History NightmareFuel / TheTerror

* Jopson hears fading voices outside the tent. He looks out, to see the expedition leaving, a few cans of food stacked outside the sick men's tents. It is horrifically evident: ''they are leaving them there to die.'' And Jopson (and the other dying men)can do nothing about it.

** The soundtrack for the scene makes it all the scarier, building up in a deep droning buzz as Irving approaches, before setting the murder to [[HellIsThatNoise a bizarre mix of distorted, chanting voice clips and clanging bells]].

Crozier returns to ''Terror'' to find the vessel deserted, with the skeleton crew he left aboard before the march south nowhere to be seen. Inside he finds the mummified corpse of someone, or ''something'', described as displaying rodent-like teeth, laying in the bunk of Crozier's former cabin, which had been battened from the outside as if to keep it from escaping. Then, as he's collecting matches from his desk, Crozier ''hears movement coming from the direction of the bunk'' and doesn't dare turn around to see what it is. He promptly covers ''Terror'' in gunpowder and sets the ship ablaze to eradicate ''whatever'' now inhabits it. We are never told what happened to the skeleton crew or just what the hell Crozier found in that cabin. We're just left with the implication that something ''worse'' than the Tuunbaq invaded the ship and either killed the crew or forced them to take their chances in the frozen wilderness outside.

Crozier returns to ''Terror'' to find the vessel deserted, with the skeleton crew he left aboard before the march south nowhere to be seen. Inside he finds the mummified corpse of someone, or ''something'', described as displaying rodent-like teeth, laying in the bunk of Crozier's former cabin, which had been battened from the outside as if to keep it from escaping. Then, as he's collecting matches from his desk, Crozier ''hears movement coming from the direction of the bunk'' and doesn't dare turn around to see what it is. He promptly covers ''Terror'' in gunpowder and sets the ship ablaze to eradicate ''whatever'' now inhabits it. We are never told what happened to the skeleton crew or just what the hell Crozier found in that cabin. We're just left with the implication that something ''worse'' than the Tuunbsq invaded the ship and either killed the crew or forced them to take their chances in the frozen wilderness outside.

Crozier returns to ''Terror'' to find the vessel deserted, with the skeleton crew he left aboard before the march south nowhere to be seen. Inside he finds the mummified corpse of someone, or ''something'', described as displaying rodent-like teeth, laying in the bunk of Crozier's former cabin, which had been battened from the outside as if to contain that... ''thing''. Then, as he's collecting matches from his desk, Crozier ''hears movement coming from the direction of the bunk'' and doesn't dare turn around to see what it is. He promptly covers ''Terror'' in gunpowder and sets the ship ablaze to eradicate ''whatever'' now inhabits it. We are never told what happened to the skeleton crew or just what the hell Crozier found in that cabin. We're just left with the implication that something ''worse'' than the Tuunbsq invaded the ship and either killed the crew or forced them to take their chances in the frozen wilderness outside.

* As David Young slowly succumbs to his as-yet unidentified illness, he starts to stare in horror at the corner of the room as he lays helplessly in bed. The camera slowly zooms in on him, holding off on showing what he sees, before suddenly cutting to reveal that there's a ghostly naked man (apparently the specter of an indigenous shaman) standing silently in the corner, wearing a strange mask that makes his head look like [[TheFaceless a distorted swirl]].

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!!Season 1:

** Doubles as a TearJerker, for Crozier the last of his men have died. All their suffering and efforts were AllForNothing. For Crozier, he feels as though he has utterly failed as a captain, and [[AdultFear failed to keep his word to get them home.]] Formerly well groomed, disciplined and motivated men were reduced to cannibalism and unlike Hickey and his mutineers it was a IDidWhatIHadToDo moment and if Little's appearance is anything to go by, [[IAmAHumanitarian engaging in the act]] of cannibalism, [[WhatHaveIBecome they were utterly ashamed.]]

* SoleSurvivor Crozier comes across Little's crew later on. All of them are dead, and it's clear that they engaged in cannibalism before their deaths. Little himself is barely alive when Crozier finds him. [[BodyHorror He has gold chains sewn into his skin]], and mutters "''close''" to Crozier before he also dies. [[NothingIsScarier His appearance and his last word are not explained.]]

* Goodsir commits suicide by poisoning himself, but slashes his wrists to hide the poison. He does this as [[RegretEatingMe revenge against Hickey]], who he knows will eat his body after he dies. Later, his naked, partially consumed body is laid out on a table by Hickey's people like a banquet.

