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This is when tropes have their scary elements and/or possibilities brought up.
This can be done in several ways:
Simply adding horror elements to the trope.
Mixing non-horrific tropes with horrific ones.
A Deconstructed Trope that plays up the horrific consequences.
Characters In-Universe bringing up the Fridge Horror of the trope, i.e. Ascended Fridge Horror.
Going Faux Horrific with the trope.
This might even be inspired by one of the writers finding Accidental Nightmare Fuel in a trope and then applying it deliberately.
Now it's very rare to see actual horror tropes done this way, since they are technically played for horror by default, but it's not unheard of. Perhaps the horror is exaggerated, or the work finds new horrific implications of the trope.
Furthermore, this in no way excludes horror works from having examples. In fact they can get plenty of scares by finding the scary elements in things that usually aren't.
Now keep in mind the absence of horrific elements doesn't count as Nothing Is Scarier, unless we're meant to be freaked out by something not happening.
A Sub-Trope of Playing with a Trope.
A Sister Trope to Played for Drama. Compare Fridge Horror, contrast Played for Laughs (though the two sometimes overlap) and Failed Attempt at Scaring.
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Adventure Time uses Flat Character to make its villain the Lich even more horrifying. The Lich backstory is vague, he doesn't speak much, and his entire character revolves around destroying the normally whimsical land of Ooo. The Lich is an absolute force of destruction, and at the end of the day that's all he wants to be.
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Divinity: Original Sin II plays Gods Need Prayer Badly for horror. The Seven Gods couldn't care less about mortals' prayers, because what they are really after is the Source they unwitting collect throughout their lives. When a mortal dies, vestiges of their identity and personality sublimate in the Source they've collected as a kind of "ghost", which is then guided by their belief to what they believe to be afterlife at the side of the god they worshipped in life. Except that said Gods then simply consume the "ghost" for its Source, literally feeding on their worshipers to replenish their divinity. In other words, the Seven "Gods" are nothing but Rivellon's oldest Source vampires, functionally no different from the protagonists of the game.
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica is basically the Magical Girl Warrior genre played for horror, showing how a lot of the innocently fun elements of typical Magical Girl stories could easily have a much darker purpose, and that if so, they would be very good for manipulating young middle school girls. Among other things, the adorable girls with cute dresses fighting evil are Child Soldiers who die regularly, their Transformation Trinkets are their Soul Jars, the villains they fight are terrifying Eldritch Abominations who they themselves will become instead of generic Monster of the Week antagonists, and the Mentor Mascot is a Treacherous Advisor who set up an entire system of suffering and death to power the universe.
There is an entire Sub-Genre of these stories, detailed in Magical Girl Genre Deconstruction. Other examples include Magical Girl Raising Project and Magical Girl Site, where the whole thing is presented as a Deadly Game, as well as Yuki Yuna is a Hero, where the Child Soldier aspect is brought up as the girls fight what seems like a Hopeless War against an evil god.
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What happens if you take the basic plot of Rio Bravo, in which a group of lawmen are besieged by a heavily armed gang, and give it a Setting Update to contemporary (1970s) Los Angeles and present the gangsters like a human version of the zombies from Night of the Living Dead? You get Assault on Precinct 13, the Action Horror film that put John Carpenter on the map as a filmmaker.
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Five Nights at Freddy's:
The series does this with Suck E. Cheese's. The restaurant franchise that the games focus on not only has homicidal robots who hunt the unfortunate night guards, but the backstory involves gruesome murders, with many of the victims being children. The upper management is also corrupt, showing little regard for the safety of their employees and caring about customer safety only as far as it matters for their reputation.
The first game uses a Noodle Incident to disturb the player. Phone Guy mentions the animatronics used to roam during the day, but that ended after the Bite of '87. He remarks "It's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, y'know?"
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location uses an Unreliable Voiceover to add to the frightening atmosphere. There are many beats where you ostensibly need to rely on the automated HandUnit guide to give you instructions on how to deal with the animatronics, but you'll quickly realize that it's not good at its job or keeping track of the things that are supposed to be in its system. One example is where it'll ask you to shine a light on Circus Baby's stage, but it will "helpfully" announce that she's still there even though she very clearly isn't anymore.
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Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony uses Defictionalization to dark effect, by revealing that the various fourth wall breaks of Monokuma are actually because the series have been turned into a reality TV show. When the characters discover this, they are utterly shocked as they realize all of their memories and emotions were fiction. This reveal psychologically devastates the surviving members, until Shuichi comes to the realization that even if everything is fictional, their experiences and pain are real. The final battle is against the embodiment of the TV audience itself.
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Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location uses an Unreliable Voiceover to add to the frightening atmosphere. There are many beats where you ostensibly need to rely on the automated HandUnit guide to give you instructions on how to deal with the animatronics, but you'll quickly realize that it's not good at its job or keeping track of the things that are supposed to be in its system. One example is where it'll ask you to shine a light on Circus Baby's stage, but it will "helpfully" announce that she's still there even though she very clearly isn't anymore.
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"The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest": In one episode, being Squashed Flat is portrayed realistically. Two scientists end up trapped in a room with the ceiling closing in on them, and by the time Race opens the door to that room, it's too late to save them.
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things uses the Roger Rabbit Effect for creepiness. Briefly, following a mental breakdown, the janitor seemingly hallucinates the animated maggot-infested pig and follows it into the school.
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Euphoria uses Bigot with a Crush this way. Nate Jacobs, who has extremely fucked-up ideas about how women should look and behave, becomes obsessed with trans girl Jules, who he knows would not meet his exacting standards, and sets about trying to force her to "reform" under threat of having her arrested for underage sexting.
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Winter of '83
Evil Is Deathly Cold is played for horror with the monsters, which can control and spread through snow.
We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties is used for scares during the emergency weather broadcast. The weatherman is murdered and replaced, a stilted voice telling viewers to join them out in the cold.
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The Bikini Bottom Horror takes the show SpongeBob SquarePants and uses it for horror. It starts with Patrick Star graphically killing and eating SpongeBob and escalates from there. Multiple memes from the show's fanbase make it into the comic as well, usually with rather dark context.
The line "No, this is Patrick" goes from a joke about Patrick's ditziness to a terrifying statement.
The comic does this with Healing Factor. Patrick's regenerative abilities allow him not only to withstand all types of damage, but also to multiply... which is what empowers him to go on a deadly rampage upon learning the awful truth. However, hitting certain "nerve clusters" can negate this ability, killing a Patrick outright.
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Gotham: A Theseus' Ship Paradox is played for horror. The Dollmaker punished one of his subordinates by subjecting him to the Body Horror of replacing most of his body parts with incompatible pieces.
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WandaVision works its way through a checklist of Sitcom Tropes — and any one of them can turn very wrong in a moment, as the audience learns to see this as a show about a Reality Warper having a nervous breakdown.
