- The sound effects and incidental music, in combination with the Deranged Animation.
- The screaming clown with the spinning head.
- Said Clowns also have the ability to make whatever they see explode whenever their noses are pressed.
- The Chief Blue Meanie who perpetually changes his mood whenever he's on screen. He can go from being eerily serene while talking about the most horrendous things to immediately shouting terrifying death threats. There's also his occasional changing rings inn his eyes that indicate he's truly insane.
- The Dreadful Flying Glove. Most of the other Meanies are a zany type of evil with crazy designs to boot, but the Glove? Even with him being a literal flying glove, nothing about him is zany.
- Especially with that deep, terrifying laugh of his. Brrr...
- He's also a Sadist shown with the opening scene when he slowly prolongs hitting the Pepperland citizens slamming just inches away from them.
- The Sea of Monsters, with all the multicolored, smiling creatures and strange noises were just so unsettling.
- It gets worse when the Vacuum Monster shows up and begins devouring everything in sight, including the background. The Beatles only escape due to the monster sucking itself up when nothing is left. Although why only they are freed is never explained...
- The "Sea of Time" is sort of creepy for those afraid of mortality and aging.
- The weird maths equations, soundwave diagrams (the only live-action effects within the movie itself), and Andy Warhol-esque portraits of the Beatles floating in the Sea of Science, along with George's creepy, passive-aggressive "Only A Northern Song", make for one of the most inexplicably disturbing moments in the film.
- Jeremy. In his entirety. Every single moment. Always.
- When the boss Meanie raked his claws across his face and said "O-BLUUUUUUUUUUE-terate them!"
- The Beatles' home. Highlights being those that run up and down the corridors when nobody is about and the jump moment with King Kong.
- And John's initial appearance as a very creepy Frankenstein.
- And the scene in which a door is opened, showing a view of an oncoming train speeding towards the viewer with tense music. Fortunately the door is slammed shut before the train runs anyone over.
- The fate of the conquered Pepperlanders. They seem to be frozen and senseless, but then we see a few of them shedding tears, or trying to move only to get even more forcibly put down.
- The Foothills of the Headlands.
- The cancelled remake would've had the characters in 3D and aside from the Beatles themselves (who are simply smack in the Unintentional Uncanny Valley with their noodly limbs), they looked very scary! The Vacuum Monster in particular is just flat fucking terrifying, going from a fairly goofy-looking armless biped with a catlike tail and a funnel for a mouth/nose, to a vicious-looking reptile-creature with a nested Lamprey Mouth extending from its gaping fanged maw!
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