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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler: Does the end of the spell allow Abigail to die – by becoming a child again and joining her sister in the afterlife – or was she [[DeadAllAlong a ghost all along]]?]]

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* HilariousInHindsight: Two years later, Lindsay Ridgeway would later appear in a ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' episode wearing a dress not too different from the one in the film, only for her character Morgan to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Y9N-POzCs vent her anger]] at it.

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* HilariousInHindsight: HilariousInHindsight:
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Two years later, Lindsay Ridgeway would later appear in a ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' episode wearing a dress not too different from the one in the film, only for her character Morgan to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Y9N-POzCs vent her anger]] at it.
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PGP is just complaining about execution.


* SoOkayItsAverage: The film is decent, but its plot is predictable and isn't very scary.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Many did not like that the film was a DivorcedInstallment to the original ride's [[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 license.]]

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* SoOkayItsAverage: The Many feel the film is decent, but its plot is predictable and isn't very scary.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Many did not like that the film was a DivorcedInstallment to the original ride's [[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 license.]]----
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* {{Moe}}:
** Anna, due to her sense of empathy for the ghosts and the gleeful way she helps out her uncle with his staged tabloid photos.
** Sally Shine is a beaming child star who inspires a lot of sympathy and affection with the happy way she talks about how she wanted to throw a party for her sister, and [[BeneathTheMask liked how she didn't have to act like a star when the two of them were together]].
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** Gilbert is the AxCrazy Senator Armstrong from ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''.
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Not a Moral Event Horizon if they reconcile.


* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Abigail hops the line when she casts the spell twice to do harm to her little sister and then comes back to the other side when she and Sally make up]]
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* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Abigail hops the line when she casts the spell twice to do harm to her little sister and then comes back to the other side when she and Sally make up]]
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** Even better, that same year Lindsay Ridgeway would play another Shirley Temple pastiche in WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance, as the singing voice of far more evil Darla Dimple.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The concept of a tower having a lot of fires as well as firefighters being at severe risk is already terrifying in the movie, but it becomes even more horrific after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center Towers.

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* HarsherInHindsight: The concept of a tower having a lot of fires as well as firefighters being at severe risk is already terrifying hardships Sally went through in the movie, but it becomes film might remind some of the abuses child actors--particularly Creator/ShirleyTemple whom Sally was based on--faced during that era, way before stricter child labour laws became commonplace. Temple herself recalled in her memoirs that she witnessed atrocities in the hands of her agents and employers, some of them being corporal punishment and even more horrific after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center Towers.[[{{Squick}} indecent exposure]].
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As I understand, this is not a YMMV trope.


* AngelUnaware: Somewhat implied with Carolyn Crosson.

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* RetroactiveRecognition: Claire is Jan from ''[[Series/TheOfficeUS The Office]]''.

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Claire is Jan from ''[[Series/TheOfficeUS The Office]]''.Office]]''.
** Q is the guy who wanted Kramer to drop dead as his birthday wish in the BackToFront episode of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''.

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Many did not like that the film was a DivorcedInstallment to the original ride's [[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 license.]]
* SoOkayItsAverage: The film is decent, but its plot is predictable and isn't very scary.

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* RetroactiveRecognition: Claire is Jan from ''[[Series/TheOfficeUS The Office]]''.
* SoOkayItsAverage: The film is decent, but its plot is predictable and isn't very scary.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Many did not like that the film was a DivorcedInstallment to the original ride's [[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 license.]]
* SoOkayItsAverage: The film is decent, but its plot is predictable and isn't very scary.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Many did not like that the film was a DivorcedInstallment to the original ride's [[Main/TheTwilightZone license.]]
* SoOkayItsAverage: The film is decent, but it's plot is predictable and isn't very scary.

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Many did not like that the film was a DivorcedInstallment to the original ride's [[Main/TheTwilightZone [[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 license.]]
* SoOkayItsAverage: The film is decent, but it's its plot is predictable and isn't very scary.
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* SoOkayItsAverage: The films is decent, but it's plot is predictable and isn't very scary.

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* SoOkayItsAverage: The films film is decent, but it's plot is predictable and isn't very scary.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Many did not like that the film was a DivorcedInstallment to the original ride's [[Main/TheTwilightZone license.]]

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Many did not like that the film was a DivorcedInstallment to the original ride's [[Main/TheTwilightZone license.]]]]
* SoOkayItsAverage: The films is decent, but it's plot is predictable and isn't very scary.

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* HarsherInHindsight: The concept of a tower having a lot of fires as well as firefighters being at severe risk is already terrifying in the movie, but it becomes even more horrific after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center Towers.



* HarsherInHindsight: The concept of a tower having a lot of fires as well as firefighters being at severe risk is already terrifying in the movie, but it becomes even more horrific after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center Towers.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Two years later, Lindsay Ridgeway would later appear in a ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' episode wearing a dress not too different from the one in the film, only for her character Morgan to vent her anger at it.

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* HilariousInHindsight: Two years later, Lindsay Ridgeway would later appear in a ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' episode wearing a dress not too different from the one in the film, only for her character Morgan to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Y9N-POzCs vent her anger anger]] at it.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Two years later, Lindsay Ridgeway would later appear in a ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' episode wearing a dress not too different from the one in the film, only for her character Morgan to vent her anger at it.
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* AngelUnaware: Somewhat implied with Carolyn Crosson.
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Cutting Zero Context Example. Nightmare Fuel hasn\'t had an octane level for years anyway.


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* TheWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Many did not like that the film was a DivorcedInstallment to the original ride's [[Main/TheTwilightZone license.]]

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* TheWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Many did not like that the film was a DivorcedInstallment to the original ride's [[Main/TheTwilightZone license.]]
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* {{Narm}}: [[spoiler:Sorry Abigail, but you're just not cut out for {{Evil Laugh}}ter.]]

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* {{Narm}}: [[spoiler:Sorry Abigail, but you're just not cut out for {{Evil Laugh}}ter.]]
* TheWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Many did not like that the film was a DivorcedInstallment to the original ride's [[Main/TheTwilightZone license.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The concept of a tower having a lot of fires as well as firefighters being at severe risk is already terrifying in the movie, but it becomes even more horrific after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center Towers.
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* {{Narm}}: [[spoiler:Abigail, you're just not cut out for {{Evil Laugh}}ter.]]

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* {{Narm}}: [[spoiler:Abigail, [[spoiler:Sorry Abigail, but you're just not cut out for {{Evil Laugh}}ter.]]
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* {{Narm}}: [[spoiler:Abigail, you're just not cut out for doing {{Evil Laugh}}s.]]

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* {{Narm}}: [[spoiler:Abigail, you're just not cut out for doing {{Evil Laugh}}s.Laugh}}ter.]]
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* {{Narm}}: [[Abigail, you're just not cut out for doing {{Evil Laugh}}s.]]

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* {{Narm}}: [[Abigail, [[spoiler:Abigail, you're just not cut out for doing {{Evil Laugh}}s.]]
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* {{Narm}}: [[Abigail, you're just not cut out for doing {{Evil Laugh}}s.]]
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* NightmareFuelHighOctaneNightmareFuel

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