Nightmare Fuel / Shed 17

Gordon’s ghastly demise.

As horror fanfilms, Shed 17 and Project G-1 naturally have a variety of content that ranges from disturbing to outright horrific. Both of them being based on a beloved children's franchise doesn't exactly help with the horror factor, either.

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Shed 17

• The whole concept of bio-fusion is horrifying. Human beings are put through a very long surgery, the process of which we know very little about, which involves removing a majority of their internal organs and grafting extensive mechanical implants all throughout their bodies.
  • It gets worse later on, when we discover that all bio-fusions, except for Thomas, are poorly made. Several of them suffer random defects that cause them to suffer and die slowly and painfully, leaking blood everywhere as their internal organs are destroyed.
• When Edward tried to blow his whistle for some children. One of his internal organs exploded, spraying them all with blood and leaving him in extreme pain.
• Mavis was the first attempt at a diesel-powered biofused engine. Her organs caught on fire as soon as they tried to light her, leaving her screaming in agony as she burned to death from the inside. The railway workers tried to clean out the tank with water and put out the fire, but it was too late. She died soon after, and all diesel-powered engines were banned immediately after.
• Percy didn't survive his fusion. He was left as a museum piece for the tourists, until one day, when his head fell off and sprayed blood everywhere. Except that dead people aren't supposed to bleed like that, implying that he actually did survive, but was unable to move the whole time.
• Gordon is made into an engine far too big to run properly. Sir Topham Hatt forces his employees to start his boiler anyways, ignoring Gordon's complaints about the heat. Eventually, he can't do anything but scream in pain and beg for them to stop, but Hatt refuses to listen. Eventually, Gordon's boiler buckles under the pressure, exploding in an enormous fire, but not before Gordon's eyeballs burst, spraying blood everywhere. The explosion badly injures several workers, who Hatt refuses to call the ambulance for, to cover the tracks on what he had done. By the time he allowed them to take the injured to the hospital, they would have to be air lifted. Which leads directly into...
• Harold. He loved helicopters more than trains, so he was fused with a helicopter instead. However, after the accident with Mavis, he was forbidden from ever trying to fly. The situation after Gordon's death had grown so dire that they had no choice but to have him try to airlift them out. This backfired horribly; while his engine worked better than Mavis's, it turns out most of his lower body had been grafted into the rotor blades, so when he tried to spin them, he ripped apart most of his internal organs and crashed, dying in the process and presumably killing everyone he was trying to save. However, it's not all bad, as the smoke created by the crash is visible all around Arlesburgh, and alerts the public that something is not right about Sodor Research.
• The climax. Thomas the Tank Engine enters Shed 17, seeing various skeletons and failed clones, realizing that he's just a clone. It gets worse when he looks in the back, finding a giant glowing tube. As he approaches it, something reaches out and slams against the glass. We don't see exactly what it is, but we see a silhouette that makes it look like a deformed skeleton with a train for a head. This abomination (implied to be the real Thomas Gotze) scares the tank engine so badly that his chassis literally starts falling apart, revealing his horribly deformed and warped skeleton inside. The camera stays on his gnarled body for some time, as Thomas screams in terror and potentially pain as well. Making it even more unnerving is how distorted Thomas' screams are, making them sound positively inhuman. There are also lots of creaking and cracking noises as his skeleton emerges, as well.
• After the 1984 test on the Old Dalby Test Track in which a bio-fused Class 46 diesel was crashed into a nuclear flask, bio-fusion was illegalized in Europe. Not so in China, where political prisoners are forced to undergo the process and are threatened with scrapping if they arrive late.
• In The Stinger, it turns out the Costa Concordia cruise ship, wrecked in 2012 with the loss of 32 lives, was also bio-fused, with the face underwater, screaming for help that will come in a year...to salvage and scrap him, as Costa Cruises have already written him off as a total constructive loss.
• In the now-deleted ^note  though reuploads do exist Christmas Special, James and Edward, believed to still be alive by some at the end of the original video, are melted down alive by the fat bastard and presumably reused for the abomination we see in the Project G-1 trailer. The clip of James and Edward melting would later be reused in Project G-1.