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r/nosleep:
The Creepypasta "My Neighbor won't stop singing Christmas carols" does this to the "annoying Christmas Carolers" trope. The titular neighbors- the wife and daughter specifically- sing carols for days on end, never stopping, and will not respond to anything, even as they are peeing and crying, making it clear that something is wrong. They are being forced to sing by a race of goblins resembling pine trees, and anyone caught in a specific radius from one is magically compelled to join in the caroling forever- eventually, nearly the entire town joins in, with hordes of people forced to sing against their will before being devoured by the pine goblins.
Time Dissonance is played for horror in "If you're armed and at the Glenmont Metro, please shoot me". The narrator participates in a clinical trial for a drug that accelerates his brain functions, causing him to perceive time more slowly. At first, the downsides are only annoying and boring, with minutes feeling like hours and his 30-minute ride home feeling like days. As time goes on and the effects of the drug keep intensifying, to the point that turning the pages of a book takes longer than reading it and he can see the individual frames on TV, boredom gets the better of him he eventually decides to take an Ambien to try and sleep the effects off. The sleeping pill interacts with the drug and begins severely magnifying its effects, hitting him right as he was running down the stairs at the metro station, causing him to lose his footing from the sudden change and get locked into a fall down the steps that, from his perspective, takes days. The impact dislocates his shoulder and he discovers, while his senses are slowed down, the pain never subsides because his body is still working in real-time, and he decides it's too much and tries to throw himself onto the tracks. His perception of time eventually slows to the point that simply blinking plunges him into darkness for centuries. After enduring what feels like thousands of years of pain and boredom over the course of a few minutes, he posts online, begging for someone to put him out of his misery. A shot to the temple should only take a few decades.
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Lacey Games
Lacey's Diner plays Lethal Chef and Revenge Is a Dish Best Served for horror in the bad ending. In her Sanity Slippage and anger towards her customers, Lacey serves food made of cigarette butts, dead roaches, porn magazines, meth, used condoms, broken glass, and human flesh. It's unclear if the customers survive this.
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Half-Life does this with Doom and the many FPS games that followed in its wake. Like Doom, you play as somebody who uses a prodigious arsenal to fight off hordes of monsters after an advanced physics experiment Gone Horribly Wrong, but unlike the Doomguy, Gordon Freeman is not a soldier, and he will die quickly if he runs headlong into combat. And while Doom used its Excuse Plot to leave as little as possible between the player and the action, Half-Life used its lack of explanation to create mystery and shocking twists, ultimately revealing that Gordon is merely a pawn in something much bigger than himself that he can't hope to comprehend.
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Rambo:
First Blood, the first film in the series, does this for the action movie premise unlike the following sequels would played it straight, instead being a From Bad to Worse situation that makes an action film like this one being a some sort of nightmarish Psychological Horror experience than some fun rollercoaster.
One of the sequels, Rambo IV, has its Big Bad Major Tint who and his Kick the Dog actions are this, showing how much he is a Knight of Cerebus Viler New Villain whose misdeeds pulls no punches when is comes to their graphically horrifying outcomes unlike past villains' evil sins.
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Secret does this to the typically comedic My Sister Is Off-Limits by taking it to the logical extreme. Shinichi Mitomo, the mastermind, spends the series trying to manipulate the students into killing each other because one of them impregnated his sister, and it infuriates him that someone got to her first. His obsession with keeping his sister "pure" for himself is treated as creepy and deranged Yandere behavior.
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Dream SMP: And There Was Much Rejoicing is Played for Drama and Horror in the aftermath of Tommy's death, as the Eggpire throw a party in the victim's house — and after getting kicked out, rent a room in the victim's hotel to continue their revelries. Do bear in mind that the leader of the Eggpire, BadBoyHalo, confirmed by Word of God that his character would be horrified and in mourning if he weren't Brainwashed and Crazy.
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Super Mario 64 ROM hack SM64.z64 does this with Game-Breaking Bug, crashing the game at the end of each loop and displaying the message "SOMETHING CHANGED SOMETHING CHANGED SO-" in the crash handler.
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The monster-filled locations of CarnEvil include a Christmas Town. Rickety Town is a fairground located between the Big Top and the Freak Show. The player explores most of the rides and attractions here, the only exception being a rocket next to the snowglobe ice rink. While the level is presented as a Christmas-themed theme park, the game's setting is presented as a Circus of Fear, including a monstrous Bad Santa/The Krampus boss battle on a skating-rink.
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Rick and Morty uses many common fantasy/sci-fi tropes that tend to be played in a rather light-hearted manner in other works, taking their horrifying implications to the deep end: A Love Potion? It causes the entirety of humanity to be horribly mutated into monsters obsessed with Morty. An Expendable Alternate Universe? When he has to leave his dimension by the first time, Morty is clearly traumatized by the notion that his friends and family are all doomed and he will spend the rest of his life with identical strangers.
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Reservation Dogs plays a Language Barrier for horror. The children in "Deer Lady" don't speak English, so from their perspective, the adults are speaking complete gibberish. It also makes their abusive attacks seem that much more random and unmotivated.
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Gus Johnson uses Knuckle Cracking for horror and morbid laughs in the sketch "Crack". Two guys crack their knuckles and soon snap other body parts in increasingly painful and unpleasant looking ways.
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SCP Foundation:
SCP-3520 turns Chubby Chaser horrific, where an unknown force takes sado-masochistic glee in watching humanity become this as they destroy Earth's environment to make way for industrial farms to make more snack food.
SCP-3344 uses I Have No Son! to this effect. The SCP causes Site 24 Director Carter (and anyone with whom he interacts) to believe that his adult son Niklas, who is living in Site 24 and desperate to contact his family, does not exist and to be completely unable to perceive any evidence to the contrary.
The Foundation has several none too pleasant examples of Immortality Field.
Any person placed inside SCP-762 enters a state of suspended animation and they would no longer need food, water, or even air and they are immune to disease and injury (when it was found, it contained someone who was probably stuck inside for centuries)... except those caused by its own spikes, because it's an Iron Maiden, in a subversion. As a torture device, its primary purpose is likely not to keep people alive but to prolong the victim's suffering. The person inside is conscious the whole time and the experience is described to be very painful. This is double subverted afterward, as even those wounds heal completely after the person is released.
There's also SCP-135, a girl with an aura that makes her and any other organic matter within a 10 cm radius immortal, while causing rapid and uncontrolled cell growth — AKA cancer— within 2.25 meters. Having developed this aura in utero, she is stuck in a fetal position and permanently encrusted in a constantly growing mass of plants, fungi, and microorganisms. The most that can be done for her is to have robots cut off some of the excess matter when it gets too big. She has full brain activity.
SCP-3512 ("The More You Know") is a satirical take on pick-up artists that uses their misogyny and Quest for Sex to disturbing effect. Through body-mutilation rituals (like cutting off their own fingers) and creating a sentient doll-like construct from human fat and bones to take control of the person one desires, instances of the SCP turn women they want to fuck into living sex dolls. The affected victims undergo complete personality changes that leave them eager to please their brainwashers, and are completely aware of this outside force taking them over, but can only express it in bouts of screaming that eventually fade away as it takes complete control. The process is detailed in a book written by a pickup artist, excerpts of which are in the report, and advises readers to stop thinking of hot women as people and think of them as instruments to be controlled.
