History NightmareFuel / TheGodfather

* Luca Brasi plays only a brief role in the film trilogy, and we learn little about him before he's killed. In the novel, however, we learn more of his past - and there he is pure Nightmare Fuel, as it is described that he dismembered a rival gangster with an ax ''slowly'', and even ''had his own his own baby thrown into an incinerator'' because he wanted none of the mother's Irish people to live (and later murdered the mother himself for good measure).

** Try to imagine the mechanics of ''severing a full-grown thoroughbred horse's head". Er.. on second thought, '''DON'T.'''

** Unlike other fictional mobsters, many of whom are just plain cranky thugs with a HairTriggerTemper like his own brother Sonny, Michael is the opposite here, making him much more deadly. Michael is cunning, convincing, intelligent, incredibly good at showing a polite facade, rarely loses his composure, and has absolutely no problem in massacring all his rivals, even sending his henchmen on suicide missions, like the hitman who murdered Roth. And remember that massacring enemies is a plan that he carries out in all three movies. It certainly doesn't help that he has one of the highest body counts in the trilogy.

*** It's an effective JumpScare even if you are expecting it, especially if you're in a theater. The large screen and louder acoustics can make even the most seasoned of watchers get startled. Speaking from experience.

* Michael saying to Al Neri about Fredo; “I don’t want anything to happen to him while my mother’s alive.” Basically he’s just given Fredo a death sentence and the look on his face a his mother’s funeral says it all.

* The very cold and calculated way in which Michael kills Sollozzo and [=McCluskey=] in a restaurant. He retrieves a gun from the men's room, and then sits back down at the table. The camera slowly zooms in on his face as we hear the [[HellIsThatNoise screeching of a Pelham Line train passing by, drowning out Sollozzo's Italian dialogue]], before Michael fires the gun into Sollozzo's head, which emits a PinkMist of blood and brain, before shooting [=McCluskey=], once in the neck, and then once more in the face, killing him. The whole scene plays out like something out of a slasher movie.

* Any parent will find Mary's death to be pure NightmareFuel. The thought of watching your own child die in front of you is enough to make anyone remain sleepless.