TIME/CNN has listed Disney's 'Bambi' as one of the "Top 25 Horror Films."

Thing is, I can definitely see how this would be!  I was surprised initially... because I thought that it was just me that found Bambi to be so horrifying.  Like many kids, I grew up watching Disney movies.  I would watch my favorites over and over and over again (Cinderella and The Little Mermaid!).  But Bambi... I am almost positive that I have only watched the entire way through just the one time.  I am 25 years old and I can still remember being VERY young and seeing this movie for the first time.  The moment that Bambi's mother is shot and killed by the hunter absolutely terrified me.  As a child, someone extremely dependent on her mother's love and life... a Momma's girl... that was the worst thing in the world to me.  It still is, as I'm sure is to many... and being so very young, I don't think that I will ever forget how traumatizing that moment was for me!  I don't think that I could watch it even now. 

In the blurb they posted about Bambi and other Disney movies... it listed a fact that is obvious when you really think about it... yet, I don't think I've ever REALLY thought about it... Disney movies are scary!  Maybe not all of them.  But so many that I grew up watching involved witches, evil stepmothers, parents dying (as the blurb stated)... I mean... the princess stories ended happily (of course... Happily Ever After) but I don't remember all of them being happy and yet... they are children's movies that have been around for so long! 

Then you have the ideals that that some of these movies put into your minds.  Not that I'm claiming that the stories are terrible, because to be honest, I was not only impressionable but extremely emotional and sensitive as a child that I think some of the movies helped shape little bits of me.  And I mean in terms of being a dreamer, believing in love, happy endings, being compassionate... in good ways.  I know, I know, they are just children stories and maybe this sounds cheesy but really, they can instill these thoughts into you... at least pieces of them.  Which is not a bad thing, don't get me wrong... I just think that you can develop a Disney "complex".  lol!!!  Seriously!  Prince Charming always saves the day and you live happily ever after... hmmm... NOT! (well maybe for some and thank goodness for that... but that definitely doesn't happen for all of us!!).

One of my (many!) favorite Carrie musings from Sex and The City:

"What if Prince Charming had never shown up?  Would Snow White have slept in that glass coffin forever? Or would she have eventually woken up, spit out the apple, got a job, a health-care package and a baby from her local neighborhood sperm bank?"

So that's stretching it a little bit, lol... but... it is kind of crazy to think about... the whole Prince Charming complex... yet... I still kinda believe!