If you think Disney is just a bunch of enchanted roses, glass slippers and princesses rescued from towers, think again.
Behind the fairytale facade, Disney has put out some truly dark films riddled with miscarriages, bloody ends and animal cruelty.
Even your childhood favorites contain scenes that include deaths belittled in upbeat songs, animal shootings off-screen and, occasionally, a mass slaughter.
In one movie, the entire cast is killed.
Here are the 10 films that pushed the boundaries of kids' entertainment the furthest. You may never see them the same way again.
10. "Up" (2009)
A childless widower, 78-year-old grump Carl Fredricksen (Ed Asner) literally ups and leaves—he attaches balloons to his home—to get away from the big city expansion that has plagued his neighborhood and to fulfill the wishes of his late wife.
The film's opening sequence is one of the most moving, albeit depressing, pieces of cinematic footage in an animated film. Through four minutes, Disney and Pixar tell an entire love story—complete with marriage, dreams of children and traveling, and broken spirits from a miscarriage—before the wife falls ill and passes.
Compare the juxtaposing trailer and opening scene below. Don't say we didn't warn you.
9. "The Fox and the Hound" (1981)
At the beginning of the film, the protagonist, Tod, a fox cub, is abandoned at a farm by his mother. She runs off and shortly after shots are heard. Tod is comforted by an owl named Big Mama and a clueless woodpecker before an elderly widow comes to his rescue.
Tod quickly befriends the neighbor's dog Copper. While they frolic in the woods, we later discover Copper's owner Amos is the man who killed Tod's mom.
Tod never has a clue. The film then pits the two friends against each other as Copper becomes a hunting dog and Tod, the game.
The trailer merely points out the funny friendship of the unlikely pair.
8. "Bambi" (1941)
Happy woodland creatures rolling in flowers and playing on ice? Sure. But what about the raging forest fire?
Before that, you have to make it through the scene where the title character's mother is killed by hunters in the dead of winter.
We're then forced to watch Bambi scramble around through the snow, calling for his mom until he runs into his father, the Great Prince of the Forest, who says, "Your mother can't be with you anymore."
One of the film's first trailers even ends with the movie title hovering over the rampant forest flames.
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