Let’s not forget about Susan Sheridan, Freddie Jones, Nigel Hawthorne, Arthur Malet, Eda Reiss Merin, Adele Malis-Morey, Wayne Allwine, Candy Candido and John Huston (the voices of Princess Eilonwy, Dallben, Fflewddur Fflam, King Eidilleg, Orddu, Orwen, one of the Horned King’s guards and the narrator). They passed away as well.
I saw this movie in the theatre when I was SIX. My mom doesn't remember taking me, but I sure as hell remember! I wasn't scared by it, I actually found it compelling and certain scenes stuck with me. I was fascinated by many things in the film, but with respect to the Army of the Dead, it was the gruesome idea that the Horned King had gathered up all the dead from his - presumably lost - battles and piled them in a huge room, awaiting a time centuries in the future when they would be reborn and he would become powerful again. The Black Cauldron was in fact my introduction to the fantasy genre, an addiction that I have been stuck with for 35 years now XD
this scene shows the problem with the movie. This feels like 2 different crews are making it. One crew wants to make a gorgeously animated, dark, gothic story while the other team wants a funny comedy. these dont mix well. The Horned King, the cauldron, and the undead skeletons all deserve a better movie with better heroes.
Agreed. Admittedly, the Horned King was such a great Villain! But yeah, this was an odd one for me. Honestly, it should have been straight up dark all the way. Disney for adults.
I know it's made by Disney, and I believe it was the late Mr. Walt Disney's motto of sorts to "not to create movies deliberately for children, but for children in all of us." Sure The Black Cauldron is clearly one of the darkest movies Disney has even made, but there are many other dark themed movies nowadays which also entertain even little kids. Harry Potter is one to name from top of my head. I think today it's obvious many people despite their age enjoy animation as a form of art. That being said, I'd say Disney would do well to also create movies which are mainly targeted for children 12+ and more adult audience. It doesn't even have to be some superduperextravaganza budget movie like Frozen. Let's just say if they set the budget that the Black Cauldron originally had and made a bit darker movie for adults, I have a feeling it would turn out to be a success now. Would it be the next "the most profitable movie ever made?" No, but there would still be profit to be made.
Anyone here remember The Three Musketeers that had Charlie Sheen and Chris O'Donell in it and was also made by Disney? I think that one was actually PG-13
@@thebirdguardien.14 chill out karen, that happened a lot during every time period, not must medieval. medieval is the time period where honor was very popular
@@thebirdguardien.14 im not gonna take advice from a sjw when there was rape during EVERY time period. and yes i did quite enjoy the medieval period thank you :)
This movie was the shit when I was a kid. I loved every second of it. Despite how much Katzenberg edited down. I may be the only one that actually likes this movie through and through it's mistakes and flaws even from childhood.
If I was to see a live action Disney film (which I have sworn never to watch), there would be only 3 exceptions: 1. Black Cauldron 2. Atlantis 3. Treasure Planet These would be the only ones I would pay to see, even if they would be completely inferior to the originals.
Roh Hurra they should do a live action but, whit out the tone down fairies, put mor emphasis on the dark fantasy aspect of the movie, and definitely, but definitely, remove or change the good damn Ewok and remove the green goblin
Because Voldemort was honestly a joke of a villian really I mean seriously he went after a baby that was how he was killed the first time and he still couldn't do anything to overcome this later the Horned King is a proper necromancer villian
They should have, but unfortunately they took the wrong message from how this movie flopped, and instead of realising that trying to force child friendly stuff in, they just decided "spooky cartoons bad".
@@matthewbibby8921 Yeah atleast for me the Scary/Dark parts where the things that i wanted to see and i bet a lot of children that watched it felt the same way
@@matthewbibby8921 I thought it flopped because, in the wake of stuff like _Robin Hood_ and _The Fox and the Hound_ , this film seemed to be really off-beat from Disney's usual output. It's like turning out _The Little Engine That Could_ and _It's a Small World_ and then producing _The Hobbit_ out of nowhere.
I watched this movie when I was a little kid, although it scared me half to death. Even though it doesn't give me sort of scare factor anymore, Still. Love. It!!!
This moment is why I'm terrified of skeletons. I watched this scene once while it was being broadcasted on TV, and it's still difficult for me to watch it today.
