Line #9 NightmareFuel/IAmLegend


1	!!'''[[Literature/IAmLegend The book]]'''
2	* "The watch had stopped". By itself, it's mildly chilling, but made far more scary by the fact that in the related chapter Neville is checking his watch few times and it always shows the same time. [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall But just like him]], most readers don't notice, until it's explicitly brought up.
3	* The sole concept of being the last human alive on Earth. At least in the latest film adaptation, Neville is aware that there were few millions of people who are naturally immune all around the world and there is a good chance some of them are still alive. Maybe not around New York, but someone somewhere could survive, giving a sliver of hope. Not so much in the book, where he doesn't even know what is happening early on.
4	* Your own, beloved wife coming back from her grave. A grave you've put her in yourself. And yearning for your blood. And still being apparently at least semi-sentient, so it's not just a mindless, blood-thirsty undead you can rationalise into killing in self-defense.
5	!!'''[[Film/IAmLegend The 2007 film]]'''
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7	* Neville going into a darkened building, a likely place to find lots of Infected, to search for his dog. He's so obviously terrified you can't help but be frightened with him. This scene is particularly pants-shitting if you saw it in theaters when the film came out. The theater is obviously just as dark as the building he goes into and most people report that during this scene, no matter what theater, ''everyone'' was clutching their arm rests in fear. The first sighting when his flashlight hits one of the creatures that is standing up either asleep or just in a trance is ''utterly terrifying.''
8	* The zombies look ''very'' frightening. They have an incredibly creepy design, sound, and the way they move is akin to animals that have rabies, meaning they just throw themselves at anything in a fit of pure rage and with the intent to try and kill whatever they see. What's also creepy is they have retained some degree of intelligence, as shown that they lay a trap for Robert one day. However, this also may have been why they changed the theatrical ending even though it doesn't tie into the rest of the movie's themes; it's possible they thought the audience would be too scared of the creatures given everything going into the final act and wouldn't accept evidence that the creatures still retain some sentience and human emotions, so instead, they have Neville [[spoiler: perform a SenselessSacrifice.]]
9	* Some of the poster art made for the film is pretty creepy, ranging from the Quarantine Public Service flyers to one specific propaganda poster in the opening scene, with a picture of an infected individual's bleeding face, save for the eyes covered up by a cutout Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti's [[Art/SistineChapel "The Creation Of Adam"]], specifically the image of God and Adams' index fingers touching, with bold text ''God Still Loves Us'', while at the bottom of the poster, there is an illustrated parody of the Michelangelo cut out, depicting a human hand holding a gun at God, with a crudely inscribed line ''Do we still love God?''.
10	* One can't help but feel unnerved when Neville finds an immobile mannequin standing in the middle of the street, far from where it was supposed to have been resting.
11	** What's worse? If you look carefully at Fred the Mannequin as Neville focuses his attention on it...its head slowly moves to look at Neville, or from the camera's perspective, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou you]]. It's never explained why Fred was able to move its head, but it's likely due to Neville [[SanitySlippage losing his grip on reality]], which is ten times scarier than ''if the damn thing had just magically moved.'' It's so fast that you actually might think you imagined it, then upon rewind, you realize you're seeing from ''his'' perspective and he's ''losing his mind.''
12	* The news reporter describing the ongoing mutations being caused in those treated with the Krippen virus, showing how something that should have been a source of hope has gone so badly wrong.
13	-->'''Reporter''': So far, almost 5000 patients treated with the retrofitted virus have begun exhibiting symptoms resembling the early onset of rabies. Twenty five patients have already died.
14	* The evacuation scene, and seeing the panic as hundreds of people are trying to flee New York.

Context NightmareFuel / IAmLegend