This is the stuff so horrifying that it can give people the creeps for years. This scares the pants off of just about anyone to the author/creator's delight. NightmareFuel/Live-Action TV · NightmareFuel/Video Games · Western Animation

A journey through a warped mirror of reality where Transformation Horrors abound and Primal Fears are on public parade.

There is something genuinely disturbing to most people about seeing a face visibly distorted, mutated, or rearranged. NightmareFace / Anime & Manga · NightmareFace.Live Action Films · ImageLinks

Flashback Nightmare: A flashback framed as a nightmare. Guilt-Induced Nightmare: Nightmares about past misdeeds. Irritation Nightmare: A less intense nightmare ...

The pits of gaming are stock full of things that will traumatize gamers for years, and not just brutal difficulty or progress-stopping bosses. Individual Examples · Silent Hills · Video Game Systems

The Nightmare Fetishist trope as used in popular culture. This character is happily intrigued by whatever is strange, dangerous, disturbing, and/or …

The rare times it does happen in real life involve a neurological disorder where the person is woken up from the dream by a sensation, not the other way around.

A character may be suffering from trauma or from the supernatural. They may be dreaming of the same thing every night or having a variety of them. They may ...

Something meant to be truly terrifying (or at least somewhat frightening or disturbing) which instead comes off as stupid, laughable, cute, or all of them. Accidental Nightmare Fuel · Robot Monster · Video Games · Live-Action Films

Terror all around you, and we've just begun. You'll be a trembling helpless lump of fear when we are done. Grim unearthly creatures flaunting nauseating ...