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  • The best thing in this movie. Actually, the only good thing in this movie.

  • Poor Horned King. You were meant for greater things.

  • he's the original lich king

  • True I Saw This Recently But I Don't Remember THe Horned King As Much As Other Disney Villians

  • This guy gave me nightmares when I was a kid....especially thar damn skeleton army part!!!!!

  • i LOVE Gurgi <3

  • i wish they did more with this villain, and the whole movie really :/ still, this guy gave me nightmares as a kid. him and his skeleton army o_o

  • That'll be awesome if they made a Kingdom Hearts movie including a huge scene of the Horned King.

  • By far, the scariest Disney villain. This movie had some crazy scenes in it. Because this movie was much more "adult" in nature and the more tantasy / horror edge to it...it nearly put Disney's animation department out of business. In fact, they wouldn't produce another animated feature for four years.

  • Worst. Way. To die. EVER. Seriously, the dude gets dragged to hell! His skin and bones pratically tear apart from each other! It's fucking brutal!

  • 1:21 if your entrance is so scary that your own loyal followers are scared to their wits. That is some high degree of evil.

  • Wow, this was something else :D. How come I've missed this? Really something I enjoyed. Would've scared the hell out of me back when I was a child-it scared me just alittle right now XD. Only alittle though ;).

  • for a villain as scary looking as he is , he did nothing in the film really which is why i dont regard the horned king as one of the best disney villains

    if disney didn't cop out in the first place , made it a 12 or 15 and included all the so called controversial scenes it would have actually made good box-office sales

  • So the Horned King, Chernabog (black demon from fantasia), and Master Xehanort (Kingdom Hearts, Main Villain behind the whole series) Get into a fight over who is most evil.

    Let the voting commence!

  • they both received their masters degrees in evil at oxford university.

  • the brother of skeletor.

  • The Horned King is the best villain that Disney, or anybody for that matter, has ever come up with!  God he's great!

  • I love the animation in this film. while almost every other disney film is clean and stylized, this movie breaks the combo and presents the gritty, sketchy side of the classic disney animation team.

  • This dude scared the shit out of me when I was kid

  • Crappy movie, But great villain. You cant deny John hurt's talent.

  • @6383Jman: I can't agree that it's a crappy movie, although I only saw this part just today, I doubt it's a crappy movie. After what I saw in this video, the King(the Horned King that is) is one of my favorite disney villains(bc he is so evil) :). Indeed, he's a gr8 villain and I suspected it was John Hurt's voice, I remembered it from the cartoon Lord of the Rings movie and from all his other movies :).

  • @Khornedevotee they had to take some scenes out bc of Censorship tho i only seen this part

  • @Khornedevotee It's not horrible, but it's not exactly great either. The imagery is pretty good and there are some pretty great scenes and such, but by and large it's kinda underwhelming.

  • @6383Jman Obviously not Disney's best work but I still think it's seriously under-rated, it's one of my favourites.

  • @OSXHD

    I agree with you there. I enjoy this one a lot.

  • Disney should restore this movie for HD 3D

  • He deserves to appear in Kingdom Hearts! Thumbs up if You agree~

  • @MistressRemilia Nope, we had to make do w/ Chernabog :C

  • Holy crap a freaking lich! What is this Disney D&D?

  • Well... one other Dark Lord. How many are they?

  • I'm not english native speaker but the voice for this guy is extraordinary. Incredible!!

  • Just out of curiosity, how would you compare the Horned King from The Black Cauldron to the The Witch King of Angmar from The Lord of The Rings?

  • Such delivery :D

  • This is like LOTR for children, I remember this freaking me out so bad but at the same time I was mesmorized! Does the Horned King remind anyone of Lord Sauron embodied?

  • 3:00 : "AAUGH! I'm melting"

  • I remember I had a few nightmares about The Horned King

  • After 13 years since i watched this last time on VHS, still is scary as hell !!!!

  • I love this villan, he is the only villian who pretty much has an undead army and is freaking scary and ruthless. This movie freaked me the fuck out when i was a kid!!!!

