The cover art from The Mars Volta's "Deloused in the Comatorium."  Cover art so often provokes a theme or feeling for the album, and this is no exception.  The clinical, metallic, torture chamber environment juxtaposing with the...uh...beam shooting golden head, is interesting.

http://www.veoh.com/watch/v4237143M6Ff9rAT  

(A creepy but kinda cute claymation.)

 

The Simpsons.  Homer builds Bart this bed.  Bart's response? "Can't sleep.  Clown'll eat me."  Silly, yes, but childhood fears run deep.

Case in point...

A neat contrast between a dreamland and a mechanical nightmare from The City of Lost Children.  This move has some neat stuff, design wise.  Lots of cruelty to children, all set in this dystopian, steampunk wonderland.