10 Most Traumatic Moments In Disney Movies

10. Dumbo's Bad Trip: Dumb (1941)

As a way to recoup loses after the box office flop Pinocchio (1940), Dumbo was churned out quickly and on a shoe string budget. Coming in at just over an hour, it's one of the shortest features in the Disney back catalogue.

But boy did they pack it with harrowing content.

To start with, Dumbo is torn away from his mother after she goes into a protective rage. Tormented for his giant ears, he spends a significant portion of the film being the subject of ridicule and pining for the loss of his only parent. We eventually get another heart wrenching scene, in which Dumbo visits his imprisoned mum, and weeps as they intertwine trunks through the bars of her cage... , it's rough.

But all the family tragedy aside, the most unnerving moment comes when Dumbo drinks a bucket of booze and begins hallucinating. He's tormented by a nightmarish parade of elephants in a scene more reminiscent of a Hunter S. Thompson novel than a kid's movie. Presumably the booze was laced with something dodgy, because Dumbo has one bad trip.