13 Disturbing Disney Moments That Ruined Your Childhood

Produced by Walt Disney as one of their live action efforts with Buena Vista, The Watcher in the Woods is an eerie mystery that unravels as a family moves to a new home in rural England. Discovering that a girl named Karen went missing 30 years ago in the local woods, her grieving mother reveals that she looks exactly like one of the daughters of the Curtis family, Jan, and the strange coincidences don't stop there.

One of the scariest efforts in the movie comes in the reveal of how exactly Karen went missing, regaling us with a spooky chapel on a dark and stormy night that soon collapses after being struck by lightning. The blindfolded Karen simply vanishes amidst the drama, making the whole thing all the more intense as the building begins to burn down.

Disney's strange dark period and films created outside of animation were a strange bunch, and The Watcher in the Woods is one of the best examples of it.