I may have seen this movie when I was 6 or 7 and I wanted to forget about it and in October of 2010 I watched it, and it gave me nightmares. I couldn't sleep. Hey, for those of you who love Disney, and have seen this when you werea kid. Don't watch it on your senior year of high school, or it will give you nightmares
@@llilacprince I wouldn't call it a masterpiece. I mean, isolated [parts of the animation and soundtrack are... But then there's the god awful editing and... *Gurgi* .
My friend still has the old VHS from the Black cauldron. I watched this movie when i was a little kid back then. My friend had a sleepover and me and a few of his friends were there too. We all watched a few Disney movies and after we finished watching Aladdin my friend put another VHS in. He said that the movie is called The Black Cauldron. We never heard of the movie so we all watch it. Most of us were scared, i was a little afraid but more fascinated by the movie. Let's just say that most of my friends were afraid to sleep that night but i didn't had nightmares. 😅
Come on Disney.. remake this as live action film! .. it flopped mainly because it was frekn horror to children back then.. it will perfect to remake it
I don't know if they do they have to make it really good. They better not make it PG. Honestly I'd prefer they don't touch it. They screwed up a lot of things specially star wars
Nah, it flopped cause they didn't have the balls to go in. I would however be happy with them trying to remake this though, but only if they drop the comedic stuff and go full horror.
So, is the Horned King so far the only Disney villain to use necromancy? I don't think any of the other villains have even considered doing something like that!
Despite it's flaws, I still adored this movie as a kid, not much of the fantasy genre from disney hit it like the black cauldron did, I never minded the comical goofyness mixed with the dark gloomy tones. it's had potential and it was the type of fantasy I was into. I think the closest children movie I liked that gave me almost similar feeling to this and (from a story writing standpoint) done it successfully is Coraline.
Plot twist: Hazel is now the Horned King. He was promised that rabbits would always thrive, but then Hazel went "Nah, man. I don't want to die yet, I wanna be a god and create my own army." But then the Black Rabbit ended even that attempt in a form of a cauldron. XD
Personally Disney was only focusing on the films content rather than the story because they don’t want adult animation to ruin their reputation and as a result it failed Disney. But when I watched it it’s surprisingly not bad.
I always thought this movie was pretty good but even though I haven't read them myself except for listening to parts from audiobooks I kind of Wonder What A more faithful adaptation from the books might look like
This movie wasn't scare at me but i didn't scare when the Skeletron attacked the men of Horned King transformed them into the deads men. I fell in love with Taran. My mom give me this movie in VHS with Little Mermaid 2 and Pocahontas 2 when i was three :D. It's was a First sign of love being one of my favorite Disney movies with 101 Dalmatians, Oliver and Company, Dinosaurs and Chicken Little :D
I think this amazing 🎥 needs a remake! It's reminds me of Dragons Lair the arcade 🎮 it's the same exact style of animation! Did Don Bluth work on Dragons Lair and Space Ace?
At 2:02, notice how the whole castle rat population are fleeing the castle and swimming in the moat? They can sense the indomitable dark magic and malevolent powers of the Black Cauldron being activated and they instinctively were fleeing for their lives to be away from it. At least animals have more common sense to flee from dark and dangerous magical objects and twisted and malicious magic than humans who are power-hungry, toxicity of desire for power and lacking self-preservation until they don’t have any more control when something goes wrong.
It is very noticeable in their similar appearances, both wear robes, both have empty eye sockets with luminous pupils, both are undead sorcerers (lich) and both have horns.
I felt that the producers should have warned families that the Black Cauldron goes heavy metal on horror themes and the flesh melting emphasized that the cauldron is basically a nuclear weapon that is dangerous to the unwary
I'm kinda disappointed that Disney took this down, I get little kids were being scared and having nightmares but they could of at least made it nicer rather then just taking it of the Disney store and from cinemas, maybe they could of used the same characters just in another movie 😶
No. This movie is a classic piece of cinema that doesn't need to be changed. When I was like 4 or 5 this was one of my favorite movies even though it scared me. 😂
I was thinking the same thing. -Deathless masters of magic -Soft spoken, though you hang on every syllable -horns -command legions of undead (though we didn't see much of that in Adventure time from the Lich King, but he says as much during his "fall" speech.) -both thwarted by young teens and their friends.
