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* Film/{{Beetlejuice}}: "Saturn", the bizarre place where the ghosts that try to leave their house end up in is a weird and feverish realm with a bright yellow desert, red and twisted rock formations and an AlienSky with a looming green gas giant planet, home to the striped, [[NestedMouths nested mouth]]-ed Sandworms that immediately attack any visitor.

Bright colors may be used to [[{{Foreshadowing}} warn the audience]] that something is not right with the area a la warning coloration. It may also be [[InvokedTrope used to bedazzle characters]] (and [[BaitAndSwitch the audience]]) in order to hide its true nature. Sometimes, colors not usually common especially compared to other places within the story are used to showcase something unnatural.

* ''Film/ChildsPlay2'' has its climax taking place at a NightmarishFactory of the Good Guy dolls, which unlike your typical dark and gritty industrial hellhole, it's instead a clean and brightly colored establishment that ends up being uncanny in the way of this trope.

* ''VideoGame/FarCryNewDawn'' has a lavish setting filled with vibrant flora that blooms around the post-apocalytic landscape. It's this setting where the player must defend his turf against the brutal Highwaymen.

* TheNeverendingStory gives us Perelin, the Night Forest. It's vibrantly colourful, breathtakingly beautiful, and grows so quickly and aggressively that it would take over all of Fantasia if Grorgrimmar, the Many-Coloured Death, didn't blast it to sand every morning.

* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'': Sector Bootes is modeled after a red light district and features tacky, rococo yet grimy and decadent set pieces with clashing colors and an overall awful taste. The leader of the sector is Mithras, an EvilutionaryBiologist that decided to [[PlayingWithSyringes conduct experiments]] on the stranded crew of the Elve ship that allowed him to discover that humans need things like "blood" and "oxygen" to exist.

* The domains of the Chaos God Tzeentch and, to a lesser extent, Slaanesh, as depicted in ''VideoGame/{Total War: Warhammer III}''. Both feature bright blues and pinks as well as often scintillating, changing colors. Both are nightmare worlds full of Daemons.

* The domains of the Chaos God Tzeentch and, to a lesser extent, Slaanesh, as depicted in ''VidepGame/{Total War: Warhammer 3}''. Both feature bright blues and pinks as well as often scintillating, changing colors. Both are nightmare worlds full of Daemons.

* In the anime adaptation of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'', Morioh is depicted with unusual coloration (such as yellow skies, green roads and purplish/bluish trees), representing the bizarre nature of the town, which is haunted by {{Serial Killer}}s and not-always-friendly Stand users. This is quite notable as other adaptations from Part 1-3 have more realistic colors in their settings, barring the episodic color shifts.

* Played with in ''{{WesternAnimation/Coraline}}''. The Other World is depicted much more colorfully in contrast to the real[[note]]The Other World is not real in that it was created by the Other Mother and her minions[[/note]] world (which is far more dull in aesthetics). As the true nature of the world is revealed, numerous places in the Other World become less bright and more dim, gradually petrifying whenever one of the Ghost Children's eyes are found and eventually dissolves into a WhiteVoidRoom.

* T'telir, from Creator/BrandonSanderson's novel ''{{Literature/Warbreaker}}'', is a DeadlyDecadentCourt where the people virtually worship colour, so everything is vibrantly coloured, from the building to people's clothes.

* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' is known for its signature 'psycho pop' style, using flashy colors, hot pink blood and clashing patterns to contrast the morbid, psychological nature of the Killing Games. The Funhouse in ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' accentuates this, having bright red and green walls covered with the images of strawberries and grapes, with a trial ground full of obnoxious patterns and colors.

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* In the anime adaptation of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'', Morioh is depicted with unusual coloration (such as yellow skies, green roads and purplish/bluish trees). This is quite notable as other adaptations from Part 1-3 have more realistic colors in their settings, barring the episodic color shifts.

* Dario Argento's ''Film/{{Suspiria|1977}}'' and its successor ''Film/{{Inferno}}'' run on this trope. Both films feature exterior and interior shots illuminated with colorful lights which lends to a dream fever like atmosphere. Pat's RasputinianDeath is perhaps one of the most iconic examples.

* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': While a normal city in most respects during the day, by night the City itself becomes a technicolor battlefield between monsters and {{magical girl}}s. Between the hours of 10:00 P.M. and 2:00 A.M., deadly monsters flood into the City, while the Inner Barrier forms a seal along the walls of the City's structures to protect civilians. The appearance of the Inner Barrier changes from night to night, but its variations are often ominously vibrant -- one particular night featured bright orange walls and a pink river, while another was succinctly described by the author as a "primary color hellscape".

* Videogame/Destiny2’s Black Garden falls firmly in this category. The colors are bright and eyecatching (though slightly more subdued than most examples of this trope), and the lore can only be described as pure NightmareFuel.
* In ''Videogame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'''s ''Shivering Isles'' expansion, the titular Isles are the home of the MadGod Sheogorath, and are split down the middle to represent the dual nature of madness. The Northwestern half of the Isles, Mania, represents aspects of madness that can be considered positive (such as artistic creation and the spark of invention), and is full of technicolor plants and brightly covered monsters, but is every bit as dangerous as the [[SwampsAreEvil southeastern half, Dementia]].

Bright colors may be used to [[{{Foreshadowing}} warn the audience]] that something is not right with the area a la warning coloration. It may also be [[InvokedTrope used to bedazzle characters]] (and [[BaitAndSwitch the audience]]) in order hide its true nature. Sometimes, colors not usually common especially compared to other places within the story are used to showcase something unnatural.

* ''Film/Annihilation2018'': Area X is full of brightly-colored plants that have The Shimmer (which...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin shimmers]], and which can infest humans if they encounter them, [[DrivenToMadness driving them to madness]] and/or death, including [[spoiler:turning them into some of the brightly-colored plants.]])

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'': The surface of Ego the Living Planet appears to be a [[AmazingTechnicolorWorld amazingly beautiful if slightly trippy]] '80s psychedelic wonderland... But this trope comes into effect when [[spoiler: it's revealed Ego is an OmnicidalManiac who wants to [[AssimilationPlot assimilate the universe]], and can grow [[CombatTentacles crackling energy tentacles]] from the formerly-beautiful scenery.]]

* ''Literature/{{Coraline}}'': The Other World is very colourful, with bright clothes on the people, flowers, etc., but it's run by demon-like creatures who want to [[WouldHurtAChild kill Coraline]]. Unlike in the movie, the world doesn't become less colourful but instead it becomes less defined, and is described as looking like a drawing.

* ’’Videogame/Destiny2’’‘s Black Garden falls in this category. While the colors are slightly more subdued than most examples, the lore can only be described as pure NightmareFuel.

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* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': [[Recap/GravityFallsS2E19WeirdmageddonPart2EscapeFromReality "Weirdmageddon Part 2"]] takes place in a colorful fantasy land designed to protect Mabel from her tragic reality. This being [[HappyPlace Mabel's fantasy]], it's extremely adorable, energetic, and popping with fun neon colors and sparkles. However, as soon as the threat of reality sets in, the place breaks down into a nightmare and tries to eradicate anybody who supposedly threatens Mabel's happiness.

* ''Film/ColorOutOfSpace2020'': The more the [[EldtritchAbomination titular color]] infects the surrounding land, the more vibrant it becomes, with the plants and animals becoming a shade of bright magenta.