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MythBusters/Nightmare Fuel


  • The Meatman is pretty disturbing in itself, but the test it's used for-- showing that a person could be crushed in a closed-dress diving suit by deep water pressure-- will haunt you for a good while. Watch... if you dare.
  • Torture:
  • The high-speed camera also counts, particularly when showing anything biological.
  • There are two words guaranteed to make long-time fans cringe: "Chicken Hand".
  • Also smashing quick-frozen heads to see if they would shatter like glass (as shown in Friday the 13th (film)). They brought out their trusty ballistics gel again, used a similar substance for brains...and used actual human skulls. Then for even more added realism, they used pigs' heads.
  • Jamie at least had difficulty sleeping the night after they tested the escape methods from a sinking car, noting that it was like watching someone drown right in front of him.
  • Likewise, Jamie's time being buried alive...and the coffin started buckling.
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