SCP-3004 is a horrific form of Interfaith Smoothie. An old cicada-based nature deity that found itself syncretized with the Christian God by missionaries to win over its cult. Unfortunately, this worked too well, as this meant the cicada god itself was convinced it was the Christian God, and is essentially trying to replace God as the central figure of Christianity—and it doesn't help that it also conflated the idea of venerating Jesus's sacrifice with just venerating pain and torture in general. This manifests in abrupt and inexplicable instances of staunch Christians and churchgoers performing bizarre sacrificial rituals that usually end in live cicadas crawling out of someone's orifices.
A Christmas Town is used for horror. SCP-784 - Christmas Cheer is a town somewhere in Texas, that is decorated with Christmas all year round regardless of the weather. It is an anomalous location where the inhabitants are Ambiguously Human and assimilate those who do not exhibit the right level of Christmas cheer. This includes things as minor as wishing someone “Happy Holidays� rather than “Merry Christmas�, singing the wrong lyrics to a carol, or not showing enough enthusiasm for a gift.
SCP-752 is a "utopian" society that turns Good Feels Good and The Needs of the Many unsettling. The inhabitants, collectively called SCP 752-1, were built to rationally and willingly be unselfish and devoted to the needs of others over their own private good… which just means that the monstrous things their society does to itself are all perpetrated upon fully-willing people. This includes things like disabled people being murdered or Driven to Suicide and people willingly working themselves to death at a relatively young age.
Christmas Every Day is weaponized in the alternate world of SCP-5000. The Foundation is mentioned to have utilized various temporal anomalies to make it Christmas everyday… so that SCP-4666 will remain active and keep murdering families all year as part of their plan to exterminate humanity.
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Mario Party DS Anti Piracy does this with Unwinnable Joke Game.
Triggering the Monty Mole anti-piracy routine forces the player into a minigame called "Run", in which they are ostensibly tasked with fleeing a giant Monty Mole, but have no controls with which to do so.
"Host Hoedown", a fictitious minigame where you are forced to apologize to a personalized host (in Joey's case, D.J. Hallyboo, an expy of M.C. Ballyhoo) for pirating the game by tracing the word on the bottom screen. During the third phase, the word moves around, effectively rendering the game this. While it's technically possible to beat the game via TAS, this'll result in your own life being unwinnable.
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Neon Genesis Evangelion plays many tropes commonly associated with Humongous Mecha anime (more specifically the Super Robot Genre), using the usual premise of teenagers piloting giant robots to fight against monsters with much more darker undertones, showing how the Kid Heroes of those stories are basically Child Soldiers, and how traumatic it would be for them having to fight against Eldritch Abominations of unpredictable nature. Not to mention that their own robots are actually Eldritch Abominations themselves under their armor, which are heavily implied to have their own soul.
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One of the sequels, Rambo IV, has its Big Bad Major Tint who and his Kick the Dog actions are this, showing how much he is a Knight of Cerebus Viler New Villain whose misdeeds pulls no punches when is comes to their graphically horrifying outcomes unlike past villains' evil sins.
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Pirates SMP:
Big Eater becomes Horrific during the "Captain Golden Beard" quest subplot, where the curse on the treasure inflicts Shep and Owen with insatiable hunger to the point their full in-game Hunger bars can drop to zero in mere seconds. Owen's case is alleviated with the use of an automatic feeding upgrade on her backpack with sufficient food stocks to withstand the curse, while Shep's isn't and while he treats it with a Major Injury Underreaction, he nearly depletes his entire food supply over the course of the curse's effects.
Broken Pedestal goes Horrific (but equally Awesome) in Kuervo's backstory, as he went from idolizing the commanders of Naya and aspiring to become one of them to learning Big Brother Is Employing You and they had sent his older brother to a preventable death by Unfriendly Fire and did not care for their soldiers at all, and proceeded to commit mass Tyrannicide and be sent on the run after being violently caught in the act — complete with audio gore in the animatic. Mind you, he was sixteen when this all happened.
Surprisingly Normal Backstory is implicitly Played for Horror in that a late event implies Guqqie Got Volunteered and was targeted as a Human Sacrifice by the main antagonists because of their relatively normal upbringing.
"Well Done, Son" Guy is also implicitly Played for Horror with Shep in his backstory, who tried so relentlessly to earn the approval of the man he saw as a Parental Substitute (but was more of an Evil Mentor) that he committed murder in the past for him, while no older than the age of 21 (his age in the canon era).
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Wonder Girl (Infinite Frontier): This story show a particularly horrifying example of The Jailbait Wait. It's revealed that Eros has known Yara ever since she was a child because he was the one who murdered her mother and led the siege that slaughtered her tribe. All so that he could have her all to himself as the perfect wife once Yara was finally of age.
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The first game uses a Noodle Incident to disturb the player. Phone Guy mentions the animatronics used to roam during the day, but that ended after the Bite of '87. He remarks "It's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, y'know?"
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Estee's Triptych Continuum features a kind of In-Universe Flanderization with falling into the mark, an extremely common psychological disorder among ponies where the pony allows their special talent to dominate their lives to the point where there is nothing outside the mark. In A Mark Of Appeal, there’s also the discovery of a disease that amplifies the mark magic until it renders the pony unable to do or think of anything that is not the exercise of their talent.
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Knights of the Old Republic: I Owe You My Life is dark in terms of Zaalbar's life debt to the main character. For players of Dark-Sided alignment, it is in fact a form of slavery, as he will do anything they tell him to if you remind him of the life debt. This includes killing Mission if she angers you or gets in your way, even though he's extremely protective of her. However, he won't do it unless you use Force Persuade on him, and if you take him on the Star Forge afterwards he'll attack you.
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Better Watch Out does this with "Home Alone" Antics. As it turns out, the famous paint can trap from that film will actually kill somebody. Also, the Kevin McCallister analogue here is every bit the budding psycho that the popular fan interpretation often paints him as.
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The Twilight Zone (1959):
The Cat Came Back is played for horror in "The Hitch Hiker". Protagonist Nan finds the hitchhiker creepy from the start, but her panic builds as she notices him every time she stops, even when she's driven long distances.
The episode "Stopover in a Quiet Town" features one of the most disturbing uses of The Dreaded Pretend Tea-Party trope. A couple who were drunk driving wake up to discover themselves alone in a town they can't seem to escape from. The Plot Twist is that they're in an alien child's dollhouse and surrounding toy town, and the child is just playing. After they ran off the road, the child's parents took them home to the child as playthings. Whether the child and parents are giant or there was a Shrink Ray involved is never explored. But the fear of the couple is genuine in this case given the owner of the dollhouse is at least 6 times their size.
