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8. "Bambi" (1941)

Happy woodland creatures rolling in flowers and playing on ice? Sure. But what about the raging forest fire?

Before that, you have to make it through the scene where the title character's mother is killed by hunters in the dead of winter.

We're then forced to watch Bambi scramble around through the snow, calling for his mom until he runs into his father, the Great Prince of the Forest, who says, "Your mother can't be with you anymore."

One of the film's first trailers even ends with the movie title hovering over the rampant forest flames.

7. "The Lion King" (1994)

Although "The Lion King" is a re-telling of the Shakespeare play "Hamlet," in which Claudius kills his brother, Hamlet, it was still shocking to see a main character brutally killed in a kid's movie.  

Earlier, during the number, "Be Prepared," Scar sings about plotting the king's murder. While standing over his hyena flock, their assembly march looks suspiciously like Nazi goosestep. 

6. "Old Yeller" (1957)

The film spares us the visuals; however, we can hear the gunshot as Travis shoots his beloved dog. 

5. "The Littlest Horse Thieves" (1976)

Forget off-screen shootings, in this 1976 collaboration between Disney and British filmmakers, children are subjected to ponder the mass killing of horses. 

The film revolves around pony labor in the coal mines. When the workers are done with them it's off to the slaughterhouse. The title of the film was changed from the gloomy "Escape From the Dark" to the sunshiny "The Littlest Horse Thieves." 

Here's how Disney's Movies Guide describes the flick:

4. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1996)

If you get caught up in the farce of fancy fun the film offers—a colorful feast, the naive, but lovable hunchback, Quasimodo, and the whimsical gypsies—you'll be quick to miss blood spilled early on in the movie. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" includes a song showing Judge Claude Frollo killing Quasimodo's mother onscreen. 

After leaving her in a puddle of blood on the steps of Notre Dame, he attempts to dump baby Quasimodo in a well, but is stopped by a member of the church. When asked what he's doing he says: "This is an unholy demon. I'm sending it back to Hell where it belongs." 

3. "Dragonslayer" (1981)

Disney's Oscar winning "Dragonslayer" touts the bravery of a young apprentice sent to kill a dragon that's been eating young girls. Awesome. What the box cover doesn't tell you is that this dragon is being offered virgin human sacrifices from a King, many of which a burned at the stake in gory detail. There is also a cross-dressing subplot!

Other than this, the wizard from the beginning of the film turns out to be a sham. His untimely death results in the dragon's demise.

2. "The Black Cauldron" (1985)

By far one of Disney's darkest films, "The Black Cauldron" was the studio's first film to receive a PG rating.

It follows the adventure of Taran and his gang as they attempt to prevent a villain from raising an army of the undead. The film is riddled with skeletons, black magic and a Skeletor-like villain dubbed the "Horned King."

According to Slate, the movie was re-edited with 10 minutes of footage cut from the original to attain a PG rating. One of the controversial scenes involved one of the main villain's minions slicing a person's neck and torso, killing him in the process. There was another deleted scene where a magic mist dissolved a person's flesh. Pretty dark stuff (Tim Burton did concept art). 

1. The Black Hole (1979)

At the beginning of the movie, Perkins and his crew discover a long-lost spaceship, the Cygnus, mysteriously circling the rim of a black hole in an apparently stable orbit. Upon investigation, it turns out that the Cygnus's captain (Schell) has killed his entire crew and turned them into zombie slaves. Worse, he intends to fly directly into the Black Hole to see what's on the other side.

None of the cast escape their impending doom and they all end up in Hell. Literally, not figuratively.