Nightmare Fuel / Doctor Who Series 1

"That "thing", as you put it, is in charge of the human race."

• "Rose":
  • The Autons/killer dummies.
  • The huge, throbbing amorphous Nestene Consciousness in the sewers controlling the Autons.
  • All the scenes with the Auton clone of Rose's boyfriend Mickey are a mix of this and comedy due to how Rose barely even suspects anything's wrong with him. He has this blank stare at all times, and his default expression is a Slasher Smile, and Noel Clarke has been put through some makeup process that puts the character deep into the Uncanny Valley.
• "The End Of The World": The scene where Cassandra (who is just skin with a face on a frame) dries up is really gruesome to watch. She's begging Rose and the Doctor to moisturize her and then suddenly explodes, getting torn apart and leaving a bloody hole behind.
• "The Unquiet Dead": The gaseous aliens who possess dead bodies like zombies, and the fact that the Doctor later claims that the servant girl in the mortuary had already been dead when she told everyone to run and then blew up the house and sacrificed herself to kill the evil aliens.
• "Aliens of London"/"World War Three":
  • The genetically modified anthropomorphic pig (not to mention the aliens who mutated the pig itself, especially how they wear human skin as disguises).
  • The fact the Slitheen are basically The Greys if they were 8 foot tall, 300 pounds, with HUGE gargantuan talons that hunt on scent and have a preference for cruel kills. So basically not really like the Greys.
• "Dalek":
  • "Doc-tor? THE Doc-tor?! Ex-ter-minate! EX-TER-MINATE!! EX-TER-MINAAAAAATE!!!" Keep in mind, that was the Dalek just barely waking up when it sensed the Doctor.
    • Extra points because of the Doctor's horrified reaction when he hears the "Metaltron" talk. He goes from calm to banging on the door and screaming to be let out.
  • The man who has his cranium sucked by the Dalek's arm (or the fact that the entire Earth military could be defeated by one Dalek).
  • From the same episode; what initially seemed like a success for Rose and a few humans being chased by the Dalek think they can escape the alien cyborg horror, by merely going up a flight of stairs as the Dalek has no legs to do the same. Then... El-e-vate.
    • Extra points because dozens of people who watched the classic series comment the only reason they got over their fear of Daleks was that they couldn't climb stairs. Unless they watched "Remembrance of the Daleks", that is a definite Oh, Crap!.
    • When the Doctor is first put in that room with the chained-up Dalek. The horrified look on his face when he (and the audience) figures out what it is...
    • The Doctor taunting the powerless Dalek.
      "You're right, maybe we are... Yeah, right, yeah, okay. You've got a point 'cause I know what to do. I know what should happen. I know what you deserve. [sadistic grin] Exterminate!"
    • This exchange between the Doctor and Van Statten, chilling in its bluntness:
      The Doctor: What's the nearest town?
      Van Statten: Salt Lake City.
      The Doctor: Population?
      Van Statten: One million.
      The Doctor: All dead.
  • The entire episode, when it's not breaking your heart. There's a reason why this episode was said to be the one that made the Daleks scary again, because it leaves a lasting impression of what just one Dalek could do alone, and makes future episodes like "Bad Wolf"/"The Parting of the Ways" and "Doomsday" much more horrifying when taking into account what one Dalek can do by themselves.
  • The end is also another chilling glimpse into Dalek ideology. As tragic as it is to see, the Dalek describes feeling anything other than pure hatred and the drive to kill as a sickness. After absorbing Rose's DNA and these new feelings start to emerge, it's so disgusted and horrified that it asks Rose, then orders her, to command it to commit suicide.
• "The Long Game":
  • The Jagrafess, which is basically a giant screeching blob of Meat Moss fixed to the ceiling of Floor 500 with More Teeth than the Osmond Family.
  • Floor 500 is said to be the most envied place on Satellite 5 where the walls are made of gold. In actual fact, it's a frosted, desolate area full of decomposing bodies where those "promoted" are actually victims awaiting their fate.
    • It's also said that those who go up to Floor 500 don't come back down. We find out it's because they get turned into mindless, empty shells, condemned to being constant slaves to the Editor.
    • That jumpscare when the bodies are first revealed. Or the bodies themselves for that matter.
• "Father's Day":
  • All the timewarping caused by Rose when she tries to save her father from death in the past.
  • Not to mention the monsters that appear. Giant demonic flying creatures with scythe-like tails, who kill by embracing around the victim and disintegrating them. They also have a bit of a Blue-and-Orange Morality since the only way they know to solve a time paradox is by killing the planet's entire population.
• "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances":
  • The gas mask people. Especially when people are turned into them. The sight of the gas mask forcing its way out of someone's face is uniquely disturbing.
  • "End of the tape. It ran out about 30 seconds ago."
  • "I sent it to its room. This is its room."
• "Boom Town": The particularly gruesome description of how the Raxacoricofallapatorians punish planetary genocide on their homeworld (although it's quite a deserved punishment): being slowly boiled alive in acid, which is balanced to be just barely strong enough to dissolve the skin while keeping the victim alive and conscious so they feel as much pain as possible as their organs spill out of their body.
• "Bad Wolf"/"The Parting of the Ways":
  • The game shows/reality shows of the far future with a twist (it's fatal to everyone except the winner, or even him if there are no other contestants). What's even worse is that it's not disintegration, but being turned into Dalek material...
    • Jack is sent into a fashion show where two robots pick out new clothes and styles for the contestant... during the first segment. During the second segment, the robots equip themselves with buzzsaws and surgical implements to mutilate the contestant with horrific surgeries.
    "We could stitch your legs to the middle of your chest... nothing is too extreme!"
  • The wireframed girl who's grown to be the motherboard of the satellite's computer that broadcasts these shows (not to mention Earth having all its surface destroyed). Constantly buzzing with thoughts, constantly watched by the Daleks, who can kill her at a moment's notice if she slips up... only a few precious seconds of freedom.
    • Her fucking grin.◊
  • Even worse, the Extermination of Floor Zero. The Daleks had nothing to gain from it-the people weren't fighting against the Daleks, they were virtually defenseless, and there wasn't even anything down there for them to use. The only reason? They found thirty or so life forms that weren't Dalek.
  • The Emperor Dalek. With his deep, booming, warped voice and unsettling close-ups of his mutant face.
    "We waited, here, in the dark space..."
  • Particular mention goes to the scene where he reveals that he's not behind the recurring Bad Wolf motif:
    Dalek Emperor: They are not my design.
    • The Doctor makes an Oh, Crap! face, the music builds eerily, and the camera shows the gigantic "BAD WOLF" logo.
      Dalek Emperor: This is the truth of God.
    • The whole scene is a very effective use of chilling atmosphere and Nothing Is Scarier.