10 Creepiest Movie Mistakes Ever

6. Sarabi's Insanely Long Neck - The Lion King

Die Hard Mistake
Disney

Who among us hasn't seen The Lion King dozens of times over the last 25+ years?

Most everyone will remember the early scene where young Simba (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) is reluctantly bathed by his mother Sarabi (Madge Sinclair), but if you pay extra close attention, you might notice a technical curiosity.

When Sarabi reaches over to pick up Simba with her mouth, her neck appears to stretch a frankly disturbing length off-screen, given that the rest of her body doesn't move at all from her original position on the rock. Simply, that's physically impossible.

Obviously this is an animated film without a strict tether to our own reality, but even so, the animated "shortcut" caused fans to come up with horrifying creations such as this:

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