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"Nightmare Fuel" is an internet slang term used to describe various media, including images, videos and stories, that are prone to evoke intense feelings of terror and/or induce insomnia.
Топливо ночного кошмара
Топливо ночного кошмара (nightmare fuel) — приёмы, употребляющиеся для того, чтобы вызвать у читателя/зрителя мороз по коже. Как правило, употребляются в жанре ужасов, тёмном фэнтези и триллерах. Важно не переборщить с приёмами, чтобы зрителя не вырвало и он не отвлёкся от процесса ознакомления. Или чтобы не вышло так страшно или грубо, что уже смешно. А ещё важно не пренебречь приёмами, чтобы не получился провал и бафос. Или можно наоборот; случайно сделать топливо ночного кошмара.
Есть и другие «топлива» — Топливо паранойи (про что-либо подозрительное), топливо тошноты (про мерзости) и топливо фанфиков (про хорошие идеи для фанфиков/продолжений).
Origin
The phrase "nightmare fuel" used in this manner was first uttered in episode 521 [1] of Mystery Science Theater 3000, which originally aired on December 24th, 1993. While watching the film "Santa Claus," Crow T. Robot sees an animatronic Santa that causes him to exclaim "That's some good old-fashioned nightmare fuel."
Nightmare Fuel
This is the stuff so horrifying that it can give people the creeps for years. This scares the pants off of just about anyone to the author/creator's delight. This makes you shrink in the back of your chair (or maybe even hide behind the sofa), look over your shoulder, and remind yourself that what's going on is (usually) only fictional.
For many horror films, achieving this effect is the whole point (and many in-universe examples arise because Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films). For some reason, many of us like to be scared on purpose. There may be a euphoria generated by surviving something that seems scary, or maybe we know that fiction can't hurt us (not physically, anyway) and the idea of choosing to be scared without the danger is fun. Some think it's cathartic or therapeutic in some way to explore our fears from a position of relative safety. In any case, this is normal for the genre. Others are fascinated by the very things that most people avoid. Many a time, it overlaps with Squick.
Similarly, some Public Service Announcements choose to employ terrifying imagery in order to keep people away from doing dangerous things. These can be sources of Fridge Horror as well, as those from different cultures or eras past can demonstrate some intensely creepy Hard Truth Aesops.
On the other hand, Nightmare Fuel doesn't exist just in the horror genre and is not always the main focus of the films and shows in which it is present. In the case of such movies and shows where Nightmare Fuel or anything related to horror is far from the norm, it can be unsettling when it does occur due to the stark contrast, especially if the genre of the film or show is far from horror, such as comedy or animation, or when in a show with a very specific target demographic.
Experiences may vary from person to person. Some people, for example, may find the invasion of monstrosities which are treated as benign to be a far more terrifying prospect than things which we need to explicitly fear. Think the difference between the monster who lives under your bed when you're grown up versus the monster who lives under your bed and fist-bumps your parents when you were a young child.
This is an Audience Reaction, so leave it on YMMV and Nightmare Fuel tabs and don't get too worked up about what specifically goes into it — what's Nightmare Retardant for one person may well be Nightmare Fuel for another. Focus on what frightens you, not what you think may or may not frighten someone else.
Tropes used to invoke this feeling are Horror Tropes. Tropes about the emotion of fear itself are Fear Tropes. If it is unintentionally scary, it's Accidental Nightmare Fuel. If it is meant to scare but fails to deliver, and becomes hilarious instead, it devolves into Nightmare Retardant. Characters that are this In-Universe are The Dreaded.
The aftermath of frightening moments, such as death or trauma or violence inflicted upon likable characters, can easily overlap with Tear Jerker. For examples where this trope comes about as the result of Fridge Logic rather than anything occurring onscreen, please see Fridge Horror.
Notes to editors before changing this list:
All Nightmare Fuel examples should be specific and provide details. Don't write in first person.
Nightmare Fuel / Minecraft
The underground tunnels of Minecraft have been compared to System Shock 2 due to their complete isolation, the darkness, and the mindless polygonal Body Horrors. And there's still more to it. note Fun(?) fact: One of the random splashes (those yellow text thingies) in the title screen says "Scary!" because some people think Minecraft is scary.
In order for Nightmare Fuel tabs to survive, a new writing style is going to be used, nicknamed Example Lobotomy. Basic rules: Just list facts as they are. Don't just say "character X" or "the X scene" (such zero context examples will be Zapped!). Spoiler policy to be determined on a case-by-case basis. Italics to be applied to works' names only and not to give emphasis on what tropers say. "X scared me" is already implied by the mere addition of that example by the troper.
Spread
The phrase was used throughout the rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc newsgroup to refer to fear-evoking scenes from the episodes as early as September 19th, 1995 [2] in reference to a marathon airing of the 1969 children's television show H.R. Pufnstuf. Throughout the late 1990s, the term had spread to other newsgroups including alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk [3] , rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated [4] and rec.arts.anime.misc. [5] In October 1999, blogger James Lileks began using the phrase on his website [7] to describe unintentionally frightening vintage advertisements. The following year, the blog Misinformer.com [6] used "nightmare fuel" to describe a cardboard car (shown below) that participated in 2000's Doo Dah Parade held in Pasedena, California.
In 2006, "Nightmare Fuel" was added to Urban Dictionary [8] , who used shock sites Goatse, Lemon Party and Tubgirl as examples. In 2008, it was defined a second time, with the 1974 Screen Gems logo known as "The S From Hell" as an example. Also in 2008, Lemon Demon released a song titled "Nightmare Fuel" [9] as a bonus track on the album View-Monster.
In March 2009, a Flickr pool [10] for nightmare-inducing images was created, gaining nearly 90 photos as of October 2013. In August 2011, the single topic Tumblr nightmare--fuel [14] was established, sharing spooky images and videos. Later that year, the local access television show titled Nightmare Fuel TV (shown below) began airing in Seattle. They also launched a website [11] and Facebook fan page [12] for their show. Also in late 2011, the Creepypasta Wiki [13] created a gallery titled Nightmare Fuel for images that were never intended to be scary but were horrifying for one reason or another. Sometime in 2012, YouTube vlogger MrCreepyPasta began compiling a a playlist titled Nightmare Fuel [15] comprised of dramatic readings of creepypasta stories. Additionally, an independent horror film titled Nightmare Fuel [16] was released on October 1st, 2012.
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