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Film
What's the matter, Mr. Pratt? Bugs gotcha tongue?
- The end of Father's Day provides one of the best examples of Fridge Horror in the entire film in that, the more you think about what happens after Nathan gets his cake, the worse it really gets.note
- The end of They're Creeping Up on You! is absolutely horrifying, with cockroaches pouring out of an old man's mouth, then out of every orifice, and finally exploding him from the inside out. Also an example of Nausea Fuel and Paranoia Fuel. And the worst part? No special effects. They're all real!note Point of order: This scene is on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments. Tom Savini (who has a massive bug phobia) mentioned in a book on effects that when one of the cockroaches touched him, he teleported across the room. Not really a joke - he has no memory of physically crossing the room.
- Something to Tide You Over:
- Richard's revenge. Being immobilized in sand while the tide gets closer and closer to you and ultimately covers you.
- The fact that Richard records both Harry and Becky struggling not to drown highlights what a sick bastard he really is. The fact that he has a hidden collection of videotapes pertaining to this also makes it clear that Harry and Becky are not the only people that he's done it to.
- Harry threatening Richard is more scary in that sense too. Especially when he manages go through with it after his death.
- Harry and Becky returning as shriveled, seaweed-covered zombies to get revenge upon Richard. Their freaky, gargling voices add on to the creep factor.
- The couple's No-Sell upon being shot through the forehead. These are definitely not your typical mindless shambling corpses you can dispatch with a bullet to the squash. They want blood, not flesh. And to up the scare factor, when Richard slams a door in their faces and locks it, things are quiet for a moment....and when Richard whirls around, they're right in his face. Richard's brain breaks and he can only shriek laughter.
- That thing in the crate. Some reptilian ape that's immortal and has a mouth full of huge fangs. Not to mention the fact that it escapes from its crate at the end. And it's angry, and it's still hungry.
- The ending of The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill is as unsettling as it is sad. Poor Jordy has been completely consumed by the alien vegetation, to the point where he can barely move. He has nothing left to do than put himself out of his misery with a double barrel shotgun. The worst part is that the vegetation is still growing, and heading for larger civilization.
- All of this arguably pales in comparison to the wraparound segment: At the start of the movie, Billy's dad, Stan, throws away his copy of Creepshow, due to not wanting him to read "horror crap". At the end of the movie, as the garbage men arrive to take the trash, they page through the comic... and learn the order form for a voodoo doll has been cut out. Meanwhile, Stan is complaining about a stiff neck... which escalates to him grabbing his throat and gasping in pain as Billy begins to stab his doll with a pin.Billy: I'll teach you to throw away my comic books. [stab]
- "Ready for another shot, dad?"
Series
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Season 1
- Richie's slow, Body Horror-filled transformation into a Blob Monster in "Gray Matter", not to mention the last glimpse of his horrific new form, which has three heads and is only barely humanoid. Even worse, he's now able to multiply, and the ending heavily implies that at the rate he's multiplying, he'll destroy the world in six days.
- The ghostly severed head from "The House of the Head", which causes the dolls within to move around when Evie doesn't watch them and decapitates them through unknown means. We also have no idea where it came from or why it does this, making it so much more horrific.
- As Eddie burns to death in "All Hallow's Eve", the Golden Dragons revert to their true forms as skeletal husks, having their flesh melt right off their faces.
- The scene when Harold finds what's left of Brenner, the sucidal farmer, in "The Companion." What we see is the horrifyingly accurate aftermath of a man blowing off half his head with a shotgun... mummified after seven years in a dank cellar.
- From "Times is Tough in Musky Holler", there's the very concept of "Live Pie". It's a sadistic "game" created by Lester where he sentences anyone who attempts to stand up against him and his administration to be locked up under the town's high school football field. They're then forced headfirst into holes in the field, where they can do nothing but wait in terrified agony as limbless zombies slowly crawl towards them to eat their heads. Several of the prisoners are seen having their faces eaten right off their skulls. While they're still alive. We're spared seeing most of them, but not Deke, Leslianne, or Lester.
