History NightmareFuel / TheUntamed

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* The evil spirit that attacks in the first episode. It turns its victims' left hands into monstrous talons that look like they're rotting, and in one case it choked its victim to death with their own hand.
* Wen Ning's first appearance. His eyes are black, he's bound in chains, and his neck has black marks on it that look like veins. All this combined with his blank expression puts him firmly in the UncannyValley. He doesn't move or react to anything except when Wei Wuxian plays the flute.

* It's unsettling when Jin Ling, under a swell of tense noise, suddenly sits up and opens his eyes in the swords catacombs. His gaze is empty, he doesn't blink, and he tries to step back into the hall in the wall he was trapped in. Props to Qi Peixin for playing this moment so intensely.

* Inside the Xuanwu of Slaughter's shell, Wei Wuxian only starts showing fear when he discovers humanoid figures wrapped in some kind of slime. When he inspects one of the figures, he sees their very human face and recoils back, deeply unsettled. The Xuanwu of Slaughter not only devours its victims' flesh but also their spirits.

** When the creature in the water finally appears, it looks like [[SnakesAreSinister a giant snake]]. But unlike snakes it has eyelids and teeth. The more we see of it, the less it looks like a snake and the more it looks like an AnimalisticAbomination.

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* Xue Yang disguising himself as Xiao Xingchen all the way down to how his face appears to others comes across as very unsettling, as we're effectively seeing Xiao Xingchen's face sport a chilling and bloody SlasherSmile. If anything, Song Jiyang deserves props for effectively pulling it off.

* Xue Yang using a spell to disguise himself as Xiao Xingchen all the way down to how his face appears to others comes across as very unsettling, as we're effectively seeing Xiao Xingchen's face sport a chilling and bloody SlasherSmile. If anything, props to Song Jiyang for effectively pulling it off.

* Xue Yang using a spell to disguise himself as Xiao Xingchen all the way down to how his face appears gives off a very unsettling effect to the viewer, as we're effectively seeing Xiao Xingchen's face sport a downright chilling and bloody SlasherSmile. Props to Song Jiyang for pulling it off.

[[caption-width-right:350: Sweet dreams.]]

* As Episode 20 reveals, Wei Wuxian closely follows the novel in terms of how brutal Wei Wuxian deals with the Wens. While he doesn't make Wang Lingjiao choke on a chair leg, he has her scar her own face before making her hang herself. And whatever he did to Wen Chao, it's enough to make him madly ramble and kowtow, and that's ''before'' the flaying starts...

* As Episode 20 reveals, Wei Wuxian closely follows the novel in terms of how brutal Wei Wuxian deals with the Wens. While he doesn't make Wang Lingjiao choke on a chair leg, he has her scar her own face before making her hang herself. And whatever he did to Wen Chao, it's enough to make him madly ramble and kowtow, and that's ''before'' the flaying and {{Autocannibalism}} starts...

* As Episode 20 reveals, Wei Wuxian acts as the ''middle ground'' between the novel and the donghua in terms of how brutal Wei Wuxian deals with the Wens. He has Wang Lingjiao her scar her own face before making her hang herself. And whatever he did to Wen Chao, it's enough to make him madly ramble and kowtow, and that's ''before'' the flaying and {{Autocannibalism}} starts...

* As Episode 20 reveals, Wei Wuxian acts as the ''middle ground'' between the novel and the donghua in terms of how brutal Wei Wuxian deals with the Wens. He has Wang Lingjiao her scar her own face before making her hang herself.