Who thinks this was Disneys attempt to be like those classic adult fantasy animated movies of the 70’s and 80’s like Heavy Metal, Wizards, Fire and ice, Rock and Rule and Vampire hunter d?
Imagine if they left the cauldron alone to the witches. Not like the Horned King and his goons would be able to beat the witches, they’re advanced in magic.
@@seanjenkins2188 It might be a hold over from the _original_ animation of the skeletons. I know there was a LOT of "shenanigans" when it came to the final edit, and that particular scene at 2:25 might be an original unedited sequence, as it immediately led to the men that were jumped to dissolve and become skeletal warriors (with eyes) themselves. Notice how clunky and sudden the edit/music drops when it cuts to Eilonwy.. and _then_ you see the rest of the skeleton warriors, but without eyes (which could have been a Katzenberg demand, as he was the one who forced the editing of all scenes that were considered too violent for a Disney film).
@@TheRealNormanBates Actually, it was the other way around. The shot of the skeletons jumping the 2 guys was the reanimated one. Notice how it cuts from a skeleton lunging at the camera to a medium shot with no flow between cuts? I think that's where we were to see one of the thugs get their throat slashed and the other one dissolved.
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RIP John Hurt...you made the Horned King into a kick ass villain
Let’s not forget about Susan Sheridan, Freddie Jones, Nigel Hawthorne, Arthur Malet, Eda Reiss Merin, Adele Malis-Morey, Wayne Allwine, Candy Candido and John Huston (the voices of Princess Eilonwy, Dallben, Fflewddur Fflam, King Eidilleg, Orddu, Orwen, one of the Horned King’s guards and the narrator). They passed away as well.
@@willrobinson3662 of course
I'm sorry about John hurt, I'm m so sorry truly I am.😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔
He’s the same actor who performed the chestburster from Alien
@@marvincorre4783 Also, the Elephant Man and Hazel from Watership Down and Snitter from Plague Dogs
I saw this movie in the theatre when I was SIX. My mom doesn't remember taking me, but I sure as hell remember! I wasn't scared by it, I actually found it compelling and certain scenes stuck with me.
I was fascinated by many things in the film, but with respect to the Army of the Dead, it was the gruesome idea that the Horned King had gathered up all the dead from his - presumably lost - battles and piled them in a huge room, awaiting a time centuries in the future when they would be reborn and he would become powerful again.
The Black Cauldron was in fact my introduction to the fantasy genre, an addiction that I have been stuck with for 35 years now XD
Did you also see Return to oz by Disney the same year?
This was the first movie I saw in theaters at 3 and had a readalong and stuffed Gurgi
this scene shows the problem with the movie. This feels like 2 different crews are making it. One crew wants to make a gorgeously animated, dark, gothic story while the other team wants a funny comedy. these dont mix well. The Horned King, the cauldron, and the undead skeletons all deserve a better movie with better heroes.
Agreed. Admittedly, the Horned King was such a great Villain! But yeah, this was an odd one for me. Honestly, it should have been straight up dark all the way. Disney for adults.
I know it's made by Disney, and I believe it was the late Mr. Walt Disney's motto of sorts to "not to create movies deliberately for children, but for children in all of us." Sure The Black Cauldron is clearly one of the darkest movies Disney has even made, but there are many other dark themed movies nowadays which also entertain even little kids. Harry Potter is one to name from top of my head.
I think today it's obvious many people despite their age enjoy animation as a form of art. That being said, I'd say Disney would do well to also create movies which are mainly targeted for children 12+ and more adult audience. It doesn't even have to be some superduperextravaganza budget movie like Frozen. Let's just say if they set the budget that the Black Cauldron originally had and made a bit darker movie for adults, I have a feeling it would turn out to be a success now. Would it be the next "the most profitable movie ever made?" No, but there would still be profit to be made.
Anyone here remember The Three Musketeers that had Charlie Sheen and Chris O'Donell in it and was also made by Disney? I think that one was actually PG-13
Kevin Blanchard blame the order for reshoots/removal of 12 whole minutes, with the new scenes toned down like 13 degrees...
Bob Iger is to blame.
Its Disney...
I can't think of a more underrated Disney villain. John Hurt is so damn good here.
