We’ll watch the smoke pour out the doors. Bring marshmallows, We’ll make s’mores! We can smile and cuddle while the fire roars! note 'Fire' referring to their burning school after he fulfils his plans to blow it up, killing all their fellow students.
"Yo Girl."
Veronica's running on, running on fumes now, Veronica's totally fried! Veronica's gotta be trippin' on shrooms now, thinkin' that she can hide! Veronica's done for, there's no doubt now, notify next of kin! Veronica's trying to keep him out now. Too late! He got in.
Even before that: "Guess who's right down the block? Guess who's climbing the stairs? Guess who's picking your lock? Time's up! Go say your prayers!"
Yo girl, feel a bit punchy? She's not looking so wellnote (or, in some productions, "Is that brimstone I smell?") Still, you've earned that red scrunchie Come join Heather in HELL!
The ghosts in general are creepy, as they spend all their time onstage mocking Veronica about how she’s “truly a Heather” by indirectly murdering the three of them. The line “I knew you would come far” makes it so much worse.
In the proshoot, the lighting adds to it by frequently bathing the ghosts in an eerie green light, and, during "Yo Girl" in particular, cutting the other lights so all that's left to light the stage is that green.
The ending of "Our Love is God." Veronica sings J.D.'s philosophy right along with him during the song... and after he kills Kurt and Ram. However, during the ending, even as she sings her love for him, she's clearly terrified.
All of "Our Love Is God" is creepy, even before you know what's going to happen. The first time you listen, it sounds like a sweet, quiet love song up until it gets to the phone call, and the music underscoring sounds suddenly ominous when Kurt and Ram are talking. Then J.D shoots Ram, and sings serenely as he shoots Kurt, and continues to sing softly to a shocked Veronica "I worship you. I'd trade my life for yours." The music gets louder and louder and more dissonant by the last note. Now, try listening to it again... Incredibly creepy.
J.D. I worship you. I'd trade my life for yours. We'll make them disappear, we'll plant our garden here! (he approaches her)Our love is God. Our love is God. Our love is God. (louder) OUR LOVE IS GOD. (pulling her into his arms) OUR LOVE IS GOD... Veronica:(shouting in horror) OUR LOVE IS GOD! J.D.: OUR LOVE IS GOD! Veronica:OUR LOVE IS GOD! Both:OUR LOVE IS GOD! (We get one last look at Veronica's panic-stricken face as he holds her tightly. Smash to blackout.)
For JD, "our love is god" is a Madness Mantra. For Veronica, it comes off as a darkly subverted Survival Mantra—as if she's thinking "if I agree, he won't kill me too".
"Dead Girl Walking (Reprise)" is equally this and pure bad-assery. The knowledge that this girl is intending to kill herself and her murderous boyfriend just sends chills down your spine.
CHEEK TO CHEEK IN HELL, WITH A DEAD GIRL WALKING!
"Meant to Be Yours" is creepy as hell in general, but there's something especially chilling about the way J.D. says to Veronica (who's barricaded herself in her closet), "Don't make me come in there! I'm gonna count to three!"
Not to mention the way he switches from almost singing a lullaby to roaring "VERONICA!!" when she refuses to open the door.
J.D.:VERONICA! Open the- open the door, please. Veronica, OPEN THE DOOR! Veronica, can we not fight anymore, please? Can we not fight any more?? Veronica, sure you're scared- I've been there! I can set you free! Veronica, DON'T MAKE ME COME IN THERE! I'M GONNA COUNT TO THREE!!!
Although it's never really explored, the backdrop for the song is a parent's nightmare. Your daughter's insane ex-boyfriend has broken into her room, initially planning to kill her for leaving him. Then it takes a dark turn where he's proposing that she join him in a plot to kill their entire class because he believes she'll return to him if their classmates are dead. If you weren't at home or if she hadn't faked her own death, your daughter would either be dead or she would be taken away by him and spend the rest of her life forced to love him until she dies.
Equally unsettling is the song switching back and forth between JD crazily ranting about how he’s going to blow up the school and planting a faked note in the rubble blaming it on society to pleading Veronica to “open the door, please” and “finish what we’ve begun” in lullaby that somehow makes those lines creepier. If taken out of context, lines like “sure, you’re scared, I’ve been there, I can set you free” and “Veronica, can we not fight anymore, please?” sound like they’re from a song where she’s in the wrong and JD is the faithful boyfriend trying to reassure her.
Really, the song is a perfect representation of an utterly toxic, abusive relationship where JD ranges from quiet and pleading to furious and ranting as he tries to get her to come out or even respond to him. Even if he wasn't a murderous psychopath, anyone would be right to be afraid of him.
"Shine A Light (Reprise)", considering it's Heather McNamara attempting to kill herself after being publicly humiliated in front of the entire school, while imagining Heather Duke and their classmates telling her that she deserves to die alone.
Outside of all the obvious ones, there is that one guy during the opening number, "Beautiful"...it's meant to be Black Comedy, but it's still really creepy...
From the new songs added to the musical, 'You're Welcome' is absolutely horrifying. In contrast to them goofily serenading her about their "blue balls" in "Blue", in here they corner her in the middle of a cow pasture and talk about how hot she is. Veronica fearfully notes she mustn't "break their stare" or "yell or beg" or they might do it.
