Top 20 Terrifying Deaths in Disney Movies

[Music] long live the king welcome to watch mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 20 terrifying deaths in disney movies [Music] oh for this list we'll be looking at the most horrifying deaths from disney and pixar movies that freaked children out and left parents asking what was this rated again as for this video we're reading it s for spoilers and emotional scarring which disney death terrified you the most let us know in the comments number 20 the horned king the black cauldron speaking of ratings the black cauldron marked the first animated

disney film to venture into pg territory that might not sound like a big deal now but since this dark fantasy came out in the 80s a pg rating could get away with some pretty graphic imagery while the film was apparently toned down to avoid an even more adult-oriented rating the horned king's death is still pure nightmare fuel with his skeletal body and terrifying red eyes the villain already has a creepy design but he's only made more grotesque as the cauldron consumes him stripping the flesh from his bones [Music] in retrospect he was surprisingly easy for

taryn to defeat but this doesn't take away from the shock factor oh no how horrible number 19. king agner and queen aduna frozen sometimes the most horrifying deaths are the most realistic for all the magic and frozen king agnar and queen eduna meet a very grounded demise after bidding farewell to their loved ones the king and queen of arendelle set out for what they believe will be a two-week voyage sadly agnar and aduna never return their ship is engulfed by dangerous waters on a stormy night [Music] anna and elsa are forced to relive the trauma

in the sequel when they discover the wreckage of their parents lost chip although there are no bodies on board elsa uses the water to summon the painful memory of her father and mother's final moments embracing each other agnar and aduna accept fate as the dark sea claims their lives is a human wrecking ball punching through doors and slicing pillars like they're made of butter while the hun leader has brute strength on his side mulan has strategy it looks like you're out of ideas not quite with a fan a sword one big sky rocket and a

little bit of help from her friends she ends sean u's campaign of terror pinned down the helpless villain is sent flying into a tower of fireworks blowing to smithereens get off the roof get off the roof although sean u's demise seems cartoony on the surface that's only because we're spared from seeing his crispy remains considering how dangerous fireworks are it's safe to assume that sean yu suffered and the aftermath was not a pretty sight for anyone with an active imagination however it's hard not to envision the grisly details you are unlucky number 17 sykes oliver

and company but the party is over although oliver and company has some breathtaking new york backdrops it also authentically captures the city's grittier side nowhere is this more apparent than in the final chase when sykes meets his maker this lone shark is scum kidnapping a little girl and endangering animals in the process as satisfying as psych's demise is that doesn't make it less disturbing taking the pursuit onto the subway rails our heroes dodged the oncoming train sykes isn't so lucky the scene is especially terrifying when you watch it in slow motion allowing the audience to

really see the fear in sykes eyes as he stares down the headlights before the train obliterates his vehicle and that kids is why you don't play on the subway tracks number 16 professor radigan the great mouse detective as much as radigan attempts to present himself as a refined elitist he's really nothing more than a filthy rat don't tell him that though or else you might meet the same fate as bartholomew you know the tops and perhaps that when ratigan's schemes fall apart he lets the beast inside run rampant as he pursues basil and little olivia

inside big ben the use of sound and building music adds to the tension as ratigan hones in on her heroes practically ripping basil to shreds with his claws but as the clock bell tolls ratigan's time on earth officially runs out plunging him to an appropriate fate for a rat [Music] number 15. hopper a bug's life on paper this death might not sound especially macabre we mean birds feed bugs to their young every day seeing the carnage from the bugs point of view however we're given a firsthand look at just how grim the food chain can

be lured to a bird's nest hopper assumes that this is another fake that the ants have cooked up well what's this another one of your little bird tricks it dawns on hopper too late that this bird of prey is the real deal by this point his fate is sealed dangling from the bird's beak hopper is lowered into the nest where three hatchlings need to feed the chicks look fairly realistic for a late 90s cgi which adds to the horror as we zoom into one's mouth as hopper is consumed [Music] number 14 commander rourke atlantis the

