Bald mountain - help me pinpoint the emotion felt when watching

That part was incredibly eerie. Don't forget, too, that after they've undergone different forms dancing in his honor, his smile becomes a frown and he throws them down into the fire. Freaky stuff IMO. So other than eerie and freaky the other word that comes to my mind about that exact moment is deeply sinister, like it's showing the darkest side of the supernatural.

How about "guilt-inducing?"

What's so wonderful about this sequence is how much it unabashedly delights in "evil"...in the extended version of Deems' monologue about the sequence he makes no bones about this being "satan" and the denizens of hell, there's no mention of "Chernabog" as some would call the character; he is the devil! So Disney and his artists portrayed a gorgeous, dynamic, lovingly rendered portrait of a majestic and even sexy (he's got a pretty buff body, ha ha) Old Scratch and his technicolor hell-spawn, writhing and undulating in ways/colors that delight and stimulate the eyes and brain and create a rush of exhileration (the music alone would do that but the visuals are fast and frenetic). So a viewer--even a "devout christian"--would be hard-pressed to not "enjoy" the sequence...it's incredible, breath-taking..."beautiful"...and its theme is the representation of sin and evil. To enjoy the sequence is to celebrate "evil incarnate." It's quite a conundrum and the fact that they got away with at all let alone did it so effectively is still pretty remarkable, I can't think of another example off-hand that's done quite the same thing, on such a scale, before or since this movie.



Nilbog! It's goblin spelled backwards! This is their kingdom!

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