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The Howling does this for Urban Fantasy, showing what it would be like for Muggles living in something like The World of Darkness. Within werewolf society, all manner of internal politics are hinted at, particularly a philosophical divide between those who wish to harmonize their human and animal instincts and those who wish to fully give in to the latter... none of which matters to the protagonists, ordinary humans hunted by werewolves who seek to either transform them (as in the case of Karen and Bill) or kill them to cover up the truth (as with Chris and Terri). A lot of attention is given to how werewolves would operate in modern society... which is used here to highlight how They Look Just Like Everyone Else!. There is a sexy female werewolf in Marsha who seduces one of the male heroes... but her temptations are portrayed as purely villainous, without any redeeming qualities. Werewolves can transform at will rather than waiting for the full moon as per the classic portrayal, a feature that, in urban fantasy stories, is often used to make werewolves more sympathetic and/or badass by letting them control their "monster" side (or, in games specifically, give players easier access to all the cool werewolf powers)... but is used here to make them more dangerous foes for the protagonists, who aren't safe even during the day. When the heroine Karen is turned, she transforms into a werewolf on live TV in an attempt to break the masquerade... and people are too apathetic and cynical to buy it as anything more than a special effects-driven publicity stunt.
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Men uses the Mister Seahorse trope in a gruesome way, where all the men that Harper previously faced are shown giving birth to each other in a series of extremely graphic bodily transformations that happen via increasingly insane orifices, leaving their bodies mutilated with much blood.
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Hereditary: Head Desk is played for horror when Peter gets possessed in class and smashes his face into his desk twice with enough force to break his nose.
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The first chapter of The House (2022) uses Oh Look, More Rooms! for horror. Van Schoonbeek's carpenters are constantly building up the house, but its appearance from the outside never changes. Mabel wakes up one day to find that her window to the outside is suddenly a window into a new, windowless room. She and Isobel eventually end up lost within the constantly expanding interior, and are at real risk of death by starvation.
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Nemesis by Mark Millar basically turns the Batman mythos by showing what would happen if a character very similar to Bruce Wayne turned out to be more like Patrick Bateman instead of Batman.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four does this to the usually comedic How Many Fingers?. In the infamous torture scene (but before Room 101), an Inner Party member holds up four fingers, then asks Winston how many he is holding up. When Winston answers four, he puts Winston through Electric Torture to force him to see five, and will not stop until Winston actually, truly believes that there are five fingers. The scene details Winston's incredible pain and the sheer horror of being coerced into accepting an obvious falsehood, and is one of the most chilling scenes in the story.
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The Haunting Hour: The Compliance Game is a nightmarish punishment in "Uncle Howee." The titular character, a creepy kiddie show host, comes into the real world to punish Jared, a Big Brother Bully who's been cruel to his little sister Cynthia. Uncle Howee makes Cynthia disappear and challenges Jared to locate her, but he calls the situation a game named "Find Your Sister Before Mom Gets Home and Grounds Ya for the Rest of Your Life!" Jared ultimately loses and, in a Karmic Transformation, is forced to become a puppet character on Uncle Howee's show forever.
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Leprechaun 3 uses Gag Lips, Breast Expansion, and butt inflation for both horror and dark humor. A slender, aging casino worker wishes for a more voluptuous body. The Leprechaun kills her by making her lips, boobs, and butt rapidly expand until she blows up.
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The Autopsy of Jane Doe uses Beauty Is Never Tarnished for creepiness, as Jane Doe's body is unnaturally preserved and devoid of external bruises or marks. The "beauty" of the corpse contrasts even more with the discovery of the corpse's gruesome internal traumas. A final unnerving instance of it occurs when in the last moments of the movie, when the police investigate the morgue following the deaths of the Tildens and the corpse is shown to be perfectly intact, which we saw resulting from the transfer of her injuries to Tommy.
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Alien Abduction Role Play uses the Alien Catnip trope to add horror. Acktreal Domma feels a strong, irrational desire to eat her human test subjects, even after working to redeem herself. It's later revealed that human blood has an intoxicating, even addictive, effect on her species.
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The X-Files does this to the typically comedic Rubber Man trope in "Squeeze" with the terrifying liver-eating mutant Eugene Victor Tooms. He likes to sneak through vents to reach victims in otherwise locked rooms.
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Videodrome plays a Bedmate Reveal for horror. When Max wakes up in his bed late in the film after an extended Videodrome hallucination, he finds someone laying next to him. When he removes the sheets it turns out to be the corpse of an associate of his, tied up and tortured to death. He calls up a friend to come over and look, but it turns out he was again hallucinating and his bed is empty.
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Dead by Daylight makes an Idol Singer one of the killers. Ji-Woon Hak used to be part of a boy band called NO SPIN. Growing jealous of his bandmates' popularity, he commited Murder by Inaction by leaving them trapped inside of a recording studio when the building caught on fire. He then went on to accomplish a successful solo career as The Trickster, where he had a Darker and Edgier image... in part because he moonlighted as a Serial Killer, sampling the screams of his victims in his songs. Finally, after Executive Meddling stopped him from producing his own songs, he retaliated by torturing his record label's board members to death while forcing the talent scout who recruited him to watch.
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife does this with a number of famous scenes from the original Ghostbusters. Whereas that film did the opposite, taking supernatural horror movie scenarios and defanging them by mining humor out of them, this film injects the horror back into many of them. For instance, in the original, Peter Venkman reacts to Dana's possession by Zuul in classic Bill Murray fashion as he tries to handle the situation with cool-headed sarcasm. In Afterlife, on the other hand, Callie Spengler's possession by Zuul is staged like a scene straight out of The Conjuring, with the other characters terrified by the sight and The Reveal done as a Jump Scare.
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Nothing but Trouble: The trope Cops Need the Vigilante is used for horror in a reveal: the state police knows perfectly well that J.P. Valkenheiser is a murderous Hanging Judge and not only do nothing about it but send him criminals to get rid of covertly. Chris and Diane discover this while surrounded by the army of cops that came to "arrest" the Judge after they first escaped and the Judge himself all acting chummy, and the massive collapse of Valkenvania happens just in time to interrupt what seemed to be our heroes being murdered to silence them.
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Devilman takes the Superpowered Evil Side trope to utterly horrifying and tragic extremes. In many ways, it feels like it would happen in a teenage superhero story (like Spider-Man) if absolutely everything went horribly wrong.
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Are You Afraid of the Dark?
"The Tale Of The Fire Ghost" uses Ash Face for horror. The titular ghost, in human form, appears as a charred policeman.
"The Tale Of The Wisdom Glass" uses the Denser and Wackier trope for horror. Allan and Jimmy find themselves trapped in a realm where whimsically attired adults rigidly enforce whimsically bizarre rules.
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Cruel Summer uses a Stargazing Scene to unsettling effect. On the night of the family hunting trip in 1993, a distressed Kate ends up sitting out and looking at the stars, having a sweet and emotional chat...with Martin, the same person who grooms and later kidnaps her for months. As this fate is already well-known, this scene is used to show how Martin manipulated her, turning a normally nice moment horrifying.
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Heathers: The Musical does this with love songs during "Our Love is God", where J.D. continues to lovingly sing his worship to Veronica after he just murdered Kurt and Ram in cold blood. Veronica is clearly terrified. What starts as a romantic ballad quickly turns into J.D. and Veronica's Descent into Darkness Song.