  • Is it just me, or is that hairbal just sounding like the Golem from Lord of the Rings?

  • @mieris26: Gollum you mean :). Yeah, alittle haha XD.

  • This guy scared me shitless every time I saw this movie... I was terrified by this, yet I always had to see it again and again.

  • @ 3:46...that face is lovingly brought to you by Disney, the happiest place on Earth!

  • OMG i remember watchong this film when i was 4 8D....Scared the hell out of me completely but this film my god shows us what disney used tobe before it was domesticated and put in a pretty pink frock

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  • I love when beauty is contrasted with such powerful evil.

  • I remember reading the Prydain and Narnia series growing up. Great stuff! Why didn't Disney ever expand on the series and make more films to chronicle the rest of the stories? I think that Taran and Link from the Legend of Zelda series were probably my biggest heroic influences growing up, and it's something that kids today are sadly missing out on.

  • I bet he's related to Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty

  • @maliwahtallhei: Wouldn't surprise me XD. Both are ruthless, their evil are about equal level and they both possess dark characteristics and charisma. ;D

  • The Horned King is featured at Tokyo Disneyland.

  • Black Cauldron=Darkest Disney Movie

  • Short question: Is the version Disney puts out nowadays a cut down version? Whenever I see 'The Black Cauldron' I think there are some scenes missing that freaked me out when I saw it in the cinema as a kid.

  • Is this John Hurtt?

  • @Gandalf54231 Yes.

  • @Gandalf54231 Yep. Great, multi-talented actor, isn't he? :D

  • @Gandalf54231 it is indeed.

  • @Gandalf54231 Yes. It is. 

  • The sad thing is that Michael Eisner (the CEO of Disney at the time) hated it. And focused on cutting a number of scenes of the film out (In particular the Cauldron Born army, and the transition of them from being human to skeletal warriors). Also because Disney considered this film as an absolute failure is probably why they didn't want to even think about it in Kingdom Hearts... which is a shame because fighting the horned King would have been AWESOME.

  • @Angerlevel this scene you said dissevers to be on NearNerdyMilesCritic next animation horrors episodes.

  • I love when the Horned King says "So it does exist!!!"  Yeah if he was searching for it only to find out that it didn't exist, he would have been fucking screwed!!!!

  • I'm 18 and to this day the horned king gives me nightmares. I admit though he does know how to make an entrance.

  • I have to say this He could be Mumm Ra's cousin sounds almost like him and maybe Skeletors brother lol.

  • 1:56 The whole image of evil this guy was building up came crashing down for me the moment I heard it say: My Boy!

    Curse you King, I am scarred for life!

  • @Vildasnaga the king and the burger king have ruined everything.

  • Also, at 3:44-3:46, that close up of the horned king really frightened me! I was scared to death!

  • at 2:55, that part REALLY terrified me! The Horned King frightened me REAL good and I'm still afraid of him! The way his voice sounded is SO haunting and ominous that it made and still makes me feel like I'm going to fade away!

  • Gurgi remind anyone else of Dobby? :D

  • I love how I watched this, among other movies, as a child, and they were so grim I never actually realized they were Disney movies until recently. I mean really, without Kingdom Hearts to tie them in, I probably wouldn't have known that movies like Beauty and the Beast and Sleeping Beauty were Disney movies. Heck, I only realized that The Hunchback of Notre Dame was a Disney movie when I saw the trailer for KH3D.

  • One of my favourite films as a kid mainly because of The Horned KIng

    the reason im behind the villians in movies :D

  • This dude is fucking dark, mate. I saw this as a kid but only now see the contrast between this guy and other Disney Villains, I mean, at least the other ones are more mainstream cartoonish. This Horned King however, could have come straight out of some Lord of The Rings artbook or something like that.

  • I'm glad I never saw this movie as a kid. This guy would have scarred me for life.

