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Nightmare Fuel / The Haunting of Bly Manor

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  • The hidden ghosts are back, standing in eerie silence in dark corners, unseen by the characters and occasionally vamishing between shots. The Plague Doctor ghost, though harmless, is especially unsettling given his creepy get-up.
  • Some of Miles's interactions with Dani are very uncomfortable because of the sexual undertones, which are highly inappropriate for his age and leads one to wonder where the hell he learnt this behavior. It gets even more disturbing when it's revealed that the ghost of Peter Quint has been possessing him, so it's highly possible that during these times, it was actually Quint being creepy towards Dani while in the body of a child.
  • Dani goes down to the cellar to fetch one of Flora's dolls. As she leaves, the camera lingers a little too long on a collection of old porcelain dolls. And then one of the doll's heads slowly turns...
  • Flora goes into the attic while playing hide-and-seek, and starts humming 'O Willow Waly' to herself. Then, another disturbingly husky and raspy voice joins in, and an out-of-focus figure starts moving in the background. A bit later, we get a better look and see that it's a ghost without a face, followed by the show messing with our expectations as rather than a Jump Scare of it attacking Flora, she simply turns around and shushes it, not fazed at all.
  • Ever have a guilty conscience about something? Just be happy that it didn't appear as a doppelganger and start tormenting you about all the bad choices you made with psychotic glee. While Henry has much to atone for, watching as the Doppelganger just keeps twisting the knife is so unsettlingly brutal that it's hard not to feel a bit sorry for him.
  • The truth behind Rebecca's apparent suicide. Peter talked her into letting him permanently possess her, and he used it to walk her into the lake and kill herself so she couldn't leave him. Worse, he gives control of the body back to her right as she's drowning and leaves her to experience her death all alone.
  • During Peter's plea to Miles and Flora in the attic, he loses his temper and suddenly pulls out the aforementioned faceless woman in an attempt to guilt them into helping him by illustrating the fate in store for him and all the ghosts in the manor. It is underlined by Peter acting more monstrously than most of the grotesque ghosts, and is a more realistic fear of a trusted adult grooming the children to his own benefit.
  • The Jump Scare when Perdita goes to check on Viola's dresses, with the intent to sell them, then two bodiless arms reach through the sleeves and snap her neck. Arthur coming upstairs and discovering Perdita's milky-eyed corpse with the terror she felt forever etched on her face is the kicker.
  • The final time we return to Miss Jessel's memory of Peter taking pictures of her in Charlotte's old fur coat, the camera pans to the pile of photographs on the floor and reveals Rebecca and Peter's true forms: two corpses with rotting skin and sunken eyes.
  • Peter himself was described in many reviews as the true scariest part of the show even before he dies, with the Realism-Induced Horror of a violently jealous and Gaslighting boyfriend, made all the more unnerving for being played by the same actor as sweet, gentle Luke from The Haunting of Hill House (2018).

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