the universe of Disney films is just astounding thinking of all the
individual stories heroic adventures warm friendships poignant love stories
and moments so grim and brutal that the dark imagery keeps you up at night
yep throughout the years creators of Disney movies have taken us to some dark
places and today we're going to revisit some of the darkest of the dark to shoes
Jack Plaza where you can hide you got it drown out all those emotions ice cream
you bet yeah okay we're good to go I should never have left I'm Brad with
wicked bench and these are the top ten Dorcas Disney movie moments and a small
note we aren't including Pixar moments we actually did a separate video for
those so check that out all right let's get started
number 10 forest monsters Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs our beloved young
princess Snow White learns that the Evil Queen wants her killed the hunter that
warned her urges the princess to quickly run away otherwise her life might end
very soon hearing about this really shook her up what she runs to the woods
her anxiety and fear go through the roof and the stress level reach Heights that
make her loosen eight all kinds of creepy beasts and awful monsters as you
see the tree branches morph into reaching hands you know you won't walk
in any forest alone for at least a few years to come the imagery in the scene
is terrifying to say the least number nine
donkey transformation Pinocchio Pleasure Island is a place that welcomes little
boys which let's be real it's probably one of the creepiest sentences ever said
but there's candy games in so much more gross
Pinocchio could have listened to his conscience but he chooses to ignore it
and they're even cigarettes well it's 1940 after all but then
something unexpected happens he and his friend
lamp-wick play pool and in lamp-wick turns into a donkey Pinocchio starts to
transform as well he grows a set of donkey ears and a tail at some point you
fully realize that they pay for all the fun by being turned into donkeys that
slave away in the mines until death and that idea is unsettling to say the least
so you can talk number-8 strange trip Dumbo
could you imagine any of the leading characters getting accidentally drunk in
a Disney movie today like really drunk yeah not not really right but back in
1941 me in the 40s again Dumbo did and what makes it dark isn't
him just getting wasted many fans believe that the alcohol in the bucket
had been laced with some sort of a hardcore drug and boy does he start
trippin man dancing pink elephants and anxiety inducing clowns this scene was
something that scared the living daylights out of kids when the movie
originally hit the theaters and it still does this seemed resembling a twisted
acid trip has only one message kids you should never do drugs hey number seven
grabbed by friends from the other side The Princess and the Frog
let's not gloss over the fact that there's a scene in The Princess and the
Frog in which a character is literally dragged to what I presume is essentially
hell dr. Vasily a is one of the coolest villains around but that doesn't change
the fact that he's very very evil watching him control his friends from
the other side to get what he wants definitely meant that he deserves some
payback what
to be dragged kicking and screaming into an unknown realm of evil whores it's
horrifying because it leaves so much to your imagination
number six destroyed village Mulan it's all fun and cheery when everybody is
singing a girl worth fighting for until they come across a demolished village
you can see the smoldering aftermath of the destruction there are many details
making the scene dark we learned that shanks father died and
then there's this little doll snow for some reason it was saved from the fire
while may not seem much this doll is a truly dark symbol the windswept hair and
the deep dark eyes represent the fear and sadness of the people in the village
experienced before death it also indicates that children were obviously
present while the whole scene isn't especially graphic it's still brutal and
the jump made from the happy march to the annihilation of a whole village
really gets you a rare Disney scene that explores the brutality of war number 5
Clayton's death Tarzan Tarzan contains one of the most hauntingly dark moments
in a Disney movie and it's not even over a character that you care for the
sequence shows a crazy chase between Tarzan and Clayton our hero tries to
capture Clayton and runs out for him in the thick jungle there's a raging storm
in the background the rain and darkness just adds extra tension to the scene
actually Clayton's got a shotgun but Tarzan manages to wrestle the gun away
from him go ahead and shoot but that won't stop Clayton he takes out a
machete and begins to chase Tarzan but the jungle has really dense vegetation
now both of them get stuck in these dense vines Clayton has completely lost
his cool he hacks the vines surrounding him to reach Tarzan but he doesn't see
that one of the vines has wrapped around his neck he manages to slash every
single vine but of course not the one that could end his life and then it
happens he falls to his death we don't see his hang body instead we are facing
