History NightmareFuel / SherlockHolmes2009

---> '''Moran:'''' (In German) If they get away, you are a ''dead'' ''man!''

!! The First Movie:

!! A Game of Shadows:

** It also invoked MaybeMagicMaybeMundane in an incredibly creepy fashion; as Sherlock points out, even if Blackwood didn't believe in any of the magic he invoked, he still performed every rite to the letter, and thus "the Devil is due a soul." The CreepyCrow that appears in the scene and the DiabolusExMachina nature of his death are all enough to make you wonder...

* Sir Thomas's death, especially when Blackwood appears out of nowhere, casually steals his ring, and puts it on, all while Sir Thomas is drowning right next to him, unable to move because of the paralytic that was hidden in his bath salt.
* Holmes's boxing match with [=McMurdo=]. Seriously, it's cringe-inducing to watch the hits in slow-motion, because you can ''see the skin rippling with each connecting blow'', especially when his jaw is being broken, to which you can hear an audible ''crunch''.

** His vow to dream up "[[CruelAndUnusualDeath the most creative of endings]] for the doctor...and his wife." Given what we've seen of Moriarty by that point in the movie, the audience knows he's deadly serious, and if his idea of an interrogation involves meat hook torture, God only knows what the cruelest death he could imagine would be. All for the sake of destroying Holmes. And he includes Mary, who as far as he knows hasn't even done anything against him. Maybe even MakeItLookLikeAnAccident of some kind. ''Shiver''.

* Holmes's boxing match with [=McMurdo=]. Seriously, it's cringing to watch the hits in slow-motion, because you can ''see the skin rippling with each connecting blow'', especially when his jaw is being broken, to which you can hear an audible ''crunch''.

* [[spoiler:Sir Thomas's death, especially when Blackwood appears out of nowhere, casually steals his ring, and puts it on, all while Sir Thomas is drowning right next to him, unable to move because of the paralytic that was hidden in his bath salt.]]

* More or less every one of Moriarty's appearances qualify. If attempting to kill Watson out of spite, [[spoiler: murdering Irene once she's outlived her usefulness and then throwing the evidence in Holmes' face]], manipulating a man into planting bombs and [[spoiler: committing suicide]] by threatening his family, or [[spoiler: attempting to start World War I for the sake of war profiteering]] doesn't convince you that the man is a monster, the scene where he [[spoiler: impales Holmes on a meat hook and dangles him from the ceiling]] while gleefully singing along with a cheerful little Schubert tune probably will.
** What makes it more NF-worthy is Sherlock [[spoiler: being yanked skyward out of frame initially.]]
** His vow to dream up "[[CruelAndUnusualDeath the most creative of endings]] for the doctor...and his wife." Given what we've seen of Moriarty by that point in the movie, the audience knows he's deadly serious, and if his idea of an interrogation involves [[spoiler: meat hook torture]], God only knows what the cruelest death he could imagine would be. All for the sake of destroying Holmes. And he includes Mary, who as far as he knows hasn't even done anything against him. Maybe even MakeItLookLikeAnAccident of some kind. ''Shiver''.
** [[spoiler: His "feral" attack on Sherlock during their mental battle of wits. Although in slow motion, you can really feel his speed and ferocity, as if Sherlock were being attacked by a bear.]]

* Poor Watson during the factory scene. He's pinned down by Moran, forced to listen to his best friend [[spoiler: shrieking in agony while Moriarty tortures him]], probably envisioning all sorts of horrific possibilities about what is actually taking place, and unable to do a thing about it. [[spoiler: Until he realizes that he's hiding behind a BFG, at least. And even then, he seems quite aware of the terrifying possibility that his desperate attempt at a rescue has actually killed Holmes.]]

* Blackwood's death. After Sherlock reveals the true nature of his tricks, Blackwood is being dragged by a rope wrapped around his foot, and despite his attempts to hold a firm grip, Blackwood is finally rescued by Sherlock when he cuts the rope with a tomahawk, and soon, a large heap of iron slips down a tow and falls onto Blackwood, causing the tow to shatter and drag him into a bunch of chains that hold him from the fall, but not for long when the iron breaks said chains and sends Blackwood plummeting from the bridge, and while the iron, tow and all the chains fall into the water, there's a long chain coiled around Blackwood's neck and as he falls, we see the chain stretching taut as we hear a loud cutting noise, hanging Blackwood from the bridge and killing him. Eventually, we ''get to see Blackwood's gruesome dangling corpse'' as the camera pans out to reveal the full view of the bridge, and the very fact that this death is extremely reminiscent to Clayton's brutal demise in ''NightmareFuel/{{Tarzan}}'' only makes it even worse.

** His vow to dream up "[[CruelAndUnusualDeath the most creative of endings]] for the doctor...and his wife." Given what we've seen of Moriarty by that point in the movie, the audience knows he's deadly serious, and if his idea of an interrogation involves [[spoiler: meat hook torture]], God only knows what the cruelest death he could imagine would be. All for the sake of destroying Holmes. And he includes Mary, who as far as he knows hasn't even done anything against him. Maybe even MakeItLookLikeAnAccident of some kind.''Shiver''.

* The bombing at the conference, set to music from Don Giovanni. Namely the scene in which the title character is dragged off to Hell by demons.