Project G-1

• The Nightmare Fuel in Project G-1 starts over a minute into its runtime. After the title appears, we get to see the horrific, monstrous Thomas clone from the prior fanfilm, and its torso and arms are shown to consist of exposed flesh and bones. Thankfully it doesn't live long, as it's soon gunned down by agents from HiT Logistics.
• The very idea of being biofused into a truck is horrifying in and of itself. Think about it; you’re basically turned into an inanimate object that can’t move on its own, can’t speak a single word, and is left there to rot. Even worse? Unlike the other vehicle characters, who at least have their organs covered up by metal, the trucks' organs are completely exposed, meaning that they will die a gruesome, painful death, and they know they can’t do anything about it.
• Most of the twin engines, along with Annie and Clarabel, were actually the result of a single person's cells splitting during the biofusion process, and these twins have Twin Telepathy. Prof. Routh decided to take the experiments on the twin engines further by seeing just how far the link would go, perhaps going too far, which ends up being demonstrated with the experiment performed on Donald and Douglas. In the experiment, Donald is placed in a pressure chamber while Douglas is put behind a glass door. As the unseen Donald is being affected by the pressure chamber, Douglas' chassis falls off in pieces and, unlike with Thomas, he's instead revealed to be a pulsating mass of human flesh with massive lidless eyes and a mouth seemingly grown over by a thin web of flesh. Making things even more horrifying is the music and Douglas' screams and pleads as his flesh slowly expands to the point of explosion.
  • This connection is revisited when Clarabel is being disposed of by HiT Logistics. Some miles away, Annie has spent the past 30 years alone with her husband Diesel. One day, out of the blue, Annie starts burning alive with no visible source for her suffering. Her woodwork chars and eyes are cooked whilst Diesel is forced to watch and listen to her screams of pain. Then, her eyes roll up into the back of her head and burst in a Gory Discretion Shot all over her husband's face. The blood curdling screams that come from Diesel afterwards as her body subsequently explodes into flames make it even worse.
• The faces the engines make while doped up on "special coal", goofy as they are, are still rather... jarring. all of them has constantly gyrating, bloodshot eyes opened as wide as possible, with malformed, unnaturally wide grins to match.
  • To make matters worse is that, aside from the scene with Ferdinand, it's not animated. most of the sequence is actual edited footage from the show!
• While Played for Laughs, the bio-fused tanks. They're human soldiers merged with tanks, who groan in pain every time they have to fire their cannons. It's an equally chilling and amusing concept.
• Where to begin with Smudger? It’s bad enough in the original story where he was converted into a generator, but Project G-1 cranks it up to eleven by showing fueling tube going through his eyes and mouth in one shot, then after the Narrow Gauge engines line closed down, they just leave him there to rot, only to be found by Hit Logistics years later. When they try to pull him out, however, his internal organs and living tissues fused to the shack he was fixed onto for years. The kicker? He’s begging Prof. Routh to stop, but to no avail. He’s essentially being killed slowly, and by his savior none less.
  • Made even worse is if you’ve seen the original upload or the deleted scenes, in which a group of eccentric train enthusiasts called Steamies, locate Smudger and proceed to rape him for their own sick fantasies. Granted, Paul said he and James were being tickled, but the imagery showcased and especially Smudger’s pleas for them to stop and the awkward movements he makes, invokes that he and James are being molested.
• G-1 itself is an absolutely colossal, wailing monstrosity that assimilates any type of organic matter it comes across. The thing is covered in the faces of the engines it has absorbed and lacks any type of skin, showing its disturbingly humanoid skeleton and organs beneath, and at one point it extrudes a catapult-like structure from its rear end to lob the remains of an assimilated engine at several tanks to destroy them during its Roaring Rampage of Revenge through the city. And it's implied that this thing is very much aware of what it has become, as around the climax, G-1 somehow recognizes the horridly deformed Thomas and seems to instantly calm down, but is quickly dispatched of by the Boulder, a giant mass of dead biofused material, which pushes it over into a ravine, where it ultimately falls to its grisly death.
• Hartley's fate at the end is a horrific Trauma Conga Line for him. First, he's seized by an enraged Thomas, who proceeds to tear him in half, complete with a downright demonic roar. Shockingly enough though, this doesn't kill him. Instead, Dr. Routh gets a hold of him and proceeds to biofuse him with a truck, as ordered by Sir Topham Hatt to punish him for spilling the beans on everything he ever did. The worst thing Hartley can ever imagine happening to himself, and it gets inflicted on him at the end of the story.
  • Even worse, Keith is just one of hundreds of trucks lined up in that same room, with the implication being that they are all former railway staff or potential whistleblowers biofused in order to silence them and protect both Routh's and Sir Topham Hatt's secrets. You remember in the first film, when it's mentioned that Sir Topham Hatt laid off hundreds of his employees?
    Sir Topham Hatt: This is where everyone ends up once they've become... troublesome.