History NightmareFuel / TimBurton

* ''Hansel and Gretel'', a short that was shown only once on Disney Channel[[note]]The Disney execs deemed it to scary for younger audiences, so it never aired again]][[/note]], on Halloween 1983. 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.

* ''Hansel and Gretel'', a short that was shown only once on Disney Channel, on Halloween 1983. 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.

* ''NightmareFuel/{{Alice InWonderland 2010}}''

* ''NightmareFuel/{{AliceInWonderland2010}}''

* ''NightmareFuel/{{CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory}}''

''[[AC: Film/AliceInWonderland2010]]''
* Just the new promotional pics from his upcoming adaptation of ''Alice in Wonderland'' can give one the shivers.
** [[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 looks as though he stares into your soul and watches you. The eyes, the eyelashes...
** 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.
** ''Tweedledum and Tweedledee''. 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.
** "To survive this place. You need to be mad... as a hatter!"
** 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.
** Johnny Depp's head-spinning dance at the end.
** The fate of the Red Queen: the White Queen decrees that she be ''[[spoiler: ignored until the end of time]]''. [[spoiler: Humans are social creatures -- being intentionally deprived of contact is truly AFateWorseThanDeath]].
** The fact that the White queen was always the pretty one and preferred over her sister, and STILL won over her, being loved by everyone and''[[spoiler: getting her kingdom and throne back]]'', while nobody really loved the Red Queen, partially because of her large head, unfortunate personality and perfect little sister. Moral of the story, kids- be pretty and don't even kill a mosquito, or you will be deprived of your rightful possessions and be unloved. Yowch.
** 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; one might expect her to do a FaceHeelTurn at the end and be the villain the whole time.
** Anything involving the Knave and Alice is this. 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.

''[[AC:Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory]]''
* 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 being Burton, it was probably all intentional.
** For many, the fact that the dolls are sent to a doll hospital "Burn Ward", which was made recently, doesn't make it any better.

* ''NightmareFuel/{{TheNightmareBeforeChristmas}}''

* ''NightmareFuel/''{{Beetlejuice}}''
* NightmareFuel/''{{TheNightmareBeforeChristmas}}''

* ''NightmareFuel/{{Beetlejuice}}''

''[[AC: WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas]]''
* The inhabitants of Halloweentown assure us very early on that they're not evil, they just like scaring people. That shouldn't be enough to earn anyone's trust, seeing as how one citizen is ''a decaying body with an ax wedged in its head.''
-->"I am the [[MonsterClown clown]] with the tear-away face..."
-->"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...
* Oogie's death. All those bugs. Ewwww...
** Also a dash of NothingIsScarier: ''I am the who when you call "Who's there?". I am the wind moving through your hair..''

* NightmareFuel/{{Beetlejuice}}
* NightmareFuel/{{Batman Returns}}
* NightmareFuel/{{Mars Attacks}}
* And here's the NightmareFuel/{{Corpse Bride}} page.

* Then there's ''Frankenweenie''.

* NightmareFuel/{{Beetlejuice}} has enough for its own page.
* NightmareFuel/{{BatmanReturns}} also.

* ''Film/MarsAttacks''. The Martians kill people ForTheEvulz. Have fun!
** Something about those Martians is really freaky. 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 sends a chill up the 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.

* And here's the NightmareFuel/{{CorpseBride}} page.

''[[AC: Film/BatmanReturns]]''
* The ''whole movie'' is NightmareFuel. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkoi4z_dQso It all starts]] with Lord Cobblepot's reaction at seeing exactly what his newborn son looks like....and it just gets worse from there. ([=McDonald=]'s didn't pull off a Happy Meal campaign that would become MisaimedMarketing for nothing.)
* 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]].]]
* 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...

* AAAnd here's the NightmareFuel/{{CorpseBride}} page.

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* ''Corpse Bride''. Truly, stop-motion animation is the creepiest medium ever, and there's something unnerving about that cheery [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1qgmdVgN70 "We all pass away" song]].
** 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?''"
*** The fact that the rest of the town gets to stay in their happy afterlife, but what happens to Emily? She's just gone.
** [[IronicEcho "New arrival..."]]
* The scene, in silouhette, where [[spoiler: Lord Barkis]] looms over Emily, and she screams... "And then, baby, everything went ''black''..."
* [[spoiler: Lord Barkis]] grabbing Victoria and violently shaking her.

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[[Creator/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. In short, [[Film/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Jack Skellington]] wasn't our Nightmare Fuel icon for nothing before the site icons were revamped.

[[Creator/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. In short, [[Film/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Jack Skellington]] isn't our Nightmare Fuel icon for nothing.

''[[AC: Film/AliceInWonderland]]''

[[caption-width-right:350:So it begins.]]

** The whole movie has an indefinable creepy vibe to it, really, even the non-scary scenes. Pee Wee's (and Francis') ManChild nature is can really be unnerving more than amusing. And yeah, DannyElfman's Circus of Fear BGM ramped things up.

[[Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/LargeMarge.jpg]]
[[caption-width:360:So it begins.]]

* ''MarsAttacks''. The Martians kill people ForTheEvulz. Have fun!

[[Creator/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.

* 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 it just gets worse from there. ([=McDonald=]'s didn't pull off a Happy Meal campaign that would become MisaimedMarketing for nothing.)

* The scene, in silouhette, where Lord Barkis looms over Emily, and she screams... "And then, baby, everything went ''black''..."
* Lord Barkis grabbing Victoria and violently shaking her.

''[[AC: TheNightmareBeforeChristmas]]''

* 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]]'' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny try drawing a cute fox with Sandy Duncan's voice for two years!!"]]