As a game of murder mystery, quite a few moments of horror and terror occur on the mansion's grounds. Beware spoilers as details of deaths will be unmarked. We do so hope you will enjoy the thrill of the Sexy Brutale.
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- When Lafcadio is in the Smoking Room after Sixpence is murdered, he backs away from the door because Two Diamonds is coming, and then Two Diamonds enters the Smoking Room. Almost immediately, the lights of the room dim, red light starts shining through the molding, and the music changes to a menacing tune accompanied by a horrible noise. Two Diamonds is surrounded by smoke and his mask starts ascending — as though Two Diamonds is transforming and standing up much taller than he was before. Not only is the smoke-enshrouded Two Diamonds starting to chase you, but your face is on fire. The game apparently was hoping you'd be freaking out because as soon as you leave, the Bloody Girl stops you. She explains "He is not chasing you. He did not see you." Apparently, this is the Bloody Girl's "blessing," which stops time and causes the masks to have that reaction whenever you're in the same room as a staff member or guest, instead of them noticing you.
- Trinity screaming for help as the spider pounces on her.
- The Spider itself, it's so dangerous that the Butler in charge of the venom poisoning is hasty in trying to get out of there before it eats him.
- The masks of dead characters don't attack Lafcadio. If he enters the room within the first minute or so after Willow has hung herself, her mask glides away from the rope to pursue him- something which would only happen if she were still alive, suffering all the excruciating pain of her broken neck and suicidal despair. The same happens with Greyson - he hangs from the giant spikes, but it takes several seconds before Grey's own mask blackens and Lafcadio can enter the stage.
- Aurum and Thanos have just enough time to realize what a horrible mistake they've made before the furnace activates.
- Their black-burnt bodies fall out of the elevator — Aurum's on the first floor, Thanos's on the basement's floor. Neither of them died in the elevator while the flames were burning them.
- The Ghosts opening and closing doors can be creepy, because - until you get Willow's mask - nothing indicates they are there in the first place. there's also that much of the ghosts are rapey, pervy, vulgar, Nightmare Fetishist characters who view Tequila's gruesome death as something to be celebrated over.
- Grinmaw, the juju guppy, who is actually a giant anglerfish voodoo demon that tortures Belle in her sleep and effortlessly puts Willow through Mind Rape when she tries to confront him. It almost makes the fact that he's ultimately unimportant cathartic (since he's ultimately not as powerful as he seems, was made on a whim, and doesn't matter) and a relief that he isn't involved and made a bigger threat.
- Golden Skull. When he first appears, it's only for brief moments as Lafcadio begins to save more of the guests. You might not even notice him once or twice, but after saving Willow, you'll be able to see him much more clearly walking through doors just as you enter. if you follow him, he disappears, and you can't trace his movement on you map with the time scrubber like the staff or the guests making him feel that much more out of place.
- When Reginald attacks the butler with the candlestick, it can be assumed he knocked him out, but when that happens the butler's mask burns away like any other dead character's mask.
- How the characters die can be really intense if you don't expect it, each with various forms of musical build up:
- Reginald is shot so hard it blasts him against a wall.
- Trinity dies after finding her step-sister's freshly dead body in the butterfly garden, realizing just whose face she's touching and falling into a panic. She subsequently drops her cane and loses her position in the room, gets trapped and bitten by a giant spider, alone and screaming for Clay to help her until she's bitten again.
- Clay is busy gambling and drinking, playing with a Grim Reaper-styled dealer that somehow knows that Trinity is about to die and tries to tell Clay about it. Eventually his poisoned drink eats through his face, the table, and the floor after it kills him.
- Willow gets brainwashed and manipulated by Grimmaw, who reveals that she's been on a wild goose chase trying to fight him, as it's the mansion itself that's the real cause of the events going on. Grinmaw compels her to commit suicide by saying that all the people she's lost in her life are in the afterlife waiting for her to die so they can reunite. She promptly hangs herself from the mansion's bell.
- Tequila is forced to sing a song formed from her jealousy, which at a high note causes the glass window behind her to shatter and shred her (examining her body tells you that some of her cuts went to the bone). She desperately calls for the servants to help (at the same moment that her friend Willow hangs herself) as she goes into the dressing room, and the butler playing the piano follows her patiently. She collapses from the blood loss, and the servant mocks her death and entire life just to grind the boot in, and then callously tosses her into a garbage chute to be eaten by a spider, which in turn helps cause Trinity's death.
- Greyson and Redd are made unwilling participants of a sick magician's show that traps them. Redd kills himself via electrocution trying to save Greyson, and Greyson is left alone to be crushed and impaled by spikes because of his obsession after hearing his friend die for his sake.
- Thanos and Aurum are roasted alive when the staff re-activate the furnace that the elevator was built into, and are still alive until they actually got out, as mentioned above.
- The Old Habits Demon. He's stuffed into a dark corner of the mansion, and talks to Lafcadio like an obsessed and abusive lover who thinks they can still work things out. Finishing the optional quest for him means Lucas starts a new cycle of gambling to pretend everything is fine, somewhat lightened by the fact that Lafcadio can snap his mind out of the delusion by smashing the stained glass window, starting the game over again.
- Old Habits is so eldritch and out of place compared to the rest of the mansion and setting, especially given how early on you can run into him. He resides in a hidden room that cannot possibly exist according to the mansion's floorplans and has a hulking, shadowed appearance that clashes with the otherwise colourful art style of the rest of the mansion. Not to mention he's chained behind a table made of teeth, and floating words implied to be Old Habits' barely-concealed true thoughts will flash up as he talks. Notably, Gold Skull never mentions Old Habits or tries to use the demon to add onto Lucas' guilt, implying that even Lucas' highly-developed guilt knows that giving it attention will be a very bad idea.
- After Lafcadio speaks to Old Habits for the first time but before completing his sidequest, the floating words above Old Habits will flash up one last time in red just as Lafcadio leaves the room:Old Habits: I WILL KILL YOU.
- Many of the painting's descriptions are just oozing this, mainly because, since the way the game is set (far away and isometric to a degree) you have to imagine how off they are. They were made as dark jokes by Eleanor, but some of them put even her off so much she sealed them behind a wall.
- Actually, if you look at each painting close enough, you can actually see the painting details mentioned.
- The Butlers can be offputtingly manipulative when they want to be, the ones that lure Trinity, Belle and Thanos are noteworthy:
- The first plays Trinity like a fiddle by acting like she's not allowed into the butterfly garden, leading her to go in anyway and die.
- The second uses Tequila's favorite pastime in order to ironically kill her.
- The third intentionally uses flimsy excuses and deliberately makes himself suspicious to fuel Thanos' paranoia and have him head to the basement.
- The Basement and the Cottage, the latter is a turning point for the game's setting to become truly screwy, and the former just goes further off the wall.
