YMMV / The Backwater Gospel

• Alternate Character Interpretation: The Undertaker isn't there for any one individual, nor is he there for the entire population—he's there for the town in and of itself, which was slowly dying due to stagnation.
• Nightmare Fuel: Most of the animated movie, really.
  • Aside from all of the characters looking like something straight out of the Unintentional Uncanny Valley, there is the massacre of all the people of Backwater accompanied by Undertaker's dissonant serenity. There's a reason the video's title on YouTube includes the words "disturbingly awesome" in all-caps.
  • The way the townspeople slaughter each other. It starts with the average stabbing and shooting and devolves into them ripping each other apart with their bare hands. One lady tears a man's entire ribcage out of him and two men grab a woman and pull her from both ends until she's torn in two.
  • Equally disturbing is the fact that at least one of the mad townsfolk is tearing chunks of another's flesh out with their teeth and seems to be eating them.
  • Not to mention, Bubba survives being shot in the face. And the way he charges at Minister, sounding more like an animal than a person, is very disturbing.
  • The Minister manipulating the town into "killing the bad apple." It gets especially bad right before the stoning as the proclamation "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" is twisted into raw zealotry: Every single inhabitant rushes to throw their stone, as if to prove they believe themselves utterly sinless even as they murder an innocent man.
  • The montage of everyone locked in their houses (except Tramp), many of them arming themselves and praying to God. Ending the sequence with a closeup to the Undertaker's eyes.
• Tear Jerker: The Tramp honestly did nothing wrong. And the look of complete fear on the Tramp's face when the entire town runs him down is heart-wrenching.
  • Bubba's horrified reaction when he realizes he murdered the Tramp for nothing.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: Boy, howdy, yes. The 3D graphics are positively striking and gritty to produce a remarkable atmosphere. Plus, the animation itself is all very well-done. Particularly awesome are the Undertaker's wings the first and last times they appear.

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