Carnivale/Nightmare Fuel




 * In the very first episode, we have a woman spouting dozens of gold coins from her mouth, a woman choking to death from dust, and it rains blood. Other creeptastic scenes include living Madonna and Child statues bleeding from stigmata, a man being tarred and feathered and left to die in the desert, the most inbred family this side of Deliverance and "Home" kidnapping and torturing their distant cousin, Justin's hallucination of peeling off his face, and Evander Freaking Geddes (please do not ask. Most fans have repressed.) Then there's Ben's dreams - practically an alphabetized Nightmare Fuel list - including the scenes where   and the dream where  . On the flip side, we have Justin's rebaptism, his mind control of the patient in the mental institution to repeatedly bash his head against a wall in punishment for speaking over the radio, the scene where he   and his.
 * But by FAR, the creepiest scene in Carnivale had to be at the end of "Pick a Number", where the Carnivale packs up to leave Babylon, and Samson looks back at the saloon to see . Not creepy until you realize that the curse Scudder laid on Babylon means that while she did die, she's still alive at night, and must stay with the creepy rapist murdering miners to be their plaything for all eternity.
 * Nevermind the sheer squick factor, when we finally see Management and very soon there after Ben  because somehow, even though he has no limbs, he can still jump onto Henry Scudders's back and try to kill him... brr. I still sometimes see Lodz in my dreams... "Have you seen my bear?"
 * Actually,
 * In "Hot and Bothered", when Sofie is told "Every prophetc in her house", first by one of the Templars, then by a little girl on the road, both with the black eyes.
 * In the first season finale, "The Day that Was the Day", Ben decides to  as the exchange for healing. Luckily, Scudder is around to clean up the damage, but ugh . ..
 * Then in the series finale "New Canaan", Sofie is being held captive by Brother Justin in a remote cabin. She begins to have horrible visions, such as . Then a veiled figure, who Sofie thinks is her deceased mother, approaches her. When the figure lifts up her veil,   Sofie gasps as
 * And let's not forget Brother Justin, slashing his way through a crowd with a scythe as he quotes Ezekiel, even
 * Evander Geddes! EVANDER GEDDES!