This is the movie that made me fall in love with medieval era.
you shouldn't be in love with the mediaval Era. It's actually a terrible and chaotic time. Where women were raped, kidnapped or sold as sex slaves.
Samanthagroulouis Jasmine
Nobody asked, Karen.
@@thebirdguardien.14 But there are also bad things, such as disease and no v8 motor
@@thebirdguardien.14 chill out karen, that happened a lot during every time period, not must medieval. medieval is the time period where honor was very popular
@@thebirdguardien.14 im not gonna take advice from a sjw when there was rape during EVERY time period. and yes i did quite enjoy the medieval period thank you :)
I think this movie would have been a LOT better if Katzenberg hadn't edited it.
Amen. Hopefully Disney will restore it and release it
ThePizzadude93 “edit”!?!?
That asshole BUTCHERED THIS MOVIE!! He literally had 0 experience with film in ANY capacity!!
@Zack Graves He should have never been hired in the first place
Katzenberg is nothing but a coward .
A pussy is more like it
Or hopefully the uncut black and white print that Joe Hale (producer of this) has will arrive one day.
This movie was the shit when I was a kid. I loved every second of it. Despite how much Katzenberg edited down. I may be the only one that actually likes this movie through and through it's mistakes and flaws even from childhood.
This may be the only movie that could get turned into a live-action one and no one would be offended by it. It could have potential...
No thanks I don't want Disney to touch this feel they ruin a lot of films After all they ruin Star Wars
I am sure that in the 1980s that the Moral Majority had something to say about it.
Gosh, I want to see live action of this so much.
If I was to see a live action Disney film (which I have sworn never to watch), there would be only 3 exceptions:
1. Black Cauldron
2. Atlantis
3. Treasure Planet
These would be the only ones I would pay to see, even if they would be completely inferior to the originals.
Roh Hurra they should do a live action but, whit out the tone down fairies, put mor emphasis on the dark fantasy aspect of the movie, and definitely, but definitely, remove or change the good damn Ewok and remove the green goblin
The Horned King makes Voldemort look like a joke, with his demonic voice, a terrifying look, and an undead army.
Because Voldemort was honestly a joke of a villian really I mean seriously he went after a baby that was how he was killed the first time and he still couldn't do anything to overcome this later the Horned King is a proper necromancer villian
Voldemort is one of the biggest villains in the history of movies kid
Horned King is like the Skeletor of the Disney Realm.
except more darker and twisted and i love it
@@jackwoodman375 yeah ! You’re right , Horned King makes Skeletor look pretty tamed
They need to remake this one only do it right where it's actually rated R
@Cauldron-Born Touchstone Pictures still exist?
2:56 that laugh
This is one of my favourite childhood memories growing up brilliant. Audio book of this play to your children they won't ever forget it
Disney should have done more epic fantasy movies. This is the closest thing to Disney's Game of Thrones or Disney's Lord of the Rings we have.
They should have, but unfortunately they took the wrong message from how this movie flopped, and instead of realising that trying to force child friendly stuff in, they just decided "spooky cartoons bad".
@@matthewbibby8921 Yeah atleast for me the Scary/Dark parts where the things that i wanted to see and i bet a lot of children that watched it felt the same way
@@matthewbibby8921 I thought it flopped because, in the wake of stuff like _Robin Hood_ and _The Fox and the Hound_ , this film seemed to be really off-beat from Disney's usual output.
It's like turning out _The Little Engine That Could_ and _It's a Small World_ and then producing _The Hobbit_ out of nowhere.
Wales was a funny place back in the day, what with all the spooky skeleton kings going around.
I love this movie.
...YES...yes...!!!
1:19; I swear that was always his creepiest face, with naught but two red dots for eyes.
I watched this movie when I was a little kid, although it scared me half to death.
Even though it doesn't give me sort of scare factor anymore,
Still. Love. It!!!
Best Disney movie ever.
I believe Gurgi is the inspiration to Andy Serkis's portrayal of Gollum
Except Gollum betrays his friends
@@Jothomas214 😂😂😂
This moment is why I'm terrified of skeletons. I watched this scene once while it was being broadcasted on TV, and it's still difficult for me to watch it today.
SoulStealerSlayers I hate to break this to you but...
