History NightmareFuel / BeautyAndTheBeast2017

'''Gaston:''' (''trying very hard not to lose his temper'') There are no such things as beasts, or talking teacups, or magic! But there are wolves, frostbite, and starvation!\\

* It's a small one that borders alongside [[PlayedForLaughs funny]] and [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming heartwarming]], but it's nothing short of BlackComedy when the tomato soup on the Beast's face resembles blood.

'''[=LeFou=]:''' ''[stands up]'' Deep breaths, Gaston. Deep breaths.\\

'''[=LeFou=]:''' ''[tries to stop him]'' Gaston! Stop it! [[NightmareFetishist Breathe, think happy thoughts. Go back to the war! Blood, explosions, countless widows.]]\\

'''Maurice''': [[PapaWolf You. Will never. Marry. My daughter.]]\\

'''Maurice''': [[PapaWolf You. Will never. Marry. My daughter.]]\\

--->'''Gaston''': If Maurice won't give me his blessing, then he's in my way. [[spoiler: Once the wolves are finished with him, Belle will have no one to take care of her but ''ME''!]]\\

** From the above-mentioned scene:
--->'''Maurice:''' Belle is not at home! She is with the--
--->'''Gaston:''' You say "beast" ''one more time'', '''I WILL FEED YOU TO THE WOLVES!'''

--->'''[=LeFou=]:''' I saw that coming.

-->[[spoiler:'''[=LeFou=]:''' Gaston, with all due respect...\\

-->'''Gaston''': If Maurice won't give me his blessing, then he's in my way. [[spoiler: Once the wolves are finished with him, Belle will have no one to take care of her but ''ME''!]]\\

-->'''Maurice:''' Belle is not at home! She is with the--
-->'''Gaston:''' You say "beast" ''one more time'', '''I WILL FEED YOU TO THE WOLVES!'''

** And a final touch with the curse: several of the people in the castle have relationships with each other (Lumiere and Plumette the feather duster, Madame de Garderobe and Maestro Cadenza, and Mrs. Potts and Chip). Given their fear at the prospect of becoming immobile objects, [[spoiler: and their desperation and pain as this happens when time runs out]], it's heavily implied that they won't even get to move onto the afterlife and be TogetherInDeath--there's ''no'' escaping the spell. It [[FridgeHorror stands to reason]] that they might [[AndIMustScream remain fully conscious inside their new, senseless, and inanimate forms, with absolutely no hope of release.]]

-->'''Maurice:''' Belle is not at home! She is with the-
-->'''Gaston:''' ''You'' say beast ''one more time'', '''I WILL FEED YOU TO THE WOLVES!'''

[[caption-width-right:350: '''I'M COMING FOR YOU, BEAST!!''']]

*** Really, Gaston using his charisma to manipulate the villagers and [=LeFou=] into dismissing Maurice as a madman just to save his own skin is rather chilling. [[TruthInTelivision This is true of most sociopaths in life, as they often use charisma to get away with every horrible deed they do.]]

*** Really, Gaston using his charisma to manipulate the villagers and [=LeFou=] into dismissing Maurice as a madman just to save his own skin is rather chilling. [[TruthInTellivision This is true of most sociopaths in life, as they often use charisma to get away with every horrible deed they do.]]

** [[spoiler: In the climax, Gaston shoots Beast ''three times''. It's not offscreen, there's no cut away. Gaston outright shoots the Beast in cold blood. Gaston's emotionless, stoic expression during his cruel act makes this even more nightmare-inducing.]]

-->'''Gaston''': If Maurice won't give me his blessing, then he's in my way. [[spoiler: Once the wolves are finished with him, Belle will have no one to take care of her but ''ME'']]!\\

[[caption-width-right:350: '''''I'M COMING FOR YOU, BEAST!!''''']]

* The wolves are even scarier here. One of them succeeds in biting Phillipe's leg during Belle's escape, and their alpha appears to have only one eye and is grizzled. He looks like a wolf version of the [[Film/TheJungleBook2016 2016 Shere Khan]], and on that note makes you dread the forthcoming live action realization of [[Film/TheLionKing2019 Scar and the hyenas]].

* To anyone who is [[spoiler: TerrifiedOfGerms]], it's blood-chilling when [[spoiler: it is revealed Belle's mother died of ThePlague. It raises a lot of FridgeHorror about whether or not Belle and the Beast should be in a place that may as well been [[ParanoiaFuel quarantined]].]]

* The villagers' angry mob to see Maurice off to the asylum is more frightening to see in live action with real people. They also partly ransack their own village to prepare weapons for their raid on the Beast's castle, and we later get a shot of a tremendous line of torches, as the entire village seems to join in the assault.

* We ''see'' the Prince being cursed; it ''looks exceptionally painful'' judging by the Prince's screams as the rest of the transformation takes place [[ShadowDiscretionShot in the shadows.]] The servants ''shit themselves'' at the sight of it.

* [[spoiler: In the climax, Gaston shoots Beast ''three times''. It's not offscreen, there's no cut away. Gaston outright shoots the Beast in cold blood. Gaston's emotionless, stoic expression during his cruel act makes this even more nightmare-inducing.]]
** Belle at one point actually pleads for him to stop [[spoiler: as he loads up for his final round.]]
* [[spoiler: Gaston's death. Like the original movie, he does fall to his death. But this time, [[SickeningCrunch we actually hear him land]].]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[spoiler:[[MoralEventHorizon If Maurice won't give me his blessing, then he's in my way. Once the wolves are finished with him, Belle will have no one to take care of her but ME!]]]]"'']]

-->'''Gaston:''' If you say beast ''one more time'', '''I WILL FEED YOU TO THE WOLVES!'''

* [[spoiler: In the climax, Gaston shoots Beast ''three times''. It's not offscreen, there's no cut away. Gaston outright shoots the Beast in cold blood.]]

* The movie adds a rather disturbing subplot regarding the servants: If no one declares their love for the Beast before the last rose petal falls, not only will they never be human again, but they won't even be Animate Inanimate Objects anymore...they'll become ''ordinary lifeless objects'', possibly a FateWorseThanDeath, because they ''won't'' be going to an afterlife...their consciousness and sentience will cease into oblivion.

*** If you still think Gaston is [[WaxingLyrical ever just the same]] as he was in the animated movie, then [[spoiler: his uncalled for [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope punching]] [[WouldHarmASenior Maurice]] will be [[IronicEcho ever a surprise]]. Aside from losing any remaining charm he had to begin with, it's shocking to see Gaston reach a whole new level of monstrous. [[TomatoSurprise [=LeFou=]'s unsurprised reaction to this ironically because most viewers didn't actually see it coming.]]]]

*** If you still think Gaston is [[WaxingLyrical ever just the same]] as he was in the animated movie, then [[spoiler: his uncalled for [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope punching]] [[WouldHarmASenior Maurice]] will be [[IronicEcho ever a surprise]]. Aside from losing any remaining charm he had to begin with, it's shocking to see Gaston reach a whole new level of monstrous. [[DramaticIrony [=LeFou=]'s unsurprised reaction to this ironically because most viewers didn't actually see it coming.]]]]

-->'''[=LeFou=]:''' I saw that coming.

*** If you still think Gaston is [[WaxingLyrical ever just the same]] as he was in the animated movie, then [[spoiler: his uncalled for [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope punching]] [[WouldHarmASenior Maurice]] will be [[IronicEcho ever a surprise]]. Aside from losing any remaining charm he had to begin with, it's shocking to see Gaston reach a whole new level of monstrous.]]