  • @drpapa26 Yep this is back when disney was good. If Walt Disney returned from the grave and saw shows like Hannah Montana and That's So Raven if will be so disappointed in what's his company has turned into. Maybe we should all sign a petition demanding that disney goes back to making movies like this

  • @peddle1993 You are an awesome person for making this comment.

    There's not a SINGLE word you just said that I disagree with. I just know Walt would be upset to know how much of the Disney company operates now, as well.

    Thank you for these statements; it's people like yourself who help me so much to keep my spirits aloft.

  • Woo! One of the best Disney villians in my opinion, as well as Scar ^^

  • Quite simply, I believe that the Horned King is the most diabolical villain that Disney has ever shown on film. Instead of a power hungry sorcerer like Jafar, or an envious usurper like Scar - this guy is pure and simply, evil.

    How much scarier can you get than an evil necromancer/complete monster that rules over an army of the undead?

  • @NicholasGeschke: This one is from now on one of my favorite disney villains ;D. Incredible that I have missed this film until just now today :D.

  • @NicholasGeschke Judge Claude Frollo is way scarier.

  • and also did anyone notice that Tarans Voice gets Deeper in the movie

  • I love the villain, love the movie, but when I saw the Horned King's servant, Creeper and that Gollum like character I could never take this movie serious and it always takes me out of the movie's seriousness and drama.

  • creeepy voice of John HUrt makes this character more badass :>

  • how tall in ft would the horned king be?

  • The Horned King owns them all; Hades has ADHD, Oogie Boogie is mentally ill, Hook is a coward, Pete is a retard, prince John is a mommas boy, Jafar and Gaston just have superiority complexes, Cruella is an insane bitch who seriously needs professional help and Kaa is just sad. The Horned King however is evil itself and everybody, including him, knows it and he'll be quick to remind you of it.

  • @Dommie222

    Exactly!

    Also Scar from lion king has problems with envy

  • @Dommie222 The Horned King is the most evil one, yes. But Hades is awesome. You cannot NOT like Hades. :P

  • @Dommie222 Frollo was pretty bad.

  • @Dommie222 What about Chernabog from Fantasia? Does he own him? Or are they equal?

  • @Dommie222 which is why maleficent would go out with him

  • @Dommie222 the horned king reminds me of the witch king of angmar

  • Well, let's see what the requirements for a good Disney villain are: 1) memorable design, 2) sinister voice, 3) ruthless personality, 4) a scary song/theme, and 5) a violent death. The Horned King scores well in the vocal department but I think the design is lacking. He's not as clearly drawn as other Disney villains such as Maleficent and especially in closeups he looks pretty disappointing. On the plus side, he's less of a buffoon then later villains such as Governor Ratcliff or Hades.

  • Okay everyone the next kingdom hearts game that is coming out next year (I think) is going to be called Kingdom of hearts Z: a Kingdom Hearts game that is a mixture of Nintendo, Sega, and Disney; so don't worry Aguyinahat the producer of kingdom hearts is going to put the black cauldron featured in kingdom hearts any time by now, plus not just Disney villains can be on kingdom hearts...

    there can be Nintendo villains, Sega villains, and powerful heartlesses/unverses can be on kingdom hearts too.

  • @VillainousIntentions Churnabogs some random arbratory demon the fantasia creates saw when they were on lsd he isnt satan what told you that.

  • The Horned King is the most evil disney villain ever yeah theres competition Maleficant and chernabog but Maleficiant had crap servants the horned king has creeper and bad-ass gywphins and tbh Chernabog got beaten by a town bell while the horned king suffered the most horrific disney death ever

  • @skspreeo10 Technically Chernabog is satan. and Satan CREATED the darkness that it took to create all these OTHER villains, so if it wasn't for HIS evil, the evil in others wouldn't exist. So, Chernabog is the most evil Disney Villain.

  • this fucker scared me as a kid.....

  • The Horned King and Maleficent are like brother and sister

  • @theedit123 they even have matching horns :P

  • And Madame Mim too.

  • John Hurt has an Amazing Voice!

