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Nightmare Fuel / On Her Majesty's Secret Service

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For the James Bond Nightmare Fuel index, see here.


  • Shaun Campbell is killed after being spotted by Blofeld's men while escalating Piz Gloria, and his body is left hanging to freeze near the cable car station for Bond to see as a deterrent for interfering with Blofeld's operations. We never see exactly how, where or who caused him to meet his end, which makes it even worse.
  • Blofeld brainwashes young women into spreading a virus that can potentially starve humanity. The way he controls them over a loudspeaker seems like a cult. The droning music that plays over these scenes only adds to the effect.
  • Piz Gloria has a bit of an unsettling aura around it. It's an innocent-looking, yet stunning building atop a picturesque mountaintop surrounded by tourists on the outside, but when Bond gets caught spying and Blofeld explains that he is building towards wiping out all life on earth, its homely facade is cast off. It feels like a completely different, much more sinister place after this.
  • One of Blofeld's mooks falls right into the path of a snowblower train during the ski chase. Cue the blood and guts geyser. "He had lots of guts" indeed.
    • Look closer during this scene. Blofeld actually goes through the flying blood and entrails as he jumps the gap. Bleurgh...
  • At the end, Tracy's corpse remains up on her seat a few seconds before collapsing into Bond's arms after the drive-by shooting. The bullet in her forehead and the trails of blood on her face are visible.
  • When it happens in the movie, Bond just denies her death and cries. In the novel? He cradles his dead wife in the wreckage of his car and repeats "We have all time in World".
  • The jaunty rendition of the James Bond theme song that plays over the end credits becomes eery and disturbing as it comes immediately after the tragic final scene of Bond sobbing over his wife's corpse.

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