History NightmareFuel / YourName

* [[http://en.rocketnews24.com/2016/09/26/mega-hit-your-name-reimagined-as-a-horror-movie-is-terrifyingly-perfect/ This recut of the trailer]] shows that the film can work disturbingly well as a horror flick.

* [[spoiler:TheReveal is pretty much this. Up until then the film has been a lighthearted comedy about Mitsuha and Taki swapping bodies and the hilarious scenarios resulting from this. Then one day the swapping stops and Taki eventually finds out that Mitsuha has actually been ''dead for three years'', killed in a ''meteor strike'' along with ''hundreds of others''. Added to this is when he checks his phone for her journal entries, and said entries just... disappear before his eyes. As if the swapping never happened.]] The collective jaw-drops of every viewer could basically be heard at the whole thing.
* Mitsuha [[FreakyFridayFlip bodyswap]] with Taki [[spoiler:one last time, immediately sees what happened to Itomori in the future. She was shocked about it along realizing that she died after the meteor strikes Itomori three years ago. Imagine you see what happened to you and your hometown after got strikes with meteors and died years ago. Mitsuha's voice while in Taki's body makes it even clearer.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Mitsuha in Taki's body]]''': [[spoiler:The town... is gone. At that moment... did I... die?]]
* [[spoiler:The ruins of Itomori]] are very much SceneryGorn. The BackgroundMusic for when TheReveal hits, [[spoiler:"Disappeared Town"]], doesn't help, sounding like it came from a horror film's soundtrack.
* Taki's fall [[spoiler:in the mountain crater shrine]] is positively heart-stopping, especially given the slow-motion treatment and the music cutting out.
* Mitsuha's trip and fall [[spoiler:when running to find her father to get Itomori evacuated]] looks very painful, particularly the crash at the end and how the camera lingers on her not moving for a long while. The hitherto uplifting BackgroundMusic even goes silent for extra creepy.
* [[spoiler:The destruction of Itomori by meteor strike]] when finally shown onscreen. All those buildings we've come to be familiar with, [[spoiler:getting torn apart and blown away...]]

* [[spoiler:The ruins of Itomori]] are very much SceneryGorn. The background music for when TheReveal hits, [[spoiler:"Disappeared Town"]], doesn't help, sounding like it came from a horror film's soundtrack.

* Mitsuha's trip and fall [[spoiler:when running to find her father to get Itomori evacuated]] looks very painful, particularly the crash at the end and how the camera lingers on her not moving for a long while. The hitherto uplifting background music even goes silent for extra creepy.

* Mitsuha [[FreakyFridayFlip bodyswap]] with Taki [[spiler:one last time, immediately sees what happened to Itomori in the future. She was shocked about it along realizing that she died after the meteor strikes Itomori three years ago. Imagine you see what happened to you and your hometown got strikes with meteors and died years ago. Mitsuha's voice while in Taki's body makes it even clearer.]]

* Mitsuha [[FreakyFridayFlip bodyswap]] with Taki [[one last time, immediately sees what happened to Itomori in the future. She was shocked about it along realizing that she died after the meteor strikes Itomori three years ago. Imagine you see what happened to you and your hometown got strikes with meteors and died years ago. Mitsuha's voice while in Taki's body makes it even clearer.]]

* Taki's fall [[spoiler:in the mountain crater shrine]] is positively heartstopping, especially given the slow-motion treatment and the music cutting out.
* Mitsuha's trip and fall [[spoiler:when running to find her father to get Itomori evacuated]] looks very painful, particularly the crash at the end and how the camera lingers on her not moving for a long while. The hithterto uplifting background music even goes silent for extra creepy.

* [[spoiler:TheReveal is pretty much this. Up until then the film has been a lighthearted comedy about Mitsuha and Taki swapping bodies and the hilarious scenarios resulting from this. Then one day the swapping stops and Taki eventually finds out that Mitsuha has actually been ''dead for three years'', killed in a ''meteor strike'' along with hundreds of others. Added to this is when he checks his phone for her journal entries, and said entries just... disappear before his eyes. As if the swapping never happened.]] The collective jaw-drops of every viewer could basically be heard.

* [[spoiler:TheReveal is pretty much this. Up until then the film has been a lighthearted comedy about Mitsuha and Taki swapping bodies and the hilarious scenarios resulting from this. Then one day the swapping stops and Taki finds out that Mitsuha has actually been ''dead for three years'', killed in a ''meteor strike'' along with hundreds of others. Added to this is when he checks his phone for her journal entries, and said entries just... disappear before his eyes. As if the swapping never happened.]] The collective jaw-drops of every viewer could basically be heard.

* [[spoiler:TheReveal is pretty much this. Up until then the film has been a lighthearted comedy about Mitsuha and Taki swapping bodies and the hilarious scenarios resulting from this. Then one day the swapping stops and Taki finds out that Mitsuha has actually been ''dead for three years'', killed in a ''meteor strike'' along with hundreds of others. Added to this is when he checks his phone for her journal entries, and said entries just... disappear before his eyes. As if the swapping never happened.]]

* Mitsuha's trip and fall [[spoiler:when running to find her father to get Itomori evacuated]] looks very painful, particularly the crash at the end and how the camera lingers on her not moving for a long while.

* [[spoiler:TheReveal is pretty much this. Up until then the film has been a lighthearted comedy about Mitsuha and Taki swapping bodies and the hilarious scenarios resulting from this. Then one day the swapping stops and Taki finds out that Mitsuha has actually been ''dead for three years'', killed in a ''meteor strike'' along with hundreds of others. Added to this is when he checks his phone for her journal entries, and said entries just... disappears. As if the swapping never happened.]]

* [[spoiler:TheReveal is pretty much this. Up until then the film has been a lighthearted comedy about Matsuhi and Taki swapping bodies and the hilarious scenarios resulting from this. Then one day the swapping stops and Taki finds out that Matsuhi has actually been ''dead for three years'', killed in a ''meteor strike'' along with hundreds of others. Added to this is when he checks his phone for her journal entries, and said entries just... disappears. As if the swapping never happened.]]

* [[spoiler:TheReveal is pretty much this. Up until then the film has been a lighthearted comedy about Matsuhi and Taki swapping bodies and the hilarious scenarios resulting from this. Then one day the swapping stops and Taki finds out that Matsuhi has actually been ''dead for three years'', killed in a meteor strike along with hundreds of others! Added to this is when he checks his phone for her journal entries, and said entries just... disappears. As if the swapping never happened.]]

* [[spoiler:TheReveal is pretty much this. Up until then the film has been a lighthearted comedy about Matsuhi and Taki swapping bodies and the hilarious scenarios resulting from this. Then one day the swapping stops and Taki finds out that Matsuhi has actually been ''dead for three years'', killed in a meteor strike along with hundreds of others. Added to this is when he checks his phone for her journal entries, and said entries just... disappears. As if the swapping never happened.]]

* Just the idea of forgetting someone important to you, and having no way to fight it is really terrifying.

* [[http://en.rocketnews24.com/2016/09/26/mega-hit-your-name-reimagined-as-a-horror-movie-is-terrifyingly-perfect/ This recut of the trailer]] shows that the film can work disturbingly well as a horror flick.

* [[spoiler:The ruins of Itomori]] are very much SceneryGorn.

* Taki's fall [[spoiler:in the mountain crater shrine]] is positively heartstopping, especially given the slow-motion treatment.

* Some of the FreakyFridayFlip shenanigans can be pretty... freaky... when you think about it. Writing appearing in your books and [[HumanNotepad on your body]] that you can't remember having written, being told that you were acting different...