- There's also the sheer ambiguity of the zombie apocalypse that kickstarted the episode, as we get no conclusive ideas of what the catalyst for it was.
- Further, Lester is said to have been a used-car salesman before he became the vicious tyrant he was. A further helping of nightmare fuel is present in the fact of how truly sociopathic and power-hungry average folks like him can be when given the opportunity.
- The leeches from "Skincrawlers", which burst out of their hosts during the solar eclipse and go on a bloody rampage. A huge one with prehensile tentacles bursts out of Sloan near the end of the episode, fully intending to eat Henry.
- "By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain"; while there's a fearsome monster lurking in the titular lake, the real threat is Chet, Rose's sociopathic stepfather. While hardly ever raising his voice, the man shows just how psychotic and bloodthirsty he is when he shamelessly threatens to kill, and later actively assaults, the teenaged Thomas. When Rose bites him to save her love interest, he almost slaughters both of them in cold blood, had it not been for Champ coming to the rescue.
The Specials
- The entirety of "Survivor Type". Watching Richard going insane from isolation and hunger is no picnic, but then he runs out of food and gets desperate enough to start amputating and eating his legs. The episode ends as he starts eating his hands... while they're still attached.Richard: Ladyfingers. They taste just like... ladyfingers. Fingers. (laughs maniacally)
- In "Twittering from the Circus of the Dead", we have no idea where the zombies featured in the titular circus came from, or how the "staff" were able to wrangle them all up. For all intents, they're just... there.
- Blake’s echoing scream of “MOMMYYY!” as she’s dragged into the dark.
Season 2
- As awesome as "Public Television of the Dead" is in terms of fanservice, the Deadites show that they're just as horrifically vile as they are in their home franchise, as the trio shown in the episode plan to use the Necronomicon to absorb the souls of every child tuning in to Mrs. Bookberry's Magical Library.
- Pam's insane rampage at the climax of "Dead and Breakfast", where she essentially turns into her grandmother and hacks the influencer who challenged her stories about her to death.
- The nightmares Harlan experiences in "Pesticide", where he's mauled to death by giant vermin:
- A giant rat bites off his arm and tears his throat out.
- An eagle-sized mosquito pierces his heart and sucks out his blood.
- A giant tarantula in the back of his van sinks its fangs into his shoulder, causing half of his face to melt off.
- The Gorangi from "The Right Snuff" are benevolent in nature (albeit patronizing to Alex), but they're rather unnerving to look at.
- Lola's feral form in "Sibling Rivarly", which she breaks out when she slaughters her own parents for their blood right after she returns home from her sleepover at Grace's (the heartless vampire who bit her in the first place), all while Andrew can only watch in mortal terror.
- "Pipe Screams" has Cloggy, a sentient pile of soap scum and human hair likely given life by the toxic chemicals in Victoria's lead pipes. As Linus discovers, it's fast, highly flexible, and has an unending appetite for human flesh.
- "Within the Walls of Madness" features a race of Lovecraftian monstrosities known as the Old Ones, who drive anyone who looks at them to complete insanity. Dr. Trollenberg, having submitted to their power, tries to summon them to decimate the world and frame Zeller for a massacre to take the heat off of herself. When he's sentenced to lethal injection, he gets the last laugh by summoning them himself, all leading up to this horrifying final line:Zeller: (to Tara; sing-song) I waarrnned youuuuuu... (as Tara is taken by the Old One; back in his regular voice) I'm warning... all of you. (turns to the viewers) They come in... through... the walls. THEY COME! IN! THROUGH! THE! WAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLS!!!
Season 3
- Bloom's monstrous plant form in "Mums", though she turns out to be one of the good guys.
- In "Queen Bee", there's Regina's horrific transformation into her true insectioid apperance, complete with antennae extending through her eyes.
