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This entry is less about being scary than depicting the hilarity of other people’s terror while also showcasing the scares to be had via the attraction advertised. The Nightmares Fear Factory in Niagara Falls made a big splash last year when it began posting images of its patrons at a particularly terrifying moment in the haunted house experience. The images of everyone from little girls to frat bros to fun dads screaming their heads off went massively viral, and made a welcome return this year.

Most commercials either go for the funny bone or go for the heart. Every now and then, though, some of them go for the jugular.

These ads always emerge right around Halloween--as though re-animated by some Madison Avenue Dr. Frankenstein. While most seasonal advertising can be as cloying as a bag full of fun-size candy bars, the best ones test the limits of how unsettling you can get while still selling something, using a range of tools that stops just short of blood and gore. As it turns out, though, that creative limitation still leaves a lot of room for coming up with new ways to scare viewers into action.

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