History NightmareFuel / Fantasia

** The fact that what caused the dinsaurs' extinction in the first place is never shown, just the aftermath of it. Granted, this is largely due to [[ScienceMarchesOn there not yet being a consensus at the time of just what]] [[ScienceMarches On ''did'']] [[ScienceMarchesOn cause the K-T extinction]], but it still manages to be a shining example of NothingIsScarier. One minute the dinosaurs are frolicking in a lush floodplain, the next there's a cut to a lifeless desert with the surviving pockets of reptiles on a futile march for food and water, and the audience is left wondering just what the hell happened.

** Conductor Leopold Stokowski himself during the first half of this segment. There is something about the sudden movements of his conducting style and how his commanding presence is causing music that at times can be quite dissonant and unsettling. It is only when he says congratulations to Mickey Mouse after the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment that you may realize that he isn't supposed to be a Disney villain!

** [[ShadowDiscretionShot Mickey chopping up the broom]]. A DeletedScene (existing in pencil test form) had Mickey doing it ''onscreen''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj_kHQvIhXA See it here.]]

** Near the end of the segment, a strange shape can be seen walking from the camera back to the distance. It is shaped as a coffin and accompanied by very frightening music.
** Conductor Leopold Stokowski himself during the first half of this segment. There is something about the sudden movements of his conducting style and how his commanding presence is causing music that at times can be quite dissonant and unsettling. It is only when he says congratulations to Mickey Mouse later on that you may realise that he isn't supposed to be a Disney villain!

** Pictured above is [[ShadowDiscretionShot Mickey chopping up the broom]]. A DeletedScene (existing in pencil test form) had Mickey doing it ''onscreen''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj_kHQvIhXA See it here.]]

** Mickey's desperate attempts to stop the brooms, while the room is slowly but surely filling up with water. Especially the disturbing part where the brooms are still emptying their buckets in the fountain ''while everything around them is already flooded!''

** The way the chopped up broom slowly but surely comes back to life. Mickey then hearing sounds from behind the door and taking a peek...

** The dinosaurs dying from starvation is also very disturbing. Especially the one who is trying to dig up something to eat and then slowly realizes there isn't anything there. While he sits there, tired of his fruitless search, the desert wind starts blowing against his back and you realize he is doomed.

*** If that's not terrifying enough, there's the ''T. rex'' [[TheWorfEffect collapsing]] from the heat. Once it was a powerful creature feared by all, now even it is rendered powerless by nature's wrath and is forced to join in the march towards extinction.
*** There's also the silent panning over the landscape... ending with focusing on a dinosaur's skull. The silence is just utterly chilling and the clear evidence that these creatures died of starvation is unsettling to say the least.

[[caption-width-right:300:Chernabog... Truly a DarkGod...]]

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[[caption-width-right:237:Kneel before Chernabog...]]

[[caption-width-right:237:Kneel before [[Satan Chernabog...]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:348:What you're seeing is ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'' having to resort to brutal onscreen violence. Geez, Disney wasn't messing around!]]

** Pictured above is [[ShadowDiscretionShot Mickey chopping up the broom]]. A DeletedScene (existing in pencil test form) had Mickey doing it ''onscreen''.

** The idea that this hellish feast is a recurring event near that quiet little city near the bald mountain. You start to wonder whether the villagers are aware what happens each night when they are asleep and if they specifically stay inside to not witness it?

** Conductor Leopold Stokowski himself elicited fear in this troper at a young age during the first half of this segment. There was something about the sudden movements of his conducting style and how his commanding presence was causing music that at times could be quite dissonant and unsettling. It was only when he says congratulations to Mickey Mouse later on that this troper realised he wasn't supposed to be a Disney villain!

** Or what about the solar eclipse at the end of the segment? It's just so eerie that something so familiar as the sun can be so frightening.

''"Fantasia"'' is the most ''"adult"'' classic full length animated film Disney ever made. This makes it already a bit different than most of their other full length animated films. Almost all of the segments take place in the dark.

