District 9/Nightmare Fuel


 * The effect that the alien fluid has on Wikus. Most of the Nightmare Fuel in this movie runs on the Body Horror of Wikus
 * First, there's the vomiting, which is gross, but not necessarily horrifying. But then he starts hacking up black liquid, which sends him to the hospital and then And as the movie progresses, it gets worse, and then at the end, as Tania is being interviewed she shows the metal flower that was left at her door and then there's a cut to  The fact that  is unsettling.
 * The scene where Wikus's fingernails start falling off, which is possibly a Shout-Out to Cronenberg's remake of The Fly.
 * What was just as horrifying was
 * After Wikus's alien arm is first discovered in the hospital and he's forced into what is basically a body bag for transportation to MNU while still alive and fully conscious is pretty damn terrifying in its own right
 * The MNU doctors  Plus his   just ignoring him.
 * And let's not neglect to mention the scenes where
 * The worst bit for him may have been the scene when they're getting him to test out the guns and they walk out a live prawn in front of him. What was even more awful was the fact that they kept on  even after he agreed to cooperate.
 * The scene where Wikus is scarfing catfood (which is pretty disturbing in itself) then he chokes and suddenly spits out a few molars.
 * When Wikus tries to
 * Wikus's
 * How can we forget the scene when Wikus cheerfully takes a flamethrower to a nest of prawn eggs? The prawn babies are still alive. And they're screaming in pain as they're burnt. And if that weren't enough, what really did it for me was how Wikus cheerfully explains to the camera what they're doing, and then compares the popping sound it's making to popcorn.
 * In the scene where Wikus is out evicting aliens, Wikus is trying to lure out Christopher's child to be taken away, saying to his son "It's the Sweety-Man..."
 * The Nigerians  the poor alien.