History NightmareFuel / TimBurton

* A RealLife example would be his stories about his brief stint at Disney animating ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'', which involve graphic scenes of animalistic violence and gory self-mutilation. Of corse, he often concludes this with [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "''You'' try drawing a cute fox with Sandy Duncan's voice for two years!!"]]

''[[AC:CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory]]''

[[TimBurton This is a man]] who virtually defined the Nightmare Fuel trope. Just some sketches from his exhibit in New York City at the Museum of Modern Art alone is more than enough to give any child (and quite a few grown ups) reoccurring nightmares.

* Lord Barkis grabbing Emily and violently shaking her. If they had been married...

** WAfter Emily transforms into a cloud of moths, moving on at last, it leaves you wondering "Why doesn't that happen to everyone? Are they stuck in that nightmarish town of the dead ''forever?''"
*** The fact that more that the rest of the town gets to stay in their happy afterlife, but what happens to Emily? She's just gone. Be honest, would you rather stay in a crazy, loving, colourful afterlife forever, or... 'find peace' by disappearing into nothing?
*** Actually, she didn't disappear. She was reincarnated into a cloud of butterflies. It was a really zen, really beautiful scene.

* Lord Barkis grabbing Emily and violently shaking her. If they had been married... *shudder*

** The trailer goes to show that no matter what version of the story he's in, the Cheshire Cat was, is and always will be Nightmare Fuel. [[http://materialisticboy.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/alice-in-wonderland-trailer.jpg GAH!]] MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily, indeed. If it helps, he's being voiced by StephenFry, who has the most [[NightmareRetardant soothing voice on the planet]].
** Forget Depp, ''Tweedledum and Tweedle-freaking-dee'' are the scariest parts of the previews thus far. They're like medicine balls, except that everything about them is forced into that shape. And the '''''EYES!''''' Look them up on UncannyValley, if you dare.

** Anything involving the Knave and Alice is either this or FetishFuel. Especially when, after she's been identified as Alice, he mentions remembering her last visit as a tyke. This is the very next day after he cornered her in a hallway with a forceful and blatantly sexual advance.

* The scene when [[{{Squick}} Catwoman and Max Shreck kiss with a STUNGUN in between them]]. The charred remains of Shreck can and most certainly WILL catch you off guard. The fact that this scene is immediately followed by [[spoiler: the surreal, but [[TearJerker nevertheless moving death of the Penguin]]. ''* sniff* '']]
* Selina, coming home for the first time after her fall. She has a ritual of calling out "Honey, I'm home! Oh, wait. I'm not married." The vacant, zombie-ish look she gives ''* shudder* ''.

* Burton's movie ''Film/BigFish'' is much less scary than his other films, but the scenes in Spectre were just creepy. [[ItMakesSenseInContext The scene where the little girl stole the protagonist's shoes and hung them on the clothesline really scared me]]... the town seemed way too perfect, like there had to be a catch.

* ''{{Nine}}''? The Seamstress, the Cat Beast?
** Definitely the Seamstress. The cobra-like appearance with the [[CreepyChild doll's head]] is already unnerving, but it's the scene before it shows its appearance which got me. [[spoiler: It holds a deactivated stitchpunk on the end of its tail and hypnotises its victims by shining a strobe light from the deactivated stitchpunk's eyes, accompanied by [[HellIsThatNoise the most sleep-reducing whirring sound ever presented on film]]. The only thankful thing is that it really doesn't get any scarier.

* After [[NightmareFuel/RoaldDahl Willy Wonka's boat ride]], the TropeMaker of NightmareFuel is our old friend [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RryZV8NK9-Q Large Marge]]. And [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7kw0WiUB5c the evil clown dream sequence]] was rough going as well. How they were able to parlay this into a kids' series is unknown.
** Simple - they stripped all (or at least most) of the adult subtext from the movie and served up to kids the great deal of fun that was still left. Besides, the TV show never, ever exploited CircusOfFear imagery.

* Burton's movie ''BigFish'' is much less scary than his other films, but the scenes in Spectre were just creepy. [[ItMakesSenseInContext The scene where the little girl stole the protagonist's shoes and hung them on the clothesline really scared me]]... the town seemed way too perfect, like there had to be a catch.

* The ''whole movie'' is NightmareFuel. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks8ySH3e3Wo It all starts]] with Lord Cobblepot's reaction at seeing exactly what his newborn son looks like....and [[ItGotWorse it just gets worse from there]]. ([=McDonald=]'s didn't pull off a Happy Meal campaign that would become MisaimedMarketing for nothing.)

* Burton's movie ''BigFish'' is much less scary than his other films, but the scenes in Spectre were just creepy. The scene where the little girl stole the protagonist's shoes and hung them on the clothesline really scared me... the town seemed way too perfect, like there had to be a catch.