lost empire this may be the most creative death on our list petrifying audiences young and old in a new and creative way nothing personal even as his escape plan blows up in his face commander rourke is determined to go down swinging he nearly gives milo the axe but our hero compensates for his lack of brawn with brains he cuts rourke with a crystal shard which seemingly only leaves a minor injury the scratch rapidly envelops rorke's entire body though crystallizing him into a phenomenally demented creature he looks like the human torch the invisible woman and the

thing all rolled into one still refusing to give up rourke hits the fan and is shattered into countless pieces and this time it was personal [Music] number thirteen scroop treasure planet a lot of disney villains die falling from great heights scroop's demise is the exact opposite this scene is like something out of alien and while not quite as chilling as that film it comes close enough as group attempts to snap jim hawkins into pieces ben fidgets with the artificial gravity sending the two spiraling towards the crow's nest although skroop appears to have the upper hand

or the upper claw in this case the agile gym best screw ensnaring him in a black flag [Music] tell him yourself as group spirals to a dire fate beyond the stars we try not to think about the ensuing asphyxiation or decompression he probably endured but hey maybe he ran into mr arrow out there too soon number 12 judge doom who framed roger rabbit who framed roger rabbit is one disney film that was arguably made more for adult animation fans than kids as such the filmmakers were able to take the creep factor a step beyond and

in the 80s that's saying a lot the scariest moment is saved for the climax when judge doom reveals himself as the tune who did an eddie's brother doom is destroyed by his own concoction as he's hosed down with dip channeling the wicked witch of the west doom dissolves into a puddle wailing in agony unlike the wicked witch however doom leaves a big mess behind and we thought getting run over by a steamroller was a dark way to go number 11. oogie boogie the nightmare before christmas during his early days at disney tim burton's gothic imagination

was met with some resistance after burton found success with films like batman disney gave his team the freedom to produce this passion project despite it being darker than their usual fare director henry selick didn't hold back with the demise of oogie boogie oogie boogie is the stuff that nightmares are made of figuratively speaking literally speaking he's made of bugs and thanks to a loose string it only takes one fell swoop for jack to unravel oogie's dastardly plan how dare you treat my friends so stripped of his burlap sack which was essentially his skin oogie's reduced

to a pile of bugs [Music] the insects that don't fall into the scorching cauldron below get stepped on by old saint nick number 10 maleficent sleeping beauty now shall you deal with me o prince and all the powers of hell you'd be hard-pressed to find a disney movie with a bigger more exciting final showdown than sleeping beauty [Music] in the film's climax the wicked maleficent decides to bring her a game to the table by calling on the powers of hell and taking on the form of a fire-breathing dragon in a garden of thorns thanks to

the three fairies magic though prince philip strikes maleficent in her black heart with his virtuous sword thus a ghastly villain meets her gruesome end notably shedding some fairly graphic blood for a disney movie [Music] number nine gaston beauty and the beast come on out and fight after an intense battle atop the beast's castle it looks like gaston and the beast might part ways without spilling any blood get out since the phrase live and let live is foreign to the egotistical hunter though gaston literally stabs his prey in the back this proves to be gaston's undoing

as he loses his balance and plummets to his death if you think gaston could have miraculously survived the fall somehow the animators ruled out this possibility by adding a skull and crossbones to his pupils how subliminally horrifying number eight the evil queen snow white and the seven dwarves the evil queen might have succeeded in offing snow white but she soon learns that even monarchs can't get away with murder [Music] [Laughter] [Music] as the seven dwarves race back to the cottage the queen absconds up a nearby mountain and attempts to crush her pursuers with a giant

boulder when a lightning bolt strikes the cliff though the queen becomes the first of many disney baddies to fall to their death even if the fall didn't kill her the boulder most certainly did providing dinner for some lingering hungry vultures [Music] number seven syndrome the incredibles syndrome meets perhaps the most darkly humorous demise on this list but it's still a terrifying way to go edna mode gave several examples of why capes aren't the smartest superhero accessory express elevator dyna guy snag on takeoff splashdown sucked into a vortex knock it and yet we didn't really pay

