* BillingDisplacement: Creator/RichardEGrant, the main villain, is billed below Creator/ChristopherLee, whose role is more or less a bit part and is not the main villain for once.
* {{Blooper}}: As impressive as the stop-motion animation is, it's still not without its occasional goofs. Some are rather minor and very unlikely to notice (and can even be {{Handwaved}} as events and actions that happen offscreen). Others, not so much. A few examples...
** During the scene where Victor accidentally "marries" Emily, he places the ring on her index finger. A few shots later, the ring has somehow moved to her ring finger.
** Victor receiving a gift box containing his dead dog Scraps. A couple shots after Scraps appears and reassembles, said gift box mysteriously disappears.
** A very glaring one right at the beginning of the film, involving Lord Barkis' entrance. During the opening sequence, as two old men greet each other and walk by, Barkis...''appears'' out of nowhere.
* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter was originally going to voice Victoria. She asked to voice Emily instead, since she already played characters similar to Victoria in live-action.
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: Despite not having a dub, Greece called the movie ''Dead Bride''.
* DuelingMovies: With ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit in WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'', another stop-motion horror themed animated film starring Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter. By all accounts, however, the two parties were hugely supportive of one another.
* FakeBrit: American Creator/JohnnyDepp as Victor, Victorian British gentleman.
* InMemoriam: The late [[Creator/PixarRegulars Joe Ranft]] served as executive producer, with the film being one of two dedicated to his memory (the other being ''WesternAnimation/Cars1'').
* PlayingAgainstType: Anyone who is introduced to Creator/JohnnyDepp via his role in this movie as the shy and soft-spoken Victor Van Dort will be surprised to find that he usually plays characters that are practically the [[CloudCuckoolander exact]] [[LargeHam opposite]] (a good example being [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Jack Sparrow]]).
* ProductionPosse: Even if it's animated, it's still one of ''many'' Creator/TimBurton films to star Creator/JohnnyDepp, Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter and, to a lesser extent, Creator/ChristopherLee, with a soundtrack by, you guessed it, Music/DannyElfman. It also features Creator/MichaelGough, who was Alfred Pennyworth in both of Burton's [[Film/Batman1989 Batman]] [[Film/BatmanReturns films]], but also voiced the Dodo in Burton's [[Film/AliceInWonderland2010 adaptation of Alice in Wonderland.]]
* {{Typecasting}}: Emily is essentially an animated version of Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter's dark nutcase characters she played in live action.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Bonejangles was originally written for another musician to sing. But after they couldn't find a voice that fit, Creator/TimBurton asked Music/DannyElfman to sing it himself.
** Creator/SamNeill was the original choice to voice Finis Everglot.
** In an early draft of the script, [[spoiler:Barkis]] was not Emily's former fiancé, but a highwayman who robbed her on the way to her wedding and choked her to death. Emily recognized the ring he gave Victoria as her own that had been stolen. [[spoiler:Barkis]] also did not die but was imprisoned for his crime, with the undead merely promising to deal out a punishment when he ''eventually'' crossed over to their world.
** The original solution to the complication with Emily's marriage to Victor did not require his death. The vows weren't binding, merely because Emily had not said her own in response to his. They just needed to return to the Land of the Living, so she could. Upon learning this, Emily had to hastily come up with an excuse to get there and have a proper ceremony without Victor finding out the truth, as she was afraid that if he knew they weren't truly wed, he'd leave her.
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