* Burton's movie ''BigFish'' is much less scary than his other films, but the scenes in Spectre were just creepy. The scene where the little girl stole the shoes and hung them on the clothesline really scared me... the town seemed way to perfect, like there had to be a catch.

[[PeeWeesBigAdventure http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/LargeMarge.jpg]]

** For many, the fact that the dolls are sent to a doll hospital "Burn Ward" doesn't make it any better.

* The ''whole movie'' is NightmareFuel. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks8ySH3e3Wo It all starts]] with Lord Cobblepot's reaction at seeing exactly what his newborn son looks like....and [[ItGotWorse it just gets worse from there]]. (McDonald's didn't pull off a Happy Meal campaign that would become MisaimedMarketing for nothing)

** For many, the fact that the dolls are sent to a doll hospital "Burn Ward" doesn't make it any better [[YourMileageMayVary (though it did for ME, anyway...).]]

* The scene when [[{{Squick}} Catwoman and Max Shreck kiss with a STUNGUN in between them]]. The charred remains of Shreck can and most certainly WILL catch you off guard. The fact that this scene is immediately followed by [[spoiler: the surreal, but [[TearJerker nevertheless]] [[{{Understatement}} moving]] [[TearJerker death of the Penguin]]. ''* sniff* '']]

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Beetlejuice}} has enough for its own page.

** Definitely the Seamstress. The cobra-like appearance with the [[CreepyChild doll's head]] is already unnerving, but it's the scene before it shows its appearance which got me. [[spoiler: It holds a deactivated stitchpunk on the end of its tail and hypnotises its victims by shining a strobe light from the deactivated stitchpunk's eyes, accompanied by [[HellIsThatNoise the most sleep-reducing whirring sound ever presented on film]]. The only thankful thing is that it really doesn't get any scarier. [[OrIsIt Right? RIGHT??]]]]

** The whole movie has an indefinable creepy vibe to it, really, even the non-scary scenes. When this Troper was a kid, Pee Wee's (and Francis') ManChild nature really unnerved him more than amused him (he just kept thinking, "Adults are ''not'' supposed to act like that..." He loves the movie now, though, as do must of us here.) And yeah, DannyElfman's Circus of Fear BGM ramped things up.

* This little book is extremely creepy even by Burton's standards. It features such stories as one about a girl who turns into a bed, a hideous penguin boy, and even a pin-cushion queen.

* The scene with the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTsRUIVv2WM&feature=related singing ventriloquist-dummy-style animatronics]], particularly at the end when the entire scene catches fire and the dummies ''melt'', with a disturbing closeup of the eyes falling out of one. This troper saw it as an adult and immediately knew that, had he seen it as a child, it would have been a bolt-from-the-room-screaming moment. This being Burton, it was probably all totally intentional.

** The recent trailer goes to show that no matter what version of the story he's in, the Cheshire Cat was, is and always will be Nightmare Fuel.
*** [[http://materialisticboy.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/alice-in-wonderland-trailer.jpg GAH!]] MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily, indeed. If it helps, he's being voiced by StephenFry, who has the most [[NightmareRetardant soothing voice on the planet]].

** The Red Queen's castle. The moat is ''filled. With.'' '''[[http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b184/aubme/bloodmoat.jpg BLOOD AND HEADS.]]'''
*** At one point, shrunken Alice has to climb over and jump from head to head to get across the moat. And you don't even realize that they're heads at first.
**** Apparently, one of the heads was Tim Burton's.

** Pretty much anything involving the Knave and Alice is either this or FetishFuel. Especially when, after she's been identified as Alice, he mentions remembering her last visit as a tyke. Keep in mind that this is the very next day after he cornered her in a hallway with a forceful and blatantly sexual advance.

* The ''whole damned movie'' is NightmareFuel. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks8ySH3e3Wo It all starts]] with Lord Cobblepot's reaction at seeing exactly what his newborn son looks like....and [[ItGotWorse it just gets worse from there]]. (McDonald's didn't pull off a Happy Meal campaign that would become MisaimedMarketing for nothing)

* There's Burton's early film [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD8uQzu0IL0 ''Vincent'']]. The ending of ''Vincent'' has [[spoiler:the titular character all alone in his room faking his death and reciting the last lines from the Raven.]]
** [[FridgeHorror Let's ''hope'' he was faking....]]
** Of course, [[Tropers/{{Skazka}} this troper]] [[NightmareFetishist missed the point entirely and just found him highly emulatable.]]
*** Then there's ''Frankenweenie''.

** Something about those Martians really freaked out one Troper. They were obviously intended to be goofy and silly more then anything, but something between the way their faces look, those "ACK ACK!" noises they make, and the way they're just unstoppable sent a chill up my spine every time. You try to Nuke them, they just turn it into a bong. Further, they seem to just show up everywhere, without warning. You could turn the light on, and there it is, and it's all you see before it shoots you.
* ''Hansel and Gretel'', a short that was shown only once on Disney Channel, on Halloween 1983. Basically, there's a very creepy-looking Gingerbread Man. Let's just say its eye meets a candy cane. Here are [[http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/593/hanselgreteltimburtonco.th.jpg some]] [[http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/593/hanselgreteltimburtonco.th.jpg pictures]] of the little freak.

