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my scariest scene in a Disney classic
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:12 am
by leuchtmuschel
This is my scariest scene in a Disney classic:
The whole scenes on Pleasure Island in Pinocchio give me the creeps. There is always a dark atmosphere on this island. The children have their fun not knowing that they will be transformed into jackasses. I don’t like alcohol and smoke, but I must see children doing this on Pleasure Island. The whole horror arises into peak level as the children-jackasses are delivered to the mines.
Pinocchio will be going in conflict with the new no drug engagement of the Disney Company! Will Disney make Pinocchio look up for public? Or will Disney do a reanimation of the scenes in Pleasure Island? I hope that these are not will be happen!
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:49 am
by rodis
I don't recall being particularly scared by a Disney film but I can tell you that my 5-year old cousin would wake up in the middle of the night thinking Ursula was out to get her

Her parents spent a few vigil nights trying to calm her down. They then decided to skip that scene lol Of-course, she was mostly scared of the climax. And to think it was even darker because it was copied from my 1990 worn-out VHS. I then felt responsible for the kid's fragile state so I drew her a nice picture of Ariel. Sweet.
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 2:17 pm
by Widdi
Sleeping Beauty. Maleficent scared the crap out of me, so much so that I didn't see the whole film till 2005 when I was 17.
I remember it being my best friend's favourite movie, and him always wanting to watch it when I was over at his house. His mom would put a different movie on for me in his bedroom while he watched SB.
Now it is one of my favourites.
Creepy\Scary moments in Disney
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 5:52 am
by Ariel'sprince
What do you think is the creepyest\scaryest moment in Disney?.
For me-i don't get scared in Disney movies but creepy:
Snow White-while she cheer up the bird (it's so cute when she cheers him) and huntsman walk to her,and the looks of his eyes...
Tarzan-the part with Sabor.
Fantasia-i think the whole movie is creepy.
and Pixer:
Finding Nemo-when Marlin sees Dory wirth jellyfishes.
The Incredibles-when Mr Incredible see a skellington.
basicly Deletes Sences creeps me for unknown reasons.
Sleeping Beauty and other parts of Snow White didn't creeped me.
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 6:49 am
by ichabod
<a href="
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<a href="
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<a href="
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Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 7:12 am
by Ariel'sprince
Oops,sorry

havn't saw those

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Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 10:00 am
by TheValentineBros
I only got scared in the scene from "101 Dalmatians" where Cruella throws a bag in the fireplace or whatever you want to call it, and smoke & fire appears violently and I got freaked out.

But now, since I'm a teen, I'm not scared of that scene anymore.
Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:58 pm
by crazycalichic06
The Black Cauldron and The Great Mouse Detective used to freak me out. Also the big demon gargoyle part of Fantasia.
Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:47 pm
by TheValentineBros
TheValentineBros wrote:I only got scared in the scene from "101 Dalmatians" where Cruella throws a bag in the fireplace or whatever you want to call it, and smoke & fire appears violently and I got freaked out.

