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FilmPG1985
The Black Cauldron
Directed by Ted Berman, Richard Rich
Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers. From TMDB
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The Black Cauldron is a 1985 animation adventure family film, directed by Ted Berman and Richard Rich, starring Grant Bardsley, Susan Sheridan and John Byner.
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60 of 270 · most liked firstA special Mickey Globe variant was created for 1985's "The Black Cauldron". Originally, it was going to use Disney's newer castle logo, but it was changed due to the film's darker material. This helped sell the movie towards the teenage/young adult audiences.
neutral · AI labelView post →40 years ago today THE BLACK CAULDRON was released in theaters, marking a low point in the Bronze Age of Walt Disney Animation Studios. Despite its beautiful animation & rich Lloyd Alexander source material, its box office failure caused this underrated film to be buried for over a decade.
neutral · AI labelView post →I know The Black Cauldron isn’t everyone’s fave, but I found it to be the most fascinating Disney flick for just how much quality went into a film that was so mid, and for just what they snipped out of the final product youtu.be/SzVOpGgyqJE?...
neutral · AI labelView post →1985 is the year Disney famously released the not-at-all traumatizing animated film The Black Cauldron.
neutral · AI labelView post →To celebrate Disney's #100th anniversary, let's not forget this underrated movie which came out after The Black Cauldron debacle and was the first one to save Disney. #greatmousedetective If not for it doing well, Disney Studios might have closed!
neutral · AI labelView post →The Black Cauldron is honestly one of the best Disney animated movies. I feel like if it had been released a little later it would have done a lot better, audiences just weren't looking for a dark and scary Disney movie at the time. I love that it's the black sheep of Disney movies. Great film.
positive · AI labelView post →The Great Mouse Detective would also be an important film for Disney being their first box office success following the disaster of the Black Cauldron helping prevent Walt Disney Animation's closure and setting the stage for the Disney Renaissance
neutral · AI labelView post →Outside of The Black Cauldron, is there any Disney film with less of a cultural pop culture footprint that Basil The Great Mouse Detective? I love that movie, but there is almost nothing from #Disney to celebrate it! #JusticeForBasil 40th anniversary
neutral · AI labelView post →I would love a live action adaptation of either The Book of Three or The Black Cauldron (an adaptation of the books, not the animated movie)! It's my understanding that Disney optioned the Prydain books when they did the live action A Wrinkle in Time, but haven't yet done anything with the rights.
neutral · AI labelView post →Texas Theatre giving me the rare opportunity to see The Black Cauldron in a movie theater! Merry Christmas to meeeee! #TheBlackCauldron
positive · AI labelView post →People, c'mon. Work with me here. Disney's movie output is a bit hit-or-miss these days but let's be realistic: Disney itself is a giant company. It's not going anywhere. It survived World War 2, it survived The Black Cauldron bombing and reminder: Disney doesn't survive solely on animated movies!!
neutral · AI labelView post →Disney's The Black Cauldron turns 40 years old today July 24 1985 This Kellogg's cereal prize The Horned King from Cornflakes only came out in UK. There are 8 figures. I love Disney's The Black Cauldron one of my favorites. sadly under-merchandised after the film didn't do well with profits.
positive · AI labelView post →Return to Oz. the Rescuers, The Neverending Story, The Black Cauldron. But also there was some made for TV movie I watched the beginning of as a child that involved people on the beach being buried up to their heads and honestly I have no idea what it was
neutral · AI labelView post →My weirdest one is the theatrical release of The Black Cauldron. My dad and I just kept going back again. It probably made me like this. Now, before you're like "really? That movie is trash", please know that they later cut out about 70% of the scary parts which took 40% of the sense with it.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Black Cauldron - the movie that nearly killed Disney Titan AE: the movie that DID kill Fox’s entire animation department
neutral · AI labelView post →Disney does an animated #horror then panics and tries to pull the teeth out of it. Watch our 5 minute film review of The Black Cauldron (1985) for more on this fascinating movie 👇 #filmsky #moviesky #cinema youtu.be/8IQ6M9Zyy1Q?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Honestly, if there is one movie I think SHOULD get remade, it is absolutely The Black Cauldron! The 1985 film barely scratched the surface of The Chronicles of Prydain books, even with all of the nightmare fuel and divergences from the usual Disney mold. There is so much untapped potential there!
positive · AI labelView post →Disney+ released a list of essential projects to watch before AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY: Condorman Gus The Kicking Mule The Apple Dumpling Gang Returns The Cat From Outer Space Escape to Witch Mountain The Shaggy D.A. The Black Cauldron Popeye Kentucky Fried Movie
neutral · AI labelView post →The Disney princess lineup has always had some odd inclusions and exclusions. Mulan is considered a Disney princess^TM despite not actually having the title, as is Alice (some random girl), Pocahontas (chieftain's daughter, which I guess you can argue is a similar concept), Moana (see above), Mirabel (another random girl without a position of authority), Tinker Bell, Jane Porter (although she is a noble, which is at least similar) and Megara. (From *Hercules*, in case you also forget that movie…
neutral · AI labelView post →Variety: Disney has lost 7 billion dollars since canceling Jimmy Kimmel. That is almost as much as the company lost with the movie The Black Cauldron in 1985.
