"Disturbing" Animated Memories

[Camdon]

I really haven't watched many of the older animated movies that I watched as a kid, but it's kind of weird looking back on some of the more obscure titles years after I watched them for the first time.

The other day, my web-surfing brought me to information about "All Dogs Go to Heaven", a Don Bluth-produced movie from 1989. I remember vaguely watching this as a little kid, but I really forget most of the movie. So I kind of was a bit surprised when I read this truncated Wikipedia summary for the movie:


When a casino owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven basically by default since all dogs to heaven. However, since he wants to get back at his killer, he cons his way back to the living with the warning that doing that damns him to Hell. Once back, he teams with his old partner, Itchy to prep his retaliation. He also stumbles on to an orphan girl who can talk to the animals, thus allowing him to get the inside info on the races to ensure his wins to finance his plans. However, all the while, he is still haunted by nightmares on what's waiting for him on the other side unless he can prove that he is worthy of Heaven again.

It's kind of weird looking back on that as a kid's movie (even a bit weirder actually watching the movie itself).

Anyone else have any memories of animated movies that can kind of relate to this "disturbed" looking back on?

[Golgo13]

Look up the rest of Don Bluth's films and I think you'll find most of them generally disturbing.

But 'All Dogs' is easily the most disturbing of Bluth, right from the opening scene where Charlie is escaping prison with a guard firing off like ten shots at him.

[tb4000]

Yes, all of Bluth's stuff is a tad scary, even his humorous Dragon's Lair/Space Ace games. The characters die gruesome deaths.

I think Black Cauldron was a tad freaky, and don't even get me started on Little Nemo.:ack:

[Wussycat]

Watership Down. I can't believe that film is still rated U here. It gave me nightmares.

[Tobias]

Family Dog. It's been a long time since I've seen the original 'Amazing Stories' episode, but the little boy in that family looked just like Chucky from the Child's Play movies.

[XOMiss_Samantha]

Watership Down. I can't believe that film is still rated U here. It gave me nightmares.


Oh god... Watershipdown... That movie scared the living **** out of me multiple times. The amount of graphic violence brought upon those rabbits is so :eek: :eek: :eek: .
*shudders* And that one song played in it during a death scene....gahh!
It has to be one of the most disturbing animated films ever made.

[Sharklady]

Spoiler Ahead

> And that one song played in it during a death scene....gahh! <

More of a near-death scene. Fiver did locate Hazel in time to save his life.

No argument, though, that the destruction-of-the-warren sequence is scary beyond reason.
And Fiver's premonition isn't far behind it- the image of the 'burning' tree is disturbingly reminiscent of a similar visual in 'The Ring'.

[Mcready]

Yeh those are quite scary, but how about "Pinocchio and The Emperor of the Night"? a really cool and eerie 1987 animated fantasy from Filmation that is one of my personal favorites. There are some eerie moments in the movie such as the absolutely horrifying sequence where Pinocchio changes back into a puppet by the evil puppeteer as he grinds a magic music box then Pinocchio is being tortured for he changes to wood on parts on him for he screams and begs for life, his hands changes including his nose and strings magically attach to him as we see puppets looking at him for he becomes a lifeless block of wood for he's dead. There's also the part where Pinocchio goes into a Las Vegas-esque realm where he sees kids having fun and drinking their heads off (not literally!), he drinks some drink that probably had drugs in it then he's goes go wrong as he sees the kids melt and stretch into freaky lauging creatures that seem like something that the Scarecrow from "Batman" would make you wanna hallucinate, plus the Emperor himself.

This movie sure scared the bejesus out of me when i was 5 seeing this in a theater back in 1987, except for the Emperor who i thought was cool but the other stuff freaked me out but not anymore except for maybe the Puppet transformation sequence which i still find a little creepy. There's also "Brave Little Toaster" which had that clown nightmare sequence, remember that? scared me when i was little.

[Luna]

I can't really think of any animated films that scared me as a child(or any other films,come to think of it...though Michael Jackon's Thriller video used to creep me out when I was little....)....I can see where Charlie's nightmare from "All Dogs Go To Heaven" would be scary to a small child (I was 10 when I saw the movie,and I was fine with it...)

