Most Traumatic Animated Movie Openings, Ranked

The Cossacks and their cats burn down the village and attack residents. The Mousekewitzes escape to America, but the audience saw Up.Viewers watch the first 10 minutes of Up, a domestic tragedy unlike anything seen in a Pixar movie, as the film is down.

Carl, a 10-year-old explorer, meets Ellie, another young explorer. They fall in love and plan an adventure. They marry, and Ellie becomes pregnant; she miscarries and learns she cannot have children.

The couple shifts their dream trip to replace the loss, but the monster called life consumes their savings.

Carl cannot book the trip until they are both old. He plans to surprise Ellie, but moments before he reveals the news, she collapses and is hospitalized. She dies shortly after.

The sequence covers over 60 years, causing 6,000 audience tears.

The 1982 movie is The Plague Dogs.The Plague Dogs.The audience watches Rowf, one of the film's pooches, try to stay afloat in a water tank. After several final paddles and a last bark for help, Rowf drowns.

Rowf is retrieved and resuscitated. We learn he drowned intentionally after nearly two and a half hours of treading water; this experiment repeats every few days.

Rowf is one of many subjects at an animal research laboratory. This group includes Snitter, a brain-damaged fox terrier that frees him and Rowf from the awful lab.

In a Russian village in 1885, the Jewish Moskowitzes celebrate Hanukkah. The Mousekewitzes, a Jewish mouse family living in the same house, also celebrate.

Cossacks and their cats interrupt the festivities. They burn the village and attack residents. The Mousekewitzes escape to America.The audience never learns the Moskowitzes' fate.The audience never learns the Moskowitzes' fate.

A British father, mother, and baby survive a fiery shipwreck and end up marooned in Africa. A mother gorilla loses her newborn to a leopard. Distraught, she hears a baby cry and follows the sound to the human family's treehouse, finding the dead parents surrounded by bloody paw prints.

The baby lives. The murderer, the same leopard that took her child, also lives. The cat leaps onto her from a beam, but she fights it off and adopts baby Tarzan.

Pixar's Finding Nemo.Finding Nemo.The film begins with a happy family of clownfish. A barracuda eats them all, except for the father, Marlin, and one egg.

That egg becomes Nemo, a young fish captured who takes Marlin on a wild pelican chase across the ocean. The massacre opening makes Nemo's disappearance and Marlin's resolve less sad. After the tragedy, Marlin and Nemo leave each other.

In Disney's 1996 film, persecuted Roma try to enter Paris. Minister of Justice Claude Frollo catches them. His goons cuff the men. The group's only woman escapes with her infant. Frollo stops them at Notre Dame cathedral steps.

Frollo kills her and takes her baby. He calls the deformed Quasimodo a monster and hangs him over a well. An archdeacon's timely plea stops the killing.

There are nine reasons to feel traumatized by the opening sequence of Nine.:

1) The making of a creepy ragdoll.

2) A disturbing voiceover from the maker.

3) The voiceover tells the story of world technological destruction.

4) Ominous music signals a move to the near future.

5) The ragdoll hangs by its arm in a creepy way.

6) The ragdoll becomes aware.

7) The ragdoll finds its maker's dead body on the floor.

8) An ominous wind knocks the window shutters.

9) The ragdoll opens the windows and sees an apocalyptic wasteland.

All this happens in a PG-13 animated feature!

The Prince of Egypt.The Prince of Egypt opens with Egypt's enslavement and killing of the Hebrew people. It somehow earned a PG rating.

One brave mother saves one baby from the purge in a waterproof basket sent down the Nile. It floats to the Pharaoh's wife, who takes the child and calls him Moses.

A mouse child celebrates her birthday with her single mouse father. A terrifying bat crashes the party. The father hides his daughter in a cabinet. She hears a loud struggle, then silence.

She comes out to find a destroyed room and no father. In a timid, English voice, she repeats, “Daddy, where are you?” as her cries fade away.

The 2008 film.Waltz with Bashir.Waltz with Bashir shows the 1982 Lebanon War using sharp storytelling and animation. The opening scene features a pack of fierce dogs tearing through Tel Aviv streets, destroying things and scaring people, before gathering under a Lebanon War veteran's apartment.

The film shifts to that veteran in the present. He explains this is a PTSD nightmare he has had many nights. Even years after service ended, he is haunted by the dogs he was ordered to shoot on duty.

From his flying bed, Nemo—a child with intense dreams—sees a ruined city. He falls into the tunnel of a speeding 'locomotive,' which chases him on land and water.

The train destroys his bed and moves toward his house. His mother, with her back turned, beats eggs creepily. Nemo holds the door and begs his mother to leave, but she stays put. The train smashes through the house as he wakes on his bedroom floor.

Rock & Rule.Rock & Rule is a Canadian adult animated rock-and-roll sci-fi fantasy film. It features music from Cheap Trick and Lou Reed. This unique music has an equally unique opening:

The War ended.

Street animals survived: dogs, cats, and rats. These animals formed a new mutant race.

That happened a long time ago.

MOK, a legendary super rocker, retired to OHMTOWN. There, his computers decode an ancient code. This code unlocks a doorway between this world and another dimension.

MOK, obsessed with his dark experiment, seeks the last key piece: a special voice.

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