YMMV / A Christmas Carol (1971)

• Nightmare Fuel:
  • 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.
  • Each of the three Ghosts are quite unsettling in their own ways:
    • The Ghost of Christmas Past has the appearance most accurate to the original text and is all the more terrifying for it- with its Humanoid Abomination aspect filled with Alien Geometries 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.
    • 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 nothing else defining it.
• It's Short, So It Sucks!: 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).
• Tear Jerker: Despite being creepy-looking, at the same time Want has a rather pitful appearance, resembling a emanciated, helpless little girl.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: 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 bizarre constantly shifting appearance, a depiction usually altered for stories for practical reasons.

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