Line #12 NightmareFuel/Moana


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6	* [[EldritchLocation Lalotai]], the Realm of Monsters, features several freaky and nasty creatures trying to kill any visitors.
7	** Upon her arrival, Moana is ensnared by the OverlyLongTongue of an eel-like monster. As the monster is inches away from dragging Moana into its mouth, it is eaten by a giant plant monster, ''severing its tongue'' which falls to the ground ''still squirming''.
8	** Special mention goes out to the creepy four-armed purple-and-black anemone creature (as seen above). Just look at the jerky, unnatural way it moves towards Moana. It doesn't get a lot of screen time but it still managed to be the freakiest scene in the movie.
9	*** What's worse is we have [[NothingIsScarier no idea what that thing is or what it intends to do]]. All it does is creep slowly towards Moana before being blasted away by a geyser. [[ParanoiaFuel INTO OUR WORLD]].
10	*** It's probably the closest thing to a bona fide EldritchAbomination - with a Polynesian style - that appears in the film. Te Kā is a powerful, deadly foe, but this thing is something ''entirely'' different.
11	** One big one is Moana seeing some ''thing'' moving off the side. We don't see much but whatever it is [[{{Kaiju}} is gigantic...]] And do tell, [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} what does this]] ''[[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} thing]]'' [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} resemble]]?
12	* Tamatoa is a giant, narcissistic crab who was [[LaughablyEvil largely a comical villain]], but still managed to be absolutely terrifying as he towers over Maui and Moana, threatens to eat them alive, and dissects Maui's character flaws. For example, he delivers a Curb-Stomp Battle to Maui while singing a David Bowie-inspired musical number; it sounds hilarious, but it's genuinely chilling and disturbing. The scene includes the use of bioluminescence to create a creepy interplay of shadow and light, where he looks like he was ripped directly out of "[[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog Friends On the Other Side]]"; In one particularly freaky image of him about to eat Maui, all that's visible are his eyes flashing like Kaa's, the paint on his face, and his teeth. Brrrrr...
13	** It's [[PlayedForLaughs played for]] BlackComedy but there's his throwaway line about having eaten his own grandma. "And it took a week because she was absolutely humongous". Yeah... best not to imagine that scene.
14	** Special mention goes out to him grabbing Moana and almost eating her, who at the moment was trying to distract him while Maui tries to get his fish hook back. He does this after taunting her about her grandma. Considering how big he is compared to Moana, he possibly could've swallowed her whole and Moana would've been EatenAlive. And all Moana could do was squirm helplessly as Tamatoa lowered her closer to his maw...
15	** When he thinks he'll get his claws on the Heart of Te Fiti, Tamatoa excitedly exclaims "The power of creation, for a crustacean!" One shudders to think of what someone like [[CardCarryingVillain Tamatoa]] would do with such power...
16	** It's a quick moment, but at one point during the song we get to see thing's through Maui's POV. It's blurry, and unfocused because he's currently being ''beaten to death'' by Tamatoa. It's a frightening juxtaposition that such a fun, energetic song is the backdrop of a man, [[MadeOfIron a powerful man mind you]], being battered by a Giant Crab demon.
17	* Te Ka, the monstrous lava demon who is really Te Fiti in an angered form after having her heart stolen, has this written all over her. The end of "Know Who You Are", everything slows down, and we see her crawling like a clawed snake towards Moana, mouth open in a howl of rage, and Moana just ''stands there'', holding up the heart to lure Te Ka closer. It's like something out of a horror movie. We know why Moana does what she does, but god, if you don't still want to scream at her to run.
18	* What happened to Te Fiti is this and Tearjerker. She was sleeping peacefully, when someone she trusted invaded her body and stole her heart. For a lot of viewers, Maui stealing Te Fiti's heart can carry some heavy parallels with sexual assault. So in Te Fiti's anger and trauma, she transformed into Te Ka, where she then became known and feared as a monster instead of known and remembered as the goddess she truly is. Finally, she was left near the ruins of her island - which is ''her own body'' - for a thousand years, alone, completely misunderstood, and only wanting back what had been stolen from her. It says a lot that when Moana returns to Te Ka's barrier reef, it carries the solemnity of going to a graveyard or to a crime scene. And to make matters worse, Maui - her assailant - is the one who shows up and wants to fight her because he doesn't even recognize his own victim! No wonder she reacted with such rage when he appeared; by contrast, the first time she saw Moana, she paused and tried to get a better look and wasn't immediately aggressive to her.
19	* A flashback shows Tui and his friend getting caught in a violent storm while attempting to sail. But the scary part? Tui failed in saving his friend from drowning. ''He watched his friend die.''
20	* The Kakamora may be little coconut... people... things... but they're also vicious pirates who attack without mercy and have strategies for corralling boats to their doom. Their main ship can split into separate parts, surround their victim's boat and ''crush'' them which makes the Kakamora a force to be reckoned with. The fact that they [[BadassAdorable look cute]] at first, which Moana sort of lampshades, just makes them even creepier. You might be expecting them to be goofier, but then they're shooting tranquilizers all over the place, and they come ''very'' close to actually stealing the heart from Moana and Maui.
21	* Moana's first attempt at sailing does not go well. After a wave capsizes her boat, she ends up getting her foot trapped in a reef and ''almost drowns.'' Her unprotected body is pounded against the coral reef by the undertow, and had this scene been portrayed realistically, we should have seen quite a bit of blood from her being torn up by the razor sharp coral. As it is, she gets a pretty ugly bruise on her ankle.
22	* How about the nightmare Moana has when she falls asleep on the boat? At first it seems like she's managed to steer them back to her home of Motanui... And the black plague that was threatening when she left is now engulfing the entire island, as her parents desperately run toward her on the beach, only to be swallowed and consumed along with all other life on the island. It's not until she wakes up, understandably panicked, that both she and the audience finally realize it wasn't real. [[DreamingOfThingsToCome But if the Heart is not restored soon...]]
23	* Chief Tui keeps going OhCrap when Moana slips past him and his wife as a baby, walking towards the waves. While she's toddling along, he sprints at full-speed to grab her before she can even touch the water. It's PlayedForLaughs that she gets frustrated when he and his wife keep dragging her back to land, but you can understand his perspective since his best friend drowned and he blames himself. The first time she was gone for at least fifteen minutes and he was worried she had gone beyond the shallows (he had no way of knowing that the Ocean was not going to hurt Moana the first time). It is very easy for a toddler to drown, even if they know how to swim, as those in coastal areas can attest, and that's not even going into the risk of rip currents.

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