History NightmareFuel / TheHungerGames

* The Career tributes, Clove and Cato in particular. One of the most disturbing scenes is after Katniss's leg has been burned and she's soothing it in the lake. The disturbing part: They're ''glad'' that they're about to kill somebody. This is also Fridge Horror when you realize that these people probably reflect their districts.
** Toss in just a moment before - the Gamemasters had run Katniss right into them. Senaca's thoughts: "Get a cannon ready" - and then exchanges a smile with the operator.

* '''The Tracker Jackers'''. Everything about them, from watching them swarm around Glimmer as she screams to Katniss's hallucinatory run from them, is ''terrifying''.

* [[spoiler:Finnick's death.]]

** Let's not forget that He was alive the whole time for hours while this all happened to him. He was suffering for an entire night until Katniss shot him out of mercy, not hate as it had been up until that point. But to make matters worse, she and Peeta sat on the Cornucopia waiting for him to die slowly and painfully, just so the people in the Capitol would have their sick show of violence. Only when Katniss couldn't bear it anymore did she do something about it.

* [[spoiler:Finnick]]'s death.

* [[spoiler:Cato]]'s death, where his flesh was devoured by mutant wolves made out of the bodies (or minds) of the deceased tributes.

* [[spoiler:Finnick's death.]]

* [[spoiler:Cato's death]], where his flesh was devoured by mutant wolves made out of the bodies (or minds) of the deceased tributes.

* Glimmer's face being melted off from the tracker jacker venom.

* Many of the "pods" in Mockingjay.Particularly the one that does in poor Messalla. His skin is melted off.

* Finnick's death.

* Cato's death, where his flesh was devoured by mutant wolves made out of the bodies (or minds) of the deceased tributes.

** The mutts period. Not just their first appearance.

** The mutts period.

* The Games themselves are this. These books do not skimp on the terrifying deaths. There's also the effects of Tracker Jackers on Katniss (who survives) and the careers (some of whom don't), and [[spoiler: Finnick's]] death.
** Throwing teenagers into a death match is bad enough. But turning them into celebrities beforehand, putting them into social situations where they even eat with the people they will eventually kill or be killed by, and even forcing those from the same District to fight against each other, destroying any camaraderie or prior relationship they might have is just plain monstrous. And that's not even getting into what happens to the victors AFTER the Games.
* [[spoiler: Cato's]] death, where his [[spoiler: flesh was devoured by mutant wolves made out of the bodies (or minds) of the deceased tributes.]]
** Let's not forget that [[spoiler: He was alive the whole time for HOURS while this all happened to him. He was suffering for an entire night until Katniss shot him out of mercy, not hate as it had been up until that point. But to make matters worse, she and Peeta sat on the Cornucopia waiting for him to die slowly and painfully, just so the people in the Capitol would have their sick show of violence. Only when Katniss couldn't bear it anymore did she do something about it.]]
* "Tick, tock." There is something deeply unsettling about the whole [[spoiler: "the arena is a clock"]] idea.

*** Katniss' explanation of the song doesn't help.
* [[spoiler:Glimmer's face being melted off from the tracker jacker venom.]]
* [[spoiler:The giant lizard mutts in the Capitol in Mockingjay. Even before the reader sees exactly what they can do, they're described to smell like blood and roses (Snow's signature scent) and are able to say the word "Katniss" in the most frightening way possible.]]
* Many of the "pods" in Mockingjay. [[spoiler: Particularly the one that does in poor Messalla. HIS SKIN IS MELTED OFF.]]

* When the mutts first appear in the arena in the movie. [[spoiler: All you see are Peeta and Katniss running together through the dark woods, then the mutts jump out at you from ''NOWHERE''. One can only imagine if that was in 3D...]]

* [[spoiler: Cato's]] death, where his [[spoiler: limbs and skin were devoured by mutant wolves made out of the bodies (or minds) of the deceased tributes.]]

* The tributes. One of the most disturbing scenes is after Katniss's leg has been burned and she's soothing it in the lake. The disturbing part: They're GLAD that they're about to kill somebody. This is also Fridge Horror when you realize that these people probably reflect their districts.
* '''The Tracker Jackers'''. Everything about them, from watching them swarm around glimmer as she screams, to Katniss's hallucinatory run from them, is ''terrifying''.

** She may have been a psychotic bitch, but I found watching Thresh repeatedly slamming Clove against a wall while she screamed hysterically pretty hard to watch. I didn't blame Thresh for being pissed, but it still was unsettling.

* The tributes. One of the most disturbing scenes is after Katniss's leg has been burned and she's soothing it in the lake. The disturbing part: They're GLAD that they're about to kill somebody. This is also Fridge Horror when you realize that these people probably reflect their districts.

* [[spoiler: Cato's]] death, where his [[spoiler: limbs and skin were devoured by mutant wolves]].
** [[spoiler: Said wolves were made out of the bodies (or minds) of the deceased tributes. Though this is scary in it's own right, it's also eerily reminiscent of the concept of chimeras from ''FullmetalAlchemist''.]]

** [[spoiler: Said wolves were made out of the bodies (or minds) of the deceased tributes]]

* The tributes. One of the most disturbing scenes is after Katniss's leg has been burned and she's soothing it in the lake. The disturbing part: They're GLAD that they're about to kill somebody. This is also [[Fridge Horror]] when you realize that these people probably reflect their districts.

* All the other incidents of violence -- the mutts, Thresh and Clove, Glimmer's death -- are all either really violent so as to be almost unbelievable, covered up with a JitterCam, or not particularly scary, like Rue's death by spear or Foxface's poisoning. The death of the District 3 boy is so senseless, happens so quickly and is done with such little emotion that it's shocking.

* All the other incidents of violence -- the mutts, Thresh and Clove, Foxface's death -- are all either really violent so as to be almost unbelievable, covered up with a JitterCam, or not particularly scary, like Rue's death by spear or Foxface's poisoning. The death of the District 3 boy is so senseless, happens so quickly and is done with such little emotion that it's shocking.