There’s a Skeleton hiding inside you right now...
aw
@@FischerFilmStudio *GASP!* There is?! 😱🤯
Damn, this movie had such potential.
Blame it on Katzenberg
This is so death metal \m/
reminds me of Ghost Train style aesthetics from the Royal Show in late 80s and early 90s. Even just the lurid green mist, i absolutely love.
when the lich creates its phylactery
Didn't know Disney made such an animated movie like this, I'll watch it
Why have I never seen the film, I would have loved it as a kid
No you wouldnt have.. that's why it almost bankrupted Disney.. I had it as a kid but it scared me lol
I may have seen this movie when I was 6 or 7 and I wanted to forget about it and in October of 2010 I watched it, and it gave me nightmares. I couldn't sleep. Hey, for those of you who love Disney, and have seen this when you werea kid. Don't watch it on your senior year of high school, or it will give you nightmares
@@llilacprince I wouldn't call it a masterpiece.
I mean, isolated [parts of the animation and soundtrack are... But then there's the god awful editing and... *Gurgi* .
My friend still has the old VHS from the Black cauldron. I watched this movie when i was a little kid back then. My friend had a sleepover and me and a few of his friends were there too. We all watched a few Disney movies and after we finished watching Aladdin my friend put another VHS in. He said that the movie is called The Black Cauldron. We never heard of the movie so we all watch it. Most of us were scared, i was a little afraid but more fascinated by the movie. Let's just say that most of my friends were afraid to sleep that night but i didn't had nightmares. 😅
Come on Disney.. remake this as live action film! .. it flopped mainly because it was frekn horror to children back then.. it will perfect to remake it
I don't know if they do they have to make it really good. They better not make it PG. Honestly I'd prefer they don't touch it. They screwed up a lot of things specially star wars
Most kids are fucked up as is
Nah, it flopped cause they didn't have the balls to go in.
I would however be happy with them trying to remake this though, but only if they drop the comedic stuff and go full horror.
Blame Jeffrey Katzenberg, NOT the company itself.
No. Have it be a little closer to the books.
The horned king makes Voldemort look like a Mickey Mouse villain! Horned king will be forever Disney’s best villain of all time
This scene scared the shit out of me as a kid. For weeks afterwards, I couldn't go into a darkened room for fear of having a skeleton jump out at me!
Think of this as a live-action remake
Indiana Jones level of PG
But still John Hurt will play the Horned King in the live-action. Sadly he's already passed away.
Best Disney animated movie EVER, almost non one remember it
My personal disney headcanon is that Horned King is Maleficent father and Grimhild's grandfather.
Time to introduce William Campbell and his Boomstick! If that fails. Call in the Doom Slayer!!
Maybe both of them AND John Constantine.
William Campbell? Do you mean Ashley J. Williams (Bruce Campbell)?
@@TheSixthDoctor William... Bruce.... Ashley... he's still the one with the gun.
So, is the Horned King so far the only Disney villain to use necromancy? I don't think any of the other villains have even considered doing something like that!
You forgot Dr. Facilier
this deserved more hype
Despite it's flaws, I still adored this movie as a kid, not much of the fantasy genre from disney hit it like the black cauldron did, I never minded the comical goofyness mixed with the dark gloomy tones.
it's had potential and it was the type of fantasy I was into.
I think the closest children movie I liked that gave me almost similar feeling to this and (from a story writing standpoint) done it successfully is Coraline.
This has no flaws! The darkest Disney movie of all fime
Return to Oz is no different
Damn. The Horned King is experimenting with some literal dark arts here. Paging Doctor Strange!😮
I am surprised Disney fans haven't critique this movie.
It's because it's one of the darkest films ever made. Disney's grandson helped with this. His mind was all about dark. Of course he died Sadly old age
"a brave warrior"
ok, which of the announcer's loved ones is Disney keeping hostage?
Expectations: a typical Disney film,nothing unusual.
What we got: the "Bleed" of the Disney universe (by "Bleed", I mean the Meshuggah song)
Theres a deleted scene in 2:29
Red star Animation exactly a scene in which as the soldiers explicitly melted
I don’t blame them for running
i loved this movie as a kid, i loved how dark and scary it was. although i hated gurgi and the 3 witches lol
And that why i do not miss with forces that are beyond my own comprehension especially the black cauldron.
