YMMV / Tower of Terror

• Alternate Character Interpretation: 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 a ghost all along?
• Harsher in Hindsight: The hardships Sally went through in the film might remind some of the abuses child actors—particularly Shirley Temple 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 indecent exposure.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Two years later, Lindsay Ridgeway would later appear in a Boy Meets World episode wearing a dress not too different from the one in the film, only for her character Morgan to vent her anger at it.
  • Even better, that same year Lindsay Ridgeway would play another Shirley Temple pastiche in Cats Don't Dance, as the singing voice of far more evil Darla Dimple.
• 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 liked how she didn't have to act like a star when the two of them were together.
• Narm: Sorry Abigail, but you're just not cut out for Evil Laughter.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Claire is Jan from The Office.
  • Q is the guy who wanted Kramer to drop dead as his birthday wish in the Back to Front episode of Seinfeld.
  • Gilbert is the Ax-Crazy Senator Armstrong from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
• So Okay, It's Average: Many feel the film is decent, but its plot is predictable and isn't very scary.

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