History NightmareFuel / SilentHills

* Part of what makes the scares so effective in the ''[=P.T.=]'' trailer is that it all takes place in an [[RealismInducedHorror ordinary suburban home]].

-->'''Fetus''': You got fired, so you [[DrowningMySorrows drowned your sorrows in booze]]. She had to get a part-time job working a grocery store cash register. Only reason she could earn a wage at all is the manager liked how she looked in a skirt. You remember, right? Exactly ''10 months back''.

--> '''Radio:''' I got a message for all you folks out in radio land. Now's the time for action. Our society is rotten to the core. I'm talking to all the fine, upstanding folks got their welfare cut, got their jobs pulled out from under 'em. Yeah you! You know what to do! Now's the time! Do it!

** Something even worse about that broadcast is the music that plays. [[https://youtu.be/FSPyNEZC_b8 here]] is the full audio file that plays, music included. Notice how strangely [[SoundtrackDissonance upbeat and jovial]] that music is compared to how horrifying that voice is? And how distorted and broken the whole thing sounds despite that? It isn't as outwardly terrifying as the voice or what it's saying, but it is definitely more ''haunting''.

* The soundtrack to the playable teaser is mainly just several different [[DroneOfDread Drones of Dread]] that feature strange sounds interspersed throughout. Glitchy, broken audio plays at points that sounds something like Morse code or a busted phone line. Pounding sounds that seem to come from far away and can only be described as metal upon metal. It goes on and on, and it just gets worse and worse. [[https://youtu.be/QQRJIYnokUs Here]] is a taste of it.

-->Look behind you.
-->''I said'', '''[[EnemyRisingBehind look behind you]]'''.

* The voice of the murdered son (who sounds a ''lot'' older than ten) that appears after the teaser, and how unfazed by his own murder he seems to be. Even worse for those that paid close attention to the fetus in the bathroom after looking through the peephole... that voice ''comes from the fetus in the sink'', with the mouth moving in time with the words, strongly implying that the father had murdered his family because his wife had had an affair, with said fetus being the result. Plus, he announces his desire to return, along with how he plans to bring his "new toys" along. Listen closely. During that part of the sentence, the voice changes to a more menacing, gruffer one. It also switches from the sound of over a radio to that of ''someone right next to you''.

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** Sometimes you can also find her standing in the window or behind you in the bathroom mirror. Worst part? When you look around you in aforementioned scene, she's not there.

* If you understand Swedish , the Swedish-speaking demonic radio is pretty disturbing. This is the rough translation:

* Part of what makes the scares so effective in the ''[=P.T.=]'' trailer is that it all takes place in an ordinary suburban home.

-->''"Close your eyes. Let your ears listen to the radio. Do you hear my voice? Can you hear your own soul's scream? Let us choose. My voice that tells the future. Or your tortured (inaudible). Well, what do you choose? You can choose. Your life, your future. Wise as you are you might already have discovered it. Yes, the radio drama from 75 years ago was true. They are here on our earth and they monitor and see all. Don't trust anyone. Don't trust the police. They are already controlled by them. That's the way it has been for 75 years now. Only our best will prevail. You have a right. A right to become one of us. So, welcome to our world. Very soon the gates to a new dimension will open. 204863. 204863."''

[[caption-width-right:345:Yes, that's a crying fetus. [[SurrealHorror It talks to you too]].]]

* The voice of the murdered son (who sounds a ''lot'' older than ten) that appears afters the teaser, and how unphased by his own murder he seems to be. Even worse for those that paid close attention to the fetus in the bathroom after looking through the peephole... that voice ''comes from the fetus in the sink'', with the mouth moving in time with the words, strongly implying that the father had murdered his family because his wife had had an affair, with said fetus being the result. Plus, he announces his desire to return, along with how he plans to bring his "new toys" along. Listen closely. During that part of the sentence, the voice changes to a more menacing, gruffer one. It also switches from the sound of over a radio to that of ''someone right next to you''.

* The voice of the murdered son (who sounds a ''lot'' older than ten) that appears afters the teaser, and how unphased by his own murder he seems to be. Even worse for those that paid close attention to the fetus in the bathroom after looking through the peephole... that voice ''comes from the fetus in the sink'', with the mouth moving in time with the words, strongly implying that the father had murdered his family because [[YourCheatingHeart his wife had had an affair]], with said fetus being the result. Plus, he announces his desire to return, along with how he plans to bring his "new toys" along. Listen closely. During that part of the sentence, the voice changes to a more menacing, gruffer one. It also switches from the sound of over a radio to that of ''someone right next to you''.