  • I thinkThe Horned King is the redeeming thing in this poorly made movie. He is scary as hell and John Hurt did a excellent job voicing him.

  • @PredatorBrendan I wouldn't call the film poorly made (i only saw some of it) since the animation was good and at least the story was kind of good but yeah i think the Horned King is probably EVERYONE'S favorite part of this movie because of the sheer amounts of Badass in him which was wasted on the anti climatic conclusion of the movie which hurt the movie alot since the Horned King is one of the best parts it had going for it.

  • "List of members for YOUR evil-army- to-conquer-the-world"

    -The cruel horned King and his army of undead.

    -The merciless Shan-Yu and his horde of huns.

    -The evil Scar and his hyenas

    -The monstrous judge Frollo, alone.

    --Hades and the Titans

    -Malef -Wait wait wait....Ok,my mistake, change the list name.

    "Competition in world domination you gotta get rid off before making YOUR evil-army- to-conquer-the-world"

  • @migcosta17 No Chernabog?

  • @oldgoodrobert You mean the guy from fantasia?

    Yeah, I always forget the mountain-sized demons xD

  • @migcosta17 Can't blame you, I have also forgotten a good amount of mountain-sized demons in my days.

  • Let me see if I got this straight. The skeletal liche-monster is seeking an ancient demonic artifact so that he can raise an army of undead warriors to exterminate all life.

    How the hell is this a Disney film?!

    No, wait... Why aren't MORE Disney films this badass?!

  • @Manyskins Because it was a box office disaster and almost destroyed disney. That's why. It was the treasure planet of the 80s, only it failed to do what treasure planet did (i.e. destroy disney films as we knew it. Well, for a while that is)

  • @Anonomius0

    I'm not referring to the plot, but rather to the nature of the villain. Most Disney villains are pretty small time- steal the crown, steal the girl, rob the orphans etc-this guy wants to eradicate everything on the planet..

    Besides a lot of the Black Cauldron's problems came from the fact that it didn't know what it was. Some parts of it were dark, mature and meant for older audiences (13+) while others seemed to have been added in to please the kiddies.

  • Horray for Horn King!

  • Anyone else getting a Raiders of the Lost Ark vibe off of 3:52? The music in particular.

  • I only have one simple question... WHY THE FUCK WASN'T THE BLACK CAULDRON FEATURED IN KINGDOM HEARTS? Prydain would be the perfect setting! You have plenty of opportunity to make creative enemies and utilizing the surroundings, plus the Horned King would also be the perfect outlet for the heartless, his greed and lust for power would make him a perfect enemy. Then you would fight the evil energy of the Black Cauldron in an epic final battle, WHY HAVEN'T THEY DONE THIS YET, Reply with more ideas

  • @AGuyInAHat

    Thank You! Someone who actually agrees with me. I can see Sora and Taran working together to take down The Horned King. There's plenty a villains that Disney and Square haven't used so far.

  • @AGuyInAHat my guess is that hes to "scary" (which he is) for these resent disney stuff that's probably why pretty much every enemy in kingdom hearts have been de-final fatasised (round eyes not scary looking at all) well the only ones that have a bit of the more serious looks are the final bosses but even there (in the first game)

    *SPOILER HERE DO NOT READ ANY MORE UNLESS YOU HAVE BEATEN KINGDOM HEARTS*

    Ansems guardian have those "jester ears" that kind of lowers his intimidating effect.

  • @AGuyInAHat The direct reasoning for Black Cauldren not being in Kingdom Hearts is because it is considered a Dud by the Disney Company. It took a crap ton of money to make it and didn't even come close to that amount in return sales, Duds don't make the video games. Disney would rather milk all the money it can out of the more popular. Infact only 5 of the 55 different villains from Kingdom Hearts are from the Disney Renissance. The others are from that era when Disney was alive.

  • @firechica It's a damn shame, The Black Cauldron is one of my Favorites...

  • @AGuyInAHat Disney disowned BC because it bombed

  • @WorkSucksMedia It's a damn shame it is. This is a pretty damn good film. With and AWESOME villain.

