Some things shouldn't be witnessed by human eyes...
It's a series about lost spirits who try to abduct a little girl, so it's not exactly family-friendly comedy material.
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- Even the opening MGM logo has a Jump Scare in it.
- The scene where Maddie is lured into the Otherside through the closet. The spirits lure her in by dragging her favorite stuffed animal towards the portal in the closet. When she enters, she enters into a pitch-black void and turns around to find her bedroom moving away into the distance. Suddenly, she is grabbed by ghoulish undead and dragged into their netherworld. Seeing a child implicitly dragged into a Dark World can be terrifying to watch! The scene is also like childhood fears of closets taken up to eleven. The sheer darkness of the void can be more terrifying than what you can see.
- In this version, the other side is portrayed as a mirror image of our world, but everything is composed of writhing masses of lost souls, clawing and moaning at nothing and everything. It's an entire eldritch dimension.
- The scene where Boyd drills into the wall and accidentally makes a larger hole than expected, and his power-drill falls through. He sticks his hand in, and his arm is held fast by something, which effectively pins him to the wall. Next, his power-drill from the other side drills through the wall, with the bit extending several inches into the real world, right at the level of Boyd's head. The drill comes closer, closer, and Boyd is well aware that it will kill him gruesomely, but is unable to move. Fortunately, he is released, and he gets away. (It turns out that the scene is probably a hallucination like the face-peeling from the original, as the wall is next shown to be intact.) In the scene immediately preceding this, Boyd set up a death flag by making comments to Griffin indicating that he thought the whole thing was a money-making publicity stunt by an unemployed father; consequently, Viewers had good reason to expect that the above scene would result in a Karmic Death.