** Near the end of the segment a strange shape can be seen walking from the camera back to the distance. It is shaped as a coffin and accompanied by very frightening music.

** The MoodWhiplash of contrast between the quiet fish dance and the loud Russian flower dance, can be startling.

** The wizard ([[WordOfGod Yen]] [[BackwardsName Sid]]) has a very eerie piercing stare in his big eyes. He never ever speaks, which makes him appear all the more menacing.

** Mickey almost drowning in the whirlpool. If the wizard hadn't come back in time he would surely have died.
** Yen Sid providing a JumpScare moment by suddenly hitting Mickey with the broomstick. While this is primarily a Funny Moment, it can be quite startling if you're watching it for the first time. Not to mention the DeathGlare he's giving him the whole time.

*** Hell, the ''T. rex'' himself! If he doesn't scream {{Prehistoric Monster}}, then I don't know what does!
** The dinosaurs dying from starvation is also very disturbing. Especially the one who wants to dig up something to eat and then slowly realizes there isn't anything there. While he sits there, tired of his fruitless search the desert wind starts blowing against his back and you realize he is doomed.

*** What? No mention of the brief pause of silence before an earthquake literally rips open the earth? That was quite chilling!

** Although not a villainous character, the pitch-black pegasus with the glowing red eyes is a little creepy looking.

** Chernabog grabbing a handful of demons while he looks at them with an endeared smile. Then he just drops them into the lake of fire, as if he lost interest...
** The harpy grabbing a demon but then (accidentally?) dropping him, causing him to plummit to his doom inside a seemingly bottomless pit of fire!

** The half-formed and deformed imps and spirits dance convulsively, almost involuntarily, as if gripped with seizures. Some even start crawling on their backs halfway their walk, only to get up again immediately afterwards.

** Yen Sid providing a JumpScare moment by suddenly hitting Mickey with the broomstick. While this is primarily a Funny Moment, it can be quite startling if you're watching it for the first time.

** [[ShadowDiscretionShot Mickey chopping up the broom]]. A DeletedScene (existing in pencil test form) had Mickey doing it ''onscreen''.

** Yen Sid providing a JumpScare moment by suddenly hitting Mickey with the broomstick.

** Chernabog ends his night of horrors by bringing the mass of spirits, demons and fire together and producing a brilliant light [[http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120712225812/disney/images/6/68/Chernabog_18.PNG while his arms stretch toward the sky]]. Given that Disney was intending this to be a stand-in for the Devil himself, [[FridgeBrilliance and another name for Satan was Lucifer, or "Light Bringer"...]]

*** The ''Brontosaurus'', Diplodocus'', and ''Stegosaurus'' drowning in the mud, and being harassed by the ''Ceratosaurus''.

** The Pteranodon [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath getting eaten]] by a Mosasaur. This happens onscreen and [[DownerEnding ends that part of the segment]]. Worse still, the Pteranodon gets grabbed by the Mosasaur's jaws head first and then slowly gets dragged into the water, [[NothingIsScarier in almost complete silence, no less]]. There's no blood or anything, but it's still pretty shocking.
** The appearance of those Gallimimuses who head towards the river to drink. The music is eerie and they move like zombies, complete with glazy stare and jerky movements.
** The brutal battle between the Stegosaurus and the Allosaurus.
*** Hell, the Allosaurus himself! If he doesn't scream {{Prehistoric Monster}}, then I don't know what does!

*** The Brontosauruses and Stegosauruses drowning in the mud.
*** If that's not terrifying enough, there's the [[TheWorfEffect Tyrannosaurus collapsing]] from the heat. Once it was a powerful creature feared by all, now even it is rendered powerless by nature's wrath and is forced to join in the march towards extinction.

*** If that's not terrifying enough, there's the [[TheWorfEffect Allosaurus collapsing]] from the heat. Once it was a powerful creature feared by all, now even it is rendered powerless by nature's wrath and is forced to join in the march towards extinction.