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What Goes Around Comes Around plays the Shipper on Deck trope for horror. The Agrestes both decide they're on board with Adrien hooking up with Marinette, but only on their terms — to the point that they plan to make a reality-altering Wish that will merge Adrien and Felix into their idealized son, with Marinette forced to marry him.
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Uzumaki:
The manga is based around horrific things involving spirals, so some of the stories are about the various ways that Spectacular Spinning is not spectacular at all, including how a spiral-shaped scar spins into a black hole.
One chapter uses a Spring Coil as a form of the omnipresent spiral shape, as well as a source of scares and Black Comedy. After Jack gets killed in a horrific car accident, Kirie and Shuichi dig up his grave to stake his corpse, only for it to suddenly come alive and bouncing after them as his entire lower half disintegrates, using a spring stuck in his spine to chase after them. However, once he completely falls apart, the two realize the spring was part of the car suspension that wasn't removed from his body — it's left unclear if his corpse was merely propelled by escaping gas or if it was the result of something supernatural turning him into a literal Jack-in-the-box.
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It All Started with an OSHA Violation uses Becoming the Costume to this effect. As Skid and Pump went down the elevator shaft in their respective costumes, Skid's skeleton costume fused with his bones while Pump's costume head fused with his head and became an actual pumpkin. Monster was revealed to have suffered the same fate once he fell down the same shaft; the lemon head of his mascot costume became his actual head.
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 It All Started with an OSHA Violation (Fanfic)
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Star vs. the Forces of Evil has the Princess Classic and Royal School tropes played for horror. Rebellious princesses are sent to the St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princesses, where students are psychologically broken down and stripped of their identities, slowly being brainwashed into becoming perfect princesses.
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The LOCAL58 episode "Skywatching" uses Gigantic Moon for this. The extremely large moon brainwashes the camera man into worshiping it.
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Harem Royale - When the Game Ends - takes the concept of the Harem Genre and turns it into a Deadly Game where the girls must win the heart of the male lead, and the losers will be killed. This takes the romantic tension of most harem series and turns it into a thriller where the girls have not just their love, but their lives on the line, all while the male lead is oblivious to the fact that his eventual decision will doom several innocent lives.
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Star Trek: Lower Decks: Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence is played for horror. After lying about ascending all episode, O'Connor finally does so near the end. It results in terror and agony for him, and the episode is vague over whether he actually survived in any meaningful sense.
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The Terminator, the first film in the Terminator series, does this with its namesake Killer Robot, depicting the premise more as a Slasher Movie than a typical blockbuster action flick the franchise would become known for starting with its sequel.
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 The Terminator
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Batman: The Animated Series:
Evil Is Petty is part of what makes The Joker scary. His plots include ruining Christmas for Batman and Gotham by taking hostages, ruining the mayor's son's birthday party by planning to blow it up, ruining a party in honor of Commissioner Gordon with the help of an average guy he obsessively stalked and threatened, all because the guy cussed at him while driving, and attempting to patent something that legally cannot be patented, and then gassing the guy at the patent office who told him so.
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 Batman: The Animated Series
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1000 Ways to Die uses Breast Expansion for squick. One episode covers the famous urban legend "woman with cheap breast implants has her implants explode during an airplane flight." The reenactment scenes depict the woman's breasts growing to absurd proportions within a short amount of time due to the implants themselves expanding because of a change in cabin pressure, and it ends with the woman dying in a bloody mess.
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Library of Ruina heavily and frighteningly exaggerates Capitalism Is Bad. While the game doesn't outright state it, the City doesn't have any non-corporate governors. In fact, it's solely ruled by corporations known as Wings who basically run on fanatical capitalism; even the Head, supposedly being ruling authorities, are actually one such Corporation known as A Corp. It's not even a matter of pure greed; many of them seem to just make decisions that maximize bloodshed or violate all common sense either because they are integral for the Wing's survival, outright weirdness, malice or even any combination of the above. Standouts include former L Corp where the Manager deliberately gets his employees horribly killed by Abnormalities or W Corp forcing passengers of the Warp Train to suffer from a 2000 century torture only to undo them instantly. Commonfolks are thrown into backstreet slums that the Wings don't usually give a rat's ass about and everyone has to more or less, eat rats or kill other human beings to survive. Most people there actually have to earn enough money to go to metropolitan areas called Nests, where the Wings behind it can and will kick you out if you don't yield any produce or societal contribution.
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The Island of Doctor Moreau depicts the Beast Man and Uplifted Animal tropes this way, and is an Unbuilt version of the latter. The titular doctor has used anesthetic-free vivisections to mold animals into human-like forms, and the main character is disturbed by how much the beast people hit Uncanny Valley for him.
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The Masters of Horror episode "The Screwfly Solution" uses Girls vs. Boys Plot to terrifying effect. One day, men all over the world find themselves slowly succumbing to a Hate Plague that causes them to become violent and murderous toward every woman they find — up to and including their own wives, mothers, and small children. After the initial purges, the episode plays out like a dark version of this type of plot: the few women who avoid the first wave of attacks band together and do their best to survive, only to be slowly hunted down by the still-homicidal men, who do gruesome things like mutilate their victims' bodies and turn them into trophies (at one point, a man proudly walks around carrying a bag made from a woman's breast). The episode ends with one of the last women on Earth discovering that the plague was caused by aliens, who arranged a Gendercide to make the planet easier to conquer.
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Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning takes the style of a crappy 1990’s Edutainment Game and turns it into a Survival Horror game where the title character chases you down merely for getting an unsolvable math problem wrong.
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Guns are commonplace weapons and a familiar sight in virtually any action setting, but Season 3 of Daredevil (2015) is credited with making firearms scary in the person of Bullseye, who dispenses instant death to unsuspecting victims.
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When The Darkness Comes does this with But Thou Must!. The game presents buttons at various points in the game, for the purposes of answering questions. However, the player is never allowed to actually make a choice; either they only get one answer, which invariably isn't the answer they'd typically want to choose, or the answer is nullified anyway because "they didn't mean it". A rather dark version comes near the end. The player is given a button and a woman asking them questions, but they aren't allowed to move. As the woman tries in vain to make you respond, you can do nothing but stand there and fail her.
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The Guest does this for Stale Beer Spy Fiction in the manner of The Bourne Series, showing how a genetically enhanced super-spy who's been programmed to kill anybody who might blow his cover would make for a terrifying horror movie villain if an ordinary family started to suspect who he was.
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 The Guest
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Ice Cream Man plays Confession Cam for horror in the chapter where a scriptwriter gets Trapped in TV Land by the eponymous Humanoid Abomination and finds himself in increasingly disturbing reality shows. Each time he shifts to another show, there are interludes like this where the guy details how he suddenly found himself in these shows, how disturbed he is by what's going on, and how desperate he is to leave. There are also interviews with the other show participants (like a mannequin woman in a dating show and three zombie women in a Real Housewives sendup) who talk about their roles in the disturbing shows like nothing unusual is going on, as well as an interview with the scriptwriter's uncle who was also pulled into the shows, killed, and is now surprised that he's dead.
