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Nightmare Fuel / The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

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  • The Moon. It's mostly an uninhabited wasteland of liminal space and when the Baron and Sandy arrive they're greeted by disembodied cheers and claps as cardboard cutout buildings and decorations move around them. The Baron seems pleased and honored by this welcome, but there's just something off about how the whole thing plays out and the weird music that borders on Creepy Circus Music blaring throughout the entire sequence.
  • The King and Queen of the Moon are giant people whose heads can detach and fly off, their bodies still moving around.
    • It makes for an eerie sight to begin with, but the King of the Moon is also an absolute psycho whether his head is on or not. He imprisons the Baron and Sally for no reason without his body, and tries to feed them to a three-headed bird when his head is reattached.
  • The giant sea monster. Just look at the sheer size of its deep, toothy, Charybdis-like mouth and how minuscule the Baron and his friends are in comparison. Terry Gilliam has named Pinocchio one of his favorite animated movies, and his sea monster is a pretty effective live-action rendering of Monstro's horror. Thank goodness this island-sized leviathan doesn't go Ax-Crazy after sneezing the heroes out...
  • People getting their heads cut off, with the heads still alive sometimes.
  • The Grim Reaper constantly showing up and making those awful screeches.
  • Vulcan, who proudly shows off a nuclear missile and giddly describes its effect to the clueless 18th Century adventurers.
    Vulcan: [The bomb] kills the enemy... Aye, all of them. All their wives, and all their children, and all their sheep, and all their cattle, and all their cats and dogs. All of them. All of them gone for good.
  • Any time Sally is put in a distressing situation that causes her to shriek her head off can be upsetting to watch. It gets worse when you learn that during the Troubled Production Sarah Polley was actually forced to be part of several dangerous stunts which left her with some childhood trauma by the end of it, meaning that some of those reactions were genuine screams of terror from a helpless little girl.
  • The Sultan's literal instrument of torture- an organ where the pipes are prisoners in a cage that the player pokes and stabs by pressing the keys. There's also his executioner, whose eyes have been sewn shut.

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