Nightmare Fuel / Ratatouille

"Now, this is what happens when a rat gets a little too comfortable around humans."

The film:

• The rat-catcher's shop, which is a Real Life store in Paris.
  Django: Take a good long look, Remy. Now, this is what happens when a rat gets a little too comfortable around humans. The world we live in belongs to the enemy. We must live carefully. We look out for our own kind, Remy. When all is said and done, we're all we've got.
• Linguini's anxiety-filled nightmare of him asking Anton Ego what he'll order for his upcoming visit.
  Linguini: Do you know what would you like this evening, sir?
  Anton Ego: Yes. I would like your heart...roasted on a spit. (cue Evil Laugh, which ends with a short Jump Scare yell)
  • Also Ego's blood-curdling Thriller-like evil laugh and the truly unsettling nightmare face he makes in Linguini's nightmare (complete with red lighting underneath Ego's face, as well the predatory look on his eyes and the chillingly creepy murderous grin he makes before laughing maniacally, the zoom-in to Linguini's terrified face and the disturbingly chilling sound of a heartbeat), ending with Ego's sudden yell that really comes out of gracious nowhere when the camera zooms out from Linguini's terrified expression (which actually sounds more like a demonic roar), abruptly cutting to him awake from his nightmare, back in his office with the yell in his nightmare echoing out and the heartbeat sound changing to Colette's door-knocking outside Linguini's office.
    • In fact, the behavior that this dream-version of Ego displays here makes him seem less like the harsh food critic he is and more like an outright ferocious and utterly rabid animal looking for blood.
• Even as a regular person in reality, Anton Ego is scary. Not only does he resemble a vampire, being tall, gaunt and almost preternaturally imposing, he's also an infamously caustic food critic with standards so high that practically no one can meet them and when they inevitably fail, he flat-out eviscerates them in his reviews. His nickname in universe is "the Grim Eater," because when he decides to review a restaurant, that generally means the end has come for them. His reputation holds such sway over the general populace that one negative review from him will condemn a restaurant to the tourist trade, assuming the establishment doesn't close down outright. It's terrifying to think that one man holds what essentially amounts to the power of life and death for any place that sells food.
• Whenever the rats appear in large groups. First there's the scene where the old lady shoots down her ceiling, revealing that ALL the rats have been living IN HER ROOF.
• Near the end, a swarm of rats chase the health inspector, swarm over his car (with him inside), interfere with the car's mechanics, and eventually bring him back, bound and gagged, to the kitchen, where they lock him in the pantry for who knows how long (they eventually release him). His failed escape attempt plays like something from a horror movie.
• Skinner threatens Linguini with the Cruel and Unusual Death of being drawn and quartered for the grave crime of tampering with soup. Most people would use a threat like that in a joking manner considering how hilariously illegal following up on it would be, but the way Skinner acts you get the feeling that if it hadn't turned out that the guests liked the new soup more he really would've tried to follow through (or at least do something similarly brutal).
• While the bulk of it is Played for Laughs, Remy suffers a lot of near-death experiences during his first visit to the kitchen. Not only does he almost get stepped on or crushed several times (showing just how fragile he is compared to the humans), but he almost gets burned under one oven and cooked alive inside another. The music suddenly amping up, the hellish-red tone and Remy's own Oh, Crap! face really drive home just how close to death he truly was had he not leaped out at the last minute.

The game:

• The game over screens can get a little...in your face about how badly you screwed up. The depressing Scare Chord and black background really don't help. It's saying something when people that have played the game in the past as kids have admitted the game overs scared them.
• After each level is at their end, there is a chase sequence. And for some, they can be intense as Remy's usual patter of his feet is slightly faster, in some spots if you get caught and don't move Remy yet, he looks around in a frenzy and whoever's chasing him in the back are LARGE.
  • Though the chases have Linguini and Skinner only chasing you, and some things they do in the back can be quite hilarious. But still...
  • Not only that but the third chase has intense music playing in the back; very intense...

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