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Rediscovered Frontiers shows the darker effects of Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory. Silver's efforts to change the future are successful, and he always remembers the old timeline, but not the new one. This has resulted in places, people, friends and even his own parents being outright erased or replaced from his perspective, and each time he has to refamiliarize himself with the new history, of both the world in general and his own personal life.
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Fortune_Lover_(TGS Beta)(SARU_rip)[T+Eng0.75_Sincere].zip plays In Spite of a Nail for horror. The basic premise is the existence of a Fortune Lover hack (implied to have been created by A-chan), in which the Alpha Bitch Katarina Claes of Fortune Lover is replaced with the All-Loving Hero Katarina Claes of My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, while everyone else's dialogs and event flags are left unaltered. The result is that all of the latter Katarina's attempts to escape her doom are worthless: she is labeled a villainess despite doing nothing on-screen to deserve it, denounced for crimes that she never committed, and finally killed or exiled for no reason other than the immutable Plot.
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 Fortune_Lover_(TGS Beta)(SARU_rip)[T+Eng0.75_Sincere].zip (Fanfic)
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The Banana Splits Movie adapts the original The Banana Splits series, turning a comedy show for kids into a R-rated horror movie.
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In The Jonah, a Bedmate Reveal is used for horror. As a birthday surprise, old girlfriend Sandy sneaks into Jim Kelso's house and hides in his bed. Delighted to find it already occupied, she gets in and lifts the bedclothes to find the solidly manifest ghost of Kelso's murderous twin.
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Life Is Strange has a few Camera Fiend characters, but one in particular turns out to be quite the literal fiend. He is the Big Bad drugging and kidnapping girls to take them to his Dark Room, where he photographs them in sexualized positions and tortures them, all to capture the moment where innocence becomes corrupted.
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Darkwood plays Absurdly Ineffective Barricade for drama and terror. Properly barricading a hideout is way more complicated than just closing a door and putting a wardrobe behind it – even dogs can push furniture out of the way with considerable ease.
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Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords deconstructs many Western RPG gameplay staples by giving them horrific in-story justifications. For instance, the Experience Points are revealed to be an expression of the Exile actually devouring the life force of the people and creatures s/he murders, while Relationship Values turn out to be an indicator of how successful s/he is at More Than Mind Controlling her traveling companions.
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Antebellum, like Octavia Butler's Kindred, is a story about a Black female writer who travels back in time to a pre-Civil War plantation in the Deep South, a premise that is used to explore the violence of slavery. But whereas Kindred is a dark Magic Realism drama, Antebellum is a violent horror movie in which plantation slavery is the subject of Torture Porn.
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Unedited Footage of a Bear does this for Youtube Ads that interrupt a video: The short starts with the footage of a grizzly bear while the cameraman comments on the size of the bear's ears, then the video suddenly gets interrupted by a commercial for a fictional drug called "Claridryl." But then, instead of ending, the seemingly light-hearted commercial slowly turns into a horror story about how said drug has a very negative impact, causing addiction and personality disorders to the protagonist Donna. And it is also heavily implied that said drug ultimately drove her into a murderous insanity.
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Despite its innocent beginning, Shadow Star plays the whole Mon genre for horror (and tragedy), showing everything that could possibly go wrong by giving real-life kids Olympus Mons. By the end of the series, almost every character is dead and humanity is wiped out from the face of earth.
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The video for "Run" by Joji is a rare case where Absurdly-Long Limousine is horrific. It begins with Joji waking up in the back of a limo with no clue how he got there, surrounded by party-goers who show no concern for his confusion and distress. He tries to reach the exit, but no matter how far he runs, the limo just keeps going on and on and on…
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The Magnus Archives does this with Gluttonous Pig. In the episode "Cruelty Free" a farmer discovers a massive, 400 kilogram pig, which devours anything that gets in its pen, starting with the other pigs and eventually moving on to humans.
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1BR uses a Close-Knit Community as a premise for a horror film. At first, the tenants of the apartment building Sarah moves into are a very friendly and sociable bunch. That said, it's soon revealed that they value their community to the point of Serious Business, practically brainwashing and psychologically torturing all new tenants into wanting to become permanent members of the community.
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Maria no Danzai
Bully Hunter with Mari Nagare. She was once a happily married housewife and mother with a great relationship with her husband and son, until the latter was killed by bullies. So she makes it her mission to hunt down the ones responsible and send them to Hell with her own hands. Mari threw away her life, divorced her husband, changed her name to Maria Akeboshi, had plastic surgery, and two years later became the nurse at the bullies' school to exact revenge. Mari is not interested in just killing the bullies; she wants to make them suffer, give them judgment, completely destroy their lives, and break them before killing them. While it's horrifying to see the lengths Mari is willing to go to destroy her son's bullies (even if they are Asshole Victims), the true horror is how a good mother is transformed by her bully-hunting obsession into a shell of her former self who finds no joy even when she does succeed.
Morality Chain Beyond the Grave as well. Maria, about to silence Iijima by killing him, sees an apparition of Kiritaka who reminds her that Iijima is not one of her targets. Shocked at what she was about to do, Maria relents and agrees that Iijima doesn't need to die, and decides to silence him by other means after killing Shikimi. What makes this horrifying, though, is that Kiritaka's "ghost" has a hole where his face should be, leaving his brain and blood-stained tongue to spill. Clearly Maria is still traumatized from cradling his mangled remains. And it's implied that the only thing stopping her from going full psycho is "an apparition of her dead son."
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Tales from the Darkside: "Love Hungry" plays Anthropomorphic Food for horror. A "revolutionary weight loss system" consists of a hearing aid and glasses that cause the woman who wears them to perceive (ordinary, inanimate) food as alive and desperate not to be eaten. And they don't come off...
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First Blood, the first film in the series, does this for the action movie premise unlike the following sequels would played it straight, instead being a From Bad to Worse situation that makes an action film like this one being a some sort of nightmarish Psychological Horror experience than some fun rollercoaster.
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One of the scariest scenes in Natural Born Killers is one that does this to the Dom Com, particularly the Dysfunctional Family sitcoms that got popular in the late '80s and '90s. Mallory's Dark and Troubled Past is shown to the audience through a flashback staged as a sitcom called I Love Mallory that resembles Married... with Children, one in which, underneath the Laugh Track and the broad performances, Mallory's abusive, Al Bundy-esque father is presented as a terrifying figure who's straight-up raping his daughter.
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Batman (1989) has an In-Universe example of Corpsing end with a literal corpse. Two anchors, one male and one female, report on mysterious deaths of models and beauty parlor customers. The female anchor starts laughing until she falls out of her chair, dead. It's then that the Joker interrupts the show with a fake commerical for his chemicals he used to poison beauty products. During this, there's a shot of the dead anchor with her face having turned into a copy of the Joker's perma-smile.
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Very Little Nightmares uses a Lonely Doll Girl as a villain. The main antagonist is a monster with the appearance of a prettied-up little girl who lives alone in a Old, Dark House. To keep her loneliness at bay, she collects life-size dolls made of the skin of actual children her servants capture and kill. She seems to believe they are actually living children.
