History NightmareFuel / TheLighthouse

--> '''Thomas Wake''': "How long have we been on this rock? Five weeks? Two days? Help me to recollect."

--> '''Thomas Wake:''' ''''DAMN'''' ye! [[DisproportionateRetribution Neptune strike ye dead, Winslow!]] ''''[[SuddenlyShouting HAAAARK!]]''''

-->'''Wake''': To ye, me beauty.

-->'''Wake''': ''''DAMN''' ye!'' Let Neptune strike ye dead, Winslow! ''''[[SuddenlyShouting HAAA]][[TheScream AAAA]][[SkywardScream RRRRRK]]!'''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Hark! Triton! Hark!]] Bellow! [[LordOfTheOcean Bid our father, the Sea-King]] arise from the depths [[UnstoppableRage full foul in His fury]], black waves teaming with salt-foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye! Engorging your organs [[AndIMustScream 'till ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more]], only when [[EldritchAbomination He]], crowned in cockleshells, with [[TentacledTerror slithering, tentacled tail]] and steaming beard, take up His fell, be-finned arm; His coral-tined trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest [[NoKillLikeOverkill and plunges right through your gullet! BURSTING YE, a bulging bladder no more, but a blasted, bloody film now - a nothing for the harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon]] only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the Dread Emperor Himself, [[{{Unperson}} forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any God or Devil, forgotten even to the sea,]] for [[CessationOfExistence any stuff or part of Winslow, even any scantling of your soul, is Winslow no more, but is now itself the sea]]!

[[caption-width-right:350:''''[[TheScream HAAAAARK!]]'''']]

** His [[HellIsThatNoise hysterical screaming]], slowly reducing to bursts of distorted static.

* The [[SickeningCrunch sickening crunches]] heard as Winslow tumbles down the stairs, breaking his neck. With only his screams and grunts and no music.
* The final shot of Winslow getting defecated upon and his insides pecked out by seagulls. [[AndIMustScream And he's still alive to witness it]]. Now consider the possibility that this is his version of Hell, and he's going to be stuck that way ''forever''.
** His inaudible wincing and coughing in pain doesn't help either.

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--> '''Thomas Wake:''' DAMN ye! [[DisproportionateRetribution Neptune strike ye dead, Winslow!]] [[SuddenlyShouting HAAAARK!]]

-->'''Wake''': ''DAMN ye!'' Let Neptune strike ye dead, Winslow! [[SuddenlyShouting HAAA]][[TheScream AAAA]][[SkywardScream RRRRRK]]! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Hark! Triton! Hark!]] Bellow! [[LordOfTheOcean Bid our father, the Sea-King]] arise from the depths [[UnstoppableRage full foul in His fury]], black waves teaming with salt-foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye! Engorging your organs [[AndIMustScream 'till ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more]], only when [[EldritchAbomination He]], crowned in cockleshells, with [[TentacledTerror slithering, tentacled tail]] and steaming beard, take up His fell, be-finned arm; His coral-tined trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest [[NoKillLikeOverkill and plunges right through your gullet! BURSTING YE, a bulging bladder no more, but a blasted, bloody film now - a nothing for the harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon]] only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the Dread Emperor Himself, [[{{Unperson}} forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any God or Devil, forgotten even to the sea,]] for [[CessationOfExistence any stuff or part of Winslow, even any scantling of your soul, is Winslow no more, but is now itself the sea]]!

* As darkly comic as the scene where Wake curses Winslow is, it's also quite scary. The way Wake is shot, looming over the camera framed by shadows, makes him barely look human. The monologue, although hilariously over the top, is still genuinely chilling and Wake becomes more and more serious the longer it goes on to the point that Winslow looks frightened; and by the time he's finished, Wake's face has shifted from furious anger to fear and awe, as though he's scaring ''himself'' with the horrors he's invoking.
-->'''Wake''': ''DAMN ye!'' Let Neptune strike ye dead, Winslow! [[SuddenlyShouting HAAA]][[TheScream AAAA]][[SkywardScream RRRRRK]]! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Hark! Triton! Hark!]] Bellow! Bid [[LordOfTheOcean our father, the Sea-King]] arise from the depths [[UnstoppableRage full foul in His fury]], black waves teaming with salt-foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye! Engorging your organs [[AndIMustScream 'till ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more]], only when [[EldritchAbomination He]], crowned in cockleshells, with [[TentacledTerror slithering, tentacled tail]] and steaming beard, take up His fell, be-finned arm; His coral-tined trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest [[NoKillLikeOverkill and plunges right through your gullet! BURSTING YE, a bulging bladder no more, but a blasted, bloody film now - a nothing for the harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon]] only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the Dread Emperor Himself, [[{{Unperson}} forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any God or Devil, forgotten even to the sea,]] for [[CessationOfExistence any stuff or part of Winslow, even any scantling of your soul, is Winslow no more, but is now itself the sea]]!

