History NightmareFuel / AmnesiaTheDarkDescent

* "The Cruel ways of Dr.Richard Jones" mod, ''period''. NothingIsScarier personified, with an absolutely large number of JumpScares on each corner...all while NO MUSIC PLAYS, adding even more fuel for the fear.

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* The 'Things in the night' as a whole. Not only are Brutes more common, the Suitors also make an appearance and there are flaming corpses that can hit you like a Grunt. From jump scares involving armors and statues, giant spiders, many jump scares from corpses and absolutely chilling enviroments, from the many horrifying moments, from the sudden warnings that something is coming to get you, monsters that can appear at ANY time, and the fact that, no matter what you do, there's no good end to the story. Particularly, in the basement of one of the houses you visit, you can find a 'gigantic spider' with tons of corpses literally hanging around the basement, with smaller, but still huge spiders over the corpses. And these dangling corpses are all over the mansion, covered in the Shadow's MeatMoss. You can only wonder what exactly all of those corpses went through...

* The 'Things in the night' mod has some pretty terrifying moments as well. Not only are Brutes more common, the Suitors also make an appearance and there are flaming corpses that can hit you like a Grunt. From the many horrifying moments, a particular one worth mentioning comes when the player, searching a large, dimly lit hallway, comes across a note in one of the rooms that says: "They are watching you now. Don't turn back.". [[ShmuckBait If you do look back]], [[JumpScare You'll see 2 statues and 2 armors standing right there behind you]], and upon attempt to leave the room, another set of those statues and armors appears, ''and they can hurt you''. And in the basement of one of the houses you visit, you can find a 'gigantic spider' with tons of corpses literally hanging around the basement, with smaller, but still huge spiders over the corpses. And these dangling corpses are all over the mansion, covered in the Shadow's MeatMoss. You can only wonder what exactly all of those corpses went through...

* The 'Things in the night' mod has some pretty terrifying moments as well. Not only are Brutes more common, the Suitors also make an appearance and there is a new kind of monster that is a flaming corpse as well. And when searching a large, dimly lit hallway, you come across a note in one of the rooms that says: "They are watching you now. Don't turn back.". [[ShmuckBait If you do look back]], [[JumpScare You'll see 2 statues and 2 armors standing right there behind you]], and when you try to leave the room, another set of those statues and armors appear, ''and they can hurt you''.

* The 'Disponentia' custom story, which takes place in a haunted house. First, there's a scene right at the beginning where a woman is seen playing a piano in a room lit only by red lights...and the woman suddenly ''turns to the screen and lunges at you''.And the house that serves as the main scenario for the game is haunted by said woman who can strike you at [[ParanoiaFuel anytime...anywhere...]]] [[HellIsThatNoise all while a undentifiable noise is heard.]] Then, when you head to the second floor, you see it's quite dark...and then [[spoiler: [[JumpScare a freakin' Servant Brute comes out of nowhere running at an unbelievable speed. And it happens ''twice'']] Granted, this part is only a JumpScare, but still damn horrifying.

* The 'Disponentia' custom story, which takes place in a haunted house. First, there's a scene right at the beginning where a woman is seen playing a piano in a room lit only by red lights...and the woman suddenly ''turns to the screen and lunges at you''.And the house that serves as the main scenario for the game is haunted by said woman who can strike you at [[ParanoiaFuel anytime...anywhere...]]] [[HellIsThatNoise all while a undentifiable noise is heard.]] Then, when you head to the second floor, you see it's quite dark...and then [[spoiler: [[JumpScare a freakin' Servant Brute comes out of nowhere running at an unbelievable speed. And it happens ''twice'']] Granted, this part is only a JumpScare, but still damn horrifying. Lastly, there is a Kaernk in this game, and you can ''hear it growling and snarling clearly''.

** A classic Iron Maiden, which [[spoiler: pops open as you approach it, giving a [[TheShining Shining-esque]] sequence of blood spilling forth]]. The flashback contains textual EyeScream.

* Perhaps the most disturbing part is [[spoiler: how Daniel willingly believed every assertion that [[CompleteMonster the Baron]] told him in regards to their victims' crimes.]]