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Jan Svankmajer's Alice is an interesting case of this, adapting Alice's Adventures in Wonderland into a dark, ominous film while at the same time being relatively faithful to the source material: The difference is that while in the original book the weirdness of the plot is used for Surreal Humor, in this movie the weirdness is played for Surreal Horror.
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Doctor Who: Symbolic Wings are made frightening in "Village of the Angels" when Claire Brown looks in the mirror and sees a vision of herself with stone angel wings growing from her back. It shows she's been possessed by a Weeping Angel, an Eldritch Abomination that takes the form of an angel statue.
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Get Out (2017) does this with racial fetishization and the concept of “positive� discrimination, concepts that the film criticizes for objectifying the very people they supposedly compliment. Neither is too positive when it means white people kidnap Black people with the intent of hijacking their bodies for their stereotyped "positive" aspects. To make matters worse, the original people are still stuck as unwilling passengers in their own bodies.
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NOS4A2 by Joe Hill feels like a horror retelling of The Polar Express. Charlie Manx basically believes he's the train's conductor, taking children to the magical Christmas Land, only the train is a Rolls Royce Wraith. In fact, he's actually a deranged psychopath who uses the mystical properties of the car to drain the abducted children of their humanity and retain his youth. The story is told from the perspective of a parent who eventually has her child abducted by Manx.
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No More Heroes has a dark version of a Hard-Drinking Party Girl in the form of Bad Girl. She's first introduced gleefully smashing apart cloned gimps with a baseball bat (which, given she's Rank 2 of the United Assassins Association, is implied to be her job), then "unwinds" by cracking open a cold one and downing it within seconds. Combined with her young age (early twenties at the absolute maximum) and the fact that beer is the only thing in her fridge creates a very eerie display of who she is.
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Criminal Minds
The episode "The Uncanny Valley" uses The Dreaded Pretend Tea-Party trope in a disturbing way. A woman was sexually abused as a child by her father who bought her dolls as an apology. Decades later, he took her dolls and gave them to other girls whom he abused. His daughter, desperate to have her dolls back, abducted women who happened to look like her dolls, sedated and force-fed them, dressed them up, sewed a wig into a poor woman's scalp and forced them to attend a tea party. All while acting like a well-meaning little girl.
In the episode "Profiling 202", it is revealed that David Rossi hates his birthday, and the reason why is a perfect example of the Birthday Hater trope turned horrific. The Whole Episode Flashback ends with a Serial Killer with a body count of at least one hundred dead women (none of them found yet) deciding, after being arrested, that he will only reveal one dead body per year exactly on Rossi's birthday and only to Rossi. He even goes through the whole macabre glee of writing down the name and location in a gift card and singing "Happy Birthday".
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American McGee's Alice and its sequel Alice: Madness Returns use the Alice in Wonderland mythos for horror. An adult Alice struggles through post-traumatic stress and feelings of guilt over the fire that killed her family. Wonderland has become full of violence and its inhabitants are often grotesque, if not experiencing outright Body Horror.
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Unfriended
Annoying Pop Up Ads become dangerous obstacles. As it's set on Blaire's computer screen, she is annoyed by multiple ads all the way through, especially when she's trying to call for help or figure out what's going on. In a Rewatch Bonus, one of the pop-up "porn" ads is actually footage of Blaire and Adam having sex after she promised Mitch they didn't, an early hint that Laura is haunting Blaire's computer and taunting her.
There's a dark example of the protagonists playing "Never Have I Ever". As Laura points out, "the loser doesn't drink, the loser dies".
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Knights of Buena Vista plays up some parts in Frozen (2013) as if it was horror (this is a Campaign Comic):
Weselton talks about how he heard people in the palace over the years said they sometimes felt rooms become as cold as the grave. Mary even compliments Walter on making Elsa's powers seem spooky. Then she's genuinely spooked out by Weselton further interrogating her.
When darker ice appears within the ice of Elsa's palace after she finds out she caused an Endless Winter in her kingdom, Dick describes the effect as something like a Japanese horror film. Mary has as much of a genuinely freaked out look as Anna, and says if anything starts coming out of the ice she's quitting the campaign.
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The Unfunnies: Emasculated Cuckold is played for horror. Pussywhisker loses both his testicles after being convinced by Dr. Despicable that he has testicular cancer. His wife Polly was outraged that they cannot have children and refusing to adopt, so she forces Pussywhisker to pick up men to get to sleep with her in order to get her pregnant. When she did not get pregnant from the first guy, Polly forced Pussywhisker to get more men. It's clearly damaging for Pussywhisker to do this. At the end of the issue, as Pussywhisker is forced to find another man for Polly, she reveals that she orchestrated her husband's castration so that she would be justified in her acts of adultery with copious partners, is on the pill, and enjoys that she has forced her husband to find these partners while she waits at home.
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League of Legends has variants on The Power of Love. Viego the Ruined King exploits a twisted, villainous version of it in that his power over the undead horde of the Black Mist is driven by his love for his fallen queen, with his vain attempts to bring her Back from the Dead forming the Shadow Isles and one of the biggest threats in the game. Even worse, he can use the Black Mist to corrupt and bend people to his will by exploiting what THEY love and value.
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Dr. Harper Therapy:
The Influencer Files story line uses Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube! to gruesome effect. The Chicken live-streams himself torturing someone in the most painful and humiliating way possible.
Asshole Victim is used for horror. Someone with a history of making bigoted and otherwise offensive comments online is kidnapped and tortured in internet videos. While some of the comments hope the victim will be saved, others believe her past awful behavior means she deserves it. Some people outright express pleasure that she's suffering, one calling it the best stream of the year and another asking if anyone else was getting a boner.
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Creepypasta Cookoff:
Christmas Carolers are horrific monsters in "A Christmas Peril" by Vague1. A group of Victorian looking carolers are Humanoid Abominations that attack the protagonist.
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Don't Walk Home Alone After Dark: An Ambiguous Criminal History is played for unnerving effect in The Worm. It's never fully detailed what Sparrow did to get her landed in a mental hospital, but it's implied to have been pretty serious, with the narrator stating that when he met Sparrow he'd been half expecting an “uncontrollable monster� and that it was hard to reconcile the small, quiet teenager in front of him with what she had done. A newspaper in one shot states she was taken into custody over her suspected involvement in the murder-suicide of her friends and an older man, but it's unclear what exactly went down. In the comment section on the video, Andy Coyle simply said that Sparrow did "What she had to…"
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Portal does this to the Excuse Plot common to Puzzle Games. You move through a series of rooms, solving the puzzles contained therein, whilst guided by a voice over a loudspeaker. However, the rooms have a creepy, oppressive atmosphere from the very beginning, the guide's contributions are unhelpful, bizarre, condescending or some combination of the three, and venturing out of bounds reveals that you aren't the first one to go through the rooms, with the previous participants ending up insane and/or dead. It all comes to a head when the guide throws off the pretense and tries to flat-out murder you.
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While in theory Happy Tree Friends tends to subvert the Amusing Injuries trope for Black Comedy, the incredibly gruesome deaths of the cute and cuddly cast in some episodes ends being more disturbing rather than comical in plenty of occasions, often indulging in Body Horror and Gorn.
