShot The lighter fails to light.]][[note]]This is repeated in the 1985 version, but the impact is lessened here as [[AdaptationDeviation here, the gambler manages to light the lighter ten times (albeit a gust of wind blows out the flame) before the bet is aborted]], but the implication remains. As if to make up for that, the amount of fingers remaining Carlos' wife's hand is changed from two [[DarkerAndEdgier to one]].[[/note]]
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* "Genesis and Catastrophe: A True Story" is only horrific in the aspect that [[ForegoneConclusion the reader ultimately realizes]] [[DownerEnding how this story will end]]. A couple who already lost several children before are about to have birth again. Her mother worries about the fate of their new child and notices he's very frail. The story ends with Klara praying, "He must live, Alois. He must, he must... Oh God, be merciful unto him now..." In any other story, this would be a hopeful ending. However, just a few lines prior, the doctor addressed Alois with [[WhamLine "Herr Hitler"]]. So, in case you missed that: This story concerns a couple by the names of Alois and Klara Hitler, having suffered a string of dead children in the past, giving birth to their newborn son... which they are going to call ''"[[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Adolf]"''...
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* "Genesis and Catastrophe: A True Story" is only horrific in the aspect that [[ForegoneConclusion the reader ultimately realizes]] [[DownerEnding how this story will end]]. A couple who already lost several children before are about to have birth again. Her mother worries about the fate of their new child and notices he's very frail. The story ends with Klara praying, "He must live, Alois. He must, he must... Oh God, be merciful unto him now..." In any other story, this would be a hopeful ending. However, just a few lines prior, the doctor addressed Alois with [[WhamLine "Herr Hitler"]]. So, in case you missed that: This story concerns a couple by the names of Alois and Klara Hitler, having suffered a string of dead children in the past, giving birth to their newborn son... which they are going to call ''"[[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Adolf]"''...Adolf]]"''...
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* "Genesis and Catastrophe: A True Story" is only horrific in the aspect that [[ForgoneConclusion the reader ultimately realizes]] [[DownerEnding how this story will end]]. A couple who already lost several children before are about to have birth again. Her mother worries about the fate of their new child and notices he's very frail. The story ends with Klara praying, "He must live, Alois. He must, he must... Oh God, be merciful unto him now..." In any other story, this would be a hopeful ending. However, just a few lines prior, the doctor addressed Alois with [[WhamLine "Herr Hitler"]]. So, in case you missed that: This story concerns a couple by the names of Alois and Klara Hitler, having suffered a string of dead children in the past, giving birth to their newborn son... which they are going to call ''"[[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Adolf]"''...
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* "Genesis and Catastrophe: A True Story" is only horrific in the aspect that [[ForgoneConclusion [[ForegoneConclusion the reader ultimately realizes]] [[DownerEnding how this story will end]]. A couple who already lost several children before are about to have birth again. Her mother worries about the fate of their new child and notices he's very frail. The story ends with Klara praying, "He must live, Alois. He must, he must... Oh God, be merciful unto him now..." In any other story, this would be a hopeful ending. However, just a few lines prior, the doctor addressed Alois with [[WhamLine "Herr Hitler"]]. So, in case you missed that: This story concerns a couple by the names of Alois and Klara Hitler, having suffered a string of dead children in the past, giving birth to their newborn son... which they are going to call ''"[[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Adolf]"''...
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* "Genesis and Catastrophe": a couple who already lost several children before are about to have birth again. Her mother worries about the fate of their new child and notices he's very frail. The story ends with Klara praying, "He must live, Alois. He must, he must... Oh God, be merciful unto him now..." Then the audience learns the boy's name: {{UsefulNotes/Adolf Hitler}}!
* A real mindfuck is "William and Mary", about a man who dies, but in his will he explains to his wife that he took part in a scientific experiment in which his brain is being transplanted from his body after death, and attached to an artificial heart. The brain would be bathing in a Ringer's solution. One of his eyes could also be hooked up so that he would be able to see. Although the doctor is uncertain whether the brain would regain consciousness, he remains hopeful. The brain, he says, could probably live as long as 200 years connected to the machine. If that isn't horrible enough Mary turns out to hate her husband and enjoys having her revenge on him by taking him home and do everything he always prohibited her from doing, while he just lies there in this helpless state!