his lifeless silhouette I mean that's not disturbing I'd argue this is one of
the most brutal shots and the history of Disney animated films a corpse dangling
lifelessly as the rain pours down thunder and lightning crackling as the
machete hits the ground an absolutely brutal
moment number four Bambi's mother Bambi Bambi is Disney's fifth animated classic
and to celebrate this milestone they made one of the most gut-wrenching
scenes in a Disney movie like ever it doesn't seem so bad at first
Bambi and his mother happily chew on some grass in the meadow you know just
like deer do but his mom senses something is wrong well there must be a
hunter nearby maybe even too close they start to flee trying to save their lies
by reaching the safety that the forest provides but then something happens bang
the next thing you know BAM he's out there all alone in the forest he's
calling out for his mother but there's no point anymore
clearly the hunter site didn't fail him the mother is dead this scene has
traumatized so many kids over the years starting from August 9th 1942 the 40s
again yeah that was a world premiere in London I found no records on how many
kids sought therapy after Bambi let alone the number of kids and adults
crying after being subjected to this harrowing scene I'm sure there are
plenty number three the Horn King the Black Cauldron the Black Cauldron is a
less known Disney classic animation from the 80s you could say the whole thing is
one big dark moment in Disney movie history it's really a pitch-black story
it's about a scary character called the Horned King he's trying to get his hands
on the magical Black Cauldron that would allow him to enslave the entire world
just looking at the guy is terrifying he has glowing red eyes and a skeletal
body and if that wasn't enough he has a deep spooky voice it's the stuff that
gives all the kids nightmares even the bravest ones aren't protected from this
scary villain entering their dreams there's one moment in the movie that
really deserves a third place on this list the young protagonist Prince's
island Lee and Taryn are held in the evil Kings dungeon this place is full of
hideous rotting corpses the king uses these dead bodies to raise an army of
the undead
and later there's a disturbing death scene the horn king is pulled into the
magic cauldron which makes the skin tear away from his bones yeah so after seeing
this movie you'll know exactly why this one made the third place on our list
number two Frollo killing Quasimodo's mother
Hunchback of Notre Dom judge caught Frollo was one of the most despised
villains in Disney history while there had been many monsters in the movies
what makes Frollo so unsettling is his cruelty when you a HotList mother
abandoned jews a child anyone else would have drowned you and he's not some
fictional creature Frollo is a real human being one that in
many ways represents the evil that exists in the real world in the movie
there's a sequence that shows Frollo killing Quasimodo's mother she's left in
a puddle of blood in front of Notre Dom he tries to ditch the little Quasimodo
in a well someone stops for a lobe and during the confrontation he says this is
an unholy demon I'm sending it back to Hell where it belongs good god that is
some medieval level brutality right there I'm sending it back to him when it
belongs the evil are Frollo is especially interesting in dark given his
only reason to spare the child in the scene is a spear for his own immortal
soul killing a mother and nearly drowning her infant in a well is
definitely something especially dark for a children's movie
number one Mufasa is death The Lion King The Lion King is an indisputable Disney
Legend and it's also legendary because it has one of the darkest moments in
Disney history Simba's evil uncle Scar sent wildebeest
to Stampede on him and it's Mufasa to the rescue now you almost think that he
rescued Simba and everything's just fine until he's hanging on the edge of the
cliff just digging his claws into solid rock and you're left praying for his
life then scar enters the scene he forces his claws into his own brother's
paws Mufasa falls to his death and scar has enough time to cop up a mocking
long-lived a king before Mufasa dies okay now if that was enough you'll see
Simba reaching his dad's body he tries to awaken Mufasa to no avail
Simar cries and Huddle's together with his dad's body that clearly has no life
in it anymore scar tries to convince him that he's at fault the son killed his
own father there are surely some traumatic themes to be explored in a
movie for the whole family the betrayal death and despair in the
scene make it the darkest moment in Disney movie history and if it weren't
for you we'd still be alive now we weren't sure if this should be number
one in the list because frankly it would probably be number one in terms of
saddest moments as well but it's also tremendously dark and totally notorious
there's a reason why it's one of the most iconic scenes from arguably the
most iconic era of Disney animation but what's the darkest Disney moment that
you can think of did it make our list let us know in the comments section
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