* If you understand Swedish (for example, LetsPlay/PewDiePie does, natch), the Swedish-speaking demonic radio is pretty disturbing. This is the rough translation:

* And Lisa herselfL

In an interactive teaser, ''Silent Hills'' has already given people a severe case of the heebie-jeebies.

* The fetus found in the sink. What makes it worse is that you're locked in the bathroom with it for a while...''while'' it's wailing.
** What's worse is that it's not just normal crying. It ''[[HellIsThatNoise screams in agony]]''.
** And later, it ''talks to you''. ''[[VocalDissonance With an adult male's voice]]''.

* The eyes that replace every picture in the home after looping through the house several times.
** On top of that, the looping eyes are accompanied by [[RedFilterOfDoom the entire hallway turning red]], your vision blurring, and your character suddenly sprinting through the hall. The UnexpectedGameplayChange can be rather jarring.
* When you first start up the game, you're greeted with the sight of [[BodyHorror two giant cockroaches stuck end to end]].
** Not so much BodyHorror if you know how cockroaches mate. But then it just becomes {{Squick}}.

* The voice of the murdered son (who sounds a ''lot'' older than ten) that appears afters the teaser, and how unphased by his own murder he seems to be. Even worse for those that paid close attention to the fetus in the bathroom after looking through the peephole... that voice ''comes from the fetus in the sink'', with the mouth moving in time with the words, strongly implying that [[spoiler: the father had murdered his family because [[YourCheatingHeart his wife had had an affair]], with said fetus being the result]].
-->[[spoiler: '''Fetus''': You got fired, so you [[DrowningMySorrows drowned your sorrows in booze]]. She had to get a part-time job working a grocery store cash register. Only reason she could earn a wage at all is the manager liked how she looked in a skirt. You remember, right? Exactly ''10 months back''.]]
** Plus, he announces his desire to return, along with how he plans to bring his "new toys" along.
*** Listen closely. During that part of the sentence, the voice changes to a more menacing, gruffer one.
*** It also switches from the sound of over a radio to that of ''someone right next to you''.
* The radio that replays the broadcast of the murdered family, even when it's off. Plus, after looping through the house several times, there's a voice that speaks to you while the original broadcast is going on.
** The second voice sometimes says an ominous number, or "Don't trust the tap water" or "Look behind you. I said, look behind you."

* The peephole in the bathroom on its own is scary enough. But when you're in the bathroom, if you line yourself up properly, you can see light shining through it. Later on, when the house starts falling apart, you discover it was hidden behind one of the now fallen pictures in the hallway, meaning while you were in there earlier, someone or something else had been looking through it. Worse still is the dialogue that plays when you look through it.
** The dialogue from the radio during this scene is:

* And Lisa herself. In addition to sometimes attacking you, there is one loop in which she will stand in the middle of the hallway, impeding your progress. Do you try and approach her? Or wait for her to go away?

* One of the photographs in the hallway is of a happy husband and wife. One of the puzzles in the game involves the woman's right eye getting poked out, which is creepy enough, but when you do this, her other eye becomes small and completely black.
** There's also an blink-and-you'll-miss-it difference with the wedding photograph between certain loops. In the loop when you have to poke the woman's eye out, right next to the line "Gouge it out", you can see the man's finger is pointing at the woman's eye, as if he was telling you to do that. Before you entered this loop, the man was ''not'' pointing that, which means [[CreepyChangingPainting the photograph has]] ''[[CreepyChangingPainting changed]]'' [[CreepyChangingPainting between the loops!]]

* The graffiti on the walls. "There is a monster inside of me", "I can hear them calling me from hell"...
** The letters on one wall's graffiti can even move to a different place when you're not looking.

-->''[[spoiler:"Close your eyes. Let your ears listen to the radio. Do you hear my voice? Can you hear your own soul's scream? Let us choose. My voice that tells the future. Or your tortured (inaudible). Well, what do you choose? You can choose. Your life, your future. Wise as you are you might already have discovered it. Yes, the radio drama from 75 years ago was true. They are here on our earth and they monitor and see all. Don't trust anyone. Don't trust the police. They are already controlled by them. That's the way it has been for 75 years now. Only our best will prevail. You have a right. A right to become one of us. So, welcome to our world. Very soon the gates to a new dimension will open. 204863. 204863."'']]

In an interactive trailer, ''Silent Hills'' has already given people a severe case of the heebie jeebies.

* Part of what makes the scares so effective in the ''[=PT=]'' trailer is that it all takes place in an ordinary suburban home.
* The fetus found in the sink. What makes it worse is that you're locked in the bathroom with it for a while and it still cries.