''[[AC: BatmanReturns]]''

** In the poem ''Melancholy Death Of Oyster Boy'' , the title character gets eaten by his own father at the end.
*** As an ''aphrodisiac!''

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''[[AC: CorpseBride]]''

* After [[NightmareFuel/RoaldDahl Willy Wonka's boat ride]], the TropeMaker of AccidentalNightmareFuel is our old friend [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RryZV8NK9-Q Large Marge]]. And [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7kw0WiUB5c the evil clown dream sequence]] was rough going as well. How they were able to parlay this into a kids' series is unknown.

[[AC: ''Pee-weesBigAdventure'']]

** The White Queen herself: has sworn "not to harm any living thing", but has no trouble giving the Vorpal Sword to Alice so ''she'' can harm living things. Also had no problem with using coins from a dead man's pocket, severed fingers, urine, and spit to make a potion. Also, that strange almost-black lipstick on the almost-paper-white face; I * really* expected her to do a FaceHeelTurn at the end and be the villain the whole time.

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*** I bet those kids were disappointed, though. I mean, no candy?
** Though most of the poems and short stories themselves didn't have much of an effect on This Troper, the fact that ''this'' is what it looks like inside Tim Burton's head is unintended Nightmare Fuel. For some reason, it invokes a reaction between disbelief ("How can a healthy person exist like this? He ''is'' healthy, right? Mentally?") and '''[[KillItWithFire KILL IT WITH FIRE.]]'''

** For this troper, it's the Pincushion Queen. A well-meaning friend gave me a shirt with her on it. Scared the everloving hell out of me.

** What freaked this troper out was that after Emily transforms into a cloud of moths, moving on at last, it leaves you wondering "Why doesn't that happen to everyone? Are they stuck in that nightmarish town of the dead ''forever?''"
*** What freaked THIS troper out about that was more that the rest of the town gets to stay in their happy afterlife, but what happens to Emily? She's just gone. Be honest, would you rather stay in a crazy, loving, colourful afterlife forever, or... 'find peace' by disappearing into nothing?

* Just the new promotional pics from his upcoming adaptation of ''Alice in Wonderland'' gave This Troper nightmares--particularly Depp as the Mad Hatter.
** Agreed, [[http://movies.popcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/johnny-depp-mad-hatter-alice-wonderland.jpg Johnny Depp can really make himself look awesomely creepy]]. Take his role as Willy Wonka for example...
*** That Mad Hatter terrified me and my friends while we waited to see "Transformers 2: Revenge of The Fallen". He looks as though he stares into your soul and watches you.
*** The eyes, the eyelashes...

** Ahem. ''"I am the [[MonsterClown clown]] with the tear-away face..."''
*** Something about that makes this troper think it was someone's ''very specific'' childhood fear.
** Another ahem. ''"I am the one hiding under your bed, teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red."'' Made worse by the fact that's ''all'' we see of it...
** The only part in that movie that freaked out this troper was Oogie's death. All those bugs. Ewwww...

* One particular [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n4s-lkYm0w scene]] that creeped me out was when the Joker takes one of his men by the hand and electrocutes him to death with a buzzer eventually causing the skin to melt off his face.
** That part gave this troper ''so many'' nightmares after I saw it in the theater as a kid. A poll of everyone else I know who saw it young says the same thing.

* Let's not forget the scene when [[{{Squick}} Catwoman and Max Shreck kiss with a STUNGUN in between them]]. The charred remains of Shreck can and most certainly WILL catch you off guard. The fact that this scene is immediately followed by [[spoiler: the surreal, but [[TearJerker nevertheless]] [[{{Understatement}} moving]] [[TearJerker death of the Penguin]]. ''* sniff* '']]

* Need this troper mention ''[[{{Ptitle2td6va92}} 9]]''? The Seamstress, the Cat Beast?

** Agreed. This troper saw up to the landing sequence when she was seven and promptly went into hysterics and couldn't watch for YEARS. And even then... still has to leave the room during that one part.
** This troper saw the TRAILER when she was six and got so scared she ran out of the theatre (and had several nightmares.) Wouldn't watch it until age ten, and loved it once I realized it's actually funny.
* ''Hansel and Gretel'', a short that was shown only once on Disney Channel, on Halloween 1983. This troper saw it at the Tim Burton exhibition, watched half of it and got freaked out and left. Basically, there's a very creepy-looking Gingerbread Man. Let's just say it's eye meets a candy cane.Here are [[http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/593/hanselgreteltimburtonco.th.jpg some]] [[http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/593/hanselgreteltimburtonco.th.jpg pictures]] of the little freak.