much attention to syndrome's wardrobe that is until the final showdown syndrome's undoing was hanging over his shoulders this whole time while syndrome avoids the car that mr incredible chucks at him his fate is sealed by a jet engine in which his cape gets caught as clever as this resolution is all we're thinking about now is what a turbine does to the human body sorry buddy you will not be back for the sequel that was totally wicked number six frollo the hunchback of notre dame frollo has deluded himself into thinking that he's a righteous man and

soldier of god when in reality he's committed every deadly sin in the book it was my duty horrible as it was i hope you can forgive me frollo's lifetime of sinning and hypocrisy finally catch up to him atop notre dame leaving so soon [Music] before he can do quasimodo and esmeralda in frollo finds himself standing under a crumbling gargoyle staring a devil in the face frollo drops to his final resting place in a sea of hellfire and molten copper talk about an ironic way to go out number five mother gothel tangled for centuries gothel used

the sun drop flower to remain healthy and youthful when rapunzel inherited the flower's properties gothel spent another 18 years feeding off the magic [Music] gothel had found her new magic flower but this time she was determined to keep it hidden her age finally catches up to her when eugene cuts rapunzel's hair as the hair loses its magical essence it also loses its effect on gothel in a flash gothel transforms into a decrepit old woman not paying attention to where she's going gothel overlooks pascal and trips out the window by the time she hits the ground

only dust remains it's an unsettling demise although we have to admit it's kind of funny that pascal finished her off never underestimate a frog chameleon chameleon number four dr facilier the princess and the frog where frollo only figuratively fell into hell dr facilier is literally dragged there in this scene from the princess and the frog facilier believes that he has the upper hand with demonic powers on his side but he underestimates tiana and her sticky tongue it's not slime it's mucus no no with this voodoo charm destroyed facilier's friends from the other side appeared to

collect their debt in mardi gras fashion an army of masks dolls and shrunken heads take facility to their world whether he's ready or not the moral of the story don't screw with voodoo number three scar the lion king scar may usurp the throne from mufasa but he gets his comeuppance in the end [Music] being something of a shakespearean villain it's only appropriate that scar is given a proper shakespearean send-off oh yes i remember this is just the way your father looked before he died unlike gaston scars survives his fall after fighting the film's hero it's

what's waiting at the bottom of pride rock that leads to his ultimate demise turns out that scars hyena lackeys don't appreciate being thrown under the bus oh my friends friends i thought he said we were the enemy as fire engulfs the area the hyenas surround their former boss maul him to death and likely devour his carcass as the camera pans up from the massacre no let me explain no you don't understand nope [Music] oh well circle of life number two ursula the little mermaid ursula is already a pretty terrifying presence on her own how can

you make her any more intimidating how about by having her grow like a hundred feet giving her an all-powerful triton and bathing her in a whirlpool of chaos the only thing more frightening than ursula herself is how she perishes as prince eric impales her with a ship sending the sea witch to a watery grave no matter how old you are this is total scary overdrive and it was all brought to you by the dark magic of disney [Music] before we unveil our number one pick here are some honorable mentions charles muntz up what goes up

must come down [Music] stegosaurus fantasia an uncompromising depiction of prehistoric animal nature and nature in general [Music] tarzan's parents tarzan the bloody paw prince would have been enough the oysters alice in wonderland they were just kids little oysters little oysters but i'm sure there came none and this was scarcely odd because everyone mr whiskers frankenweenie oh look at that i've been impaled before we continue be sure to subscribe to our channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you'll have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them

if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications number one clayton tarzan this death seems more like something out of a final destination movie than a disney animated feature i've got some hunting to do sure there's no gore but there might as well be in the midst of a jungle brawl with tarzan clayton finds himself tangled in a cluster of vines unaware of the vine wrapped around his neck clayton gets reckless with his machete and hangs his head in defeat the only glimpse the audience gets of the body

is via its shadow which is almost as haunting as seeing the actual carnage do you agree with our picks check out this other recent clip from watchmojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos