"Fools! You've looked into my eyes! Your path now lies beyond the Gates of Doom!"
Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Forbidden Eye has its fair share of creepy moments.
- In the beginning you are told not to look into the eyes of the idol and when the tourists inevitably do, he will condemn you to the Gates of Doom as the ride is being dragged towards it. Luckily, Indy himself blocks the way to let the riders drive off.
- When you enter the chamber with the bridge, you would see a second statue of Mara, although this one now looks like half of the flesh around its face has somehow decayed. The hellish atmosphere within the chamber does not help as well.
- In one area, you enter a room full of screaming skeletons and some will pop out towards the tourists.
- The mere notion that those skeletons are likely the remains of countless tourists and treasure hunters who got lost in the temple or faced Mara's wrath.
- Immediately following the skeletons is the "Bug Room" filled with tarantulas, scorpions, cockroaches, centipedes and all kinds of creepy crawlers swarming all over the wall. Ick!
- It's also the home of a giant cobra that lunges out at the vehicle. Many guests who are ophidiophobic and know the ride very well are too scared to sit on the far right seat of the vehicle because of this! You even hear Indy comment on it:
- Apparently, Mara's idol wasn't scary enough, so they did some
changes to his face. After complaints, they also brought back his old voice. - In the room of skulls, Mara's ghost is hovering above you.
- It doesn't just hover above you. It screams loudly.
- The Temple of the Crystal Skull in Tokyo Disneysea doesn't disappoint either, being considerably darker than the original, to the point that the scares start even before you enter the ride. In the main queue area, there's a large altar to the skull, with skeletons freely hanging off it and littering the ground below it, suggesting that human sacrifices were common in this temple. Then as you get closer to the loading dock, you enter caverns that feature carvings of skulls and horrifying demonic visages lit up in red light, plus ominous busts of Aztec warriors, made worse that they're practically the only lights in some rooms. As for the giant serpent, you get to face what is implied to be Quezalcoatl himself. Finally, while you see Mara at the beginning, you only meet the deity near the end, who takes the form of a giant skull face. Before you get a chance to explain, he screams at you in bloodthirst and launches a fireball at you. While Mara only got angry if you looked into his eyes, the skull was malevolent from the start and just wants you dead for merely entering his temple.
