History NightmareFuel / SilentHill2

* Much of the soundtrack itself can cause bricks to be shat. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj5ldpXEOxk "Only a Nightmare"]], which is pretty much a distillation of every horrific sound in the Historical Society/Prison/Labyrinth, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgf66PpwEu0 "Death Shamble"]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eogPq7nnvwo "Suddenly Awake"]], which is part of the reason the alternate hospital is so traumatizing.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5gx3BR8wSE "Blood Pulse"]], the music in Room 208 of the Wood Side Aparatments, while tame compared to the rest of the soundtrack, is very disturbing, made up of distorted sounds that sound like groaning metal backed by the ticking of a clock. And when you backtrack through the room later, it's been replaced with the aptly named [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi9kFxGq5-s "Horrific"]], which mixes constant [[DroneOfDread eerie drones]] with what sounds like clanging machinery.
** What's worse than the sounds from facing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5McIwC9IKg Pyramid Head]]? The music while facing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkvJY-YfELs two Pyramid Heads]].

*** But perhaps the most shocking of them all is the painting titled "Crimson and White Banquet of the Gods". It depicts a group of cultists, one of them wearing a red triangular hood. This means that Pyramid Head is a representation of the executioners of The Order, the antagonist cult of the entire franchise.

* Pyramid Head aka the Red Pyramid Thing. An ImplacableMan known for his [[RuleOfSymbolism giant knife]], rusty red helmet, quasi-sexual activities with the other monsters, and ability to make players [[BringMyBrownPants call for their brown pants]].

[[folder: Pyramid Head]]
* Pyramid Head. An ImplacableMan known for his [[RuleOfSymbolism giant knife]], rusty red helmet, quasi-sexual activities with the other monsters, and ability to make players [[BringMyBrownPants call for their brown pants]].

* The Abstract Daddy is possibly the single most ''obscene'' monster in the entire series. Hideous as it is merely to look at, if you couldn't make out exactly what it's supposed to represent, ''you were lucky'' (description concealed to protect the squeamish): it's two figures lying on a bed with the larger, dominant figure on top of the smaller one. In other words, you're ''watching a reenactment of Angela, presumably still underage, being raped by her father before your eyes.'' And then it tries to kill you for interrupting its assault on Angela. Truly horrendous.

[[folder: Abberations]]

** A scripted moment in the apartments where the camera pauses and James hears what sounds like ''a baby crying''. One may have to turn the sound off after that.

* Much of the soundtrack itself can cause bricks to be shat. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj5ldpXEOxk Only a Nightmare]], which is pretty much a distillation of every horrific sound in the Historical Society/Prison/Labyrinth, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgf66PpwEu0 Death Shamble]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eogPq7nnvwo Suddenly Awake]], which is part of the reason the alternate hospital is so traumatizing.

** Also under consideration for terrifying tunes: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgRPiUi4Rys Mangled Corpses]], which plays during the final descent into the Abyss from the prison, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me5YDGjSG3w Invisible Monster]], the Historical Society and Prison music/ambiance.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5gx3BR8wSE "Blood Pulse"]], the music in the apartment area, while tame compared to the rest of the soundtrack, is very disturbing.

* Speaking of Born From a Wish, the entire time that Maria is in the mansion, she hasn't seen the man she's been talking to face-to-face, instead speaking to him through doors. While you get an idea of what's going on after visiting the attic, it's not until Maria leaves through the back door of the house to get to the Lakeview Apartments that it really hits you... someone's spray-painted "KEEP OUT OF HAUNTED MANSION" on a nearby wall.

[[folder: The Town]]

* The grid of nine save squares at the end of the game. They aren't any more effective than a single square - they're just a good indication that there's something very, ''very'' bad in the next room...and there is. ''[[OhCrap Two]]'' [[DualBoss Pyramid Heads]]!

* The Lying Figures that come scuttling and screeching from underneath a car. Not only that, but the Mannequins that randomly levitate out onto the road? It causes suffering in one's heart. Mannequins in general are terrifying considering they... just... stand... there. They don't move until you get close, don't emit static, and seeing one standing motionless in the middle of an empty hallway? Oh. God.

