History NightmareFuel / UniversalStudios

[[caption-width-right:220:And if you thought the park was only scary during [[NightmareFuel/HalloweenHorrorNights Horror Nights...]]]]

** Plus the scene when Imhotep's minions pop out of nowhere. (pictured right)

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** The "false ending" too. You arrive at what appears to be an unloading station with a ride operator standing behind a window, only for said operator to be disintegrated into a skeleton and for Imhotep to suddenly emerge in her place. [[NightmareRetardant Oddly enough, almost every person riding finds this hilarious.]]

** Oh yeah, and at the Hollywood version, when you're exiting, one of the mummy statues you walk past isn't actually a statue... and will reveal that fact to a certain guest at random.

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** The Singapore version of the ride is set place in an Egyptian Temple, which is ''not'' a film set, but rather, being ''actually excavated.'' And you come across the poor explorer getting mummified to death...

* Even before you start seeing all of the bloodthirsty carnivorous dinosaurs, you know things are going to go downhill when you see another boat stuck at the entrance to the Hadrosaurus section, causing your boat to detour under electrifieed wire that's been cut into a restricted area marked with danger signs.

* The scenes in The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man where Electro electrocutes the vehicle you're in and when Scream jumps on the vehicle and basically attempts to claw your whole face off.

* The Hollywood version has some [[AccidentalNightmareFuel Accidental Nightmare Fuel]] when the ride breaks down.

* The Hollywood version has some [[AccidentalNightmareFuel Accidental Nightmare Fuel]] when the ride breaks down. This Troper has been through A LOT of malfunctions. At one point, the dark ride portion (before the coaster portion) had no sound at all. All of those animatronic corpses in the darkness... UGH!!! Another time, the ride got stuck at the scarab beetle screen, just before the backwards part. The screen turned black, and we had no idea when we would launch backwards. The most common malfunction, however, is when the train stops at the very end. SOmetimes we stop facing backwards, other times we stop facing forwards. By far, the scariest time was when we stopped and we heard the other tram coming towards us. I, personally, thought I was going to die.

* Twister: Ride It Out is about, well, trying to survive a tornado as it destroys the town around you.

* The many technical malfunctions that have plagued Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit since its (delayed) opening. One such malfunction left a batch of riders stranded on the first lift hill for over two hours (and mind you, the first lift goes up at a near 90 degree angle).

** The "false ending" too. You arrive at what appears to be an unloading station with a ride operator standing behind a window, only for said operator to be disintegrated into a skeleton and for Imhotep to suddenly emerge in her place.
*** [[NightmareRetardant Oddly enough, almost every person riding finds this hilarious.]]

** Did we mention the part where you're going high-speed in almost complete darkness and whizzing past freaky mummy spirits and people getting tortured? Most would agree this ride reigns supreme as far as scare factor goes.
*** It's heavily implied that this is the ''[[UsefulNotes/EgyptianMythology Egyptian Underworld.]]''-more specifically, it's Egyptian Hell.
** Oh yeah, and at the Hollywood version, when you're exiting, one of the mummy statues you walk past isn't actually a statue...and will reveal that fact to a certain guest at random.

** There are several moments that stood out in particular, such as the ground above you coming apart, which results in a giant gas truck coming down and nearly exploding in your face. There was also a moment when an incoming subway train on the other side de-railed and almost collided with the one you're in. All this happened while you could hear random citizens screaming in terror.

* Jurassic Park River Adventure qualifies, easily. Velociraptors popping out of nowhere, Dilophosauruses spitting at you, and a giant freaking Tyrannosaurus lunging right in for you just before you plummet down an '''85 ft''' drop.
* The Tyrannosaurus in the Back to the Future ride qualifies too.
** Especially since you '''get swallowed''' by it.

** Plus the scene when Imhotep's minions pop out of nowhere... (pictured right)

* Shrek 4-D has some mild examples of this, though mostly when it comes to the young children that stumble onto the attraction.
** There's a scene where Shrek teases Donkey with a spider dangling from a web. Freaked out, Donkey blows the spider towards the audience (do remember this is in 3-D!), only for dozens of spiders to suddenly and randomly drop down from the trees and land on the ground. The seats in the theater then utilize a "leg tickler" effect to make it seem like the spiders are crawling all over the audience's legs. Arachnophobes beware.
** The stone dragon Farquaad's ghost uses in an attempt to kill the two titular heroes. Remember "Dragon" from the first movie and how vicious she was before falling in love with Donkey? Picture that but ten times worse. It's also worth mentioning that its roar quite literally is so loud that it shakes the entire theater and you are given some rather unpleasant close-ups of it (in 3-D!).
** One particularly memorable thing about the attraction is that the whole pre-show room is themed as a ''torture chamber'', complete with dozens of classic torture devices positioned all around you, including '''right above you'''.
** There's also another disturbing little detail to the pre-show room. While you are walking into the main show room, listen very closely to the background noise. You can faintly hear people being tortured and screaming for help.
* The JAWS ride also has a couple of instances of this.
** At the beginning of the ride, it is revealed that the shark has returned, as it sinks and eats the passengers of another boat. You get to hear the not-so pleasant sound of that boat's skipper begging for help and then screaming over the radio transmission.
** There's also a scene where the boat enters a dark boathouse, which suddenly begins to crumble apart due to the shark attempting to break in. It succeeds, pops out of the water, and ''lunges right at you''. All in the dark.
*** Additionally, upon entering the boathouse, you are first treated to the sight of some gory pieces of flesh from another shark lying on the floor.
** After the boathouse, the shark lunges right out again to the left of the boat, creating a rather effective jump scare. In the original version of the ride, it actually bit into the boat and dragged it a couple of feet before the skipper eventually regained control.
** The ride's gruesome ending where the shark accidentally bites a power line, electrocuting and then completely frying it. You even see its roasted remains, until it reveals that it's actually still alive when it makes one final lunge towards the boat before being killed by the blast of the skipper's grenade launcher.
*** The ride's original ending was arguably even more graphic. The skipper would shoot a grenade right into the shark's mouth. The shark would then go back underwater, only to explode mere seconds later, leaving behind a pool of blood and pieces of skin and flesh.

** Oh yeah, and at the Hollywood version, when you're exiting, one of the mummy statues you walk past isn't actually a statue...[[JumpScare and will reveal that fact to a certain guest at random.]]

** Oh yeah, and at the Hollywood version, when you're exiting, one of the mummy statues you walk past isn't actually a statue...and will reveal that fact to a certain guest at random.