I wrote this on the Nightmare Fuel Unleaded article on the TV Tropes Wiki: "[I haven't] seen Cloverfield, but [I have] read Wikipedia's plot summary of the movie. There are scenes throughout the movie of two of the characters' holiday some time before the monster attacks New York. The Wikipedia article specifically mentioned that in the last of these scenes, something is seen to fall from the sky into the ocean. The implication that this was the monster scared me more than anything had for years.

What I didn't mention because it wasn't relevant to the topic, was that this was just before bed, and I kept thinking about it to keep the feeling of fear intense. That was because I hadn't felt it to this degree in so long, and I wanted to contrast it with the feeling of anxiety I'm more familiar with. This leads me to the conclusion that I'm an alien who's studying these strange human things called emotions. Or I was just curious. Whichever. When I was satisfied, I started going over a story that's been fun to play around with, but the fear was still there. It was annoying.

You know what else is creepy? The Kohr-Ah from Star Control 2. Their species, the Ur-Quan, were enslaved by the Dynarri, a race with mind control powers, thousands of years before the events of the game. The Dynarri enslaved a bunch of other races, but they liked the Ur-Quan best, so they made the Ur-Quan kill them. After a very long time, an Ur-Quan named Kohr-Ah discovered that the Dynarri's control could be broken by intense pain, so every Ur-Quan wore some sort of device that put them in more pain than a human could handle and fought the Dynarri. They won, and genetically modified the Dynarri to be non-sapient Talking Pets to act as translators, because they didn't want to have to talk to other races themselves.

The Dynarri had made the Ur-Quan, who were originally brown, into two different coloured races: The green Kzer-Za who were the thinkers, and the black Kohr-Ah, who were the labourers. After being freed from slavery, the Ur-Quan disagreed on what to do now. The Kzer-Za wanted to enslave every other sapient species so that they'd never be enslaved again, and the Kohr-Ah wanted to kill every other sapient species so they'd never be enslaved again. During the game, the Kzer-Za and the Kohr-Ah are at war with each other in addition to trying to kill you whenever you encounter them. If you take too long in beating the game, the Kohr-Ah will win their war with the Kzer-Za and kill every race they can get to, ending with humans. That's why I'm not very good at the game. I'm bad with time limits. I freeze up.

But that pales in comparison to the music that plays when they talk to you. It's so... creepy and subdued and creepy. Combined with the way they look, it's quite scary. I'd link to the music, but it's in MOD format and you'd have to download a MOD player as well. Trust me, it's creepy.