Who WASN'T traumatized by the murder of Bambi's mother as a child?
Disney can still be pretty dark/scary - a couple years ago someone put out a "Scariest Movie Villains of All Time" list - Cruella DeVil and the Evil Queen from Snow White both made Top 10 of the females.
The one that really freaked me out? Great Mouse Detective. I saw about 3.5 minutes of that one at the movie theater before my dad had to take me out and to this DAY have not seen another second.
(There was a giant scarred BAT with a PEGLEG! And he attacked the poor wee little girl mouse and her father/grandfather in the middle of the night and kipnapped them! That movie is EVIL!)
...I just realized that probably what scared me so much about that opening scene was it's resemblance to the scene where Sikes kills Nancy in Oliver Twist. I read that book when I was only 6.5-7, which would have been right before the movie came out.
And I can STILL recall exactly how I felt reading that scene. One of the scariest things of my early childhood. Especially since they don't really tell you what's going on. They leave it up to your imagination...and I had a very active imagination.
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Date: 2007-08-27 09:07 pm (UTC)Disney can still be pretty dark/scary - a couple years ago someone put out a "Scariest Movie Villains of All Time" list - Cruella DeVil and the Evil Queen from Snow White both made Top 10 of the females.
The one that really freaked me out? Great Mouse Detective. I saw about 3.5 minutes of that one at the movie theater before my dad had to take me out and to this DAY have not seen another second.
(There was a giant scarred BAT with a PEGLEG! And he attacked the poor wee little girl mouse and her father/grandfather in the middle of the night and kipnapped them! That movie is EVIL!)
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Date: 2007-08-27 09:14 pm (UTC)And I can STILL recall exactly how I felt reading that scene. One of the scariest things of my early childhood. Especially since they don't really tell you what's going on. They leave it up to your imagination...and I had a very active imagination.
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Date: 2007-08-27 09:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-27 09:25 pm (UTC)