But now, since I'm a teen, I'm not scared of that scene anymore.
And when I was little, watching "Fantasia," the 1991 VHS, this movie scared me and I had nightmares in my sleep about it. I'm not scared about this movie anymore. But, Fantasia 2000 is never scary and darker.
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 11:52 am
by jeremy88
I've had my share of scared moments during a Disney movie, not scared to the bone, but scared nonetheless.
In 101 Dalmations...I used to hate when Cruella De'Vil is all pyscho looking and in range when she's chasing them down...I would actually close my eyes when that part came...how lame of me lol.
In Sleeping Beauty when Maleficant appears in the fire place, and when she says that haunting dialouge about whats to happen...I never noticed how creepy it was as a kid (then again Sleeping Beauty is one I only saw like once as a kid) but today I think that does a great job at instilling a sense of fear in people...or me anyways lol.
In The Little Mermaid, I knew a couple people who were terrified of Ursula, but for me she wasn't the problem...I always found King Triton pretty scary when he has outbursts...but I think that's because I always found him kind of domineering and intimidating in a way like my Dad was.
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 6:32 pm
by Jay
I was terrified of Lady Tremaine when I was little. I was so afraid of her that I actually didn't watch Cinderella the whole way through until I was 11 years old. I know that's alittle pathetic but I had nightmares about her all the time. The Queen, Maleficent, Ursula, Cruella, Chernabog never botherde me at all. In fact they were my favorite things about their repective films.
I was always nervous when she came on screen. She was unpredictable I didn't what she was going to say or do. The scariest scene for me was the infamous tower scene. Just the way the very ominous music and her slowly following Cindy down the hall and up the stairs. Then how she just appears in the mirror and quickly locks the door. AND her eyes are glowing green. SO SCARY! Needless to say I screamed and ran out of the room in tears(3 years old at the time) I took me 8 tears to get over my fear of Lady Tremaine.
It's funny now as she is one of my favorite villains now but I was so afraid of her when I was little. Even now when I watch Cinderella I still get the chills at points because of Tremaine. Very effective villainess( well for me anyway.....)
Re: Scaring Beauty
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:57 pm
by Disney Duster
Lazario wrote:I'm not sure how much of what was happening was cut off / what we weren't seeing, but those pan & scanners were able to maximize that fear of the unknown for me. I saw a picture of the widescreen part of the movie where Aurora reaches out to touch the spining wheel needle and that made me think Maleficent was in the shot - so now I'm glad I didn't see that. Because it's much creepier when we don't know what to expect.
I want to be sure I understood this. The pan & scan cut out part of the spinning wheel or any space next to the spinning wheel, so you thought Maleficent was in the room and you just couldn't see her? But later you saw that she wasn't in the room in the widescreen shot, so you're glad you didn't see that as a kid?
Lazario wrote:Disney Duster wrote:...did you ever carefully watch the part where...
Yeah I did. It's my single favorite Disney film. I've watched the entire movie very closely. And every scene (with the possible exception of the final main hall dancing / dress-color changing sequence) has an extraordinarily creepy feel to it. composer of fear!
That goes along with what Film Freak said. In their review of the film, the author says the film is so "nihilistic" the ending feels more like a "coma-dream" than a "fairy-tale resolution." You would probably like their review, they say things that sound like how you might feel:
in its sensuous, expressionistic world, the wicked are omnipotent and inescapable--joy becomes nothing less than a magnet for evil, with villain Maleficent dooming Princess Aurora on the festive occasion of her birth to an untimely grave (by a poisonous prick from a spinning wheel on her sixteenth birthday, a menstrual nightmare from which the animators do not flinch) and later stumbling upon the secreted-away Aurora by scouting the kingdom for excess merriment.
If you're wondering about that "menstruel nightmare" my guess is that just like Grimm's Cinderella's stepsisters cut off parts of their feet and filled a shoe with blood to represent a girl's period, so does Aurora pricking her finger. I heard Disney considered making her bleed from the prick, and it might be a deleted scene. I also heard Disney's Bambi had Man's bloody body parts considered.
Here's the review:
http://filmfreakcentral.net/dvdreviews/ ... beauty.htm
Re: Scaring Beauty
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:15 pm
by Escapay
Mike wrote:Lazario wrote:I'm not sure how much of what was happening was cut off / what we weren't seeing, but those pan & scanners were able to maximize that fear of the unknown for me. I saw a picture of the widescreen part of the movie where Aurora reaches out to touch the spining wheel needle and that made me think Maleficent was in the shot - so now I'm glad I didn't see that. Because it's much creepier when we don't know what to expect.
I want to be sure I understood this. The pan & scan cut out part of the spinning wheel or any space next to the spinning wheel, so you thought Maleficent was in the room and you just couldn't see her? But later you saw that she wasn't in the room in the widescreen shot, so you're glad you didn't see that as a kid?
It's like
Jaws. The film is creepier because we hardly see the shark, but we're on edge waiting for it to appear.
In the P&S version, there's no hints that Maleficent may be in the room beyond the green glow and her haunting voice. So the fact that we don't see her, but suspect that she is there, is much creepier and scary than seeing her there.
In the movie
Blue Velvet, there is a scene where Jeffrey hides in the closet and watches Frank beat Dorothy. They originally had a shot of Frank slapping Dorothy, but studio heads (or someone else) stepped in and said that shot was too violent and forced Lynch to replace it. So instead, there is now a shot of Jeffrey's shocked reaction to Frank slapping Dorothy, which we now only hear. Many fans agree that just hearing the slap and seeing Jeffrey's reaction is much more chilling than seeing the actual slap.
Mike wrote:I also heard Disney's Bambi had Man's bloody body parts considered.
Yeah, that was part of Disney's original (and later abandoned) plan to include a scene where the Great Prince shows Bambi the dead body of Man, and how he too can become victim of violence (or something similar). In test audiences, they tried several different versions of showing man, showing storyboards with safe shots of a dead body or really gory stuff of a bloody arm (which many preview audiences were uncomfortable with). In the end, it was considered too intense, so the scene was dropped and all that remains of Man is a camp that starts the wildfire.
Albert
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:43 pm
by Siren
The "dogs" in B&tB were wolves. There is a difference.

