Clock Tower (series)/Nightmare Fuel



Clock Tower is pointed to by many as one of the scariest video game series ever, and these examples prove that point quite well. --
 * Clock Tower on the SNES is absolutely disturbing. The constant fear of the Scissorman ambushing you eats at one's nerve. But worse finding your friends dead in the worst of places, like trapped in a suit of armour. Then there's the demonic fetus baby, which is on a level all its own. Throw in that all but a couple of endings result in you being killed later on anyway, and you've got a twisted game.
 * To elaborate on the bad endings:
 * Clock Tower 3 has more constant fear of ambushing, and surprise attacks to make you scream and jump out of your chair. Besides that, there's the extremely disturbing scenes of Sledgehammer killing a little girl, and Corroder giving a man and his mother an "acid bath".
 * You thought Scissorman was scary? Believe me, you will shit bricks by the dozen when you finally meet the titular Ax Crazy psycho of Clock Tower: Ghost Head.
 * Imagine this: You're all alone in a room, trying to find a piece of a puzzle or your amulet that will let you switch personalities, and all of a sudden an Implacable Man in a bloody lab coat and Hannya mask dragging around a giant machete barges in. Cue chase sequence! It's a lot more startling than it sounds, especially since you have no idea when it'll happen; at least with the other stalkers you usually get a Musical Spoiler before having to deal with them. Then there's the scraping...
 * And let's not forget the way the environment tries to kill you. You can walk into a room and suddenly have the floor fall out from under you, or have a porcelain doll rise from the floor and dash at you, or have a disembodied hand jump out through the mirror and strangle you.
 * So many of the friend deaths in the first game. The pool drowning, shower, and  take the cake. Lotte's death is either the also-creepy , or the Crowning Moment of Awesome that is saving Jennifer's life, which unfortunately isn't canon. And according to Word of God, Laura's death was due to her running to the phone to call 911. Somebody was waiting there.
 * Rolla's deaths can hit one notch higher than the others depending on who you ask.
 * Dan. Just Dan. Creepier when you realize that,
 * What, no mention of the body you can find in the sealed room?
 * The trophy room in the first game. Not just the room itself, with the bizarre sounds coming from the walls. And do you want to know who that belongs to?
 * The second game has numerous death scenes for some of the characters once you reach . One character, Beth, Another character, Tim,  You can also find Harris, find Barton, and find Gotts  There's also the suggestion that
 * Also in the second game, any time you hide in a wardrobe. Usually it works. Usually. Scissorman stalks up to the wardrobe. SHING! SHING! SHING! You hold your breath. You, the player, hold your breath for fear he'll hear you. He turns towards the exit. You slowly exhale. He immediately spins around and runs you through, making you, a grown man, scream like a four-year-old ballerina in a Stephen King movie. It only happened to me once, but once was more than enough. --Black Wolfe
 * According to an interview with the original creator (posted on the Remothered fanpage on 1/4/2010), the Scissormen were originally from some sort of Hell "that cannot be perceived by the limited human cognitive system". The Scissormen are officially Eldritch Abominations.
 * Nobody mentioned Mary yet? At first, she seems like a sweet and maternal lady. In one of the endings,  It's easy enough to escape from, but...
 * The second game has numerous death scenes for some of the characters once you reach . One character, Beth, Another character, Tim,  You can also find Harris, find Barton, and find Gotts  There's also the suggestion that
 * Also in the second game, any time you hide in a wardrobe. Usually it works. Usually. Scissorman stalks up to the wardrobe. SHING! SHING! SHING! You hold your breath. You, the player, hold your breath for fear he'll hear you. He turns towards the exit. You slowly exhale. He immediately spins around and runs you through, making you, a grown man, scream like a four-year-old ballerina in a Stephen King movie. It only happened to me once, but once was more than enough. --Black Wolfe
 * According to an interview with the original creator (posted on the Remothered fanpage on 1/4/2010), the Scissormen were originally from some sort of Hell "that cannot be perceived by the limited human cognitive system". The Scissormen are officially Eldritch Abominations.
 * Nobody mentioned Mary yet? At first, she seems like a sweet and maternal lady. In one of the endings,  It's easy enough to escape from, but...