neutral · AI labelView post →Disney's The Black Cauldron. Apparently it was so bad it like...almost killed off Disney animation for good? But I loved that shit as a kid. No idea why we had it, either. I was born almost a decade after it came out. Eilonwy deserves her place with the Disney Princesses, damn it!
positive · AI labelView post →**Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli** For Younger Kids: * My Neighbor Totoro * Ponyo * Spirited Away * The Secret World of Arietty * Kiki's Delivery Service * Pom Poko For maybe when they're getting older? * Howl's Moving Castle * The Wind Risees * Castle In The Sky * Princess Mononoke * Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Some other decent ones for kids of various ages: **Animated/Claymation** Series: * Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog * Alvin & The Chipmunks * Captain Planet and the Planeteers *…
neutral · AI labelView post →Or movies with good stories that flopped at the box office. If Disney wants to do a new live action remake, why not The Black Cauldron or Atlantis or Treasure Planet? Get a director and some writers who long to make an exciting fantasy film and you've got a good start...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Black Cauldron (1985) opened in theaters today on July 24, 1985.
neutral · AI labelView post →He also haphazardly cut bits from 'The Black Cauldron' because it was too scary for kids, even though the film was intended for an older audience anyway. What's left of what was cut looked pretty badass too!
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun fact: My dad used movie theaters as de facto daycare and one time dropped me off so I had to sit through The Black Cauldron FIVE TIMES IN A ROW. This explains literally everything about the person I have become.
positive · AI labelView post →This great article about Disney's adaptation of The Black Cauldron, which bombed so hard it almost killed the animation studio itself, made me remember one of those useless bits of gaming trivia: the final boss from Land of Illusion on the Master System is the villain from the film, the Horned King!
neutral · AI labelView post →I recently acquired the Sierra and Walt Disney Personal Computer Software point and click adventure “The Black Cauldron” based on the animated movie of the same name. I remember playing this on somebody’s Tandy 1000 way back when, but I never had it for my #AtariST. Maybe I’ll play it again.
positive · AI labelView post →If you have never seen the concept art by Mel Shaw that Disney had commissioned before they started to work on the Black Cauldron, you should check it out. This stuff is gorgeous. Like I would love an edition of the books that included these.
neutral · AI labelView post →My obscure game I played as a kid that changed my life is probably this one based on Disney’s animated movie “The Black Cauldron,” by Sierra, the makers of King’s Quest. They had 16 colors and painted little pixely masterpieces with them.
positive · AI labelView post →Happy 40th Birthday to The Black Cauldron! #FilmSky #Disney #TheBlackCauldron
neutral · AI labelView post →THE BLACK CAULDRON. SO SOME CONTEXT AS TO WHY I'M WATCHING THIS. I WAS JAWING WITH THE HOMIES IN MY DISCORD ABOUT THE ALLEGED ZELDA MOVIE AND I SAID SOMETHING LIKE "WHAT DOES THE ZELDA MOVIE EVEN LOOK LIKE THAT'S NOT JUST LORD OF THE RINGS." AND ONE OF MY FRIENDS SAID "THE BLACK CAULDRON."
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched the Black Cauldron yesterday as we continue our Disney animated movie rewatch. Still love this movie— though we can all agree it’s pretty Zelda coded, right?
positive · AI labelView post →TRIVIA: 'The Black Cauldron' was the first Disney movie to feature the "classic" Walt Disney Pictures logo: the white castle and text over a blue field. This logo was until the new CGI logo was introduced in 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest' in 2006. (IMDB) 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →I wanna clarify that these were good scares. But wow did these things go harder than they needed to: Disney special haunted house movie: Mr. Boogedy The never seen again theatrical release of The Black Cauldron (i saw it like 30 times). Made for tv 2 parter live action of Alice in Wonderland.
positive · AI labelView post →Hell, The Chronicles of Prydain came out in the 60s and the only film or show adaptation we gotten out of it is fuckin' Disney's The Black Cauldron.
neutral · AI labelView post →For example: it’s kind of wild that Disney never remade The Black Cauldron. Lends itself more to live-action, and you’re likely not in danger of alienating fans of the film. But then, the box office is massive enough for L&S that Disney couldn’t possibly care about the critiques now. Alas.
neutral · AI labelView post →I loved this Disney movie when I was a kid. Is the game any good? - The Black Cauldron #TheBlackCauldron #AdventureGames #Gaming
positive · AI labelView post →Things I've learned tonight: - I do not, unfortunately, own Kiki's Delivery Service the *film*, only the *book*. - I *do*, however, still have a bit of estradiol. - The Disney's The Black Cauldron anti-hype is very real. It's pretty mid even if you're not familiar with the source material. (I am.)
