Pure nightmare fuel.

Even if its derivations make the film's message of generosity and giving feel more synthetic than sincere, there's enough cuteness, sweetness, and visual charm to make it a merry Christmas cartoon for the whole family.

"The shadowing forth of Our Lord Lucifer, as the Powers of Darkness gather at a midnight mass. The dance of the Magus widdershins around the Swirling Spiral Force, the solar swastika, until the Bringer of Light - Lucifer - breaks through."
- Kenneth Anger

It's Spanish Bergman, like Cries & Whispers with children - a melancholic child's-eye meditation on death and infidelity.