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Moment subpages are Spoilers Off. You Have Been Warned.The Wrong Trousers
- Feathers McGraw is this in spades. Despite looking exactly like a normal penguin, there's this unearthly sense of soullessness in his eyes. His every move is careful, calculated, and utterly ruthless, willing to commit any number of crimes or misdeeds to attain what he wants. It's legitimately unnerving to see him move onscreen, as there are no anthropomorphized movements or qualities to him - he is just a penguin that wants to hurt people.
A Close Shave
- The part near the beginning of the short film when Wallace panics about Shaun going through the machine can be pretty alarming & disturbing to kids, especially because of the tense background music. Leads to Mood Whiplash when all it does is shave him bald. But considering what we had to see to get there, it's a relief.
- After Gromit finishes the jigsaw puzzle he was sent in prison, he does a Double Take and it cuts to the jigsaw in full, with a message written in blood-red marker, complete with a Scare Chord and Gromit realising he's about to be broken out of jail this instant.
- The revelation that Preston is a robot, especially when he rips himself out of the knitting machine. He's essentially a dog version of The Terminator. But that's nothing compared to him attempting to turn Wendolene, Wallace, Gromit, and the sheep into dog food.Wendolene: Daddy created him for good but... he's turned out evil!
- Hell, practically every scene Preston is in is rather terrifying. His unnerving gaze really sells it. And the reveal when he exits the machine as a robot makes his design and gaze much, much, much worse.
- We see in the newspapers during the beginning that Preston isn't only guilty of sheep rustling, he's also killed sheep (and considering this seems to be before his dog food plan comes into action, there's no telling why he did so — since he's a robot, he certainly didn't kill them so he could eat them — which makes it even more brutal). It's no wonder Wendolene is scared of him.
- Poor little Shaun is trembling and bleating with fear when he first sees Preston's true form.
- This isn't in the main film, but one of the special features on one DVD of the short films features blueprints of inventions in the series. Preston's sheep mincing machine is included, and on the blueprints it's shown that both Wallace and Gromit are shown on the conveyer belt as 'ingredients'. It's a chilling thought that he may have been actively planning to put them through the machine all along.
A Matter of Loaf and Death
- Piella is a surprisingly terrifying villain, due in part to being a serial killer with a body count along with her abuse to Fluffles being disturbingly similar to an animal abuser or even a child abuser considering how anthropomorphic animals are.
- Piella's so disturbed she's willing to discredit Gromit by biting her own arm, which she does while staring Gromit down without ever blinking.
- The scene where Gromit sneaks into her house to return her wallet becomes very disturbing once he sees the numbered mannequins with chef hats and her diary filled with pictures of the bakers she murdered whom she has crossed out with the last one being Wallace whom he realizes is the baker's dozen.
- The jumpscare where Gromit falls from Piella's chandelier on top of her waking up and opening her eyes. Making it even more horrifying is the fact that the next scene cuts to Gromit on the bed in the morning thus making it very ambiguous to what truly happened.
- Piela's death involves being eaten by crocodiles. We don't see the ordeal, but we hear it instead.
Cracking Contraptions
- The 525 Crackervac from the short of the same name is kinda freaky in appearance with its red eyes and snapping metal teeth.
Other
- "The Right Trousers"
, a live-action parody from The Lenny Henry Christmas Show back in 1995, attempts to translate the Aardman style to live action cosplay. For what it's worth, the attempt does actually look pretty impressive, however, there is one glaring issue, the eyes, as instead of using the cartoony Aardman eyes, the actors' real eyes are used in their place, which, when combined with the cartoonish designs, causes the otherwise impressive costumes to fall straight into the Unintentional Uncanny Valley and become utterly terrifying, with many comparing the costumes to something one would find in a creepypasta.
