13 Disturbing Disney Moments That Ruined Your Childhood
1. Pleasure Island Isn't So Pleasant - Pinocchio
From Stromboli threatening Pinocchio with being turned into firewood by throwing an axe through another puppet (yikes), to being swallowed alive by a giant whale, Pinocchio has its fair share of disturbing moments. None more so than the reality of Pleasure Island though it would seem, where naughty boys pay their dues in one of the most horrifying ways imaginable.
After being set free to gamble, smoke, and drink at their leisure, the boys staying on Pleasure Island are slowly transformed into donkeys and condemned to be sold into slave labour for the rest of their life. Unaware of their fate, Pinocchio and friend Lampwick only realise when it's too late what's happening to them, with the latter slowly and painfully changing into a donkey before panicking and destroying the room they're in.
What makes it worse is hearing Lampwick's cries for his mother before they turn into frightening braying. We never actually see the men that do this get punished, or the boys helped in anyway either. There's a whole world of humans trapped in donkey bodies stuck in salt mines with no consequence.