13 Disturbing Disney Moments That Ruined Your Childhood

13. The Spindle - Sleeping Beauty

Whilst Sleeping Beauty for the large part is a beautifully rendered love story, it's the scene that gives the drowsy princess her name that serves to be one of the film's most frightening moments. Cursed to die by her 16th birthday after touching a spinning wheel, three fairy guardians manage to alter her fate to that of a deep sleep - but cannot stop the sinister actions from playing out.

In this scene, Aurora is drawn by powerful magic to touch a conjuring up spindle, led by the luminous green light of Maleficent to her inevitable doom. Punctuated by alarming soundtrack spikes and cast in an eerie green glow, the event is remarkably ominous, made all the worse by the unconscious body of the princess left on the floor after Maleficent's dark intervention.

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