Raiders of the Lost Ark/Nightmare Fuel

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"Marion, don't look at it! Shut your eyes, Marion! Don't look at it, no matter what happens!"

• If you're afraid of spiders, then you'll probably want to skip the scene where Satipo gets a ton of tarantulas on his back.
  • Later on, Satipo gets impaled by a booby trap that Indy had managed to avoid earlier. His horrified Dies Wide Open expression makes it even more unnerving.

Indy: (grabs the idol) "Adios, Stupido!"

• When Indy triggers one of the temple's traps, spikes suddenly emerge, carrying the decaying corpse of one of his older competitors, Forrestal. Most disturbing is the way Forrestal's head falls off and lands next to Indy.

Indy: "So that's what happened to Forrestal..."

• Major Toht threatening to burn Marion with a red-hot poker in the Raven tavern. Heck, everything involving Major Toht is terrifying due to the Gestapo Reality Subtext that surrounds him.

Major Toht: "Fraulein Ravenwood, let me show you what I am used to..." (flashes an incredibly nasty Slasher Smile)

• • Major Toht getting the medallion's side burned right into his palm during the bar fight.
• That unsettling shot of the dead monkey after it ate the poisoned dates. And a second before that, something about Indy tossing the poisoned date up into the air, complete with slow-motion, shadow on the wall... and then Sallah suddenly grabbing it, his face panic-stricken. The dim lighting of the room doesn't help.
• When Indy and Sallah finally uncover the Well of Souls, a lightning flash reveals a snarling statue of Anubis.
• The Well of Souls is this trope both for the audience and Indy. Unbelievable amounts of snakes. And mummies. And snakes slithering out of the mummies. GAH!
• After Indy and Marion found a way to escape from the Well of Souls, they're met with a nasty surprise when they stumble into a room full of decaying corpses.
• While the Ark is being transported, it makes a eerie hum before it burns off the Nazi swastika on the box it's being held in. It's the first warning sign that God's seriously not happy with what the Nazis are doing.
• The (in)famous "opening of the Ark" sequence from the finale is incredibly jarring for a viewer who has thus far enjoyed an action/adventure movie with a relatively light tone and Bloodless Carnage. The shot of Colonel Dietrich's head shriveling up, followed by Major Toht's face melting off - quickly followed by Belloq's head fucking exploding - would have been enough to give plenty of theatre-goers nightmares for weeks.
  • The moment the spirits that emerge from the Ark reveal themselves to be angels of death is utterly nightmarish. At first, they're serene - even beautiful, as Belloq declares - and then they suddenly start to shift into skull-faced terrors, shrieking at those who dare look upon the open Ark. The shift in the music at this point is also rather frightening.
  • The shocking bit? The movie's still rated PG!
• Earlier in the film, a Giant Mook is shredded to pieces by the propeller of an airplane and, while it happens off-screen, we later get a brief glimpse of a large streak of blood with chunky bits in it...