- Schweick being tortured to death in the opening scene. Stakes are driven through his arms, leaving him crucified to a wall, while acid is then poured onto his face. Not only does Fulci linger on the artist's melting flesh, he gives us an outright time-lapse to show the acid's progress.
- One of the painters working on the hotel seeing Emily through a window. Her appearance is quite unsettling, so the sudden zoom in on her face is an unpleasant surprise. It would seem the painter agrees with this sentiment, as he promptly falls to the ground and is severely injured. When we cut to the workers trying to save his life inside, blood is not only pouring of multiple wounds (and his mouth), but he is rambling incoherently about Emily.
- Joe's death. A zombie grabs his face, sticks its finger in his cornea, and essentially shoves his eye out of the socket.
- Speaking of zombies, this is a Fulci film we're talking about, so you can count on the undead looking positively revolting.
- A jar of acid falling over and pouring all over Mary-Anne's face. Once again, the camera just lingers on the pretty sight.
- Jill being attacked by one of the zombies as she tries to flee the increasingly acid-filled room.
- Martin falling off a ladder and hitting his head. The ensuing squelch will haunt your dreams. This inexplicably leads to a sequence of him being devoured by tarantulas. The scene goes on for an agonizing and exceptionally gruesome (even by Fulci's standards!) period of time, with closeups dedicated to the spiders ripping out his eyes and tongue.
- Martha finding Joe's body in the sludge-filled bathtub at the hotel. Her ensuing death is one of the movie's biggest grossout moments. Being impaled through the back of the head on an exposed nail is an unpleasant way to go. Said nail stabbing her eye is just plain nasty.
- In a case of Nightmare Fuel meets Tear Jerker, the Downer Ending of the film, when Dr. McCabe and Liza barely manage to escape from the zombies and a possessed Jill via an exit out of the hospital, only to realize that the staircase they are on inexplicably leads back to the basement of the Seven Doors Hotel (miles away from the hospital). As they venture deeper into the basement, they abruptly discover they have come upon the misty, barren, corpse-littered landscape depicted in Schweik's painting, as the realization hits him that they have somehow landed in what appears to be Hell itself. No matter which direction they attempt to flee in, they are met with the same sight, until they too go blind like Emily and Jill, wearing expressions of mute, hopeless terror on their faces, before they vanish into nothingness.Narrator: "And you will face the sea of darkness, and all therein that may be explored!"
