Nightmare Fuel

Dr. Quinzel wrote:

There are quite a few scenes in Black Swan that are great Nightmare Fuel. I still remember leaving the theater and thinking how much of a mindfuck it all was, but god was it good.

*epic necropost*

The scene with the hangnail never fails to make me scream.

The bit in The Ring where the woman coughs up an electrode also squicks the hell out of me.

For me, it would have to be the infamous Chestburster scene. I was about 6, maybe 7, and Alien was playing at prime time. Folks were watching it and I remember the characters laughing and such and then John Hurt being in pain (yeah, yeah, insert lame pun here) and then SWEET JESUS, MARY AND JOSEF WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!

And then I saw Spaceballs. I've never taken the original scene seriously after that. XD

Forgot to add this one...
The "pig hands" scene in Rigoletto. For whatever reason, this scene terrified me when I was little. I think it was the voices that did it...

Petronella wrote:

The scene with the hangnail never fails to make me scream.

Seconding that. I almost had to leave the theatre after that scene, it squicked me out so much. Tearing nails/skin is my worst phobia. Probably has something to do with the time I was around 6 or so and wandering through the YMCA by myself, someone swung a door open over the top of my foot and ripped my big toenail off. Not clean off, mind, just so the bottom 3/4 of it stuck straight up in a jagged bloody mess. Then I ran around screaming for the next 10 minutes until I found a rec worker to help. I'm still very careful to never break any of my nails.

Owlish wrote:

Petronella wrote:

The scene with the hangnail never fails to make me scream.

Seconding that. I almost had to leave the theatre after that scene, it squicked me out so much. Tearing nails/skin is my worst phobia. Probably has something to do with the time I was around 6 or so and wandering through the YMCA by myself, someone swung a door open over the top of my foot and ripped my big toenail off. Not clean off, mind, just so the bottom 3/4 of it stuck straight up in a jagged bloody mess. Then I ran around screaming for the next 10 minutes until I found a rec worker to help. I'm still very careful to never break any of my nails.

Oh god. Ouch. D:

Necroposting to link to this article on disturbing kids' movies.

I watched some of these as a kid, and yes, some of them are truly disturbing, like "The Mysterious Stranger" part of The Adventures of Mark Twain. I saw that in high school, and it stuck with me, especially the part about people being of no value. *Shudder*

Spotts1701 wrote:

For me, it's a toss-up between the face-melting scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark and the rapid-aging scene from The Last Crusade.

Ditto, for some reason rapid speed aging always... gets me. Take the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen at the end with the dude who looks at his own painting and ages literally two hundred years in the span of about 10 seconds... Yup.

You know what pisses me off?

Sadistic choices.

A Hero is faced with letting their best friend or true love die, or giving up thier life or a MacGuffin. Now, when it's just their life or something that has pure monetary value, I don't mind that. Or maybe it's something big but they've got a plan. That's good too.

But sometimes the villain wants, say, the Chaos Emeralds (for an example) or something else that will help them TAKE OVER THE WORLD. Or they want the Hero's life and the hero KNOWS that they are the only one who can stop them. That sort of thing.

And what does the Hero do? They trade in billions of lives - including family, friends, co-workers, etc - the freedom and happiness of billions of people, for one person's life - even when that person would also end up living in slavery, and even when they don't have a plan and it only comes through thanks to Hero's Luck.

That pisses me off. THAT is being selfish. But it still happens in a lot of stories. The hero is STILL so concerned with their own happiness that they can't make the sacrifice of one person they care about to help the billions they don't know. And yet it's constantly portrayed as being heroic.

Psst. Hey, Harley this is for Nightmare fuel not complaining.