Victor Perez *mess with, but I agree
When it started talking in the beginning I had a heart attack 😂😂😂😂
Blast you movie for scarring my 10 year old mind forever, I hated hated hated hated this sequence
You would have hated it more had they not cut the part of the man being dissolved
What in our parents right minds thought this was a lovely family feature to show their small children
Its creepy how he has skin on his arms but his face is just a skull
Featherine Feather Keep in mind, the skin on his arms doesn't look very fresh, if you get my drift.
Used to watch this in VHS all the time!
THE UNDEAD SHALL DEVOUR THEM ALL!!!
I don't know why, but I'm reading this phrase in the voice of The Skeleton King from srmthfg, maybe something is wrong with me.
I miss hand drawn animation like this.
Wow, Hazel really went downhill after he went on that trip with the Black Rabbit.
halleck3 What do you mean?
@@willrobinson3662 Ah, referencing John Hurt who voiced Hazel as well as the horned king here. I admit it's a bit obscure.
Plot twist: Hazel is now the Horned King. He was promised that rabbits would always thrive, but then Hazel went "Nah, man. I don't want to die yet, I wanna be a god and create my own army." But then the Black Rabbit ended even that attempt in a form of a cauldron. XD
@@iRinnda Bahahahaahaaa
Watership down reference
A scary scene
Gosh, at least we can pause the video while the folks hanging up there...
1 - pause this at 1:19
2 - simultaniuosly start BFG division by Mick Gordon and unpause this
2:27 I can’t believe they just…made it so obvious a whole scene was cut. The way the music just ended.
This looks amazing
Personally Disney was only focusing on the films content rather than the story because they don’t want adult animation to ruin their reputation and as a result it failed Disney. But when I watched it it’s surprisingly not bad.
I always thought this movie was pretty good but even though I haven't read them myself except for listening to parts from audiobooks I kind of Wonder What A more faithful adaptation from the books might look like
It just hit me. Holy balls. The horned king is the night king. Whoa.😮
this is how more Disney movies should be
Adoro esse desenho
2:23 GOD, YOU CAN HEAR THE JUMP IN THE AUDIO!! They could've at least re-scored the scene instead of poorly cutting up the original music. -_-
Because they had removed an explicit scene about how human soldiers melted to the bone, that's why the audio is cut off
@@IloveSatyrs9191 I know. I'm saying they could've just redone the music so it matched the timing of the censored version
@@AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH you have a good username 😏
@@IloveSatyrs9191 I don't know how to feel about that emoji...
@@AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 😈
This movie wasn't scare at me but i didn't scare when the Skeletron attacked the men of Horned King transformed them into the deads men. I fell in love with Taran. My mom give me this movie in VHS with Little Mermaid 2 and Pocahontas 2 when i was three :D. It's was a First sign of love being one of my favorite Disney movies with 101 Dalmatians, Oliver and Company, Dinosaurs and Chicken Little :D
Lord Ainz knows how to put on a show. Lol
Sasuga!
I am the only one that wants to put something funny on his eyes like 8 pool balls
The Horned King is the mental image I imagine the Daleks had of the War Doctor
Same
This is the most metal scene Disney has ever made.
You can see the heavy metal influence. that's pretty cool. Villains are too cool for the rest of the characters lol
Ooh HM that’s a classic 80’s fantasy animated epic and same composer
Disney needs to chill the hell out
Your comment brought a smile to my face.
It's not scary at all and I'm 10
Um.. I'm 13 and I'm still scared.
why i remember the ghostbusters movie when i watch this good masterpice of movie?
Cause it's the same person that composed the music (Elmer Bernstein)
I think this amazing 🎥 needs a remake! It's reminds me of Dragons Lair the arcade 🎮 it's the same exact style of animation! Did Don Bluth work on Dragons Lair and Space Ace?
Yes
Scared me as a kid. Didn’t even see the whole movie.
So this is how Walt Disney Animation Studio gave us their First PG movie.
Awesome
This movie scared the shit out of me when I was a kid
At 2:02, notice how the whole castle rat population are fleeing the castle and swimming in the moat?
They can sense the indomitable dark magic and malevolent powers of the Black Cauldron being activated and they instinctively were fleeing for their lives to be away from it.
