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.

[BabyLlamaZen]

Lady and the Tramp is (also racist) but extremely creepy. Still gives me shivers so bad.

[BabyLlamaZen]

Lady and the tramp. Still gives me the shivers.

[ShebaShimmyShake]

[quote wanderings]@ChewChewIsMySpiritAnimal The version of Peter Pan that you put on recently; was that the old animated version, or the live-action one from about 2003? I've only watched that one once or twice, I've not seen the original.[/quote]
Oh, they already remade it? I'll check it out.

[EmpressSuiko]

@Sometimeswinning me too! It still makes me said, that movie definitely had an effect on me!

[BabyLlamaZen]

The fantasia broom. Shudder.

And that man bursting out of the snow in Mulan.

[Mittens030869]

@pigsDOfly Yes Watership Down, I remember watching the cartoon as a child, and reading the book as well. It was scary but I enjoyed it. It certainly didn't harm me; I think we worry too much about what films we allow children to watch or books we allow them to read these days.

[ShebaShimmyShake]

[quote Mittens030869]@pigsDOfly Yes Watership Down, I remember watching the cartoon as a child, and reading the book as well. It was scary but I enjoyed it. It certainly didn't harm me; I think we worry too much about what films we allow children to watch or books we allow them to read these days. [/quote]
It's not the kids I'm worried about with that film, it's me!!

[TinklyLittleLaugh]

Watership Down is a fantastic YA book, best enjoyed at 11 or so.

This stuff was very much of its time though and I do think kids were sadly more hardened.

I only watched Tangled for the first time a couple of years ago. It was like someone had listened into me and my mums’s conversations and laid them out for everyone to see. I suppose it’s what they call “triggering,” enormously upsetting actually.

[pigsDOfly]

@ShebaShimmyShake Yeah, me too.

@Mittens030869I I don't have any small children any more, they're all very grown up, so my reluctance to watch it is purely about me.

I can't remember if any of them read the book. If they saw the film, which I imagine my son did, they certainly never saw it with me; all those poor rabbits.

[pigsDOfly]

*Meant to put a there.

[BertieBotts]

The dad in Peter Pan is awful!! I remember that scene seeming funny when I was little

DS1 (now 11) used to like the child catcher out of CCBB - he thought he was hilarious :o

[Merinocool]

I recently watched Snow White with my 4 year old and I really regret it, she literally screamed when Snow White was in the woods and the huntsman went to stab her. She was absolutely terrified.

[keeprocking]

The stories written by the Brothers Grimm had terrible themes if you care to hyper-analyse them, as do many old fairy tales.

[GinWithASplashOfTonic]

Anyone else find the Cheshire Cat I'm Alice in Wonderland scary? Like way more scary than the Queen of Hearts.

It was the way it apparited with the smiling teeth first

[ShebaShimmyShake]

@TinklyLittleLaugh

Watership Down is a fantastic YA book, best enjoyed at 11 or so.

This stuff was very much of its time though and I do think kids were sadly more hardened.

I only watched Tangled for the first time a couple of years ago. It was like someone had listened into me and my mums’s conversations and laid them out for everyone to see. I suppose it’s what they call “triggering,” enormously upsetting actually.

I'm sorry you found it distressing. I always thought Tangled showed an excellent, child-appropriate portrayal of an abusive relationship and why people don't leave. Perhaps too well, it seems.

[bez91]

Like many we've watched a few films on Disney plus during lockdown. We went for a hospital appointment this week and my daughter (almost 3) got to chose a Disney princess sticker for being really good during her scans. She chose Snow White.

Let her watch it today as she was asking about it, completely forgetting how scary it is, she was fine at the time but since has been mortified by the witch. Feel so terribly guilty

[WinWinnieTheWay]

One of my mother's earliest memories of having her legs smacked for being afraid of the witch in Snow White. My grandmother loved it, so took her to see it every week that is was on.

[bottlenose301]

The end scene of Sleeping Beauty when Malificient turns into the that dragon thing petrified me as a child.

[HarlanWillYouStopNamingNuts]

The Fantasia broom is terrifying. My DH recently introduced me to this monstrosity, Dr Syn The Scarecrow, which is also a Disney film. I lasted five minutes before making him turn it off.

[TrickorTreacle]

Does anyone know Disney's "The Black Cauldron"? That's pretty dark for a new(ish) Disney film. It's highly under-rated too imo.

[Ishihtzuknot]

I loved the black cauldron, the forgotten movies ended up being some of the best like the never ending story, thumbelina, even labyrinth and the wizard of oz had creepy parts.
In the Disney re makes they’ve toned down a lot of it from the originals to make it more ‘child friendly’ which is a shame as they’re nowhere near as good because of that.

[KeepingPlain]

I must be dead inside because none of the old Disney films scared me. I was watching them from 3 onwards. I'd sit through the whole film no problem at all. I did find dumbo weird though, and thought there was something wrong with the people who made it, but it didn't scare me.

[BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz]

Hunchback of Notre Dame terrified me as an adult. Not the hunchback himself, but the weird rapey vibe given off by his master towards Esmeralda.

I had to distract dc1 and then turn it off when she wasn't looking.

[NinkiNonkiNikau]

I loved the Black Cauldron

[ChewChewIsMySpiritAnimal]

wanderings

The original Peter Pan. The remake was ok (not Disney of its the one with Jason Isaacs) i haven't seen that one for years.

Hunchback was scary i agree for the scene where frollo is singing about esmeralda and how she's making him lustful and that's why he wants to kill her.