History NightmareFuel / Trainspotting

* Mother Superior shooting up skag [[{{Squick}}''into his penis'']].

-->'''Mark Renton:''' I don't feel a sickness yet. But it's in the post, that's for sure. I'm in the junkie limbo at the moment. Too ill to sleep. Too tired to stay awake. But the sickness is on its way. Sweat, chills, nausea, pain and craving. Need like nothing else I've ever known will soon take hold of me. It's on its way.

-->'''Mark Renton:''' [[TheScream DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWN! STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!]]

-->'''Mark Renton:''' [[MoodWhiplash But the good times couldn't last forever.]]

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* [[ViolentGlaswegian Frank Begbie]]. An AxeCrazy psychopath with a HairTriggerTemper that can be set off by almost ''anything''. Begbie doesn't so much have a BerserkButton, as a whole panel of them. It doesn't help that he seems to [[{{Sadist}} love violence]] to an almost sexual level. Even in the later books when he's learned to control his temper, he becomes ''more'' frightening, as the people he does kill in ''Literature/TheBladeArtist'' and ''Dead Men's Trousers'', he does so in a more calculating and sadistic manner than simply stabbing or beating them like in the early books.

** And let's not forget about Renton's ''screams...''

** The chilling, lifeless stare that Dawn gives out. And the way in which the camera slowly moves to reveal it all.

* Good god. The withdrawal scene. Renton's been locked up in his room and is being made to go cold turkey so that he doesn't end up suffering a fate even worse because of drug addiction, and what he ends up going through is ''[[{{Understatement}} plain terrifying]]''. He begins to have hallucinations, like Spud kicking a door with his feet chained together, Dale Winton asking his parents questions about HIV on a game show, Tommy showing his addiction and love for opiates and Begbie under the bed covers. But then comes baby Dawn crawling towards him slowly on the ceiling... dear '''GOD'''. And then, when she's directly above Renton (who by this point is screaming in terror), she does a ''[[BodyHorror 180 degree head spin]]'' and then ''drops down on Renton''. Of course, all of this is Renton's mile-high mind seeing things, but it's got to be one of the most brutally realistic and outright terrifying reconstructions of an opiate withdrawal ever put to film.

** The music playing in the background (Underworld's "Dark & Long (Dark Train)") also counts. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brZ_WBEzw6E Dear god...]]

* There's "[[DisgustingPublicToilet The Worst Toilet in Scotland]]", which people might not like the look of either. The whole place is covered in a sludgy mess, the roof is dripping with water, the sinks don't work and the toilets don't even flush. Renton has to use one of those toilets to relieve his constipation thanks to the use of suppositories.
** Then Renton has to stick his hand in the toilet to ''fish out the suppositories''. Yeesh.
** The Nightmare Fuel there [[NightmareRetardant starts going up in smoke]] by the time he fits his entire body through the toilet to swim towards and grab the suppositories underwater. Relax, the underwater scene is totally harmless. And to top it all off, "The Worst Toilet in Scotland" was just the imagination of his junkie mind.

-->'''Mark Renton:''' [[MoodWhiplash But the good times couldn't last forever.]]

* Dawn's death. Not only is there the chilling, lifeless stare that her corpse gives off, but for added [[FridgeHorror Fridge Horror]], the reason behind her death, and Allison's constant screaming as a result of it, is that the whole party were so caught up in their need for opiates, that they ended up neglecting Dawn to the point that she either died of starvation or dehydration, or possibly both.

** Poor Sick Boy. Even he was hit hard by Dawn's death. That definitely tells something.
** Could Dawn have been crying from starvation or dehydration before she died? That seems to have been a probability. And not a single soul seemed to have noticed...

* Good god. The withdrawal scene. Renton's been locked up in his room and is being made to go cold turkey so that he doesn't end up suffering a fate even worse because of drug addiction, and what he ends up going through is ''[[{{Understatement}} plain terrifying]]''. He begins to have hallucinations, like Spud kicking a door with his feet chained together, Dale Winton asking his parents questions about HIV on a game show, Tommy showing his addiction and love for opiates and Begbie under the bed covers. But then comes baby Dawn crawling towards him slowly on the ceiling... dear '''GOD'''. And then, when she's directly above Renton (who by this point is screaming in terror), she does a ''[[BodyHorror 90 degree head spin]]'' and then ''drops down on Renton''. Of course, all of this is Renton's mile-high mind seeing things, but it's got to be one of the most brutally realistic and outright terrifying reconstructions of an opiate withdrawal ever put to film.

