Why is it so scary? Did no one at Disney ever step back and go "Damn, this is terrifying, maybe we should tone it down"?

I'm convinced someone at Disney had the job of going "No, no, this is GREAT! MORE terror, the kiddies will love it!" Otherwise I am just boggled at the beautiful high quality TRAUMA INDUCING stuff they churned out. I don't think books are the same -- I had a non-censored Grimm's as a kid, with red-hot iron shoes and eyeballs being plucked out and so on, and that never gave me nightmares!