* Some of the messages writen in blood in Amnesia Justine are REALLY screwed up. Some that stick out in this tropers mind are [[spoiler:"Death shall move across the floor", "They who burrow waits beneath", "Stay alive", "Lonely", "Suffer the trial" Made worse by the fact you sanity meter will decrese the moment you enter the tunnels and won't stop going down untill you find the exit. What could possibly have gone through Justine's twisted mind to make her write those messages...In blood no less.]]

* The 'Tenebris Lake' mod has some pretty horrific moments, due to the new monsters. The most common monster for one looks like a rotten corpse and hits like a Brute. The "[[BodyHorror goat" monster you find later in the game. Even Agrippa is made terrifying due to being locked in a room with him and after a short while, he breaks free of his chains and attacks you.

* The fact that the first piano you encounter (the one that shuts itself) has ''two sets of 3-keys'' (i.e., F F♯ G G♯ A A♯) next to each other in the center freaked the shit out of me. How the hell do you play that thing?! Does it just repeat?! Or does it create...'''''B♯?!'''''

** Though, the severed dog's head becomes NightmareRetardant if you [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7JWBvc8Vk4&feature=related#t=05m30s have a sick sense of humor]].
*** ''(Holds dog in front of camera.)'' "I'm ridin' ''{{beat}}'' I'm ridin' my ghost dog!"
*** The crescendo is the end, when he tosses it away and you hear glass smashing off-screen.
** Same goes for the stuffed rabbit. Watch Lanipator's let's play for the moment.

** It can also act like a Nightmare Retardant if you realize he now looks like an owl with no feathers. Or it can make it worse when you realize that there are plenty of clues that [[spoiler: suggest Alexander isn't human. Maybe his current form is a mask and that's his real face.]] YYMV, but it can be scary and silly at the same time. At least he looks like the monster he really is on the inside or at least Daniel's perception of that monster.

* The picture at the top comes from your first run-in with a servant. By some degree of luck, you figured out how to get the hell away and sobbed in a corner for five minutes. You come back out, and...it's gone? It's gone! Not taking any chances; just b-line straight for the exit! Made it. God damn, I never want to go back in there. At least now I'm safe. Then as soon as you walk forward after the screen loads-- SHRNK! You took damage?! B-but I got out! D-did it chase me?! Run, run, RUN! You look back to see it was only the first instance of the Shadow's decay expanding...though you don't know that yet. All you know is, you're never going in that fucking room again, and the game agrees with you.

* This troper was stupid enough to play the game at 3 am, in the unfinished basement of her best friend's house. In a rural area where animal noises are heard all throughout the night. Hello, waking eternity.

*** Oh, and by all means - [[SchmuckBait light the campfire set up beneath the bull]]. Nothing will happen, [[BlatantLies I promise]].
**** Made worse if you know that those bulls were ''not'' invented by the developers. Those things were [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_bull actually used in real life.]]

***** Supposedly he did it because he felt the creator was a sick, sick man to make such a thing. Even more supposedly, he took the guy out before he died. Then threw him off a cliff. Even worse, in my opinion.

** You know that pyramid-shaped object you find in one of the rooms? You know, the one that I'm pretty sure doesn't have a diagram going with it? It's called the Judas Cradle, invented during the Spanish Inquisition. Want to know how it works? You hang the person by their torso and feet, they're stripped naked, and there are several techniques on how to use it. [[spoiler: You can drop the victim onto the pyramid or slowly lower them onto the tip so that they sit there for an extended period of time. The pyramid is basically acting like a spreader.]] You want more details? [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bci-cAGMwts&NR=1 Machines of Malice looked at it best and shows how it WORKED]]. (Please note, that it starts up about this particular piece at around 8:02.)

* The Prison Level. Dear god the Prison Level. Most people give up in sheer terror because the place is swarming with monsters, and is very dark. The monsters literally seem to be everywhere.
* YMMV (a lot), but for me, being a piano enthusiast, the fact that the first piano you encounter (the one that shuts itself) has ''two sets of 3-keys'' (i.e., F F♯ G G♯ A A♯) next to each other in the center freaked the shit out of me. How the hell do you play that thing?! Does it just repeat?! Or does it create...'''''B♯?!'''''

