Being one of Peter Jackson's earlier works, this movie was chockful of nightmarish moments.
- Just seeing how revolting some of the puppets are in this film. Especially Trevor the Rat, F.W. Fly, Harry as his illness progresses, Cedric the Warthog, The Giant Spider, and Mr. Big.
- The drug-dealing scene where Mr. Bletch receives the cocaine delivery and lets Dennis have the first line. As he snorts it up, the coke, which is actually borax, melts off his nose and kills him. Mr. Bletch proceeds to stuff borax down Louie the drug dealer's throat, which "liquidates" him.
- Harry Hare, at this point all but eaten alive by his disease, is trying to convince himself that he's still well enough to go perform by psyching himself up in his mirror. As he does his pep-talk, one of his pustules bursts and literally covers the mirror with pus.
- And then when he gets onstage, he throws up about five gallons of vomit. Even Bletch ends up disgusted.
- The scene where Trevor drugs and nearly rapes Lucille.
- This movie manages to make furry reminders rather chilling. The two main examples are when Mr. Bletch devours a guppy for a poor performance and when Trevor the Rat is scavenging off the corpses of Sidney's recently deceased pets, though special mention goes to Sandy continuing to move and speak after Heidi separates her head from her body.
- Wynyard's flashback, while largely played for laughs, has some rather unsettling moments, which is inevitable given the subject matter. Especially the moment where they think they've found their lost comrade, only to find out it's his severed head impaled on a stake.
- During the parody of the famous Russian Roulette scene from The Deer Hunter, Wynyard is given a fully loaded revolver when it's his turn to pull the trigger on himself. Even though it's played for laughs, the monologue he gives when he believes he's about to die is still rather unsettling.
"As I stared down the muzzle of that gun, I thought of Chuck, and 8-Ball, and the thousands of others who had perished in that God-forsaken wilderness. I was not afraid to join them."- Finally, there’s Wynyard's death. During the show, he begins to hallucinate, thinking that Robert is an enemy soldier. As he tosses knives at him too quickly, he loses his grip on one, and it comes down right into his head, killing him. Even Bletch, as evil as he his, is horrified at this.
- One of the "less" disturbing scenes in the movie involves Sidney's "tribble"-like pets getting crushed to death by an out-of-control barrel followed by Trevor devouring their flattened corpses!
- Don't forget about Heidi's massacre in the end.
- F.W. Fly getting killed by Bletch by the walrus pulling out his attenna and flushing the fly down the toilet.
