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Nightmare Fuel / The Jungle Book (1994)

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  • The initial attack of Shere Khan on the village is extremely intense, especially with Mowgli's father being killed. The closeups of Shere Khan's snarling face make him look downright possessed (helping by him being played by a very real tiger).
  • Mowgli's introduction to Kaa. It's a very intense fight and surprisingly bloody for a PG film.
    • Kaa, despite being a snake (let alone a reptile), seemingly has the ability to scowl.
  • The scene where Mowgli sees Boone's trophy room is absolutely horrifying. Mowgli looks around the room seeing all the rugs and mounted heads from animals that Boone has shot, including elephants, hippos, antelopes, deer, leopards, and EVEN tigers. And each time we see a new one, we hear the animal's dying screams, all just to imply what a despicable scoundrel that Boone truly is due to his desire of killing for sport and fun, which also adds a lot of depth of why Shere Khan despises mankind for the very same reason.
  • Baloo getting shot by Boone and Wilkins while trying to defend Mowgli. Sure, he survives, but seeing such a cute, lovable and defenseless character in pain and possibly dying is enough to give any child nightmares, this is lampshaded when Mowgli cries while comforting a wounded Baloo.
  • Buldeo and the bandits attacking Colonel Brydon's caravan and its escorts on Boone's orders, murdering several of Brydon's loyal officers in the process. Even when Brydon manages to shoot down several bandits, he gets shot in the leg by another bandit, much to Plumford and Kitty's distress. Even when Plumford tries to save Brydon, he ends up being thrown off the caravan by Buldeo, allowing Tabaqui and Buldeo to make off in the caravan and take both Kitty and a wounded Brydon away to be held hostage by Boone.
  • Upon hearing the angry roars of Shere Khan from far away in the jungle while helping Boone hold Mowgli, Kitty and Brydon hostage, Buldeo and Tabaqui deduce that Shere Khan is on the watch against them. However, Boone doesn't care by saying that he's happy to 'bag himself a tiger', implying that he's willing to kill Shere Khan for his skin, though Buldeo points out that it's not worth the trouble to go after Shere Khan.
  • Tabaqui's unstable grimace when he tries to kill Mowgli is just demonic!
  • The second half of the film plays almost like a horror movie as Boone's men are picked off one by one. Unlike Mowgli, they don't know what to avoid in the jungle. Harley sinks in quicksand; Wilkins is mauled to death by Shere Khan; Tabaqui falls over a cliffside and onto jagged rocks; and Buldeo is claimed by a boobytrap inside Monkey City that buries him alive in salt.
    • Following Buldeo's death, Boone tries to call out to him while still holding Kitty hostage. Kitty attempts to free herself by violently striking Boone in the chest, but this only aggravates Boone to grab Kitty in the cheeks and kiss her out of spite, much to her complete disgust.
    • Boone's death, however, may go down as the most disturbing death in the film. After Mowgli and Kitty run off from the treasure room, all of the monkeys, including King Louie, go dead quiet (the solemn look on King Louie's angry face towards Boone is enough to make the audience go, "Uh oh..."). Then suddenly Kaa appears, ready to attack Boone. Boone falls into the water, and weighed down by all the gold he's collected, sees all the skulls of various men that Kaa has killed over the years. As we see each skull we hear the dying screams of each man succumbing to their greed. Boone's so horrified by the revelation, that he too screams ... and then Kaa kills him.
      • This scene is extra disturbing when you realize it's a callback to the trophy room scene. Boone is treated to Kaa's own "trophy room", a collection of skeletons from previous treasure hunters as they give away their dying screams. He dies knowing he's gone from hunter to hunted. Like those animals he hunted, his scream is a dying one.

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