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Given [[Roald Dahl]]'s love for [[Black Comedy]]
* The original draft of the book was much more violent, with children being burned to death '''FROM THE INSIDE OUT''', ground to powder while screaming in agony, drowning, cut to ribbons, crushed, etc. In fact, Violet seemed to be the only survivor along with Charlie.
* The possible fates of the naughty children and Wonka's [[Pass the Popcorn|cavalier attitude]] towards them (e.g. when Veruca falls down the garbage chute, he glibly points out that the incinerator is only turned on every other day). [[Rule of Funny]] allows these to be [[Amusing Injuries]] rather than horrific accidents and the children ultimately end up (mostly) unharmed, however, the whole situation seems to be rather macabre.
** Especially frightening if you're [[Claustrophobia|claustrophobic]], and don't know that the kids survive their punishments. This makes Augustus Gloop's and Veruca's demises ''way'' scarier.
* More squicky than nightmarish, one of the products Wonka makes is fizzy lemonade swimming pools. The implication is that he expects people to drink something they've been swimming in...
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** Oh, and the cavern is also populated by invisible, inaudible creatures that, if they bite you, you become one of them. And there's no way to tell where they are or if they're coming until they bite you...
** It's worse when you notice that Wonka apparently knows how it feels to get bitten. Your age is slowly divided into a random number until you become one of them.....[[Fridge Horror|maybe Mr. Wonka had ''other'' reasons for giving Charlie the factory at such a young age?]]
** Worse still, this is one of the few times Wonka himself seems to show fear, and as he tells Charlie, he came here ''by himself'' dozens of times to rescue the Oompa Loompas who fell victim to it while testing the stuff.
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