  • @WorkSucksMedia That makes it all the beter.

    Think about it, when they disowned him, he can rise again for power and vengence!

  • @AGuyInAHat plus his necromancy army

  • @AGuyInAHat I don't know there are so many good ones that they haven't put in yet like Black Cauldron, Pocahontas, Oliver and Company, Great Mouse Detective, Atlantis and Treasure Planet are a few of them. They all have awesome setting and villains and if those aren't in KH3D or KH3 that will be a huge let down

  • @peddle1993 Those do seem like good suggestions, but I persoanlly think we should leave out Oliver and Company. It would be very interesting though to see Kingdom Hearts in Atlantis.

  • @AGuyInAHat I chose Oliver and Company cuz I really like Sykes as a villain

  • @peddle1993 Me Too :3

  • @AGuyInAHat Treasure Planet would be awesome!!! Silver's greed for the treasure and escaping the planet when it's gonna blow up, would kick ass!!

  • @AGuyInAHat Could be Disney doesn't have the rights to put Chronicles of Prydain things in video games. They probably only bought the rights to the movie adaptation of the books, way back when. I mean, I have no idea -- but maybe that's why? Because, yeah: would be awesome.

  • the dutch voice of the horned king is the best voice ever for that character!!

  • The Horned King and The Headless Horse should be in Kingdom Hearts. Thumbs up if you all agree.

  • @DAYD111 if he was in the kingdom hearts games how would you fight him and defeat him then?? as he is the undead i dont think you would be able to defeat him somehow

  • @21mrkennedy

    I'm pretty sure they can. I mean, if Sora can take that down the black god Chernabog and Hades lord of the dead then I'm pretty sure he can take down the Horn King.

  • @DAYD111

    definitely !

  • This movie isn't that bad. Awesome villian and beautiful animation.

  • When I first saw the Horned King; he was my first true idea of what malefic, pure, corrupted, soulless evil was.

    Looking back at him now, I think he might've been a precursor to the Lich King. xD

  • Taran vs the Horned King 8:16.

  • He would have been even scarier with a deeper voice

  • ... was I really watching this move when I was 8 years old...

  • Only at the end of the video did I realize that was John Hurt's voice. Great villain, though his death feels a bit anti-climactic.

  • I remember renting this movie and having to shut it off because of how freaky the Horned King was. He still freaks me out. This is probably not the best video to watch at night...

  • You know he could be perfect in Kingdom hearts he could join maleficent group to get black claudron to create heartless army.

  • @ryomi96 Join Maleficent? Tch; the Horned King needs to destory Maleficent, assemble his own Disney villain group and then give Sora all sorts of hell and be a REAL threat from the Disney villains.

    Because the Horned King is THAT awesome. <3

  • @evh5150hawaii Maleficent has nightmares about the Horned King :)

  • @psychee1 And they both cringe at the sheer darkness of Judge Claude Frollo

  • Its Dr. Claw.

  • Awesome villain from an awesome movie!

  • @TheAltair4

    Indeed and he's Skeletor's cousin. Do you think this movie is as dark as The Dark Crystal or Willow or Princess Mononoke?

  • @Johnlindsey289 I think it's darker than all of those myself. This, along with the Night on Bald Mountain sequence from Fantastia are the darkest, scariest animated features that Disney has ever produced.

  • Remember when the Horned King used the Black Cauldron's evil powers? When Ratigan tried to kill the Queen? When Scar killed Mufasa? When Ursula tried to take over the sea? When Medusa tried to steal the Diamond? When Lady Tremaine locked Cinderella in her room? When Sid destroyed toys? When Jafar tried to rule Agrabah? When Gaston asked Belle to marry him? When the Queen was jealous of Snow White? We don't get great Disney villains like them anymore.

  • @mkc92ingc I remember all of those. (Except Medusa... didn't catch that one) But I disagree... I think I'll be remembering Mother Gothel's child abuse for a long time too...

