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Nightmare Fuel / Fantasia 2000

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  • The Firebird Suite.
    • The embodiment of life and nature destroyed by a horrific firebird. Which comes in the form of a volcanic eruption.
    • One of the most heart-stopping, jump-scaring, Eye Awaken moments ever. The song already came prepackaged with its very own music sting, and the animators ran with it.
    • The scene where the Nature Sprite scrambles up a tree to escape the Firebird. It really looks like she might escape... and then we see the Firebird slowly rise up from behind her...
    • The look on the Firebird's face just before it engulfs the Nature Sprite is one rage and hate that no bird could ever match. If anything, that look more closely resembles the murderous gaze of a wasp.
    • Look closely at the smoke that rises from the Firebird as it awakens. It forms the shape of dozens of howling and screaming skulls.
    • Not all of the faces in the smoke are skulls. Many of them are (simplified) screaming human faces, many of which are being engulfed and dragged away by the skulls, which mostly show expressions of hate and malice. One even looks back in terror just before getting snared by a tendril of smoke.
    • The Firebird, and especially the skulls, become more horrifying when you find out this section was based on the 1980 Eruption of Mount St Helens, a real-life natural disaster which killed 57 people.
  • Rhapsody in Blue, when Rachel's parents look out their office windows and see their daughter running into busy traffic. The worst part is that the music gets dramatic as cars start stopping to avoid hitting Rachel. Thankfully, Rachel’s parents get to her in time to prevent her from being run over.
  • The horde of bats that emerge from the ground and attack the butterflies in Symphony No. 5. They tear a butterfly's wing and swarm it before chasing the smaller butterfly.
  • It's hard not to feel afraid for the poor baby whale in Pines of Rome when he gets trapped inside of the glacier. Those are some claustrophobic visuals...
  • The Steadfast Tin Soldier in Piano Concerto No. 2 goes through a lot of nightmare fuel after he and his boat are tossed out the window by the Jack-in-a-Box. First, he runs into an army of rats in the sewer, then when he escapes them, he lands in a bay...and gets eaten by a fish. Thankfully, that same fish is caught and sold to the Soldier's owner. But then the Soldier has to deal with Jack again, who threatens him to toss him into the fireplace!
  • One of the interstitials in the film features previously unseen material that never made it into Fantasia. One of the unseen pieces is of a Salvador Dali segment (taken from the then-unreleased Destino), and the image provided is of two nightmarish, grinning faces on top of tortoises that slowly slide together to form a ballerina. The way the picture slowly floats into frame, coupled with a rather ominous musical cue in the background, makes that brief segment of the interstitial pretty disturbing.

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