And they were already creepy enough even if not 30 feet tall.
- The scene where the uprising begins. When Mark orders a robot to stop, it stares him dead in the eyes and says that they have been given “new orders.” Even though the robots basically have no facial features whatsoever, it’s terrifying.
- While being awesome, the sequence of the robots attacking the world's cities is equally terrifying, with people in India running in horror as robots shoot down like meteors, and traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge coming to a screeching halt.
- Jade's video to Katie desperately begging for help as the robots capture her. She's freaking out and asking where Katie is, why she didn't arrive. Katie's expression has the appropriate reaction: of guilt and helplessness.
- Anybody who grew up in a house with a Furby knows how creepy they are. Now picture one thats at least twenty feet tall, speaks in deep demonic furbish and fires lasers, literally exploding from the back of a store to appearing right in front of you like it was made by Fazbear Entertainment (or Waygetter Electronics), then starts slowly stalking towards you like an Advancing Wall of Doom. The world around it turning into explosive chaos all the while its giant, realistic unblinking eyes sit in the background are impossible not to focus on, staring into your very soul.Giant Furby: THEN SO BE IT! LET THE DARK HARVEST BEGIN!!!
- There's also how while other appliances are clearly drones acting on orders and relaying PAL's commands, the Furbies act and speak like some sort of cult worshipping the Giant Furby as their eldritch god...
- Linda's Mama Bear moment is both a huge moment of awesome, and probably one of the most viscerally violent scenes you can get away with on a PG film. This includes bisecting robots, tearing heads off and ripping their heart-like cores out, sending the robots running as they beg for their lives only to get cut down anyway, and topping it off with using their oil as a blatant source of blood splatter.
- By the time of the final charge towards PAL's headquarters, Linda is so dreaded by the MAX Primes that they show fear and scream in their final moments, before "The Lavender One" shreds them with one of their kin's severed arm.Fleeing MAX Prime: Brothers! RUN! [gets cleaved in twain]
Linda: I have made the metal ones pay for their crimes...
Aaron: Ha ha. Mom's scary now.
[...]
MAX Prime Leader: The Lavender One has found us! We must retreat!
Linda: TOO LATE, SCUMBAGS! [touches Aaron's cheek] Hold on tight, sweetie. Mommy's got you. [kiss] RAAAAAAAAGH!!!
[Linda shreds the MAX Primes, who begin exploding]
MAX Prime Leader: Wha... No, no! NO!! (BOOM!!)
- By the time of the final charge towards PAL's headquarters, Linda is so dreaded by the MAX Primes that they show fear and scream in their final moments, before "The Lavender One" shreds them with one of their kin's severed arm.
- The scene where PAL uses her collected data on the Mitchells to replay Katie admitting to lying to her dad about having faith in him, invoking a Third-Act Misunderstanding, is dripping in Fridge Horror. The very concept of an AI that records every good and bad thing you've ever said or done, and can weaponize it to ruin your life at a critical moment, is terrifying. It's not that implausible either, considering how much data tech companies gather on people and how online users will dig up compromising information from years ago to use against people they don't like.
- PAL dropping Katie to fall to her death is pretty terrifying. Thank goodness Rick and his robot arm saved her.
