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- The haunting rendition of "The Banana Boat Song" in the opening credits. Brrr...
- Two Words: Betelgeuse Snake. The worst moment has to be that lecherous grin he does when he's got Lydia cornered.
- If you thought what we got in the final film was scary, wait until you see what he originally was supposed to look like!
- He even got referenced in the Shin Megami Tensei series of games, making an appearance as a boss enemy in Shin Megami Tensei 2.
- The fly screaming "Help me, help me!" as Betelgeuse eats it in the toy village.
- Made even worse if you remember that Geena Davis starred in the remake of The Fly two years prior.
- When the Maitlands are being exorcised and begin to rapidly age before everyone's eyes.
- That's not aging you're seeing right there. That's decaying. They're taking on the appearance of their physical corpses, rotting in the ground...
- The scene where Barbara tries to scare Delia by hanging herself in a closet and then ripping her own face off.
- Fortunately for Delia and Otho, they can't see her. They're more horrified by how small the closet is.
- I'm surprised that no mention was made of Barbara and Adam's transformations, where Barbara stretched her face with her eyeballs in her mouth and Adam made his face beak-shaped with eyeballs on his fingers. Look [dead link], if you [dead link] dare. [dead link]
- Given the theme of ghosts resembling their corpses at the moment of death... just stop and think of some of the horrible ways that people have died.
- A few examples are the Shrunken Head guy [dead link], the lady who got sliced in two during a botched magic trick, the guy who was run over by a car and turned into a realistic pancake, and the guy who set himself on fire while smoking and looked all charred and shrunken.
- The Sandworms, Eldritch Abominations with heads within the mouth of another head. Even Betelgeuse is scared of the damn things!
- Betelgeuse himself qualifies as Nightmare Fuel... and not just when he's in his giant snake form. He's pretty much Chaotic Evil incarnate, can change form at will into pretty much anything and is not above killing people.
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