Scariest Disney Moments

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I'm surprised you didn't mention Education for Death, it has to be the scariest cartoon in existence.

I used to hide behind the couch when Maleficent crashes the party in the beginning of Sleeping Beauty (when I was 3 or 5 years old). I remember it quite vividly!

The Little Mermaid when Ursula gets big.

Snow White-- basically anything with the evil queen! (I went to Disneyworld when I was 6, and on the Snow White ride I had to close my eyes at the part where you see her looking out the window.)

But the scariest movie moment of all time was Large Marge in Peewee Herman-- my parents told me I was REALLY upset by that, and to this day I don't even remember what the character looked like, just that I always covered my eyes (and, at 27, I'm still afraid to watch it!)

1. Fantasia- The Tyrannosaur- Chernabog never scared me as a child, I always thought he was cool, but that dinosaur always freaks me out when he shows up in Rite of Spring.

2. Bambi- the fight between Bambi and Ronno for Faline. When Bambi's daydream after Faline kisses him ends abruptly with his rival's surprise appearance and that ominous music begins to play and slowly builds up, several tingles always go down my spine.

3. The Headless Horseman- the buildup to this character's appearance was very slow and not at all scary at first so much that it downplays the danger. But when you hear that maniacal laughter come from nowhere, it all pays off and you are stuck remembering one of the most frightening experiences from Disney animation.

4. Song of the South- the bull attacks Johnny. Need I say more?

5. 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea- the opening sequence.

6. Darby O'Gill- the Banshee!!!!!

7. Sleeping Beauty- Maleficent hypnotising Aurora to touch the spindle. That scene always gets my attention.

8. The Jungle Book- Shere Khan stalking the deer. The very moment when the evil tiger first appears on the screen always creeps me out.

9. The Great Mouse Detective- Rattigan giving in to his rage. Throughout the film, the genius rat has been an urbane and mostly polite character despite his villain qualities, but at the film's climax, he turns into a raving and savage creature, chasing the heroes through Big Ben.

10. The Little Mermaid- the Poor Unfortunate Souls sequence.

11. Aladdin- the Cave of Wonders and Jafar taking over Agrabah.

The Tyrannosaur chase and the first Beast meeting are probably the ones I can relate to most. The chase was really intense as well as the fight, I also didn't like the scene after when the Dinosaurs begin to die and are moving onwards.

The Beast scared me in almost everything he did until the wolf fight scene. The only time that I could watch him and not feel frightened was when he was taking Belle to her room and when Lumiere, Cogsworth and Mrs. Potts were teaching him how to be a gentleman. The first meeting, Belle meeting him and catching Belle in The West Wing were terrifying to me.

Nothing else used to really frighten me in the list.

Believe me, nothing is trivial. - Eric Draven, The Crow.

In Fantasia, the dinosaurs dying of hunger and thirst. I sympathized with what they were feeling, knowing their agonizing deaths were imminent. What a horrid fate for them.

Others:

Cinderella: The murderous look on the stepmother's face as she goes to Cinderella's chamber and locks her in. To think that the person who raised you would lock you in your room and have that look on her face; when I was a kid I believed the stepmother meant to seal her in that room and never let her out, and Cinderella would eventually die there.

The Little Mermaid: When Triton destroys Ariel's treasures in a violent rampage.

Beauty and the Beast: During the "Be Our Guest" song, I was so afraid that the Beast would hear their singing and burst in there and punish them for being so loud.

The article in Cracked sums up my traumatic experience with Fantasia.

Walt Disney's masterpiece transitioned from dancing animals to the devil summoning evil spirits and bringing hell to Earth -- and the only thing to prepare us was some guy saying, "We're going to start talking about Satan now, kids."

The so-called scariest moments in the Walt Disney films that I've seen have been the strongest and most interesting, and have helped make these films as strong and powerful as they are.

Sure, I end up hoping that Pinocchio, his father Gepetto, their cat Figaro and their goldfish Cleo all survive being inside the belly of Monstro, the whale, and that Pinocchio gets away from Pleasure Island before he becomes a complete ass.

In the movie Fantasia, when the Tyrannasaurus Rex comes out in the rain, and the other dinosaurs manage to get away, I root for the heavy-armored dinosaur, hoping that he wins the fight with the Tyrannosaurus Rex and survives, I'm sorry when the heavy-armored dinosaur loses and gets eaten by the Tyrannosaurus Rex, and yet glad that the heavy-armored dinosaur didn't go down without a fight.

Chernabog, in the movie Fantasia, wasn't scary to me at all. In fact, that was my favorite scene in the entire film. I know I've posted this on other threads, but it bears repeating here.

In The Lion King, I was rooting for Samba during the fight that Samba and Scar had, and was glad that Samba finally knocked Scar over the cliff.

In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Sleeping Beauty, the message that the forces of good are stronger and more powerful than the forces of evil always comes back to me, due to the fact that both Snow White and Sleeping Beauty survive attempts to poison them and snuff out their lives by wicked witches for no reason(s).

Isn't it funny that things I never thought about as a kid now take on certain meanings to me now that I'm an adult.