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Hotel Transylvania: Transformania

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Scary Moments (Nightmare Fuel) in Hotel Transylvania: Transformania
As always, monsters in this franchise are almost always good, but even the madcap hijinks and the comedy of the transformations doesn't takes away some scary things about the film.
  • As goofy as Gigi looks at first, she quickly becomes this as she further mutates and soon becomes bigger than the hotel!
  • Even though it is played for laughs, Dennis and Winnie being hypnotized by Dracula is a bit unsettling. Dennis and Winnie have wide eyes that never blink and their eyes are bloodshot red. They speak in a low monotone voice and in unison. Even worse, they stay like that for an unknown amount of time.
  • Johnny after he almost completely loses himself (page image) and what leads up to it, seeing a character who is almost always in a good mood and a nice guy suddenly LIVID, then you start to see him start to subtly grow bigger...
    Johnny: You didn't want to have any bonding time with me. You just didn't wanna give me the hotel!
    • Worse is the scene where that happens: Johnny learns that the "Monster Real Estate" Drac told him about is a lie that the latter made up, and worse is that he realizes Drac was not trying to bond with him but rather try to keep him from inheriting the hotel out of mistrust, enraged by realizing that Drac strung him along and lied to him all this time, Johnny loses it and his transformation worsens as he turns bigger, grows more fangs and his eyes turn blood red before he storms off in fury while clearly losing his humanity all the more as he begins to refer himself in the third person.
    • Later on he almost kills Mavis, his wife, in his blind rage as he slowly becomes more and more feral in his dragon form.
  • The fact that Dennis and Winnie were left behind at the hotel while everyone else left on the adventure. It is implied that they were both left in the care of Van Helsing, however, but being left behind and essentially forgotten about is quote unsettling. Even worse is that it is implied that barely managed to survive the hotel's destruction. If it wasn't for Tinkles, they probably wouldn't have survived.

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