* A real mindfuck is "William and Mary", about a man who dies, but in his will he explains to his wife that he took part in a scientific experiment in which his brain is being transplanted from his body after death, and attached to an artificial heart. The brain would be bathing in a Ringer's solution. One of his eyes could also be hooked up so that he would be able to see. Although the doctor is uncertain whether the brain would regain consciousness, he remains hopeful. The brain, he says, could probably live as long as 200 years connected to the machine. If that isn't horrible enough Mary turns out to hate her husband and enjoys having her revenge on him by taking him home and do everything he always prohibited her from doing, while he just lies there in this helpless state!
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* "Genesis and Catastrophe": a Catastrophe: A True Story" is only horrific in the aspect that [[ForgoneConclusion the reader ultimately realizes]] [[DownerEnding how this story will end]]. A couple who already lost several children before are about to have birth again. Her mother worries about the fate of their new child and notices he's very frail. The story ends with Klara praying, "He must live, Alois. He must, he must... Oh God, be merciful unto him now..." Then In any other story, this would be a hopeful ending. However, just a few lines prior, the audience learns doctor addressed Alois with [[WhamLine "Herr Hitler"]]. So, in case you missed that: This story concerns a couple by the boy's name: {{UsefulNotes/Adolf Hitler}}!
names of Alois and Klara Hitler, having suffered a string of dead children in the past, giving birth to their newborn son... which they are going to call ''"[[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Adolf]"''...
* A real mindfuck is "William and Mary", about a man who dies, but in his will he explains to his wife that he took part in a scientific experiment in which his brain is being transplanted from his body after death, and attached to an artificial heart. The brain would be bathing in a Ringer's solution. One of his eyes could also be hooked up so that he would be able to see. Although the doctor is uncertain whether the brain would regain consciousness, he remains hopeful. The brain, he says, could probably live as long as 200 years connected to the machine. If that isn't horrible enough Mary turns out to hate her husband and enjoys having her revenge on him by taking him home and do everything he always prohibited her from doing, while he just lies there in this helplessstate!state.
* A real mindfuck is "William and Mary", about a man who dies, but in his will he explains to his wife that he took part in a scientific experiment in which his brain is being transplanted from his body after death, and attached to an artificial heart. The brain would be bathing in a Ringer's solution. One of his eyes could also be hooked up so that he would be able to see. Although the doctor is uncertain whether the brain would regain consciousness, he remains hopeful. The brain, he says, could probably live as long as 200 years connected to the machine. If that isn't horrible enough Mary turns out to hate her husband and enjoys having her revenge on him by taking him home and do everything he always prohibited her from doing, while he just lies there in this helpless
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** On the topic of ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', the 1960 version added [[FridgeHorror one additional twist]] in the closing minutes: After the bet is aborted, and Carlos' wife is chewing him out for doing this kind of bet again, Creator/SteveMcQueen's character goes to light the cigarette of the woman that had accompanies him. [[WhamShot The lighter fails to light.]][[note]]This is repeated in the 1985 version, but the impact is lessened here as [[AdaptationDeviation here, the gambler manages to light the lighter ten times (albeit a gust of wind blows out the flame) before the bet is aborted]], but the implication remains. As if to make up for that, the amount of fingers remaining Carlos' wife's hand is changed from two [[DarkerAndEdgier to one]].[[/note]]
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** [[FridgeHorror Do you know what's really scary?]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Nilsen Things disturbingly close to that]] have ''[[TruthInTelevision really happened]]''.
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** They made a TV episode out of this for the original ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', directed by the master himself. The guy making the bet? ''Peter Lorre.'' There is also a version from the 1985 revival of the series, with John Huston in Lorre's role. Both adaptations add [[FridgeHorror one additional disturbing detail]] to the story: in the middle of the wife's explanation at the end, the cadet attempts to light a cigarette to calm his nerves (or the cigarette of the young woman he was flirting with in the Hitchcock version)... [[WhamShot and the lighter fails to start.]]
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** They made a TV episode out of this for the original ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', directed by the master himself. The guy making the bet? ''Peter Lorre.'' There is also a version from the 1985 revival of the series, with John Huston in Lorre's role. Both adaptations add [[FridgeHorror one additional disturbing detail]] to the story: in the middle of the wife's explanation at the end, the cadet attempts to light a cigarette to calm his nerves (or the cigarette of the young woman he was flirting with in the Hitchcock version)... [[WhamShot and the lighter fails to start.]]