- The ending of "Familiar", where Jack is slowly approached and hugged by the possessed Fawn, who whispers "I believe you now." in his ear as he screams.
- The monster from "The Last Tsubaraya" is absolutely terrifying. It can teleport, shapeshift, and it casts all sorts of illusions to torment Wade for burning its painting, all while no one else can see it.
- "Meter Reader" is the COVID-19 Pandemic Played for Horror, with the aspect of a viral sickness being replaced with demonic possession. Anarchy runs rampant in this world and anyone you know can be a flesh-hungry monster just waiting for you to let your guard down so they can eat you.
- A comic interlude shows just how BAD things got in the earliest days of the outbreak, where the Pope himself is devoured by a huge demon just offscreen.
- The entirety of the animated episode "The Things in Oakwood's Past", revolving around the titular picturesque town with a Mysterious Past; in 1821, nearly 200 years ago to the day, every single person in the town disappeared overnight, with the only clues being a series of journals by Eli Lester, a historian who lived in town at the time. Marnie, the town's librarian and the mayor's daughter, discovers a set of coordinates on the back of Lester's final journal, which led to the discovery of a "time capsule" covered in strange pictograms buried beneath the town, with the date 1821 labeled on it. While Oakwood plans to hold a celebration leading up to the opening of the capsule, Marnie continues her research into Eli's journals to uncover a set of old woodprints from 1621, which reveal that another vanishing had struck the town before.
- When Marnie is showing some kids at the town's elementary school a slideshow of these woodcuts, one of them points out that the images look different. Without Marnie's input, the projector flashes through the slides to show the images abruptly changing from normal, everyday scenes, to the people in them being brutally murdered and mutilated, without showing whoever or whatever is doing it. A few examples include an old man standing in front of a cornfield being turned into a scarecrow in said field, and a man seranading a woman on a porch swing, with the next image being of their bodies torn to pieces and made INTO the swing, like some Ed Gein-esque art.
- Noticing something familiar about the final woodcut, a group of gnarled trees forming a demonic face, Marnie realizes it's the same as the symbol on an old wooden shard she stole from the historical society, which is actually a missing piece from the time capsule. When put together, the combined symbols finally reveal the truth... it's from yet another massacre dating all the way back to 1421, when the Mi'kmaq tribes settling on the land were massacred by some horrific, unknown entity. When her attempts at explaining what she's found to her father fails, Marnie goes back to Lester's final journal, and deciphers his final entry just as her father damages the capsule's lock: back in 1821, Eli Lester's daughter had been brutally and senselessly murdered by a town elder, who used his influence to walk away free. As revenge, Lester used what he had learned in his research of Oakwood to unearth the time capsule, and tricked the people of the town into opening it by telling them that it would protect them from the same disaster that struck Oakwood 200 years before, when it actually caused the curse to commence. As the mayor tries holding the shuddering capsule shut and has Marnie thrown into a police car to get her out of town, she finally reveals the horrible truth to Mac:
- At that moment, an army of horrific demons burst out of the capsule, killing the majority of the characters we've seen throughout the episode in atrocious ways, all of which aren't those who suffer the usual Karmic Death:
- Marnie's father tries to hold the capsule closed so his daughter can escape, before the demons go through him and burst out through his back.
- Mac, the TV reporter who had been flirting with Marnie, gets his hand and both legs sliced off as he tries to run to his van. As his cameraperson Carmella is devoured by a giant spider demon, Mac is then is bisected, vertically and crotch-first.
- The townspeople Mac seperately interviewed at the start of the episode, who are decapitated, crushed to death, and dissolved by acid vomit, respectively.
- One of the demons, once they return to the box, is tangled up in Carmella's camera. Through the lens, we see the demon return to the depths of Hell, viewing Satan himself upon a throne. And what's worse, the news station Mac works for gives very little reaction to this image and personally witnessing the entirety of Oakwood's populace (barring Marnie) being slaughtered by an army of hellspawn, instead pushing the broadcast forward to something found in Ryder's Quarry...