* The room where the first vitae experiments took place. It's essentially a taxidermy room, with a ''severed dog's head'' in it. The room immediately after that has a cupboard with at least 3 dead bodies, all nothing but bones. The former genuinely made me sick to my stomach. Plus in the background there's the sound of another dog yelping in pain.

** Oh, and the deal about Alexander not having any female corpses around, and the ever famous Mr. Face? I firmly believe that Mr. Face was once a woman. Look closely.

** Seems like they are Alexander's servants, and they were afflicted by the Shadow. Alexander can still maintain some control over them, [[spoiler: as in the ambush at the end of the game. But thats only when Alexanders realizes you are in the castle.]] The rest of the time the servants want to kill you. That make me think that even if you got to slow the progress of the Shadow, it will use whatever means to hunt you. Ergo it does not matter where you or the physical manifestation of the Shadow are, you can asume it sorround you in everything near you.
** I'm more inclined to believe that they are Alexander's servants, and he deliberately made them that way. Many signs indicate deliberate, careful mutilation rather than mutation caused by the Shadow. Alexander would have a need for servants who are absolutely loyal, easily sacrificable and replaceable if needed, and capable of inflicting mad terror in their subjects just with their appearance. Grisly mutilation + alchemy = Mr. Face. They were presumably hooded or otherwise disguised around Daniel before the game, since he commented on their abnormal behaviour, but not appearance.

** Add a bit of FridgeBrilliance or FridgeHorror. See the corpse that suddenly appears? Turn around and what do you know, the corpse just dissapeared. It just vanished in the air? It was a bug? Or... is there something in the room with you, and it took the corpse out of there?

** Hell, on my first playthrough I recognized the area you see in the pic and had my OhCrap moment. I knew it would show up. I knew what to do. I had an escape route; where to run, where to hide, how long to wait. But it just wouldn't show up. As I went through and solved the puzzles, it just wouldn't. Show. Up. I must have spent two or three times more than needed to make it through because I kept running back to the armoire for every little event.

* The [[spoiler: DownerEnding]] of the game is this made absolutely [[PrecisionFStrike Fucked up]] when you hear [[spoiler: The shadow replay the voices of Daniel and Alexander's victoms right before killing Daniel. And Daniel's screams DO NOT make anything better]]

* Let's face it, this game is Nightmare Fuel incarnated. No place, not even the Back Hall, is enough comforting. Not only the monsters, but the entire paranoia fueled corridors, always keeping an eye behind you, and beyond every corner. The thought that there's something always following you is enough to keep you on heels. And this game proves that, yes, NothingIsScarier.

* The [[spoiler: DownerEnding]] of the game is this made absolutely [[PrecisionFStrike Fucked up]] when you hear [[spoiler: [[NightmareFuel The shadow replay the voices of Daniel and Alexander's victoms right before killing Daniel. And Daniel's screams DO NOT make anything better]]]]

** The reveal that [[spoiler: the player character is Justine]] may not seem horrifying at first, but think about it: The monster mentioned above, along with the other two you meet later on? Yeah, [[spoiler: you did that to them]]. You weren't brainwashed, you weren't forced to, you weren't mind controlled. You [[spoiler: blinded them and trapped them down there ''of your own free will'']]. [[WasOnceAMan It doesn't help that they used to be men]].

** The reveal that [[spoiler: the player character is Justine]] may not seem horrifying at first, but think about it: The monster mentioned above, along with the other two you meet later on? Yeah, [[spoiler: you did that to them]]. You weren't brainwashed, you weren't forced to, you weren't mind controlled. You [[spoiler: blinded them and trapped them down there ''of your own free will'']]. [[WasOnceAMan It doesn't help that [[spoiler: they used to be men]]]].

** The reveal that [[spoiler: the player character is Justine]] may not seem horrifying at first, but think about it: The monster mentioned above, along with the other two you meet later on? Yeah, [[spoiler: you did that to them]]. You weren't brainwashed, you weren't forced to, you weren't mind controlled. You [[spoiler: blinded them and trapped them down there ''of your own free will'']]. [[WasOnceAMan It doesn't help that [[spoiler: they used to be men]].