4. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Five words Christopher Lloyd murders a toon. For certain readers, that just brought back every repressed memory about this film. The problem was that at first the premise for this film seemed like a great idea a parallel universe where cartoons live side-by-side with human beings. It picked the premise up and ran with it, creating inventive sight gags galore and the amusing sight of cartoons dealing with real-world problems, such as marital infidelity. But an audience cant live off just observing stuff unless its a documentary so we needed a plot to go with this new and interesting world. What the scriptwriters decided upon was Judge Doom, and he was terrifying. Rightly cottoning on that you couldnt kill a toon with physical punishment, he invented Dip, a toon-killing solution which gave us one of the most disturbing childrens film sequences ever. Its probably Toontowns equivalent of a gangland murder. Its just so disturbingly graphic, from the adorable toons screams to the agonisingly slow death Doom gives it, and it sticks out like a sore thumb in this childrens movie. Its the kind of moment a kid would have nightmares about it, because
just look at it. Its ridiculously disturbing, and the sort of thing that stays with you way after your childhoods over. Whatever sense of innocence you had from watching cartoons, Doc Brown just took it out back and slaughtered it, Old Yeller style, and you can never go back.