The final phase of the song takes the cake. Nothing stops Kurt and Ram from attempting to rape Veronica, not even her knocking them into the mud to get away from them, and they end the song arguing who gets to be "lovin' her well" first. Even worse is that they hijack the song from Veronica mid-verse after she's seemingly gotten the upper hand. Outside of some of JD's songs, there are no instances in the theatrical production where the music becomes quite as aggressive and viciously intense as the end of "You're Welcome."
The moment Heather Chandler vows to destroy Veronica can get downright BRUTAL - the proshoot has her slamming Veronica’s head to the railing and screaming in her face.
And, despite Veronica getting in the awesome moment of her telling off Chandler, Heather still turns the table around with eleven words: “I know who I’m eating lunch with on Monday. Do you?” And everyone at the party, most of whom had been celebrating her earlier turn their backs and say nothing, emphasizing that the mythic bitch still rules the school.
During the scene transition after "I Say No," the cast is doing the Westerberg cheer ("Hey, yo, Westerberg!"). As the students proceed across the stage, Martha ends up getting stared down by JD, and for a moment, you genuinely wonder if he's going to lash out at her, especially given her earlier intent to go through his locker. Especially knowing that both characters are basically at a point of "nothing left to lose," with Martha's illusions about Ram shattered and Veronica being the one to do it, while Veronica also has broken things off for good with JD.
Non-Canon
After the musical came out, many YouTube users created animatics for the various songs. They have excellent animation, but some of them can be terrifying in ways that can't be expressed by any stage production.
The last minute or so after Kurt and Ram die is sheerNightmare Fuel. J.D. looks entirely deranged as he holds Veronica, complete with Slasher Smile, Red Eyes, Take Warning, and dark, skeletal hands. He embraces a sobbing, traumatized Veronica, with the scene flashing between their real forms and one that depicts him as a bloody specter drowning out Veronica's light. His blood red color starts to seep onto her hands and wrap around her like a spiderweb until she's entirely red, and looks like she's screaming in agony with Tears of Blood running down her face, and she looks absolutely desperate and broken as she sings the last lines with him.
On the last note, there are fast flashes of the puddle of blood from the murders, of the discarded gun, of blood dripping from the leaves of a flower, and then a lovely image of the bodies of Kurt, Ram, and Heather Chandler wrapped in a bloody spiderweb stretching out from Veronica and J.D..
Heather McNamara imagines herself in a lifeboat out at sea surrounded by faceless students, with black ghosts (representing the dead students) reaching out of the water, silently wailing in agony.
One of the more low-key terrifying moments is when Veronica moves towards McNamara, likely to comfort her, but is stopped by Ms. Fleming. It shows that she really does not care about her students' well-being and is just using their suffering to prop herself up. Made all the more clear as Ms. Fleming is later shown to be smiling as McNamara continues to break down.
As she looks at Heather Duke, the other girl gives her a hateful Death Glare, before turning into an eerie silhouette outlined in red with a Slasher Smile, lashing out at her with clawed hands.
During the line, "Everyone's pushing, everyone's fighting!" a giant wave looms over the tiny lifeboat, and the other students, now also red silhouettes, violently shove Heather McNamara down into the black water.
More sad than scary, but at the end of the animatic, a black silhouette resembling McNamara herself emerges from the water and faces her, with tears running down its face. As she takes its outstretched hand, it smiles before shifting to red for a split second, then back to black. Heather allows it to pull her down into the black water, as the other students gently push her down to her watery grave.
Throughout the video, Veronica is surrounded by the ghosts of Heather Chandler, Kurt, and Ram, each sporting Eyeless Faces and red Slasher Smiles as they taunt her about Martha's suicide attempt.
This entire sequence:
Ghosts: Guess who's right down the block? (Veronica looks terrified as she sees J.D. suddenly appear in the window) Veronica's Mom: Your problems seem like life and death! Ghosts: Guess who's climbing the stairs? (Heather Chandler looms over Veronica's shoulder) Veronica's Mom: I promise they're not! Ghosts: Guess who's picking your lock? (Heather Chandler points a taunting finger at Veronica) Veronica:(to her concerned parents) You don't know what my world looks like! Ghosts:(wrapping a noose around Veronica's neck) Time's up! GO SAY YOUR PRAYERS!
Veronica flees up the stairs with the ghosts trailing behind her, blood dripping from their mouths. When she opens her bedroom door, she falls into an empty black void. The ghosts, now red, swirl around her as Veronica pulls the imaginary noose tight around her neck, a second before J.D. appears right behind her, ominously saying "Knock knock." Though the end of the animatic has a bit of Nightmare Retardant with J.D.'s goofy face after Veronica pushes him out of her bedroom.
As Heather McNamara is trying to commit suicide in the bathroom, she is taunted by hallucinations of the other students and of Heather Duke, represented by a black silhouette with a horrifically exaggerated face that consists of a single glowing red eye and a HUGESlasher Smile. she reaches out and grabs Heather McNamara by the throat, choking her with her bare hands.
The scene and audio of JD chasing Kurt after Ram is shot is completely cut out. When Ram is shot, the scene switches to a black background with white (and red) outlines, and the audio is replaced with the sound of a heart beating as Kurt looks down in shock at the sight of his best friend (and in the case of this animatic, lover) dead. The heartbeat turns into deafening silence once he's face to face with JD, pointing a gun at him. *BANG*
During the moment afterward where JD sings to Veronica, her expression goes from tearful anger at what he's done, to shock, to fear. And as he repeatedly sings "Our Love is God", he looks at her with an almost deranged look, his pupils in the shape of red hearts. Never have Wingding Eyes looked so terrifying...
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