** The scariest part about this is that it's all [[TruthInTelevision only a reconstruction of what drug addicts actually have to go through]] if they choose to go cold turkey, which they'd be better off doing unless they want to endure a fate even worse than that. Just imagine for a second what they'd be going through... ''*shudder*''

** Then there's the music. Dear god, ''that music''. You can hear it for yourself [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brZ_WBEzw6E here]].
** The scariest part about this is that it's only a reconstruction of what drug addicts actually have to go through if they choose to go cold turkey, which they'd be better off doing unless they want to endure a fate even worse than that. Just imagine for a second what they'd be going through. ''Shudder''.
** [[TheScream "DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWN! STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!"]]

** [[TheScream "DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWN. STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP."]]

* Good god. The withdrawal scene. Renton's been locked up in his room and is being made to go cold turkey so that he doesn't end up suffering a fate even worse because of drug addiction, and what he ends up going through is ''plain terrifying''. He begins to have hallucinations, like Spud kicking a door with his feet chained together, Dale Winton asking his parents questions about HIV on a game show, Tommy showing his addiction and love for opiates and Begbie under the bed covers. But then comes baby Dawn crawling towards him slowly on the ceiling... dear '''GOD'''. And then, when she's directly above Renton (who by this point is screaming in terror), she does a ''[[BodyHorror 90 degree head spin]]'' and then ''drops down on Renton''. Of course, all of this is Renton's mile-high mind seeing things, but it's got to be one of the most brutally realistic and outright terrifying reconstructions of an opiate withdrawal ever put to film.

** The Nightmare Fuel there [[NightmareRetardant starts going up in smoke]] by the time he fits his entire body through the toilet to swim towards and grab the suppositories underwater. Relax, the underwater scene is totally harmless. [[spoiler: And to top it all off, "The Worst Toilet in Scotland" was just the imagination of his junkie mind.]]

* There's "The Worst Toilet in Scotland", which people might not like the look of either. The whole place is covered in a sludgy mess, the roof is dripping with water, the sinks don't work and the toilets don't even flush. Renton has to use one of those toilets to relieve his constipation thanks to the use of suppositories.

* Good god. The withdrawal scene. Renton's been locked up in his room and is being made to go cold turkey so that he doesn't end up suffering a fate even worse because of drug addiction, and what he ends up going through is ''plain terrifying''. He begins to have hallucinations, like Spud kicking a door with his feet chained together, Dale Winton asking his parents questions about HIV on a game show, Tommy showing his addiction and love for opiates and Begbie under the bed covers. But then comes baby Dawn crawling towards him slowly on the ceiling. And then, when she's directly above Renton (who by this point is screaming in terror), she does a ''[[BodyHorror 90 degree head spin]]'' and then ''drops down on Renton''. Of course, all of this is Renton's drug addict mind seeing things, but it's got to be one of the most brutally realistic and outright terrifying reconstructions of an opiate withdrawal ever put to film.

* Good god. The withdrawal scene. Renton's been locked up in his room and is being made to go cold turkey so that he doesn't end up suffering a fate even worse because of drug addiction, and what he ends up going through is ''plain terrifying''. He begins to have hallucinations, like Spud kicking a door with his feet chained together, Dale Winton asking his parents questions about HIV on a game show, Tommy showing his addiction and love for opiates and Begbie under the bed covers. But then comes baby Dawn crawling towards him slowly on the ceiling. And then, when she's directly above Renton (who by this point is screaming in terror), she does a ''[[BodyHorror 90 degree head spin]]'' and then ''drops down on Renton''. Of course, all of this is Renton's drug addict mind seeing things, but it's got to be one of the most brutally realistic reconstructions of an opiate withdrawal ever put to film.