Nightmare Fuel / In the Mouth of Madness

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Do you read Sutter Cane?

• All of the film's Jump Scares.
• Trent getting attacked by the man with an axe, with the close-up on his bleeding, polycoric eyes pictured above.
• The very strange boy and his bicycle.
  • And why he keeps running into Trent. He can't get out of Hobb's End.
• Trent's nightmare. Made even more unsettling when Cane's agent appears.
• "This is not the ending. You haven't read it yet."
• "I can see... he sees you."
• Styles looking down to see nothing but lightning-lit clouds beneath their car. In that moment, they are in the void outside reality, and nothing is certain.
• A character is Driven to Suicide entirely against his will.
  Trent: Don't.
  Simon: [holding a shotgun below his chin] I have to. He wrote me this way.
  • The whole scene is terrifying, as Simon alternates between making Brutally Honest observations about Trent's situation and spouting cliche horror dialogue.
• Trent's first direct encounter with Cane. Cane reveals to him that he's nothing more than a character in the titular upcoming novel, and that he has no choice but to deliver the manuscript of said novel to Harglow. Then he rips himself like paper, revealing a black void from which an army of horrific entities (likely the Old Ones themselves) appear and chase Trent down the tunnel that Cane had just made.
• "Did I ever tell you my favorite color is blue?"
  • Cut to Trent waking up on the bus... And everything is blue. It's scarier than it sounds.
    • Even scarier, pay attention when anyone's eyes are in close-up, as no matter the actor, everyone has blue eyes in close-up.
• Trent's final monologue to Dr. Wren is, by itself, probably one of the grimmest things about the movie.
  Trent: Every species can smell its own extinction. The last ones left won't have a pretty time with it. In ten years, maybe less, the human race will just be a bedtime story for the children. A myth, nothing more.
• The ending. Monsters break into the asylum and kill everyone. Trent survives as he cowers in his cell. He overhears via an emergency broadcast that the world is rapidly succumbing to an epidemic of insanity and mutation into horrible creatures (some of which you might be able to catch in the background; one figure appears to have unnaturally long arms), all induced by the release of the titular book and its film adaptation. The very film you're watching.
• Midway through the film, children seem to be happily playing with a dog. It's later revealed that the children were the first to fall to Cane's influence. And when the dog reappears, it's missing a leg.
• Linda slowly being driven insane by having read the book, and becoming another one of Cane's mutated, deranged servants.

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