your gem was passed from a mother to a
son
where are they now
welcome to watch mojo and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 10
darkest moments in the sandman i am
anti-life
the beast of judgment
the dark
at the end of everything
for this list we're looking at times
that this series was more nightmarish
than dreamlike if you haven't watched
the sandman on netflix beware of
spoilers ahead what do you think is the
darkest moment let us know in the
comments below
number 10 dreams imprisonment we summon
you together
the inaugural season of the sandman
begins with occultist roderick burgess
conducting a ritual ceremony to summon
and entrap death well they get dream
instead and his imprisonment leads to a
worldwide condition where some people
fall asleep and never wake up others
can't sleep at all the sleepy sickness
as it was called affected nearly one
million men women and children in every
city town and village in the world the
terrifying disease is called the sleepy
sickness or encephalitis lethargica
which was a real epidemic from 1915 to
1926. i just want to sleep
please
some begged for sleep that would not
come
others lived as perpetual sleepwalkers
most
slept without waking the cult ceremony
was disturbing alone especially since
burgess's young son alex witnessed it
all go down he was later forced to
murder dream's raven jessamy right in
front of his eyes number nine lyda loses
hector again you belong with the dead
you must go to the place appointed for
you
i'm sorry
but you must say your goodbyes now
no
i'm not losing you again lyda hall rose
walker's closest friend still struggles
with the untimely death of her husband
hector she sees him in her dreams where
they build a life together even though
he technically shouldn't exist in the
dream realm lighta's proximity to rose
aka the vortex allows his spirit to not
only spend time with light up but also
get her pregnant it was traumatizing the
first time she lost her husband in the
waking world now lyda has to watch
morpheus banish hector from the dreaming
into the afterlife
no
please stop hector dream please stop no
morpheus also tells lida that he'll be
back to claim his baby the child was
conceived in the dreaming
it is mine
what
and one day
i will come for it number eight john
dee's ride with rosemary she had me
arrested of course and thrown in prison
for stealing the ruby and awesome
and murder
general mayhem after the death of his
rapidly aging mother and his gruesome
escape from the hospital john d finds a
good samaritan who offers him a ride
after nearly running him over all is
well until jon starts talking about his
murderous past that led to 30 years in a
psychiatric hospital that's when things
get dark and rosemary becomes reasonably
unsettled people lie because they are
selfish
they lie because they are
human
they lie because they're scared
it's one of the tensest scenes in the
show thankfully rosemary and her dog
susie survive their encounter with the
madman we can't say the same for the gas
station clerk though
you'll only be hurting yourself
number 7 rachel dies in search of his
bag of sand dream tracks down joanna
constantine she's willing to give it
back no problem but it's at her
ex-girlfriend's place at first their
reunion is awkward and tense but then it
feels like they're rekindling their
romance do you want to come in
and apologize properly their interaction
ends when joanna finds the real rachel
withered away on the verge of death as a
result of the addictive and consuming
nature of the sand joe
is that you
i've had such a wonderful dream
racked with guilt joanna steps out as
dream puts rachel to rest the entire
sequence is an emotional rollercoaster
for joanna and us
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number six fun land tries to kidnap jed
where do you hunt
i have a great place
there are thousands of people there okay
everything about the collectors and
their poorly named cereal convention is
messed up but funland in particular made
our skin crawl his references to a
certain theme park where he hunts for
victims is sickening and we were uneasy
when he was just talking to jed actually
got to meet him once you met the big bad
wolf
the actor who did the voice
wow
but later funland tries to take
advantage of the boy when he's lost and
scared and attempts to lure him back to
his room luckily jed's big sister rose
arrives in time to save him but fun land
puts up a fight it ultimately ends in
his bloody demise thanks to the
unlikeliest of saviors
you heard me
now i'm gonna have to hurt you
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number five morpheus judgment of the
collectors in a world of dreams
nightmares and gargoyles there are still
mortal threats three of the collectors
meet at a diner to discuss landing a
keynote speaker for their convention
devising a plan to get the attention of
the corinthian with copycat murders are
you suggesting we copycat the corinthian
might be fun they succeed and in his
speech he encourages and glorifies their
grisly hobbies we're taken deep into
their twisted minds we are the american
dreamers
driving down the holy road of true
knowledge
that's paved
with blood and gold
however morpheus gives the attendees of
the convention a brutal wake-up call
once they're confronted with their
unspeakable crimes the collectors leave
the convention some turning themselves
into authorities others taking their own
lives for this
is my judgment upon you
that you shall know
from this moment on
exactly how craven
and selfish
and monstrous you are
seeing all their murderous fantasies was
beyond disturbing but this macabre
ending goes even further number 4.
