10 Terrifying Video Game Enemies That Gave You Nightmares

1. Lisa - P.T./Silent Hills

Unless you've been hiding under a rock since Gamescom this year, you'll most likely be very aware of P.T. Designed as an interactive teaser for the new Silent Hill game (Silent Hills as it is titled), everything starts so unassumingly. You wake up in a strange room, walk through a door into a wonderfully realised corridor in someone's house, follow the corridor to its end, descend some stairs, then appear back at the start again. That's when things start to get creepy. As you loop around the corridor more signs of a haunting appear, crackling voices on the radio or lights flickering, sometimes the bathroom door will open and shut unexpectedly, ramping up the tension just nicely. Then the radio starts a news broadcast about a man who brutally murdered his wife and infant child before going on the run and all ambient noise drops, silence descends as the news anchor says "Don't touch that dial, we're just getting started" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXRKJ5a22vw Then BAM, what can only be described as the most horrific, disturbing and vicious jump scare in the history of jump scares as Lisa (the aforementioned wife) jumps out at you and kills you. The visceral reaction from nearly every player who endured this scare is almost universal, such is the expert way in which co-directors Hideo Kojima and Guillermo Del Toro have weaved their way under your skin and executed the perfect scare. Suffice it to say, you won't want to sleep with the lights off after playing it...