Aw, Pooh's Grand Adventure is just another happy-go-lucky Pooh Bear movie. It's not like the series to get all dark and scary, right?
WRONG! Otherwise, why would it have this page in the first place?
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- Even though Pooh's confusion quickly defuses the moment, Owl's horrified reading of "Skull", combined with the background music, gives the audience an early hint about the scary things that this movie contains.
- Some of the imagery in the Disney Acid Sequence.
- For example: At one point, Owl makes an offhanded note that should the Skullasaurus attack them, they'll need to use first aid kits. Not necessarily bad, but then you see the gang all banded up in full body casts. What the heck kind of monster could do THAT in a single attack?! Thankfully, we never find out, but good lord...
- To be fair, this was more Rule of Funny, since everyone spins around and they get wrapped up like mummies. Piglet especially so with him being coccooned.
- Owl's narration.
- Owl in general is this trope for the movie. What with all of the Eldritch Abominations and Deadly Euphemisms he describes in his song—an upbeat marching song, for that matter—makes it so much worse, and the fact that he could have avoided this whole horror show by not being Wrong Genre Savvy does nothing to dampen the effect.
- For example: At one point, Owl makes an offhanded note that should the Skullasaurus attack them, they'll need to use first aid kits. Not necessarily bad, but then you see the gang all banded up in full body casts. What the heck kind of monster could do THAT in a single attack?! Thankfully, we never find out, but good lord...
- The Upside Down Rock was far more unsettling than it needed to be.Pooh: Look!Rabbit: The Upside Down Rock... if you've made it this far... you're where... monsters are...
- And then comes our heroes' first encounter with the Skullasaurus. Who knew that they could make the growling and gurgling of Pooh's stomach so horrifyingly scary?! You have to really see the scene yourself to appreciate how scary the combination of Hell Is That Noise, Nothing Is Scarier, and Dissonant Serenity is.
- After Rabbit reads the description for Upside Down Rock, the awful, hellish roars begin, and sound distant, but seem to be coming from the Biggest Woods of All that the group just exited. Everyone slowly turns to the sound, and stand there in silence, unsure what to do. Piglet, still smiling though his eyes betray his inner horror, asks lightly what that was. Tigger then deduces it was the Skullasaurus, as they all huddle together and back up from the forest.
- Rabbit takes charge and leads the group through a scary, maze-like forest of thorns, complete with carnivorous plants, reasoning the Skullasaurus wouldn't follow them into such a hostile environment that the group themselves is having trouble traversing. Nope. Then the Skullasaurus' roars are heard nearby.
- The entire group plummeting into a gorge.
- The scene where Piglet is nearly abducted by butterflies, especially since we never find out what they were intending to do with him...
- The Skullasaurus. We never actually see it, and, in truth, it's not actually real, but there's a sense that it's always around somewhere, watching the gang and waiting for a chance to strike...
- Seeing the cast of Winnie-the-Pooh, of all things, sink into a deep Heroic BSoD can be disturbing for a little kid.
- When the gang arrives at Skull, they realize that they spent the night in the place and are understandably horrified. When they ponder entering, the camera pans deeper and deeper into the dark depths of Skull, as the group worries about whatever horrors await them.Rabbit: But... We have no idea what we'll find!Eeyore: (the Skullasaurus roars in the distance, prompting him to sprint inside) But we know what's gonna find US!
- Pretty much everything inside Skull until Christopher Robin shows up qualifies as this. The whole sequence makes one feel like they're in an animated version of the Mines of Moria.:
- Piglet passes a deep cliff with smoke rising from below, and as he calls out for Christopher Robin, a plume of smoke takes the shape of a nightmarish, skull-like glare before fading away as Piglet looks.
- Tigger disturbs a swarm of bats and runs for his life.
- Eeyore is crossing a narrow bridge, but it gives out on him, sending him plummeting a great distance. He gets caught in some vines and branches, and inadvertently dons a dinosaur-ish helmet of branches. The falling Piglet lands on his rump, scaring Eeyore into running for his life. Piglet looks behind them to see his friend's monstrous shadow and cowers from the unknown thing.
- Rabbit, meanwhile, panicked by all the commotion, falls into a long tunnel and just keeps tumbling and tumbling, and we see numerous fossils surrounding the tunnel.
- The cave with giant crystals that reflect and distort Pooh's figure. One reflection was so scary, the gang mistook it for the Skullasaurus. Shortly after, Pooh ends up falling in a crevasse and gets stuck in between the crystals.
- In a less jumpy sense, Pooh sliding down into a lower cave. He tries to climb out, but the walls are too smooth and he has no rope. After a short time of trying, he realizes there's no way of getting out.
- In general the world outside the Hundred Acre Wood plays with the idea of an Eldritch Location, albeit toned down. Said setting gradually becomes sinister and colorless. Played straight with Skull which is an even scarier place especially for characters who haven't experienced anything like this before. It even has spooky vapors that almost appear to have moaning faces in them. Fortunately, it all gets better in the end when Christopher Robin is found and it's revealed Skull Cave is not as scary as it appeared to be.