joanna constantine's nightmare
the world that joanna constantine walks
through is filled with demons but it's
her own demons that keep her up at night
she has a recurring nightmare about the
fate of a young girl named astra joanna
takes the place of john from the comics
and while the details differ the basic
story is similar she blames herself for
the poor girl being dragged down into
hell
imagine feeling that you were
responsible for such a tragic and awful
fate and that you had to re-experience
it whenever you fell asleep that really
is the stuff of nightmares but it wasn't
only a dream was it
it's a memory
no wonder you do not sleep
maybe i don't deserve to number three
gregory's fate
gregory
stop no
due to his century-long absence morpheus
finds his kingdom in the dreaming in
disrepair to regain his power and summon
the fates he sets out to find one of his
creations to absorb sadly his only
option is kane and abel's gargoyle
companion gregory it took us seconds to
fall in love with the adorable creature
are you sure
good boy gregory
but shortly after we meet him morpheus
comes to end his life what's even more
upsetting is that gregory seems to know
what's coming and accepts his
fate yes kane and abel receive another
incredibly cute baby gargoyle but we're
not sure if he can fill the gregory
sized hole in our hearts number two
death makes her rounds do you know who i
am
no
not yet please out of all the endless
death has what seems like the worst job
although she manages to find the grace
and intimacy in it at the end i'm there
with them
i'm holding their hand and they're
holding mine dream tags along with his
big sis while she does her work and even
he is touched by what he sees given her
function it's no surprise that death
scenes would be somber though she exudes
comfort and peacefulness watching death
kindly ease the dying into the afterlife
is heartwrenching their moment of
realization is painful even more so when
we can hear their loved ones calling out
to them including the mother of a baby
all right sweetie lunchtime
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before we unveil our top pick here are
some honorable mentions unmaking the
corinthian dream wipes out his rogue
nightmare's existence i had so much hope
for you
but i created you poorly then
so i must uncreate you now
royal wedding exorcism definitely one of
the most gruesome demon summonings
on-screen
nada and kaikul a cold unforgiving
morpheus leaves his former lover to
suffer in hell okay cool
i will not give up a hope
i would
barnaby threatens jed
jed's foster dad routinely mistreats him
if you embarrass us in front of this
woman
i will take you back into the cellar
dream punishes his captor alex burgess
receives the gift of eternal sleep your
punishment then shall be a gift
i give you this
the gift
of eternal
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number one the diner
you hold in the wrist
you did what you wanted to while on his
crusade against lies john d sits down in
a diner and traps the patrons inside
unleashing chaos among them using the
ruby he removes their impulses to lie
which leads to the revelation of dark
secrets and repressed desires some of
these truths are incredibly bleak
meanwhile the news broadcasts on tv seem
to show the world falling apart
i don't think it is you
i think it's him
the scenario culminates in john's
victims inflicting horrible harm on
themselves and each other it's an
existentially terrifying horror show
you come from dust yes
you walk the dust you go back to dust to
test that's everyone's future tell me my
future and john has an unnaturally calm
reaction to it all because to him this
is a better world but perhaps the
darkest aspect of the entire episode is
the possibility that a world without
lies would descend into madness did you
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