Top 10 Scariest Disney Moments

You think Disney is all happy and innocent, right? Wrong! Disney can be dark and scary sometimes.

Warning: This list may contain spoilers, so read at your own risk.
The Top Ten
1 Pleasure Island from Pinocchio

This scene is traumatizing. Yes, the boys they lure are bad kids, but they didn't deserve to be turned into donkeys and enslaved. Not to mention, these are children we're talking about. Think about it - you're a parent of a sweet but naive child. Then he or she is lured in by a bunch of strangers along with other children, shipped to a strange place, and then transformed into a donkey and enslaved forever. That's every parent's worst nightmare.

What makes it worse is that the coachman is never stopped or confronted by Pinocchio.

2 Clayton's Gruesome Death from Tarzan

This was very subtle but also really sinister. The fact that you can see Clayton's hanging body in the shadows is really disturbing.

This was very satisfying, but did they really have to make his death so over the top?

3 The Queen's Transformation from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

This always gave me chills. Drinking the potion, turning into an old hag, making a poison apple to give to Snow White, and seeing dead people in the cells is just plain creepy!

This is some pretty creepy stuff right here. At the end, she looks like a lady who lived for 500 years.

4 "A Night on Bald Mountain" from Fantasia

Holy crap, this scene is mortifying! It's the literal devil! I remember first watching this, and it is still the most terrifying thing I have ever seen from Disney.

That part scared me big time. The devil always gave me nightmares. That's why I skipped Bald Mountain and pretended it never happened.

The most awesomely scary thing Disney has ever created. It should be higher up on this list than the Pink Elephants from Dumbo.

5 "Pink Elephants on Parade" from Dumbo

Apparently, this is why people get drunk: to battle their fear of imaginary pink elephants.

I don't really know why people would call this scary. (One viewing later.) This song is scary.

Let me tell you the story. Dumbo drinks some champagne, thinking it was water. (Stupid Dumbo.) He has a dream about the pink elephants, and they dance around him while he's drunk, showing how creepy they are. They look disturbing to me. I don't remember the lyrics because it gave me the creeps. The scariest part was the ending.

They taught us at a very young age that you can't drink any type of alcohol.

6 Judge Doom from Who Framed Roger Rabbit

This guy's sinister plot is to melt Toontown off the earth because of his hatred for the toons. Now, let's say he IS a toon. And guess what? He IS a toon. What was scary were his eyes. Don't STARE INTO THEM.

7 Mickey and the Beanstalk from Fun and Fancy Free

This cartoon itself isn't scary, but what I'm really talking about is the scene where Donald goes MAD. It starts with Mickey cutting a slice of bread, then Donald goes crazy and eats the plate. After he eats the plate, his eyes turn from blue to red. Don't STARE INTO THOSE EYES. He ALMOST kills the cow. (Thank goodness.)

Donald Duck is like a demonically possessed psychopath in this segment of Fun and Fancy Free.

8 Tower of Terror at Disney Parks

I've always hated this ride, and I think it's scary too. It drops you down faster than gravity - please tell me that isn't scary. What I hate most is that you only go in the elevator and don't actually see the hotel. (I face-palmed myself.)

9 Dr. Facilier's Demise from The Princess and the Frog

Let me get something straight here: this guy uses voodoo, so you know it will be scary. What happens is Tiana breaks the talisman that Dr. Facilier needs to survive. His friends on the other side turn on him, and he dies.

I have two speculations on what happened. One, he is actually dead. Two, he's in Hades, getting tortured.

10 "Hellfire" from The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Me in 2015-2016: Oh, yeah. This song is hardcore. Totally my new fave.

Me now: This is disgusting!

One of the most terrifying songs I've ever heard.

The Contenders
11 Death of the Mother from Bambi
12 Butch Cavendish Eats Dan Reid's Heart from The Lone Ranger
13 The Horned King from The Black Cauldron
14 The Headless Horseman from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Horrifying, but I love it. I mean, come on, it's narrated by Bing Crosby! We always watch this at Halloween.

15 Toys Get Revenge on Sid from Toy Story

This scene can give you the creeps, but it does teach Sid a lesson. It sure scares the crap out of him and sends him running away screaming. That's the best part of the whole movie, at least in my opinion.

This scene frightened me when I was little. When Woody said, "So play nice," I didn't even look at the TV when that scene came on. The toys took it way too far.

I bet Sid is deathly terrified of the It's a Small World ride at the Disney parks because of this incident.

16 The Incinerator from Toy Story 3
17 Ursula from The Little Mermaid

In the beginning, she isn't THAT scary, but her two assistants freak me out. During the battle, she turns huge. And by the way, she turns the merfolk into creepy worm-like creatures that look like poop to me.

Definitely the most gruesome Disney death, or at least in the top five.

18 Snow White Gets Lost in the Woods from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

This scene from the movie predicted the Verbolten coaster at Busch Gardens.

19 Sid Plays Surgeon from Toy Story

His room is just as creepy as his antics. He has lots of tools to create a whole bunch of creepy creations. But I think there was more to Sid than just his behavior - there may be reasons for it.

20 The Bear from The Fox and the Hound

This demon thing still scares the crap out of me, even 26 years later.

21 When Mufasa Dies from The Lion King

Scar is a really cool villain, but he is a horrible brother!

That scene always makes me sad.

22 King Triton's Rage from The Little Mermaid

This scene scared me silly as a child.

23 "The Rite of Spring" from Fantasia

I love The Rite of Spring because of the dinosaurs. I used to be afraid of the T. Rex when I was a kid, but not anymore. It's my favorite segment in Fantasia.

That Mosasaurus eating a Pteranodon, those zombie-like Ornithomimus, THAT T. rex, that same T. rex attacking a Stegosaurus, and the extinction of the dinosaurs where stegosaurs, brontosaurus, and diplodocus die in the tar. Yeesh.

24 Tiger Lily in Trouble from Peter Pan
25 The Death of Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty
8Load More
PSearch List