  • @Nekorin Medusa comes from a very exciting very underrated Disney mouse movie known as The Rescuers. Why don't you try that movie. It's very good. Even its sequel The Rescuers Down Under is good.

  • @mkc92ingc I've been wanting to see those, I hate to have a blemish on my Disney viewing record. XD

  • @mkc92ingc Or how about when Yzma tried to take over Kuzco's kingdom? Or when Shan- Yu kiled hundreds of people in China, or when Maleficent cursed Aurora, or when Sykes kidnapped Jenny, or when Shre Khan and Kaa tried to eat Mowgli, or when Clayton trapped all the Gorillas or when Captain Hook triad to blow Peter Pan out of the Sky or when Madam Mim almost destroyed Merlin in the Wizard's Duel or when Hades took over Mount Olympus or when Stromboli trapped Pinnochio? get better villains now!!!

  • Great movie, i saw it 2 times when i was 4 in it's original release. Horned King is awesome and he reminds me of Skeletor, anyone thinks this is a fun adult animated fantasy epic in the tradition of Heavy Metal, Princess Mononoke, Fire and Ice and Willow?

  • Anyone like how the Horned King is voiced by the same guy who is the Chancellor in V for Vendetta?

  • Is the Horned King a lich or something?

  • @Brollyhero99TOP10 Sort of, see they combined the Horned King and his boss Arawn Death-lord from the book series. Arawn used magic to assume the lich like form to inspire fear but didn't actually look like that. His true appearance unknown as he shape-shifted almost constantly. In the books the horned king is a very larged armored warrior with antlers who wore a lot of red.

  • I remember loving the film but being scared to death of the horned king... so I come on here and I'm already scrolling down because of the music.... D:

    And I looked... still scares me ;_;

  • I would love to have horned kings voice

  • WAIT! why are the dead fighting??!?! It's not like Aragorn will hold their oaths fulfilled!

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  • in my opinion

    it goes in this order

    i no alot will disagree but i feel

    1st - maleficent

    2nd - The horned king

    3rd - Chernabog

  • I don't care what you say... The Horned King is the most unnerving villain of all time.

  • Lol, the horned king is my hero and one of my favorite villains!

  • the horned king is disneys response to not having a visually terrifying villian

  • My favorite and the scariest Disney villain by far. Listen to "The Cauldron Born" by Black Pyramid. Good old psychedelic metal from my native home of Massachusetts. Pays good tribute to The Black Cauldron.

  • damn, i never saw the black caldren but afte seeing this dude maybe i should? it was pretty badass how he raised the dead & how he looks/talks, but i still have my preference for disney villians!

  • holy sh*t

    I am so glad I wasn't accquainted with this villain in my childhood

    Thinking of the nightmares I could have had makes me shudder

  • Who knew John Hurt could sound so cool, evil and creepy at the same time?

  • My 2 favorite disney villains are Shan yu and the horned king.

  • Horned king needs to be in the next kingdom hearts game

  • I often ask myself why great part of toon villains is often voiced by an english actor

  • @eddievaliant1 Shakespeare. John Hurt and Jeremy Irons are trained thespians and nothing is more sophisticatedly sinister than a well executed line delivered by an english classical actor.

    I mean could you imagine the Horned King or any other Disney villain being voiced by Jim Varney or Bill Murray?

  • @Randertainment Yes I hope he makes an appearance in the next Kingdom Hearts Installment.

  • He's awesome, but boy he scared the living daylights out of me when I first saw this...

  • this is the only disney animated film i've never seen :(

  • I think Black Cauldron is the best disney cartoon ever made! so happy they finally released it on dvd. . . so many people that love disney never even seen this one, that saddens me. . . my gf never even heard of it, and she loves her disney!

  • It always helps when you have your villain voiced by John Hurt!

  • @121jakethesnake

    Helps if you have John Hurt voice _anyone_. : )

  • Can anyone else name a villain who tried to take over the world using an army of undead soliders?

  • @LadyDemon389

    Arthas menethil.

  • @LadyDemon389 Evil Ash, army of darkness.