The dogs Tramp fought in L&tT...those were true dogs. Beast fought wolves. Wasn't scared of the scene myself. More so annoyed that once again, movie makers have to rip into wolves that they are blood thirsty man-eaters just waiting for a human to come through the woods so they can attack them. It was weak. The scene itself was animated very well, the fight was awesome, but the set-up that there is just a pack of wolves waiting to kill people annoys me.
Can't say any of the movies scared me.
I found Hunchback probably the most disturbing. Quasimodo being tortured and Frollo's affection for Esmeralda were disturbing to me...more so because I was watching this all on a Disney movie.
Fox and the Hound was another one. Disturbing and sad at times. Watching their friendship crumble so quickly. And the way they animated their faces when they were aggressive was fantastic.
Re: Scaring Beauty
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:54 pm
by Disney Duster
Oh Lazario, I recently read that the whole slipper/spindle blood may only be from freudian readings, and it was never intended originally. The Grimm's inserted the stepsisters cutting themselves as punishment for theri wickedness, a very Christian thing to do that came after Perrault's less bloody version (though the Grimm's may have heard a different, more original version).
Still, Disney may have intended it themselves. They pick what they like and use it. But I'm unsure of the exact reasons Film Freak said it was a "menstrual nightmare".
Escapay wrote:In the P&S version, there's no hints that Maleficent may be in the room beyond the green glow and her haunting voice. So the fact that we don't see her, but suspect that she is there, is much creepier and scary than seeing her there.
Wait, how can you know which pan & scan version Lazario saw? And are you saying the one you're talking about
didn't leave it open to the viewer whether or not Maleficent was in the room?
Thanks for all the other info!
Re: Scaring Beauty
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:09 am
by Escapay
Mike wrote:Escapay wrote:In the P&S version, there's no hints that Maleficent may be in the room beyond the green glow and her haunting voice. So the fact that we don't see her, but suspect that she is there, is much creepier and scary than seeing her there.
Wait, how can you know which pan & scan version Lazario saw?
AFAIK, there's only one P&S version (the DVD version may be different, I'm not sure), and Laz has the VHS, which is likely what he's basing his theory/thoughts/etc. on.
Mike wrote:And are you saying the one you're talking about didn't leave it open to the viewer whether or not Maleficent was in the room?
It left it open, IMO. We don't see any shadow or figure of her in the background (for P&S version), we just know there's that eerie green glow and her echo-ey voice. Thus, we either assume she's in there in person, in there in spirit, or that her dark magic is at work while she's elsewhere (until she appears later). It's just so terrifying when you think that she's doing all this, without even being in the same room. That someone could have that kind of power could scare anyone and make them paranoid.
Mike wrote:Thanks for all the other info!
No problem!
Re: Scaring Beauty
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:57 am
by Disney Duster
Jay, forgive me but I'm
glad to hear Lady Tremaine scared you! This proves Cinderella had yet another good thing about it.
Escapay wrote:Mike wrote:
Wait, how can you know which pan & scan version Lazario saw?
AFAIK, there's only one P&S version (the DVD version may be different, I'm not sure), and Laz has the VHS, which is likely what he's basing his theory/thoughts/etc. on.
Well, I think there are two Pan & Scan versions (maybe 3 with the DVD, but I haven't watched that whole one). Because the pan & scan on my Masterpiece Collection, touted as restored and "the most beautiful picture we ever made", was different from a pan & scan I saw on The Wonderful World of Disney. Most notably because on my Masterpiece VHS I just saw Phillip in the dungeon and the fairies just appeared on the right, but on The Wonderful World of Disney I saw the camera follow the faires as they flew out of a crack in the wall, over to Phillip, where they grew to normal size! Or the camera didn't follow them, and they just flew out. You remember things differently, you know. I'm wondering if that older pan & scan was on the Black Diamond VHS (Gosh, are those still a valued collectible? They're still cool to me!).
As for Maleficent, well, I think it actually would be scarier to think Maleficent's really standing there but you just don't see her, possibly because it's like when there's a killer in someone's house and you can't see them. I once wondered if Maleficent actually
was the spinning wheel (!) but the fireplace scene clearly shows her appearing and becoming invisible and the green light that becomes the spinning wheel forms from the smoke and her staff, not her.
Re: Scaring Beauty
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:38 am
by Ariel'sprince
Escapay wrote:It's like Jaws. The film is creepier because we hardly see the shark, but we're on edge waiting for it to appear.
Am I the only one who think that Jaws is funny? really,I also think Scream is funny.
Well,Disney films dosn't scare me-but... sometimes deleted scenes and concept art does (but after a few times I see it and maybe make fun of it it's not).
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 6:09 pm
by Flanger-Hanger
I can confirm that there are 3 different pan and scan jobs done on Sleeping Beauty. The Black Diamond VHS which is a pan and scan of the 2.20:1 image, the masterpiece edition which is a pan and scan of the 2.35:1 image and the DVD pan and scan which is another attempt at the 2.35:1 image. I noticed this in the scene where Merryweather says" I don't see why she has to marry any old prince!". In the Masterpiece edition both her and Fauna can be seen, but on the DVD it's her and Flora. Of course in the widescreen version you see all of them which is why you should watch that one. The WOoD would most likely use the most recent pan and scan job.
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:22 pm
by ToyStoryFan
The Pinocchio Pleasure Island scene absolutely scared the freaking daylights out of me when I was a kid. It was the scariest thing I'd ever seen in my life at that point!