-->'''Wake''': ''DAMN ye!'' Let Neptune strike ye dead, Winslow! [[SuddenlyShouting HAAA]][[TheScreamAAAA]][[SkywardScream RRRRRK]]! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Hark! Triton! Hark!]] Bellow! Bid [[LordOfTheOcean Our Father, the Sea-King]] arise from the depths [[UnstoppableRage full foul in His fury]], black waves teaming with salt-foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye! Engorging your organs [[AndIMustScream 'till ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more]], only when [[EldritchAbomination He]], crowned in cockleshells, with [[TentacledTerror slithering, tentacled tail]] and steaming beard, take up His fell, be-finned arm; His coral-tined trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest [[NoKillLikeOverkill and plunges right through your gullet! BURSTING YE, a bulging bladder no more, but a blasted, bloody film now - a nothing for the harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon]] only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the Dread Emperor Himself, [[{{Unperson}} forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any God or Devil, forgotten even to the sea,]] for [[CessationOfExistence any stuff or part of Winslow, even any scantling of your soul, is Winslow no more, but is now itself the sea]]!

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--> '''Thomas Wake:''' Damn ye! Let Neptune strike ye dead, Winslow. [[SuddenlyShouting HAAAARK!]]
** Becomes major NightmareRetardant when it's revealed that he's cursing Ephraim to eternal damnation for saying… that Wake's cooking sucks. Though it does say something about Wake that [[SeriousBusiness he made his opinions on such a mundane thing so unnerving]].

-->'''Wake''': ''Damn ye!'' Let Neptune strike ye dead, Winslow. [[SuddenlyShouting HAAAAAAARK]]! Hark! Triton! Hark! Bellow! Bid [[LordOfTheOcean Our Father, the Sea-King]] arise from the depths [[UnstoppableRage full foul in His fury]], black waves teaming with salt-foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye! Engorging your organs [[AndIMustScream 'till ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more]], only when [[EldritchAbomination He]], crowned in cockleshells, with [[TentacledTerror slithering, tentacled tail]] and steaming beard, take up His fell, be-finned arm; His coral-tined trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest [[NoKillLikeOverkill and plunges right through your gullet! BURSTING YE, a bulging bladder no more, but a blasted, bloody film now - a nothing for the harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon]] only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the Dread Emperor Himself, [[{{Unperson}} forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any God or Devil, forgotten even to the sea,]] for [[CessationOfExistence any stuff or part of Winslow, even any scantling of your soul, is Winslow no more, but is now itself the sea]]!

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** It's worse when you consider Thomas' rant above and the specific mention of [[TheCloudCuckoolanderWasRight "a nothing for the harpies and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon"]].

--->''"[[GoMadFromTheRevelation Some say when he touched the light he saw everything.]] [[NothingIsScarier Some say when he touched the light he saw absolutely nothing.]] Both are horrifying enough to drive a man insane."''

** Becomes major NightmareRetardant when it's revealed that he's cursing Ephraim to eternal damnation for saying…that Wake's cooking sucks. Though it does say something about Wake that [[SeriousBusiness he made his opinions on such a mundane thing so unnerving]].

** Becomes major NightmareRetardant when it's revealed that he's cursing Ephraim to eternal damnation for saying his cooking sucks.

* As darkly comic as the scene where Wake curses Winslow is, it's also quite scary. The way Wake is shot, looming over the camera framed by shadows, makes him barely look human. The monologue, although hilariously over the top, is still genuinely chilling and Wake becomes more and more serious the longer it goes on to the point that Winslow looks frightened, and by the time he's finished Wake's face has shifted from furious anger to fear and awe, as though he's scaring ''himself'' with the horrors he's invoking.

** Speaking of which, look closely at Wake during the entire scene. From a certain point all the way till he finishes his speech, [[TheUnblinking he never blinks]].

** As if that wasn't enough, there's the eerie wording Eggers chose in his [[ShrugOfGod un-explanation]] of the scene -- if you had seen what Winslow saw, you would've had the same reaction.

* The [[SickeningCrunch sickening crunches]] heard as Winslow tumbles down the stairs, breaking his neck. With only his screams and no music.

--> '''Thomas Wake''': "How long have we been on this rock? Five weeks? Two Days? Help me to recollect."

* Wake's "Why'd ya spilled yer beans?" quote eerily echoing throughout the first trailer.

** Becomes major NightmareRetardant when it's revealed that he's cursing Ephraim to eternal damnation for [[RantInducingSlight saying his cooking sucks]].