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Primal (2019) uses Even the Rats Won't Touch It for horror in the episode "Plague of Madness". The corpses of creatures infected by or killed by victims of the titular plague give off such an air of wrongness that even the flies won't touch them. Fang, a T. rex who usually doesn't care about what she eats, approaches one such corpse and recoils.
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On the Threshold takes Recurring Dreams to the Logical Extreme in an unsettling way. Dr. Applegate discovers her own work, she literally can't seem to dream about anything other than getting into a looping conversation with herself and wandering empty hallways. Breaking free of the cycle temporarily only makes it far worse.
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Empires SMP Season 1 plays Sitcom Arch-Nemesis and Animal Jingoism for Horror. Jimmy and fWhip initially appear to be rivals/enemies to each other due to the two's conflicts of cod versus salmon, but this "species rivalry" later proves to be much more dangerous and sinister — when the two team up to try to create a new Codfather head, a prophecy ends up rearing its ugly head. Specifically, the prophecy stated, "The resolution of a neverending feud brings unimaginable chaos that will destroy the world", and it rings true: the machine they used for their experiment overloads from combining cod and salmon, obliterating the Grimlands (fWhip's empire) in a huge explosion that almost killed fWhip, and the various natural disasters following or caused by the catastrophe leads to at least three of their fellow rulers and friends being Killed Off for Real.
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The Mysterious Stranger uses the Abilene Paradox for this. It’s revealed that few of the villagers in Dung Ages Austria actually believe in witches, but they all allow witch hunts to happen because they are terrified that the rest of the village truly believes it and will assume that they themselves are witches if they defend the accused in any way, including by saying that witches don’t exist.
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Brightburn makes it clear that it wants to do this to the Superman Substitute from the get-go by copying every possible beat from the trailers for Zack Snyder's Man of Steel up until the kid learns that he's an alien with superpowers... and then the rest of the trailer showcases James Gunn's idea of what really happens when a bullied, maladjusted kid finds out that he's potentially invincible.
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Cannon God Exaxxion: A Needle in a Stack of Needles situation gets rather dark. The Riofaldians theorize that the pilot of the Exaxxion mecha that is defying them is a Japanese teenager, but they don't know which… so they execute all Japanese male teenagers with a similar height, and build to the pilot. Scarier yet, they actually succeed — if not for Nano Machines in his body that brought him back to life, Hoichi Kano would have become a Decoy Protagonist.
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In The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals, Musical Number Annoyance turns to Musical Number Fear. Paul gets annoyed at everyone in Hatchetfield singing "La Di Da Da Day," which eventually progresses to outright fear as they get progressively more pushy for him to join them. He's quite justified to be unnerved, as it's later revealed all the singing is the result of an alien infection.
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Cloverfield does this to the Kaiju movie and, by extension, the Disaster Movie. A giant monster's rampage through New York is shown from the perspective of the Puny Humans on the ground fighting to survive with little idea of what's going on, and while the Monumental Damage it causes is visually impressive, it's portrayed as less cool and awesome and more terrifying, especially given how numerous shots in the film are designed to evoke the real-life tragedy of the 9/11 attacks and the accompanying panic. The monster itself, instead of looking like a giant version of a lizard, a dragon, a Prehistoric Monster, or some other recognizable creature, bears little resemblance to real-life Earth animals or even mythological figures and comes across more like an Eldritch Abomination, especially when paired with the classic kaiju movie trope of the military and conventional weapons being largely ineffectual against it and The Stinger implying that not even nuclear weapons can fully put it down.
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Fantastic Four (2015) depicts the titular characters' superpowers as Body Horror, given that in this version, they gained them through a Teleporter Accident not unlike that of The Fly (1986).
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The Creepypasta "My Neighbor won't stop singing Christmas carols" does this to the "annoying Christmas Carolers" trope. The titular neighbors- the wife and daughter specifically- sing carols for days on end, never stopping, and will not respond to anything, even as they are peeing and crying, making it clear that something is wrong. They are being forced to sing by a race of goblins resembling pine trees, and anyone caught in a specific radius from one is magically compelled to join in the caroling forever- eventually, nearly the entire town joins in, with hordes of people forced to sing against their will before being devoured by the pine goblins.
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Smile Tapes has a devastating Fantastic Drug called SMILE. It is made from an unknown fungus, is distributed through the black market and has utterly horrific effects on the human body.
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Don't Hug Me I'm Scared takes many cues from cutesy Edutainment shows aimed at little kids (Such as Sesame Street) and use them for a surreal and terrifying Psychological Horror series.
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"Snow, Glass, Apples" by Neil Gaiman is a very, very dark retelling of Snow White (The original fairy tale, not the Disney film), turning the titular character into a Creepy Child (which is eventually revealed to be a vampire) and adding the same amount of violence and disturbing sexual content that one would expect from stuff like Game of Thrones.
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The Gravity Falls episode "Weirdmageddon" does this with Clothing Appendage. An off-center shot from Ford's Wave-Motion Gun hits Bill Cipher's "hat", creating a gaping hole that exposes a mess of fleshy innards before regenerating.
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Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth takes many of the recurring villains from Batman, strips them of any kind of silliness, and plays their most notorious traits for horror: For example, Dr. Destiny is no longer a creepy but somewhat cartoonish man in a cloak and a skull face, but an emaciated, withered man trapped in a wheelchair. It's implied that he still posseses his terrifying dream powers as well, the Mad Hatter is hinted at being a pedophile, etc.
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 Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth (Comic Book) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 Nemesis (Comic Book) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 Nemesis (Mark Millar) (Comic Book) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW) (Comic Book) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 It's Always Spooky Month (Fanfic) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 Learning How to Be a Witch (Fanfic) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 Mischief (MHA) (Fanfic) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 Pokémon: Harmony and Chaos (Fanfic) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 Rediscovered Frontiers (Fanfic) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 The Omnitrix Hero (Fanfic) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 What Goes Around Comes Around (Miraculous Ladybug) (Fanfic) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 Beau Is Afraid / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 Birds of Prey (2020) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 Child's Play (2019) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 Cloverfield / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 First Blood / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 Ghostbusters: Afterlife / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 K-12 / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 Midsommar / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 Schindler's List / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 Nightmare Beings / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 PlayedforHorror
sameAs
Played for Horror
 Blattodea (Manga) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 Romantic Killer (Manga) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 Cold Case / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 Loki (2021) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 Obi-Wan Kenobi / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 WandaVision / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 Epic Battle Fantasy 5 (Video Game) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 Friday Night Funkin': Corruption (Video Game) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 hololive - Holo no Graffiti (Web Animation) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 Something About (Web Animation) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 Spooky Month (Web Animation) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 The Blue Shell Incident (Web Animation) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 CORNERFOLKLORE (Web Video) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 Empires SMP (Web Video) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 Pastra (Web Video) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 The Theorizer (Web Video) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 The Bikini Bottom Horror (Webcomic) / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror
 A Goofy Movie / int_701c45bb
type
Played for Horror