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- Danny Elfman's score overall.
- Frank's commercial for the production of Scrooge, described as "The Manson Family Christmas Special" by Elliot. It's later revealed that the spot actually killed an old lady who watched it.
- To clarify, the commercial has an airplane blowing up, a man shooting up heroin, people being burnt by acid rain, a drive-by shooting, and a
nuclear explosion.Ad Announcer: [while the explosion is showing] Don't miss Charles Dickens's immortal classic, Scrooge. Your life might just depend on it.
- To clarify, the commercial has an airplane blowing up, a man shooting up heroin, people being burnt by acid rain, a drive-by shooting, and a
- The return of Frank's former boss, Lew Hayward, as a zombie. The whole scene is horrifying, from his dusty, decayed appearance to the mouse crawling out of a hole in his head, to Frank ripping the muscles in his arm out until his entire forearm falls off while Frank falls to his death. Oh, and did we mention while the ending scene occurs, Lew is standing there laughing at his protégé's horror and fate? Fortunately, this becomes Nightmare Retardant and Narm due to the humorous dialogue between the two, the fact that it's all a dream and that Lew is played by John Forsythe, of Charlie's Angels and Dynasty (1981) fame.
- When we get a close look at Hayward's face after he takes off his sunglasses, we see that his eyes have long rotted away, leaving empty sockets, and his leathery skin is completely rotted through in places, exposing his skull.
- Hayward grabbing Frank by the throat, shoving him through the window of the high-rise office (which warps around him to let him through), and dangling him above the city streets. If you have a fear of heights, the scene will make you sweat bullets.
- Frank: No, PLEASE! They'll think I'm a SUICIDE!
- During a business lunch, Frank hallucinates that a waiter is on fire.
- The sad fate of Herman, who ends up frozen to death in the sewer. You expect a Jump Scare, but you never get one. He just... stares at you, smiling, eyes wide open.
- Late into the film, Frank awaits the arrival of the Ghost of Christmas Future alone in his office. He looks out of his office window, pouring a drink and reflecting the moon on the windowpane outside. The moon turns blood-red right before his eyes and ours.
- The scene where Elliot appears and attacks Frank in his office with a shotgun, drunkenly stalking him throughout the dark, empty floor as an increasingly nightmarish rendition of "Santa Claus is Coming To Town" builds in the background. Notably, he interrupts the Ghost of Christmas Future, and his wrath doesn't appear to have anything to do with its vision, forcing Frank to run for his life before the Ghost can appear to him. Note that Frank ends up screaming for his life as Elliot closes in, having him cornered. "Fortunately", he is saved by The Ghost of Christmas Future.
- Unlike the freaky stuff involving the ghosts, a deranged employee storming his former place of work with a firearm and the intent of gunning down his boss as revenge for firing him and causing any problems that resulted from said employee being fired is something that can actually occur in real-life.
- Pretty much the entire sequence with the Ghost of Christmas Future.
- NEVER look under the Ghost of Christmas Future's robes. EVER. (You might get a lawsuit?)
- Hell, that TV for a face. Before the final vision of Frank's death, you can actually see an image of an evil, red-eyed, zombie-like Frank on the screen◊.
- "The special effects guys went all out on you, didn't they? We're going to get calls."
- A minor example but Bad Future Claire's makeup with black eyeliner and red lipstick on a powdery, pale face is somewhat creepy at times. They managed to take Karen Allen, one of the most gorgeous women in Hollywood, and give her an unsettling Joker-esque makeover.
- Basically, anything the Ghost of Christmas Future shows Frank, but especially the cremation scene. It's not at all helped by Frank's own reaction; particularly haunting is how Bill Murray, the comedic funny guy, actually sounds genuinely anguished and terrified for his life at one point when he's begging his brother not to let them burn him and then crying out for their mother.
- One of the future events Frank is shown is Grace's son Calvin, who, having never recovered from his mutism, is permanently locked up in a padded white room at a mental hospital. Seeing a young child in that state is tragic and horrifying in itself, but then he directs his dead-eyed, accusing gaze right at the window where Frank is looking in on him...and is implied to be able to see him.
