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* TearJerker: Despite being creepy-looking, at the same time Want has a rather pitful appearance, resembling a emanciated, helpless little girl.
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* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: As expected from the legendary animator, Richard Williams, he went above and beyond to give very accurate depictions of the characters' designs from the original book. The crowning example would be managing to capture the Ghost of Christmas Past's [[AlienGeometries bizarre constantly shifting appearance]], a depiction usually altered for stories for practical reasons.

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* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: As expected from the legendary animator, Richard Williams, he went above and beyond to give very accurate depictions of the characters' designs from the original book. The crowning example would be managing to capture the Ghost of Christmas Past's [[AlienGeometries bizarre constantly shifting appearance]], a depiction usually altered for stories for practical reasons.reasons.
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** Each of the three Ghostsare quite the creeps:

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** Each of the three Ghostsare Ghosts are quite the creeps: unsettling in their own ways:
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*** Ghost of Christmas Present Ignorance and Want are monstrous little things that vaguely resemble human beings, especially Ignorance who is much more skeletal and demonic than its more eerie and pitiful sibling.

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*** Ghost of Christmas Present Ignorance and Want are monstrous little things that vaguely resemble human beings, especially Ignorance who is much more skeletal and demonic than its more eerie and pitiful sibling.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: A minor example with Alastair Sim and Michael Hordern’s performances since, while their performances in the 1951 movie ''Film/{{Scrooge|1951}}'' are still very well-regarded (if not, they wouldn’t have been brought back to reprise their roles), some people find them, especially Hordern’s, a bit too hammy and overdramatic. Here, however, while still dramatic at times, they’re a bit subtler and subdued and whenever Hordern’s Marley actually goes over the top it’s pretty '''TERRIFYING'''.
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* ItsShortSoItSucks: Well, “sucks” is a '''MASSIVE''' exaggeration as the short is still considered one of the best adaptations of the story ever made, but some feel that its short duration affects a lot of the more crucial moments because of how fast they go by (in particular, the scene with Cratchit mourning Tiny Tim only lasts a few ''seconds'').
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: A minor example with Alastair Sim and Michael Hordern’s performances since, while their performances in the 1951 movie ''Film/{{Scrooge|1951}}'' are still very well-regarded (if not, they wouldn’t have been brought back to reprise their roles), some people find them, especially Hordern’s, a bit too hammy and overdramatic. Here, however, while still dramatic at times, they’re a bit subtler and subdued and whenever Hordern’s Marley actually goes over the top it’s pretty '''TERRIFYING'''.
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** Each of the three Ghosts-
** The Ghost of Christmas Past has the appearance [[ShownTheirWork most accurate to the original text]] and is all the more terrifying for it- with its HumanoidAbomination aspect filled with AlienGeometries of a white human figure constantly in flux from going from one face with three eyes to interconnecting heads with a shared set of eyes to a multitude of afterimage bodies grouped together all while simultaneously aging and de-aging in seconds in a repeated cycle.
** Ghost of Christmas Present Ignorance and Want are monstrous little things that vaguely resemble human beings, especially Ignorance who is much more skeletal and demonic than its more eerie and pitiful sibling.
** Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, being a hooded figure with only a pale, thin hand constantly pointing, with [[NothingIsScarier nothing else defining it]].

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** Each of the three Ghosts-
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Ghostsare quite the creeps:
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The Ghost of Christmas Past has the appearance [[ShownTheirWork most accurate to the original text]] and is all the more terrifying for it- with its HumanoidAbomination aspect filled with AlienGeometries of a white human figure constantly in flux from going from one face with three eyes to interconnecting heads with a shared set of eyes to a multitude of afterimage bodies grouped together all while simultaneously aging and de-aging in seconds in a repeated cycle.
** *** Ghost of Christmas Present Ignorance and Want are monstrous little things that vaguely resemble human beings, especially Ignorance who is much more skeletal and demonic than its more eerie and pitiful sibling.
** *** Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, being a hooded figure with only a pale, thin hand constantly pointing, with [[NothingIsScarier nothing else defining it]].

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* NightmareFuel: A lot of it, crammed into 25 minutes, and given Richard Williams' talent for highly detailed animation, it's all the more horrifying for it.
* Jacob Marley is a terrifying apparition with rolled-back eyes and a hollow voice. He later rejoins his fellow cursed brethren, all of which are ghoulish undead apparitions.

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A lot of it, crammed into 25 minutes, and given Richard Williams' talent for highly detailed animation, it's all the more horrifying for it.
* ** Jacob Marley is a terrifying apparition with rolled-back eyes and a hollow voice. He later rejoins his fellow cursed brethren, all of which are ghoulish undead apparitions.
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** Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, being a hooded figure with only a pale, thin hand constantly pointing, with [[NothingIsScarier nothing else defining it]].

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** Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, being a hooded figure with only a pale, thin hand constantly pointing, with [[NothingIsScarier nothing else defining it]].it]].
* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: As expected from the legendary animator, Richard Williams, he went above and beyond to give very accurate depictions of the characters' designs from the original book. The crowning example would be managing to capture the Ghost of Christmas Past's [[AlienGeometries bizarre constantly shifting appearance]], a depiction usually altered for stories for practical reasons.

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* NightmareFuel: A lot of it, crammed into 25 minutes. Jacob Marley is a terrifying apparition with rolled-back eyes and a hollow voice. Each of the three Ghosts has their own version of NightmareFuel, and as mentioned above Ignorance and Want are monstrous little things. (Ignorance in particular is quite scary-looking, gnashing its teeth at Scrooge as the Ghost of the Present warns him to "Beware this boy!")

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* NightmareFuel: A lot of it, crammed into 25 minutes. Jacob minutes, and given Richard Williams' talent for highly detailed animation, it's all the more horrifying for it.
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Marley is a terrifying apparition with rolled-back eyes and a hollow voice. Each He later rejoins his fellow cursed brethren, all of which are ghoulish undead apparitions.
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** The Ghost of Christmas Past
has their own version of NightmareFuel, the appearance [[ShownTheirWork most accurate to the original text]] and as mentioned above is all the more terrifying for it- with its HumanoidAbomination aspect filled with AlienGeometries of a white human figure constantly in flux from going from one face with three eyes to interconnecting heads with a shared set of eyes to a multitude of afterimage bodies grouped together all while simultaneously aging and de-aging in seconds in a repeated cycle.
** Ghost of Christmas Present
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* NightmareFuel: A lot of it, crammed into 25 minutes. Jacob Marley is a terrifying apparition with rolled-back eyes and a hollow voice. Each of the three Ghosts has their own version of NightmareFuel, and as mentioned above Ignorance and Want are monstrous little things. (Ignorance in particular is quite scary-looking, gnashing its teeth at Scrooge as the Ghost of the Present warns him to "Beware this boy!")

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