10 Movie Secrets Hidden In Single Frames

It shouldn't exactly come as breaking news to hear of the various animators involved in bringing numerous Disney animated classics to life sneaking their fair share of in-jokes and crude humour into supposed family flicks.

But in the case of one freakishly fast frame in the closing stages of Beauty and the Beast, the decision to add a subtle extra detail did actually imbue an effective touch of darkness into the inevitable fate of the fiercely arrogant Gaston.

In the slippery moments following on from a sneaky knife attack on a Beast who opts to refrain from killing the vain villain, Gaston tumbles to his death from atop the tower. Yet, a rather sudden second of close-up on Gaston's face as he falls past the imaginary camera would reveal a set of grim skulls in his pupils, suggesting that the doomed hunter was set for an audience with The Grim Reaper himself.

Sensing this to be too chilling a happening, despite it being as brief as noted, Disney would pull the theatrical cut skulls from eventual VHS and LaserDisc releases. However, the barely noticeable beat still managed to wiggle back onto the scene in subsequent DVD, Blu-Ray, and VOD offerings.