History NightmareFuel / MouseHunt

* During their search for the noise in the attic on their first night in the house, they're scared by a [[NightmareFace demonic shadow]] illuminated by lightning, which leads to both Ernie and Lars, who jumps into Ernie's arms, screaming and clinging to each other. [[MoodWhiplash Fortunately for them, it turned out it was just a jack-in-the-box]].

* The painting of Rudolf Smuntz is moody throughout the film, but then magically changes to a grin, when the sons finally work together for real. In intention, a beautiful event to show the father being proud of his sons even after death, but ''the goddamn painting changes through supernatural forces''. Not intentionally scary, [[NothingIsScarier but if you think about it, it's chilling]].
* A more chilling example is when the brothers enter the city pound to find a cat, and there's a little girl being dragged out by her mother screaming about her kitty being left behind... The kitten is taken inside, and the room fills with smoke ''hopefully'' for decontamination... It doesn't help that a great deal of the imagery, music, and visual cues are [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything reminiscent of the Nazi death camps]], surely intentionally so.

* The flood during the auction at the end. It all starts when the Smuntz brothers had spotted the mouse and Lars was gonna [[ItMakesSenseInContext douse Hilda's burning spool]]. Ernie uses the hose and puts it in the mouse's mouse hole and Lars turns on the water and accidentally breaks the knob off, which results in the inner-part of the house is overflowed with water and resulting in breaking through the whole inside of the house that washes away the people that were inside.
* During their search for the noise in the attic on their first night in the house, they're scared by a [[NightmareFace demonic shadow]] illuminated by lightning, which leads to both Ernie and Lars, who jumps into Ernie's arms, screaming and clinging to each other. [[MoodWhiplash Fortunately for them, it turned out it was just a jack-in-the-box]].
* The scene where the mouse is evading oncoming nails courtesy of Lars using a nail gun. Surrounded, he was about to meet his fate when Lars was about to hammer one that didn't go all the way in, which is one that was near the mouse's face. Fortunately, Ernie unexpectedly came in at the last minute before the mouse was [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled to death]].
* The beginning of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKqXpwseXTE teaser trailer]] just screams "monster/murder movie".
-->'''Narrator''': Late one night, as it must to all men, death came to the old man. ''(as the camera enters the house)'' To his two sons, he left this house. But behind this door, inside these walls, someone... watches. ''(entering the kitchen)'' He sees all, knows your fear. Because in this house... ''(a monster-esque creature's shadow is seen, [[MoodWhiplash until it's revealed that it was a shadow puppet done by the mouse]])'' ...he's the big cheese.

* Ernie [[SanitySlippage losing his sanity]] after being blasted out of the roof and crashing into the lake to the point where he has no other choice but to shoot the mouse dead with a shotgun, determined to make sure he rids the mouse.

-->'''Ernie''': [[TranquilFury I'm gonna blow his furry, little head off,]] [[{{Determinator}} then I'm gonna splatter his devious, little mouse brain from here to Kingdom]] '''''[[SuddenlyShouting COME!]]'''''

-->'''Narrator''': Late one night, as it must to all men, death came to the old man. (as the camera enters the house) To his two sons, he left this house. But behind this door, inside these walls, someone... watches. (entering the kitchen) He sees all, knows your fear. Because in this house... ''(a monster-esque creature's shadow is seen, [[MoodWhiplash until it's revealed that it was a shadow puppet done by the mouse]])'' ...he's the big cheese.

The beginning of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKqXpwseXTE teaser trailer]] just screams "monster/murder movie".

--->'''Ernie''': I don't think we're dealing with an ordinary mouse.

--->'''Ernie''': [[TranquilFury I'm gonna blow his furry, little head off,]] [[{{Determinator}} then I'm gonna splatter his devious, little mouse brain from here to Kingdom]] '''''[[SuddenlyShouting COME!]]'''''

* The scene where the mouse is evading oncoming nails courtesy of Lars using a nail gun. Surrounded, he was about to meet his fate when Lars was about to hammer one that didn't go all the way in, which is one that was near the mouse's face. Fortunately, Ernie unexpectedly came in at the last minute before the mouse was [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled to death]].

* The scene where the mouse is evading oncoming nails courtesy of Lars using a nail gun. Surrounded, he was about to meet his fate when Lars was about to hammer one that didn't go all the way in, which is one that was near the mouse's face. Fortunately, Ernie unexpectedly came in at the last minute before the mouse was [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice punctured]].

* The flood during the auction at the end. It all starts when the Smuntz brothers had spotted the mouse and Lars was gonna [[ItMakesSenseInContext douse Hilda's burning spool]]. Ernie uses the hose and puts it in the mouse's mouse hole and Lars turns on the water and accidentally breaks the knob off, which results in the inner-part of the house is overflowed with water and resulting in breaking through the whole inside of the house that washes away the people that were inside.

->''"I don't think we're dealing with an ordinary mouse."