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Nightmare Fuel / End of Days

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  • Satan possessing his host early in the film. Imagine being in the poor guy's position: You're in the restroom, minding your own business as you wash your hands, when, all of a sudden, you get seized by an invisible force that violently thrashes you around before taking you over completely.
    • Towards the end of the film, his host's body is mangled beyond recognition, yet still functions so long as Satan controls him.
  • The threatening glare that Satan shoots his host's friend when he starts to protest the Dark Lord making out with his wife. The man promptly shuts up.
  • Christine's vision of the albino on the subway.
    • Not to mention her nightmare/vision of having sex with Satan. And before that, Satan is engaging in a threesome with Dr. Abel's wife and daughter who somehow merge to become Christine.
    • Worse, the whole threesome thing is taken straight from the Bible, which declares such a thing a major no-no. It perfectly demonstrates just how malicious Satan is towards God and anything godly.
  • Christine's entire situation, really. Chosen to be Satan's bride since birth, hallucinations, relentlessly pursued by devout Satanists, targeted by Knight Templars who want to kill her to thwart Satan's plan, and barely able to resist the charms of the Devil himself. Girl's got it hard, to say the least.
  • Satan forcing Jericho to relive the trauma of his family's murder by actually being there to witness it, crossing over with Tear Jerker. The action alone is a marker of what kind of malevolent beast Satan truly is beneath that suave exterior.
  • Jericho being brutally beaten by Satanists and left crucified.
  • Satan's true form during the final confrontation in the church.
  • Satan possesses Jericho and attempts to rape Christine to fulfill his plan at the last possible minute. As he pins a begging Christine down on the altar, he looks up at Jesus and gleefully sneers "You died for nothing." Arnold Schwarzenegger has NEVER been that scary, not even as the Terminator.
  • The opening credits feature a haunting score of a woman's wailing which crescendos over close-up images of flames burning the pages of the bible, a snake hissing, a gargoyle statue, satanic symbols, and a renaissance painting of two people cowering in fear over something. As a person reads a bible, the rosary beads he's holding onto break and fall to the ground. Making the sound of a gunshot as the beads hit the floor and break into pieces.
  • After Christine is born, the nurse takes her away to get "cleaned up" but really to a satanic cult awaiting her down in the hospital morgue where their cult leader Dr. Abel speaks ominous latin and cuts into a rattlesnake with a knife, spilling its blood all over the infant Christine and placing the last of the blood upon her lips as they mark her as the chosen one for Satan.
  • After the satanic cult leader Dr. Abel fails to deliver Christine to the temple, an enraged Satan punches him, with his fist going right through the man's head.
  • Christine finding a trail of blood in her bathroom leading up to a man's corpse in a blood filled bathtub before she is ambushed and nearly killed by men dressed in black.
  • Christine, at one point, almost bites into an apple when it is shown to be covered with maggots.
  • Satan urinating a thick black ooze which turns into gasoline that he uses to torch Chicago's car (with Chicago next to it) and another police vehicle.
  • As Jericho and Christine prepare to leave, Christine's stepmother launches into a full Villainous Breakdown. Stopping them at the door. Grabbing Christine by the arm, sporting talons and inhumane superhuman strength as she does so. Scratching Jericho across the face and then throwing him across the room and attempting to crush him with furniture. All the while ranting to Christine.
    Mabel: (to Christine) You're not going anywhere. After all these years of waiting, it's finally happening. You can't run away now! Don't you love me?! Didn't I give you everything?! Haven't I been a mother to you?!
  • The reveal that Jericho's police officers are also satanic cultists out to get Christine. Even the cops can't be trusted.
  • When Satan bumps into a street kid on a skateboard, he compliments his t-shirt which reads "Satan rules!". The teen just insults Satan and skates off. Satan then calls out to the teen "Hey, kid..." in such an eerie whisper that only the teen can hear, despite being a few feet away from him. As the kid looks back at Satan, a bus appears almost out of nowhere and the teen is struck. Satan finishes up with "Nice shirt." before walking away, among the screaming pedestrians gathered around the skateboard kid.
  • The mystery of Christine's biological mother dying, leaving her an orphan. Did her mother really die in a tragic accident, or did the satanic cult somehow orchestrate her mother's untimely death to happen just so that Christine could get adopted and raised by the satanic cult? The fact that Mabel ended up becoming her adopted stepmother and the satanic leader Dr. Abel ended up becoming her psychiatrist only adds to the mystery and horror.

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