* Blackwood's death. After Sherlock reveals the true nature of his tricks, Blackwood is being dragged by a rope wrapped around his foot, and despite his attempts to hold a firm grip, Blackwood is finally rescued by Sherlock when he cuts the rope with a tomahawk, and soon, a large heap of iron slips down a tow and falls onto Blackwood, causing the tow to shatter and drag him into a bunch of chains that hold him from the fall, but not for long when the iron breaks said chains and sends Blackwood plummeting from the bridge, and while the iron, tow and all the chains fall into the water, there's a long chain coiled around Blackwood's neck and as he falls, we see the chain stretching taut as we hear a loud cutting noise, hanging Blackwood from the bridge and killing him. Eventually, we ''get to see Blackwood's gruesome dangling corpse'' as the camera pans out to reveal the full view of the bridge, and the very fact that this death is extremely reminiscent to Clayton's brutal demise in ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'' only makes it even worse.

* Blackwood's death. After Sherlock reveals the true nature of his tricks, Blackwood is being dragged by a rope wrapped around his foot, and despite his attempts to hold a firm grip, Blackwood is finally rescued by Sherlock when he cuts the rope with a tomahawk, and soon, a large heap of iron slips down a tow and falls onto Blackwood, causing the tow to shatter and drag him into a bunch of chains that hold him from the fall, but not for long when the iron breaks said chains and sends Blackwood plummeting from the bridge, and while the iron, tow and all the chains fall into the water, there's a long chain coiled around Blackwood's neck and as he falls, we see the chain stretching taut as we hear a loud cutting noise, hanging Blackwood from the bridge and killing him. Eventually, we ''get to see Blackwood's gruesome dangling corpse'' as the camera pans out to reveal the full view of the bridge, and the very fact that this death is extremely reminiscent to Clayton's brutal demise in ''WesternAnimation/Tarzan'' only makes it even worse.

* Blackwood's death. After Sherlock reveals the true nature of his tricks, Blackwood is being dragged by a rope wrapped around his foot, and despite his attempts to hold a firm grip, Blackwood is finally rescued by Sherlock when he cuts the rope with a tomahawk, and soon, a large heap of iron slips down a tow and falls onto Blackwood, causing the tow to shatter and drag him into a bunch of chains that hold him from the fall, but not for long when the iron breaks said chains and sends Blackwood plummeting from the bridge, and while the iron, tow and all the chains fall into the water, there's a long chain coiled around Blackwood's neck and as he falls, we see the chain stretching taut as we hear a loud cutting noise, hanging Blackwood from the bridge and killing him. Eventually, we ''get to see Blackwood's gruesome dangling corpse'' as the camera pans out to reveal the full view of the bridge, and the very fact that this death is extremely reminiscent to Clayton's brutal demise in ''[[WesternAnimation/Tarzan Tarzan]]'' only makes it even worse.

[[caption-width-right:350: "And when the dead walk…the living will fill these coffins."]]

* In the opening scene, Blackwood goads Watson into attacking him while turning to point toward the doctor a long, nearly invisible glass needle. Holmes stops Watson just in time, but Watson is still unnerved when he realizes that he almost got himself impaled through his face/eye.

* [[spoiler:Sir Thomas's death, especially when Blackwood appears out of nowhere, casually steals his ring, and puts it on, all while Sir Thomas is drowning right next to him.]]

* Ambassador Standish's death. Thanks to a hidden sprinkler that sprayed gasoline on him during a rainy night, and the spark from his pulling the trigger of his gun whilst pissed off at Blackwood, Standish gets set on fire, wails helplessly, stumbles through a window ON THE FIFTH FLOOR OF THE BUILDING, and demolishes a parked carriage. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOB26XGLWb8 See for yourself]].

* In the first movie, Ambassador Standish's death. Thanks to a hidden sprinkler that sprayed gasoline on him during a rainy night, and the spark from his pulling the trigger of his gun whilst pissed off at Blackwood, Standish gets set on fire, wails helplessly, stumbles through a window ON THE FIFTH FLOOR OF THE BUILDING, and demolishes a parked carriage. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOB26XGLWb8 See for yourself]].
* More or less every one of Moriarty's appearances in ''A Game of Shadows'' qualifies. If attempting to kill Watson out of spite, [[spoiler: murdering Irene once she's outlived her usefulness and then throwing the evidence in Holmes' face]], manipulating a man into planting bombs and [[spoiler: committing suicide]] by threatening his family, or [[spoiler: attempting to start World War I for the sake of war profiteering]] doesn't convince you that the man is a monster, the scene where he [[spoiler: impales Holmes on a meat hook and dangles him from the ceiling]] while gleefully singing along with a cheerful little Schubert tune probably will.
** What makes it more NF-worthy is Sherlock [[spoiler: being yanked skyward out of frame initially.]]
* His vow to dream up "[[CruelAndUnusualDeath the most creative of endings]] for the doctor...and his wife." Given what we've seen of Moriarty by that point in the movie, the audience knows he's deadly serious, and if his idea of an interrogation involves [[spoiler: meat hook torture]], God only knows what the cruelest death he could imagine would be. All for the sake of destroying Holmes. And he includes Mary, who as far as he knows hasn't even done anything against him. Maybe even MakeItLookLikeAnAccident of some kind.''Shiver''.
* Poor Watson during the factory scene in ''A Game of Shadows''. He's pinned down by Moran, forced to listen to his best friend [[spoiler: shrieking in agony while Moriarty tortures him]], probably envisioning all sorts of horrific possibilities about what is actually taking place, and unable to do a thing about it. [[spoiler: Until he realizes that he's hiding behind a BFG, at least. And even then, he seems quite aware of the terrifying possibility that his desperate attempt at a rescue has actually killed Holmes.]]