That the old Disney movies are terrifying!

[Herecomethehotstepper]

Dc are 3 and 5 and we've spent a lot of lockdown watching movies on Disney+. They love the newer films like Frozen and Moana but I will occasionally sneak in a classic movie.

The movies I grew up watching seem so scary compared to the modern ones! We watched Pinocchio last night and the creepy man that kidnapped little boys away to pleasure Island 😮 Last week DD had a nightmare after the forest scene in Snow White when all the trees are coming to life. It made me wonder whether we are too soft on kids now or if they were too hard back in the 30's and 40's.

[Prettybubblesintheair]

Does anyone remember “All dogs go to heaven” or “Rover dangerfield”? Both absolutely terrified me as a child!

[EmpressSuiko]

I love all dogs go to heaven!

[EmpressSuiko]

I had to google it to check but I also watched Rover Dangerfield 😂

[BillyAndTheSillies]

I still can't watch Fantasia. It petrified me as a child.

[ShebaShimmyShake]

@BillyAndTheSillies

I still can't watch Fantasia. It petrified me as a child.

A Night on Bald Mountain? Yeah, that's terrifying.

[GooodMythicalMorning]

I've never got roundbt watching hunchback of notre dame so we watched it this week. Dd was fine but I found Frollo terrifying.

Also the voodoo witch doctor in the princess and the frog is quite scary.

I do love them all in general though

[pigsDOfly]

@s113 Was it a bone? It was a long time ago, I'd forgotten.

I suppose it's whatever resonates with a particular person as to what they find scary or pleasing.

I think my sister was also horrified by the witch being burned.

In fact I think the whole story left quite an impression on her.

[Picklypickles]

I never found any Disney movies scary, probably my nan's fault - she had me watching things like Terminator and Alien from an early age! The Mystics in the Dark Crystal freaked me out and so did the Wheelers in Return to Oz, I also really hated the sort of creepy puppets they had in Stingray and Thunderbirds.

[GinWithASplashOfTonic]

Not seen Fantasia. I had a video of like the best bits of Disney. And the elephants in Fantasia were on it and they were bad enough to think there's something scarier

[Sometimeswinning]

I was trying to explain to my dd10 about rabies and said to her about a film called old yellow. Realised it was disney! A stone throw from Cujo!

[SchrodingersImmigrant]

@Hopeful57 I absolutely got what you mean. There was one tale maker where I grew up and I still get shivers thinking about one of his creations😂 20+ years later😂

[ShebaShimmyShake]

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is the darkest and most adult Disney film I've seen...Actually no, Dragon Slayer is so dark and adult that I wouldn't let a small child watch it, though it's not so well known. I don't think it's a kids' film though.

[SchrodingersImmigrant]

@Picklypickles pure envy here! Mine made me watch Dallas, Esmeralda (the soap opera) and so on

[pinksoda35]

Not Disney-"Watership Down" scared me as a child-General Woundwart!!
I also watched "The Plague Dogs" that was so sad.
Like a PP said "The Little Matchstick Girl" upset me when I read it when I was young.

[ShebaShimmyShake]

Gah, Watership Down. I've seen honest to God horror films that were less bloody and disturbing than that. I don't actually like it that much. I don't mind dark elements in children's films, but I don't think it's done well or carefully in that one, although I'm probably a minority in that. Didn't find the book especially wonderful either.

[SchrodingersImmigrant]

Yeah. Wtf is it with watership down! I spotted it on a tv when i first came to uk and I thought "aw. This has lovely animations and it's about rabbits. Let's watch something nice, yeah" No

[ShebaShimmyShake]

@SchrodingersImmigrant

Yeah. Wtf is it with watership down! I spotted it on a tv when i first came to uk and I thought "aw. This has lovely animations and it's about rabbits. Let's watch something nice, yeah" No

I can't imagine how many people have had that experience!

[lockdownbreakdown]

Water ship down was and still is my absolute favourite! It's so deep and philosophical. I really dont understand why it's scary??

[gingganggooleywotsit]

Snow white is terrifying! my daughter watched some of it when she was about 4, and was scared of old ladies for years after

[LloydColeandtheCoconuts]

Does anyone remember The Rescuers? A girl kidnapped and kept in a cage under the watchful eye of an alligator! If memory serves. But saved by two mice. It's very dark and creepy.

[ShebaShimmyShake]

@lockdownbreakdown

Water ship down was and still is my absolute favourite! It's so deep and philosophical. I really dont understand why it's scary??

Sweet dreams!

[letmethinkaboutitfornow]

YANBU - with all the lockdown boredom we signed up to Disney+
I (at a tender age of 40!) was terrified watching some of them 😱

What was I thinking when I was a child!? 😳
My grown up sensible soul cannot take Sleeping Beauty or Pinocchio! 😂😂

[GinWithASplashOfTonic]

Oh I quite liked the rescuers.

Good story and alligators were the only baddies and well I'd be never seen those so they weren't going to hurt me.

[GinWithASplashOfTonic]

However the Siamese cats in lady and the tramp were creepy and our neighbour at the time had one

[EmpressSuiko]

Does anyone remember the movie animal farm? It didn’t scare me as such but I certainly didn’t trust pigs for a while after watching that 😂