Top Ten Most Disturbing Disney Movies

Return to Oz is the sequel (?) to the classic The Wizard of Oz! The original movie was charming, innocent, and just an overall lovely family film. So why could the second one be so bad? It's the sequel to a wholesome movie, and it's Disney, for crying out loud!

Dorothy gets shock treatment at an asylum at the beginning of the film because her aunt and uncle think she is crazy for talking about Oz. Excuse me? This movie is strange. There are these creepy guys on bikes called wheelers, which disturbed me a bit, and there was also a whole scene in which Dorothy entered a place full of severed heads... which talked. There are plenty of other things to mention, but I think you've gotten the gist of how disturbing this movie can get.

Pinocchio is a cute movie on the surface, but it has some very disturbing stuff in it. The most obvious and well-known part is Pleasure Island, where every child is invited to do anything they want. What they don't know is that there are sinister motivations behind this. A child turns into a donkey and is then enslaved by the man running the land - he isn't stopped, and neither are the children rescued.

The giant whale and the other animals trying to kill our puppet pal don't exactly help make the film any less disturbing either.

This film basically had non-sexual child trafficking in it. What was even scarier was the added humiliation of turning them into jackasses.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a great movie... but it's just a bit dark. Most of the disturbing elements of the film come from the villain, who murders a poor innocent cartoon shoe to show the new way he has found to kill toons. Then, at the climax of the movie, the main villain and all of his henchmen are murdered on screen. Even more disturbing is that the villain is a terrifying-looking toon himself. It's just unsettling.

Not to mention, the whole plot is more mature than your average Disney movie, so overall, it's a pretty disturbing one.

I'm mostly talking about the second half with the Headless Horseman. The suspense in this segment is high, the horseman is creepy, and the ending is terrifying. You have no idea whether Ichabod lived to see another day or was beheaded by the horseman. If the latter is true, it's scary to think that this character you've come to know is actually dead. Just straight-up disturbing.

It's even more disturbing when told through the Disneyland ride because it shows that Mr. Toad went to Hell after dying.

This was Disney's first attempt at some kind of fantasy epic... and they failed. But if they were aiming to make it disturbing, they kinda got it. The Horned King is quite unsettling with his army of the dead and his scarily deep voice, and Gurgi sacrificing himself is quite depressing as well.

I honestly like the movie. The only dark thing is a witch hypnotizes children to suck their souls to make her young.

This is mostly the CGI. It's good, just quite uncanny and disturbing, especially those bald twins and the big-headed queen.

Four words: Night on Bald Mountain. This isn't exactly scary, but don't tell me it isn't disturbing. The atmosphere, the music, the visuals... everything in this scene is so perfect but also disturbing at the same time. However, this doesn't lessen the quality of the scene at all.

This movie was good, but in my opinion, skeleton Donald Duck was scary.

The Disney Princesses physically threatening a little girl, led by Cinderella making a shiv out of her shoe. And, of course, everything about that Grand Theft Auto Online ripoff and that song about how "great" it was.

Slaughter Race. Just Slaughter Race. And how it's presented as preferable - from a child's point of view - to a colorful world literally made of candy.

Good movie (albeit not my favorite), but scarily enough, this film almost displayed a hunter's corpse after he was killed by his own folly, but it was cut because a test audience was horrified. It's funny how they removed that scene, yet at one point, when one scared pheasant tries to fly out of fear and is killed, we see her corpse fall to the ground.

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Probably on the list because Bambi mourns the loss of his mother onscreen.

That "great message" that is literally already all over social media, and not having the impact people like the person praising this film for being "about realities from our own society" are claiming, is not enough for me to forgive the museum, asylum, and naked animal scenes. In fact, all of that combined makes me utterly hate this trash film and want to hit everyone insisting upon its greatness all the more.

The naked animals, the Lady Gaga parody and her backup dancers, and the scenes at the asylum and the museum are what qualify this movie here. And no, I, for one, am not giving it a pass because of its timely, bleeding-heart, SJW pandering.

After rewatching it when I got older, I was shocked how Disney hung the main villain. His shadow was also a bit freaky.

A heart gets torn out and eaten!

Way too mean-spirited for a Disney movie.