[Kitschensyngk]

Who Framed Roger Rabbit freaked me out when I was a kid. And yet I saw it multiple times.

[stephane dumas]

Rocket Robin Hood got a episode called "Dementia Five" where Robin and Little John was put in the 5th dimension called by a vilain named Infinita, this episode was supervised by Ralph Bakshi and his group who used lots of psychedelism, the basic plotline and some stock footage was even re-used for an episode of the 1967-70 Spider-man series.

Goldorak (UFO Robot Grendizer/Grandizer) episode 25 (that episode wasn't dubbed in English), they show a moment where Actarus (Duke Fleed) got some flashback hints where Aphelie (Naida) young brother was killed during the Vegan invasion and where Aphelie put all the fault in Actarus. There others cuts scenes where Vega torture Aphelie to be brainwashed and where Aphelie back to herself decide to sacrifice herself. That episode, in France was aired with these scenes but during later re-runs and re-broadcastings in France, these scenes was deleted, you can view a clip of those deleted scenes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0a3Fr7nvSM (in Quebec, Canada, this episode was broadcasted intact without cuts if my memory is correct)

[JesseCuster]

The whole pile of Autobots getting killed in Transformers: The Movie. The started with Prowler, IronHide, Rachet, and Brawn all getting massacred on the shuttle. It really bothered me at the time. Optimus' death bothered me but not as much as the first wave, though. I guess I could see it coming after that.

It was the first time that I remember an on-screen death for any cartoon character and has stuck to me for my entire life.

[Net1360]

Look up the rest of Don Bluth's films and I think you'll find most of them generally disturbing.

Even during the time when he worked for Disney.

[Atoon]

In Dumbo, when the Dumbo ears grows, it freaked me out.

[DarthGonzo]

In Dumbo, when the Dumbo ears grows, it freaked me out.

But..that doesnt happen. He's born that way.

[TnAdct1]

But..that doesnt happen. He's born that way. I believe Atoon is referring to the way the Dumbo's big ears are first shown by having them flap open after he sneezes.

[ToOn~g@l]

Chernabog in Fatasia freaked me out when I was younger. I guess hell was not depicted that way for me when I was younger so I always stopped the movie before it came on. What is odd though, All Dogs Go to Heaven's version of hell never really bothered me. :sad:

[straw_hat]

That one scene in the Raggedy Ann and Andy movie where they're stuck in some living taffy that's constantly eating itself freaked me the hell out when I first saw it.

[Elven Moon]

Pinnochio The whale, and when the boys turn into donkeys

Watership Down Would you believe I was forced to watch this in middle school (I wonder if teachers could get away with it these days)? Never, ever again!

Who Framed Roger Rabbit And yet, I willingly watched it, like, 30 times when I was little!

Disney Halloween Shorts Where to start? The storm sequence with the devil, Donald and the gorilla, Pluto's dream, the dancing skeletons, I could go on forever!

All Dogs Go To Heaven I vaguely remember seeing this as a kid, but I doubt I could sit through it again

[Dr.Pepper]

I never remember being scared out of my mind of stuff in movies but definataly all the stuff that you guys mentioned (except for the Watership Down stuff. I never seen that movie) was disturbing.

[Sharklady]

'Fantasia' never really bothered me because I didn't see it until I was 13. But my Dad reports he and his brother Dan saw it during it's first theatrical run, and Dan was so scared of Chernabog he hid under the seat.

The Wicked Queen in 'Snow White', the dragon in 'Sleeping Beauty', and the forest-fire scene in 'Bambi' have been known to produce similar effects on small children. Disney apparently believed in making the Bad Guys genuinely scary, 'cause that makes the villain's defeat mean something.

[Junko Black]

1. The Plague Dogs
2. Watership Down
3. Twilight of the Cockroaches
4. End of Evangelion
5. Most moments in South Park, including seeing Mr. Garrison's breasts...:p
6. Cartoons on the Censored 11 list which I got a chance to see.