At least animals have more common sense to flee from dark and dangerous magical objects and twisted and malicious magic than humans who are power-hungry, toxicity of desire for power and lacking self-preservation until they don’t have any more control when something goes wrong.
This guy was basically the inspiration for The Lich.
It is very noticeable in their similar appearances, both wear robes, both have empty eye sockets with luminous pupils, both are undead sorcerers (lich) and both have horns.
I felt that the producers should have warned families that the Black Cauldron goes heavy metal on horror themes and the flesh melting emphasized that the cauldron is basically a nuclear weapon that is dangerous to the unwary
I'm kinda disappointed that Disney took this down, I get little kids were being scared and having nightmares but they could of at least made it nicer rather then just taking it of the Disney store and from cinemas, maybe they could of used the same characters just in another movie 😶
No. This movie is a classic piece of cinema that doesn't need to be changed. When I was like 4 or 5 this was one of my favorite movies even though it scared me. 😂
2:32 that sound sounds like the Part from The song "Thriller"
I have to wonder if THE BLACK CAULDRON may have had an influence over Pendleton Ward when he created the Lich in ADVENTURE TIME.
I was thinking the same thing.
-Deathless masters of magic
-Soft spoken, though you hang on every syllable
-horns
-command legions of undead (though we didn't see much of that in Adventure time from the Lich King, but he says as much during his "fall" speech.)
-both thwarted by young teens and their friends.
Actually Yes that is true
I love it and I get Scared very easily
Bought the Chronicles of Prydain.... 5 books, the Black Cauldon is book 3.....by Lloyd Alexander
Who thinks this was Disneys attempt to be like those classic adult fantasy animated movies of the 70’s and 80’s like Heavy Metal, Wizards, Fire and ice, Rock and Rule and Vampire hunter d?
I like that little gargoyle thing but Bartok from Anastasia will always be the best henchman. Lol.
Goblin
I guess this is where the Game of Thrones begins. The rise of the dead army creating the white walkers just as the Cauldron born awaken.
Imagine if they left the cauldron alone to the witches. Not like the Horned King and his goons would be able to beat the witches, they’re advanced in magic.
Fun fact: this movie was gonna be rated r
Only if they didn't edit the man being dissolved and other guard that bursted the bubble being devoured
yep, this is the shit that gave me nightmares for years
Cmon guys, he’s not so bad if you pretend he’s skeletor!
I wonder why those first 3 that jumped out to murder the idiot poking the evil magic with his weapon had eyeballs but the rest just had sockets.
Animation error.
@@seanjenkins2188 It might be a hold over from the _original_ animation of the skeletons. I know there was a LOT of "shenanigans" when it came to the final edit, and that particular scene at 2:25 might be an original unedited sequence, as it immediately led to the men that were jumped to dissolve and become skeletal warriors (with eyes) themselves. Notice how clunky and sudden the edit/music drops when it cuts to Eilonwy.. and _then_ you see the rest of the skeleton warriors, but without eyes (which could have been a Katzenberg demand, as he was the one who forced the editing of all scenes that were considered too violent for a Disney film).
@@TheRealNormanBates Actually, it was the other way around. The shot of the skeletons jumping the 2 guys was the reanimated one. Notice how it cuts from a skeleton lunging at the camera to a medium shot with no flow between cuts? I think that's where we were to see one of the thugs get their throat slashed and the other one dissolved.
The mistake was marketing it as a kids movie ( though this kid at the time had no qualms)
Heavy Metal slash Akira style. It would have beenba cash cow
Shame that we were the minority demographic of children into this stuff.
In the book, Prince Ellidyr destroys the Crochan. The thing with Gurgi just doesn't work.
And after his death, it would pave the way for his inclusion in the isle of the lost books from Disney's Descendants
Yeah I went to see this with my mom my first film I remember rocky 4 was one of the trailers
Awesome how old were you when you saw it? i was 3 and this was the first movie i saw in theaters
Even the rats we’re making a run for it. Smart
This move scared me to death as a child!!
The music sounds like Ghostbusters.
actually it really does know you pointed it out, great because I liked the soundtrack of the ghostbusters
It's the same composer (Elmer Bernstein)
Army of the dead.
race: skeleton.
element: undead💀.
source: black cauldron.
Mortality: stupid. 😂
Thats the horned king?