* The moment at the end of the final boss fight when Maria/Mary [[MadnessMantra endlessly repeats James' name]] until he deals the final blow.
* The Abstract Daddy is possibly the single most ''obscene'' monster in the entire series. Hideous as it is merely to look at, if you couldn't make out exactly what it's supposed to represent, ''you were lucky'' (description concealed to protect the squeamish): it's two figures lying on a bed with the larger, dominant figure on top of the smaller one. In other words, you're ''watching a reenactment of Angela, presumably still underage, being raped by her father before your eyes.'' And then it tries to kill you for interrupting its assault on Angela. Truly horrendous.
* Maria herself is also a very unsettling character for a number of reasons. First off, she resembles Mary almost perfectly, she is never seen interacting with any other character besides James, she keeps coming back to life no matter how many times Pyramid Head kills her, and she eventually decides to kill James once he realises the truth behind her origins.
** And the most unsettling and tragic part about Maria is that she isn't inherently evil, as shown in her own desire to help Ernest in ''Born From A Wish'', but is nevertheless a puppet of Silent Hill who is forced to do it's bidding by seducing and tormenting James.

* The Abstract Daddy is possibly the single most ''obscene'' monster in the entire series. Hideous as it is merely to look at, if you couldn't make out exactly what it's supposed to represent, ''you were lucky'' (description concealed to protect the squeamish): [[spoiler:it's two figures lying on a bed with the larger, dominant figure on top of the smaller one. In other words, you're ''watching a reenactment of Angela, presumably still underage, being raped by her father before your eyes.'']] And then it tries to kill you for interrupting its assault on Angela. Truly horrendous.

*** The [[HellIsThatNoise sound]] of the Great Knife as he approaches is like nails on a chalkboard UpToEleven. You'll be minding your own business when suddenly ''*scree* ... '' ''*scree* ...'' ''[[OhCrap *SCREE*]]''

*** Eventually, it feels like he isn't staring at James, he's staring at ''you'', the player.
*** Elaborating on the above statement: During Pyramid Head's first appearance, James hides in the closet and we get a POV shot of him watching Pyramid Head through the slits in the door. After a moment, Pyramid Head suddenly ''looks directly at the camera'' and shuffles towards the closet to investigate. As he slowly closes in, you start to wonder [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou who exactly he's looking at]].

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* Similar to the crying baby sound dummied out of ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'', the sound of Mary's stifled screaming as James kills her is dummied out of this game. Found at the beginning of [[http://youtu.be/mOclWUgVRdY this video]] on some of the secrets in the game, it is ''incredibly'' disturbing.

** One disturbing fact is that you never see Pyramid Head's face. Underneath his metal helmet you can see a tumour-like growth and when he attacks James, an [[OverlyLongTongue long tongue]] or a [[CombatTentacles tentacle-like tendril]] emerges from a hole in his helmet. What exactly is his helmet hiding?
*** Looking closely you can see that the flesh growth appears to be fused to the edge of the helmet. It may be possible that his metal "mask" is actually part of his head.

*** A disturbing little detail in the "Woman In Flight" painting is that one of the buildings is shaped like a ''pyramid''. And in "436 People at a Recital", a lot of the audience members' heads are very... angular.

* Eddie's slow descent into madness; at first he seems like a nice, if oafish, guy, but by his last appearance, he's trying to kill James while bragging about the other people he's killed. And we don't know for sure if he was already nuts or [[DrivenToMadness if his experience in the town made him that way.]]
** Even worse, his description of the [[KickTheDog dog he shot]] is [[TearJerker absolutely gut wrenching]] if you're an animal lover.

* The Lying Figures that come scuttling and screeching from underneath a car. Not only that, but the Mannequins that randomly levitate out onto the road? It causes suffering in one's heart.
** Mannequins in general are terrifying considering they... just... stand... there. They don't move until you get close, don't emit static, and seeing one standing motionless in the middle of an empty hallway? Oh. God.

* How about the sequence that requires you to cross to the center of the prison yard, only to hear what sounds like many people running/jogging/trudging in unison around the edges, near the walls. It's too misty to see that far, and if you get up your nerve to go and investigate there is nothing there, and the sound stops... until you make your way to the central path again. Leaving you with the uneasy feeling that you're being circled repeatedly by the ghosts of the prisoners who took exercise in the yard (and were quite possibly executed on the scaffold you find dead-centre), or possibly that there's some many-legged horror forever one step ahead of you. Or both.
** As he is leaving the prison yard, James hears the sound of galloping horses and finds a horseshoe on the door. This may suggest that alternative to being executed by hanging from the gallows, some prisoners may have been [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanged,_drawn_and_quartered quartered]]. Just suggesting the act and letting your imagination take over is so much worse than actually showing a quartered corpse, because you think about it happening (sounds included) instead of brushing it off as some horrible act of the past.
*** [[JumpScare The choking scream of a prisoner being hanged after you solve the tablet puzzle]] doesn't help.

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner Misty day, remains of the Judgment.]]''

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