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  • In Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Miss Price turns several people into rabbits. It's a running gag that no matter what the actual target animal is supposed to be the spell always turns them into a rabbit.
  • This is used as a disturbing visual element in Black Swan, where the protagonist imagines herself morphing into an actual black swan as she struggles psychologically with her role in the ballet. Unless it's really happening...
  • The Guyver does this to Mark Hamill's character by turning him into a giant cockroach thing. Then he dies.
  • In High School Musical 2, the "Humuhumunukunukuapua'a" skit is about a lonely Hawaiian princess who seeks to break the spell on a prince who's been turned into a fish.
  • In Hocus Pocus, young Binks is turned into a black cat by the three sister witches, and is doomed to live forever with his guilt.
  • The first Jaka Sembung has the titular hero transformed into a pig by the evil sorcerer Ki Hitam. As an added insult, Jaka Sembung is a muslim where pigs are considered a non-halal animal.
  • Played for Laughs in Krull. Inept Mage Ergo the Magnificent tries to turn Colwyn into a duck for making fun of him, but it backfires, duck-ifying Ergo instead. He eventually decides to work with it, turning himself into a tiger when the group storms the Black Fortress.
  • The film Ladyhawke has a double case of this, orchestrated by an evil priest. Two lovers are cursed so that the man, Etienne Navarre, becomes a wolf by night, and the woman, Isabeau, becomes a hawk by day. They can only both be human at exact sunrise and sunset, but they can never touch.
  • In The Lobster, those who fail to find a partner in 45 days are turned into animals. At least they get to choose what animal they become.
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Humorously subverted when Sam eavesdrops on Gandalf and Frodo's conversation about the One Ring in Bilbo's former house. Samwise begs Gandalf not to use his magic to turn him into something "unnatural". Then the scene cuts to a shot of Gandalf walking with a horse and telling Sam to keep up, only for Sam to run along after them.
  • Maleficent: Maleficent turns the raven Diaval into a man to save him from being beaten to death. When he later pledges his service to her, she changes him into whatever form best suits her needs.
    Maleficent: I need a horse...
  • In A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, Freddy turns Debbie into a giant, helpless cockroach and then crushes her.
  • In Nine Lives (2016), the main character is trapped in the body of a cat for a good deal of the film.
  • In the 2003 TV film Quigley, Archie is turned into the titular Pomeranian after an untimely car crash and is sent back to Earth in his new form in order to prove that he can change his selfish and unforgiving ways.
  • The movie Russell is about a man who gets turned into a koala.
  • Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019): In what is considered to be one of the film's most terrifying scenes, Tommy is stalked by the farm's scarecrow, Harold, who has suddenly come to life. As it chases after him, Tommy stabs him with his pitchfork... only for Harold to completely No-Sell the attack, grab the pitchfork, and stab him with it. But instead of blood, straw seeps out of Tommy's wounds. He stumbles away, screaming for help, and more straw comes out of his mouth and clothes. The next morning, Tommy's vanished without a trace... but the scarecrow is wearing his clothes.
  • In The School for Good and Evil (2022), part of the Crapsaccharine World of The School For Good is that students who fail too many times are transformed into magical creatures for the School's further use. The Wish Fish used to be a human girl who Agatha frees, and a clumsy prince is transformed into a stymph and later killed by Tedros.
  • In the 1979 Disney comedy Unidentified Flying Oddball, the beautiful maiden Alisande carries around a goose (actually a gander) which she thinks is her father transformed by an evil spell, not knowing her father is actually being held prisoner in Mordred's dungeon (she returned to find her father vanished and the gander in their locked house). The hero gives up trying to convince her otherwise, and just pretends after rescuing her father that he got the magician Merlin to change him back.
  • Spy Kids: The OSS agents Floop captures get turned into "Fooglies", wacky-looking characters that co-star with him on his TV show and speak in backwards English. After Floop pulls a Heel–Face Turn, it happens to his Dragon Ascendant Alexander Minion, though unlike the others he's still able to speak properly.
  • Stardust:
    • Tristan is promised safe transportation, food, and lodging by Ditchwater Sal. She turns him into a mouse and puts him in a cage with some cheese. This is just for practical purposes rather than it just being a curse—Ditchwater Sal can't have Tristan taking up a lot of space and eating a lot of food.
    • Ditchwater Sal also keeps Tristan's mother as a slave, as a human when she's needed to do a service, and as a bird at other times. She seems rather pissed about it.
    • Lamia changes Bernard, a farmboy into a goat to help pull her cart (along with an actual goat from Bernard's farm). Later, she changes him into a young woman and the (real) goat into a man as a subterfuge. The drawback is that their voices don't change, so Bernard sounds very masculine and Billy still acts like a goat.
  • In the Turkish film Tatlı Cadının Maceraları (Adventures of the Sweet Witch) (based on Bewitched), a magical evil woman promptly transforms a man into a goldfish on a frying pan when he is unresponsive to her advances. He is later rescued by his magical wife.
  • In Time Bandits, the Source of All Evil turns one of the dwarves into a pig.
  • Troll:
    • In the original film, Torok transformed the residents of the apartment complex into various magical creatures, judging by Peter's transformation it's quite painful.
    • In Troll 2, people get turned into plant things by the goblins. Although if the reactions of one victim are anything to go by, it's not exactly painful.
  • Willow:
    • Evil empress Bavmorda transforms all of an army into pigs this way. The pig transformation is also used as a temporary status effect in the NES RPG based on the movie.
    • The sorceress Fin Raziel is also subjected to this treatment, though Bavmorda turns her into a possum, not a pig. And then Willow himself transforms her into... a bunch of other animals, with nary a pause in between. She (finally) gets better.
      Goat Fin Raziel: Maad Maartigan...
      Madmartigan: What the Hell happened to you?
  • The evil Djinn in Wishmaster does this many times to his victims, with multiple variants. He changes people into trees, brick walls, mannequins, glass doors, crocodiles, a pimple on someone's ass, and many other unpleasantries.

Alternative Title(s): Live Action Films

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