* The first clear, good look we get at the Tuunbaq as it pursues Blanky up the mast; it's a grotesque beast with an elongated neck, forelegs ending in strangely shaped paws, and a face that's somewhere between a traditional polar bear and a snarling demon with [[UncannyValley very human features]].

* Sir John's [[RaputinianDeath utterly horrific death]]. He stumbles frantically across the ice in hope of survival [[HopeSpot and just barely catches a glimpse of the ships]], only to be caught by the Tuunbaq, which [[AnArmAndALeg tears his leg off]], then throws him headfirst into the fire hole in the ice. He lands on the coal bucket used to keep the hole open, and we can hear flesh and cloth sizzling as it starts to burn him. Then the rope gives way, and he plummets into the freezing water below.

* The end result of Dr. Stanley's SanitySlippage. After Goodsir informs him that the entire food supply is contaminated with lead, he sets the carnival tent [[DrivenToSuicide and himself]] on fire, all while wearing white makeup that makes him look like a ghost. Better yet, there is a close-up shot of his agonized face as he's burning to death.

* Hickey's murder of Irving, who returns to Hickey only to find him kneeling shirtless over Farr. As he approaches, Hickey stands up and stabs him over and over and over before Irving can even react, and then Hickey seems to dance around Irving's dying body in a disturbing, manic fashion.

* The Tuunbaq attacks the camp outright, in a way it hasn't before. Usually it sneaks around and takes its time, but this time, it charges into camp and just starts tearing people apart in gruesome ways.

* Goodsir commits suicide by poisoning himself but slashes his wrists to hide the poison. He does this as [[RegretEatingMe revenge against Hickey]], who he knows will eat his body after he dies. Later, his naked, partially consumed body is laid out on a table by Hickey's people like a banquet.
* The last of Hickey's crew is graphically slaughtered by the Tuunbaq in a truly stomach-churning sequence. Hickey himself saws his own tongue off and offers it to the Tuunbaq, thinking that doing so will make him its master. Instead, the beast effortlessly rips him in half, and the upper half of his body can be seen twitching and grunting afterwards.

* Sir John's utterly horrific death. He stumbles frantically across the ice in hope of survival, only to be caught by the Tuunbaq, which tears his leg off, then throws him headfirst into the fire hole in the ice. He lands on the coal bucket used to keep the hole open, and we can hear flesh and cloth sizzling as it starts to burn him. Then the rope gives way, and he plummets into the freezing water below.

* The titular punishment is no treat, but the scariest part of it might be seeing how close Crozier is to flying off the handle completely, whizzing past righteous anger straight to TheNeidermeyer -- Hickey certainly deserves some manner of punishment for disobeying orders and attacking Lady Silence, but the way Crozier doubles down on the number of lashes to spite Hickey for interrupting him and Crozier's visible enjoyment of such petty cruelty is a glimpse of his dark side.

* The first clear, good look we get at the Tuunbaq as it pursues Blanky up the mast; it's a grotesque beast with an elongated neck and a face that's somewhere between a traditional polar bear and a snarling demon with very human features.

* The end result of Dr. Stanley's SanitySlippage. He sets the carnival tent and himself on fire, all while wearing white makeup that makes him look like a ghost. Better yet, there is a close-up shot of his agonized face as he's burning to death.

* Sir John's utterly horrific death, as he stumbles terrified across the ice in hope of survival, only to have his leg torn off. In his escape attempt, he ends up falling into an ice hole.

* The titular punishment is no treat, but the scariest part of it might be seeing how close Crozier is to flying off the handle completely, whizzing past righteous anger straight to TheNiedermeyer -- Hickey certainly deserves some manner of punishment for disobeying orders and attacking Lady Silence, but the way Crozier doubles down on the number of lashes to spite Hickey for interrupting him and Crozier's visible enjoyment of such petty cruelty is a glimpse of his dark side.

* The first clear, good look we get at the Tuunbaq as it pursues Blankly up the mast; it's a grotesque beast with an elongated neck and a face that's somewhere between a traditional polar bear and a snarling demon with very human features.

* The Tuunbaq attacks the camp outright, in a way it hasn't before. Usually it sneaks around and takes it's time, but this time, it charges into camp and just starts tearing people apart in gruesome ways.