What is the darkest Disney movie nobody talks about?
Arguably the darkest film in the entire Disney animated canon is the 1996 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The movie opens with Frollo killing Quasimodo's mother and attempting to kill an infant Quasimodo before he's forced to stop.
While touted by many as the point where Disney animation hit rock bottom, The Black Cauldron nevertheless has a notable place as a mature and dark film in the studio's history.
Disney releases its first feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, on December 21 at Carthay Circle Theatre, becoming the highest-grossing film of all time up to that point.
In 1937, Walt Disney Animation Studios released its first fully animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, pioneering a new form of family entertainment.
Dumbo. As the least vocal main character in Disney's entire film library (Dumbo never speaks in the film named for him!), you'd think this pachyderm would at least get more of a chance to shine in the Disney parks.
In 2023, The Walt Disney Company kicks off “100 Years of Wonder,” sometimes also called “Disney100.” The year-long event honors the centennial anniversary of the date brothers Walt and Roy Disney founded the company in 1923.
Before Mickey Mouse, there was his predecessor: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. For the first time, we're seeing footage of the first Disney character. The silent film in black and white dates back to 1928, when a young Walt Disney created Oswald.
There is one era of Disney's output (1970-1988) that is often overlooked and described as 'the dark age,' referring to when Walt Disney Pictures was trying to follow in Walt Disney's footsteps after his death.
Snow White is only 14 years old, making her the youngest. Jasmine, who is supposed to be 15, is the second youngest. Cinderella and Tiana are the oldest, both 19 years old.
The youngest princesses are Snow White (14), Jasmine (15), Ariel (16), Aurora (16), Mulan (16), and Merida (16). Even though Ariel famously insists that she's “not a child anymore,” realistically, she is—as are most of the official Disney heroines.
Still, though it's just three rated-R films on the service, it's clearly a strategic shift for Disney+ with carefully chosen titles. It also helps that Disney+ is adding films that are very popular.
The Dark Side of Disney is a feature-length documentary film that examines what happens when Disney fans take their obsessions to the extreme. In 2005, filmmaker Philip B. Swift and his mother scattered his grandmother's ashes in the moat around Cinderella castle in the Magic Kingdom.
