20 Most WTF Movie Moments Of 2018

13. Bhoot Gets Decapitated - Mowgli: Legend Of The Jungle

Mowgli Bhoot Dead
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Andy Serkis sure wasn't kidding when he called his Mowgli origin story a darker and more boundary-pushing affair than Disney's 2016 The Jungle Book.

This is realised no better than when Serkis introduces audiences to Mowgli's adorable wolf cub friend, Bhoot (voiced by Serkis' own son Louis Ashbourne no less).

The sweet-hearted runt is the closest thing the movie has to a Disney character, so it's perversely appropriate that Bhoot's decapitated, stuffed head shows up in the abode of hunter John Lockwood (Matthew Rhys) near the end of the film.

Poor Mowgli gets an up-close glimpse of Bhoot's disembodied head, and it's all the more galling because the last time he saw Bhoot (alive, anyway), they had an argument which ended with Bhoot scampering off.

Seriously, don't even bother watching this with your kids. It's not worth the sleepless nights.

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