** And then it ''talks to you''. ''[[VocalDissonance With an adult male's voice]]''.

* The voice of the murdered son (who sounds a lot older than ten) that appears afters the teaser, and how unphased by his own murder he seems to be. Even worse for those that paid close attention to the fetus in the bathroom after looking through the peephole... that voice ''comes from the fetus in the sink'', with the mouth moving in time with the words, strongly implying that [[spoiler: the father had murdered his family because [[YourCheatingHeart his wife had had an affair]], with said fetus being the result]].

** Plus, he announces his desire to return, along with how he plans to bring "new toys".

* Even the mundane stuff in the halls is creepy. Discarded alcohol bottles, piles of pills and candy on one cupboard... [[RoomFullOfCrazy Not the kind of house a mentally healthy person would live in]].
* The talking paper bag. It is describing the situation you currently find yourself in: "I walked. All I could do was walk." The second part it mentions, "finding a me that wasn't me, walking in front of myself" doesn't happen to you...but this might be Kojima breaking the fourth wall, describing a third-person game like most Silent Hills. "The only me is me. Are you sure the only you is you?" Hideo Kojima, making standard video game conventions creepy, somehow.

* And Lisa herself. In addition to sometimes attacking you, there is one loop in which she will stand in the middle of the hallway, impeding your progress. Do you try and approach her or wait for her to go away?

* The worst thing about the one jump scare (that is repeatable) in this game is that it is calculated to work on you even when you know it's coming. You will notice you have an extra set of footsteps when you walk--this usually happens when Lisa speeds past you with a shriek, indicating that she's right behind you now[[note]]or maybe when the radio tells you to turn around right now[[/note]]. Turn around, expecting to get jumped...nothing. Then five seconds later, right when you exhale, BOOM! Horrible twitching corpse in your face, choking the life out of you. After you fall to the ground, the camera shot lingers and twitches a bit, with sounds implying you're getting chewed on or [[{{Squick}} worse]]. Then you wake back up in the black room...

* If you understand Swedish, the Swedish-speaking demonic radio is pretty disturbing. This is the rough translation:

-->I said, look behind you.

** On top of that, the looping eyes are accompanied by the entire hallway turning red, your vision blurring, and your character suddenly sprinting through the hall. The UnexpectedGameplayChange can be rather jarring.

** And then it ''talks to you''. ''With an adult male's voice''.

** There's also an blink-and-you'll-miss-it difference with the wedding photograph between certain loops. In the loop when you have to poke the woman's eye out, right next to the line "Gouge it out", you can see the man's finger is pointing at the woman's eye, as if he was telling you to do that. Before you entered this loop, the man was ''not'' pointing that, which means the photograph has ''changed'' between the loops!

* The voice of the murdered son (who sounds a lot older than ten) that appears afters the teaser, and how unphased by his own murder he seems to be. Even worse for those that paid close attention to the fetus in the bathroom after looking through the peephole... that voice ''comes from the fetus in the sink'', with the mouth moving in time with the words, strongly implying that [[spoiler: the father had murdered his family because his wife had had an affair, with said fetus being the result]].

* The deformed baby found in the sink. What makes it worse is that you're locked in the bathroom with it for a while and it still cries.

[[caption-width-right:345:Yes, that's a crying fetus. [[SurrealHorror it talks to you too]].]]

* In one of the loops, before you walk into the foyer, you'll see.... Something standing there. If you get close to it, the lights go out, and when they turn back on, the thing is gone, and only cockroaches remain where it stood. If you stop right before the foyer and look at it, it's a tall man-shaped thing of some kind with a tilted head and pointed feet, looking like a mix of zombie and scarecrow. Most players only see it for a few seconds and it never comes up again.

** The second voice sometimes says an ominous number, or "Don't trust the tap water" or "Look behind you. I said, look behind you." [[ParanoiaFuel Considering the ghost likes to attack you from behind when you turn around sometimes...]]
* Even the mundane stuff in the halls is creepy. Discarded alcohol bottles, piles of pills and candy on one cupboard... [[RoomFullOfCrazy Not the kind of house a healthy person would live in]].

* The box hanging from the ceiling near the door. There's sounds of a distressed baby coming from inside and blood dripping down.

* Whenever Lisa attacks you and gets ''really'' uncomfortably close to your face. The sounds that accompany her are not pleasant either, especially when the attack finishes with what sounds like a neck breaking.

* Whenever Lisa attacks you and gets up in your face. The sounds that accompany her are not pleasant either, especially when the attack finishes with what sounds like a neck breaking.