- The ending animation of the episode has the capsule reconstitute itself and close, the date on the lock changing from 1821 to 2021 before it descends back underground, waiting another 200 years to be opened again. The final shot shows Satan's face, formed from blood, against a black background, laughing in anticipation of how he plans to do it all again...
- When Mai from "Drug Traffic" is denied any food or her "special" pills, she transforms into a vicious penanggalan and goes on a rampage across the U.S./Canada border, eating the flesh of every victim she can find, starting with a little boy. What's worse is how disturbingly devoted her mother is to her, not paying any mind to the fact that her kid is a literal monster and willing to kill government workers and even herself just so Mai can stay alive. The end of the episode has Mai taking over her mother's headless body, biting off her cuffed hand, and shambling off to Miller's tour bus, escaping back into the States.
- Although "A Dead Girl Named Sue" is set during the events of Night of the Living Dead (1968), the episode instead goes full on Humans Are the Real Monsters with Cliven Ridgeway, a maniacal psychopath who has been free to rape, vandalize, and kill indiscriminately under his mayor father's power.
- That's nothing compared to what he did to young Sue Donovan, however. The things this sick bastard did to that innocent little girl are so vile, so hideous, so unspeakably depraved, that when the upstanding Chief Foster first learns about it, he rebukes all of his morals and his devotion to the law in seconds just so Cliven can get what he justifiably deserves.
- When we finally see Sue, she is forced to crawl in a jerky motion while dragging her legs behind her, hinting that Cliven beat her strongly enough that her legs were broken. Or even crippled her beneath the waist.
Season 4
- The monster from "Twenty Minutes with Cassandra" looks like a giant mouse missing an arm, and it's ruthless and efficient in killing people, at least when it's not on the clock.
- "Smile" goes hard and heavy with unanswered questions, such as how the ghostly photographer is able to take photos of James and Sarah from yards away and the black, glowing-eyed creature they turn into between Max and the revenant father.
- The universe of "The Hat" shows that hats are actually Headcrab-like parasites that attach themselves to human hosts and drain their life energy by injecting an appendage into their brain stem to stimulate it and give them great ideas.
- Whatever the hell Daisy is in "Grieving Process", as she and her species crave human flesh, prefer darkness and frigid temperatures, and can shape their faces into monstrous appearances. She can also turn people into her species via biting, and the transformation gradually turns them hostile and anti-social as it changes their DNA.
- While it's played for dark laughs, Dave dying over and over in "Cheat Code" may very likely give the kid serious mental scars.
- The Minhocão from "Something Burrowed, Something Blue" is a giant insectoid Eldritch Abomination that needs to be fed a human sacrifice every 15 years. If it isn't fed by that time, it bursts onto the surface and destroys everything in its path.
- Also, as we learn by the end of the episode, Ryan guards one of them, too. Only this one is an adult and the one Frank has is one of its babies. ONE OF.
- The episode also ends with Ryan and Allison realizing that Frank's Minhocão hasn't technically been fed, just as the creature bursts out of the house and pounces on them, no doubt going off to ravage the surface again.
- The horrific ways in which Angela can wish people dead via drawing on their pictures in "Doodles". Though he heavily deserved it, Roger's is the worst, as he plummets from the top floor and has his head graphically explode on contact with the ground.
- "George Romero in 3-D!" features a bookstore under attack from man-eating ghouls. Which are also invisible. As the zombified Bub (who can be seen without the cursed 3D glasses that bring the ghouls to life) shows, they can also learn, as he puts the glasses on and stares at the cover of one of the unpublished comics to bring out an army of his fellow undead.
- In "Baby Teeth", we have the Fae, born from Shelby's baby teeth, which resembles a hideously disfigured, skinless human baby. Despite its size, it's strong enough to tear Shelby's jaw clean off, after which it devours the severed jaw for the teeth within.
