10 Movies That Got Real Dark, Real Fast
4. The Lion King
There are countless iconic moments in Disney Animation, with more than a few coming in the original The Lion King. The opening scene, the Hakuna Matata montage, and more, are favourites among Disney fans, but the movie isn’t all sunshine and singing.
In fact, The Lion King is arguably the most traumatic Disney movie ever, and that takes some doing. The phrase “long live the king” will forever be associated with the moment Scar throws his brother into the stampede to his death.
After the fun songs and playful nature between Simba and his father, and even with the obvious evil of Scar and his hyenas, this was jarring, but it was about to get so much worse. Poor little Simba finds the corpse of his father and tries desperately to wake him up, as only an innocent child could.
How can a movie so beloved be so difficult to watch?!