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.

[BertieBotts]

I wasn't scared of the Cheshire cat but that whole film was seriously creepy. I used to hate it but I would watch it anyway because I liked bits of it! The bit where sie can't get through the door and her tears are too big is seriously freaky. The exploding watch makes me feel anxious and sick. The bit where she grows through the house - horror stuff! And the oyster song!

I don't know why I watched that film so often, I can't actually remember any parts of it I liked

[GrumpyHoonMain]

The old Disney movies were aimed at entire families, the new ones just for kids. I think that’s the difference.

[Stickywhitelovepiss]

How has no one mentioned the cartoon she being lowered into the dip in Roger Rabbit??

[Stickywhitelovepiss]

SHOE even

[TheVanguardSix]

The animation in the original Disney Sleeping Beauty is some of the most beautiful I've ever seen. As a kid, I was fascinated by the glowing primary colours set against these rather dark, greenish, eerily luminous backgrounds. It's my favourite of the old Disney films for this reason.

I never watched Pinocchio, Bambi, Dumbo, Peter Pan, or Lady in the Tramp.
I was only interested in Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella.

I think my favourites are definitely Sleeping Beauty and then later, Aladdin.
I love that Pixar came along. I've watched more Pixar films with my kids than actual Disney ones.

[WhatWouldDominicDo]

My DF used to joke that he'd never seen a Disney film all all the way through. Every time he used to have to take one of other off us out into the cinema foyer to sit out a scary bit.
Fun times! Life was very different in times 60s and 70s.

[GlumyGloomer]

I've said this before but Hunchback of Notre Dame was a bizarre choice for a children's film. The book is by Victor Hugo, who also wrote Le Miserable, and the original ending is absolutely brutal.
I must have seen the edited version of Snow White because I found it rather boring, will have to watch it again now to see what all the fuss is about.
Loved Watership down although the

[GlumyGloomer]

Bother, hit send too soon. The bright eyes bit was rather haunting

[Mittens030869]

I loved Cinderella as a child. But when I watched it as an adult with my DDs, I absolutely hated it; it's too much like a glorified version of Tom and Jerry. The remake is much better. I mostly like the modern makes better than the cartoons, the exception is the 'Jungle Book'; I much prefer the cartoon, which has always been my all time favourite Disney film.

My DDs love Frozen and Tangled. I'm happy to watch Tangled with them but I detest Frozen. (Mainly because DD1 kept playing the song 'Let it Got over and over again.

[woodhill]

Robin Hood film was horrible too particularly the beginning

[letsgomaths]

I've remembered another story with questionable morals: the Tinder Box. At the beginning, a witch helps a soldier to become rich, how to get hold of money guarded by some fierce dogs, and all she asks for in return is a tinder box which was hidden. Having gathered his money, he won't give the tinder box to her unless she tells him why she wants it. When she refuses, he then kills her with his sword. (On the cassette we had, you heard the witch screaming as she died; my brother and I thought this was rather funny.)

Even at the age of six, in spite of finding it funny, it seemed very wrong that he killed her just like that, when she had been so helpful to him. You couldn't imagine a children's story like that being published now (especially with the reality in some places nowadays).

[Mittens030869]

Oh dear, I've just spotted a silly mistake in my previous post. I meant the song 'Let it Go'.

[Herecomethehotstepper]

@Stickywhitelovepiss

How has no one mentioned the cartoon she being lowered into the dip in Roger Rabbit??

That horrified me as a child!

[NinkiNonkiNikau]

What’s wrong with the beginning of Robin Hood- bear and fox in a forest and a chicken singing in jail isn’t it?

[ShebaShimmyShake]

@NinkiNonkiNikau

What’s wrong with the beginning of Robin Hood- bear and fox in a forest and a chicken singing in jail isn’t it?

During the credits there are a lot of flying arrows being dodged and a rhino guard who nearly takes off an elderly couple (owls, I think) with his axe, although it's all done to very cheerful comedy music.

[woodhill]

I think it was the scene with the animals in the stocks and they were crying- is it still there?

[Aweebawbee]

How about scary themes? The The Water Babies turned child labour/slavery and death into a happy-clappy children's film. The book made me sob as a child.

[ShebaShimmyShake]

@woodhill

I think it was the scene with the animals in the stocks and they were crying- is it still there?

The prison scene? Yes, that's there and they do all look very wretched and woeful, while trying to help and feed each other. It's right before they get broken out though.

[zukiecat]

The only one that ever scared me was the Child Catcher, he was really frightening.

The film that truly traumatised me was Ring of Bright Water, when the hunters killed Midge the otter

The only Disney film that frightened my DDs was The Black Cauldron.

Even now we're all adults and horror films don't scare us at all,

[woodhill]

Thanks, I was little and it was grim and upset me back in the 70s