History NightmareFuel / TheBlackCauldron

* The Horned King himself. He's an undead sorcerer with NoSenseOfHumor who wants to raise an army of dead warriors to destroy everyone in order to [[AGodAmI be worshipped as a mortal by the few remaining living people or the undead that have completely overtaken the land]]. A definite contrast to the usual LaughablyEvil RoguesGallery of the Disney lineup.

* The Horned King is telling his warriors to become "messengers of death" and the screen makes a close up of his face, and we get the [[SarcasmMode lovely image]] pictured above. It almost looks like an example of TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou.

** The King's VillainousBreakdown when the heroes shut off the Cauldron with Gurgi's sacrifice, leading to his army of undead falling apart. He loses all his cool temperament, and his normally pitch-black eyes turn into RedEyesTakeWarning.
--->'''Horned King:''' Get up you fools!! KILL!!

!!Meta:
* In the climax of the "Cinderella Castle Mystery Tour" attraction at Tokyo Disneyland that operated from 1986 to 2006, guests faced the Horned King and got to watch him as he raises the skeletons lying on the battlefield in front of you as Cauldron Born. And it took place inside a dark cavern. With realistic audio-animatronics. It was as terrifying as it sounds. ''WebVideo/{{Defunctland}}'' [[https://youtu.be/H6rnPqSrE40 provided more details]].

-->In one of these missing shots, an undead warrior spawned by the title cauldron gorily slices through an unsuspecting villager.

--> '''Horned King:''' Get up you fools!! KILL!!

While ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'' may be related to its innocuous, light-hearted Disney cousins, it subverts them by being full of NightmareFuel beyond most children's comprehension. In fact, the ExecutiveMeddling during the making of this movie was because it was ''too'' scary!

While ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'' may be related to its innocuous, light-hearted Disney cousins, it subverts them by being full of NightmareFuel beyond most children's comprehension.

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* In the climax of the "Cinderella Castle Mystery Tour" attraction at Tokyo Disneyland that operated from 1986 to 2006, guests faced the Horned King and got to watch him as he raises the skeletons lying on the battlefield in front of you as Cauldron Born. And it took place inside a dark cavern. With realistic audio-animatronics. It was as terrifying as it sounds. ''WebVideo/{{Defunctland}}'' [[https://youtu.be/H6rnPqSrE40 provided more details]].

[[quoteright:340:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_black_cauldron_horned_king_6.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:340:[[NightmareFace Arise, my messengers of death! Our time has arrived!]]]]

** The last few parts of the film where the cauldron-born attack a group of soldiers. It is heavily implied that they have killed them. One could be forgiven for thinking the skeletons ate the soldiers, zombie-style. Several deleted shots show an additional undead warrior jumping out and a man’s skin being dissolved by the green mist with a pained expression and multiple boils on his face until there is nothing left of him but a skeleton.
** Some scenes were cut out such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8zQHO40Cys this scene]], where a man is dissolved by the mist

* The Horned King's army of the dead: [[http://images.wikia.com/disney/images/7/72/Blackcauldron576.jpg Sweet dreams]].

* The last few parts of the film where the cauldron-born attack a group of soldiers. It is heavily implied that they have killed them. One could be forgiven for thinking the skeletons ate the soldiers, zombie-style. Several deleted shots show an additional undead warrior jumping out and a man’s skin being dissolved by the green mist with a pained expression and multiple boils on his face.

* Some scenes were cut out such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8zQHO40Cys this scene]], where a man is dissolved by the mist until there is nothing left of him but a skeleton.
* To quote website Blog/ToplessRobot, here's two of the scenes that Disney cut out of the movie:
-->In one of these missing shots, an undead warrior spawned by the title cauldron gorily slices through an unsuspecting villager. In the other, one of the villain's more disposable henchmen gets a dose of cauldron-born mist and dissolves quite messily.
* The King's VillainousBreakdown when the heroes shut off the Cauldron with Gurgi's sacrifice, leading to his army of undead falling apart. He loses all his cool temperament, and his normally pitch-black eyes turn into RedEyesTakeWarning.
--> '''Horned King:''' Get up you fools!! KILL!!
* Even though it's played for BlackComedy, the fact that the Horned King constantly strangles Creeper for any setback or for being annoying. It gets to the point that Creeper felt compelled to strangle himself when the Horned King beckoned him over for the latest failure he did. Even though Creeper is an evil creature, he's essentially in a very abusive relationship with a tyrannical BadBoss.

* The Horned King is telling his warriors to become "messengers of death" and the screen makes a close up of his face, and we get [[http://application.denofgeek.com/pics/film/darkdisney/08.jpg this]] lovely image. It almost looks like an example of TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou.

While ''Disney/TheBlackCauldron'' may be related to its innocuous, light-hearted Disney cousins, it subverts them by being full of NightmareFuel beyond most children's comprehension.

* Taran's face being smashed into the ground by the Gwythaints, causing his mouth to bleed for a shot.

* The last few parts of the film where the cauldron-born attack a group of soldiers. It is heavily implied that they have killed them. One could be forgiven for thinking the skeletons ate the soldiers, zombie-style.

* The Horned King himself. He's an undead sorcerer with NoSenseOfHumor who wants to raise an army of dead warriors to destroy everyone in order to [[AGodAmI be worshipped as a mortal by the few remaining living people or the undead that have completely overtaken the land]]. A definite contrast to the usual LaughablyEvil RogueGallery of the Disney lineup.

* The Horned King himself. He's an undead sorcerer with NoSenseOfHumor who wants to raise an army of dead warriors to destroy everyone in order to [[GodAmI be worshipped as a mortal by the few remaining living people or the undead that have completely overtaken the land]]. A definite contrast to the usual LaughablyEvil RogueGallery of the Disney lineup.

* The Horned King himself. He's an undead sorcerer who wants to raise an army of dead warriors to destroy everyone. [[SarcasmMode Yeah, he's totally not scary at all.]]

* Elmer Bernstein made a number of terrifying soundtracks for this movie. Some are [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Crowning Music of Awesome]], while others are not, such as the Horned King's theme.

* In the climax of the "Cinderella Castle Mystery Tour" attraction at Tokyo Disneyland that operated from 1986 to 2006, guests faced the Horned King and got to watch him as he raises the skeletons lying on the battlefield in front of you as Cauldron Born. And it took place inside a dark cavern. With realistic audio-animatronics. It was as terrifying as it sounds.

* In the climax of the castle tour attraction at Tokyo Disneyland, you face the Horned King and get to watch him as he raises the skeletons lying on the battlefield in front of you as Cauldron Born. And it takes place inside a dark cavern. With realistic audio-animatronics. It's as terrifying as it sounds.

While Disney/TheBlackCauldron may be related to its innocuous, light-hearted Disney Cousins, it subverts them by being full of NightmareFuel beyond most children's comprehension.

* Elmer Bernstein made a number of terrifying soundtracks for this movie. Some are [[CrowningMusicofAwesome Crowning Music of Awesome]], while others are not, such as the Horned King's theme.

[[caption-width-right:340:[[NightmareFace Arise, my Messengers of death! Our time has arrived!]]]]

[[caption-width-right:340:[[NightmareFace Yeesh...]]]]