negative · AI labelView post →Today on the Medfield College Film Society, we're diving (willingly) into THE BLACK CAULDRON... open.spotify.com/show/3kaLT9B...
neutral · AI labelView post →Disney Heroine Round Table, 1992 Edition. > Originally published January 1, 1993, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #998 > Transcript of the Disney Heroine Round Table, 1992 Edition, held in King Stefan's Banquet Hall at Disney World on Dec. 1, 1992. Snow White moderating. Snow: Well, this is all tremendously exciting. Every decade or so, the nice folks at Disney sponsor a get-together with all the lead actresses of recent animated features. This gives us a chance to chat, exchange tips on how to clean…
neutral · AI labelView post →Crunchings & munchings on breakfast cereal with Kellogg’s The Black Cauldron Gurgi! I had a few of these as a kid but had no idea what they were from due to Disney memory holing The Black Cauldron so effectively. I felt robbed when I eventually saw the film as an adult, would’ve loved it as a kid
positive · AI labelView post →I remember going to see The Goonies with after-school cinema club. For a period I saw every kids film - Teen Wolf! The Flight of the Navigator! The Black Cauldron! The NeverEnding Story! Morons from Outer Space! The Goonies was the one where we had NOTHING good to say about it on the bus afterwards.
neutral · AI labelView post →Wholesale agreed. The thing is, as devastating as Fox and the Hound is? It's probably my fave movie in the Disney canon. I will not elaborate on this further. And I was keen on The Black Cauldron, too. Metal as fuck. I was all about the more wayward, unconventional picks. [shrugs]
positive · AI labelView post →:3 It reflects a millennial's love of the 1980s, from some of Ninja Sex Party's aesthetics to the lovely work by @kotlt-animation.bsky.social to capture elements from The Black Cauldron and Don Bluth. :p Apologies to our Welsh friend Deborah: she has a love-hate relationship with the Disney film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Does anyone but me remember "The Black Cauldron" animated movie? I feel like I hallucinated this memory but it was an actual thing, wasn't it?
neutral · AI labelView post →Disney’s The Black Cauldron was so disappointing, it would be great if somebody revisited Prydain for a movie or TV series.
negative · AI labelView post →I assure you whatever fond memories you think you have about The Black Cauldron, your memory is lying to you That movie blows Pinocchio is an artistic achievement and brought to us a quintessential Disney song with “When You Wish Upon A Star.”
negative · AI labelView post →Disney's The Black Cauldron (1985) is woke! 😱 #FantasySky
neutral · AI labelView post →Good morning and happy Thursday! It’s 1985 Throwback week. Today we are looking at what movie Disney released in that year and present to you The Black Cauldron. Have you ever seen it and what are your thoughts?
neutral · AI labelView post →The Live Action remakes As for ACTUAL Disney movies... The Black Cauldron grinds my gears for reasons but it's not a very *bad* film, and I only hate The Little Mermaid b/c I was a 7 year old boy when I first saw it. That leaves the true culprit, I guess you CAN'T get worse than Song of the South?
neutral · AI labelView post →He edited out 10 minutes of COMPLETED animation from The Black Cauldron for being "too scary" to make the intentionally darker film not PG-13, despite the animators telling him this was unprecedented in the industry due to how long it took to finish the scenes. They are lost to this day.
neutral · AI labelView post →"This victory was built on false coin -- " @marissalingen.bsky.social on the ending to the movie of The Black Cauldron (recalling what she said 40 years ago when she saw it in theater)
neutral · AI labelView post →Disney's 1985 film THE BLACK CAULDRON is dark, scary, violent & weird! I say huzzah to that. I think it rocks - I got to see a preview screening of it as a kid! Tell me your memories of this Walt Disney flick. #theblackcauldron #vhs #darkfantasy #Disney youtube.com/shorts/F-yLy...
positive · AI labelView post →Here’s a princess that gets overlooked when it comes to Disney media — Elionwy from The Black Cauldron! (I’ve seen the movie a long time ago 🙂) #TheBlackCauldron #Disney #MyArt #WorldPrincessWeek
neutral · AI labelView post →#WoTSkies Introduce yourself with: (not including any WoT stuff because that seems too easy) One book: The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander One movie: The Princess Bride One album: Fallen by Evanessence One tv show: Avatar: The Last Airbender One game: Munchkin
neutral · AI labelView post →every day of 2026, I'll post an animated film. 2️⃣0️⃣5️⃣ THE BLACK CAULDRON (1985) dir. Ted Berman, Richard Rich Disney's dark fantasy film based on the work of Lloyd Alexander. A pigkeeper's pig is abducted by the Horned King, who hopes the pig can lead him to the Black Cauldron. #OTD #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Can you imagine how annoying social media would have been if it existed in the 80s? “LMAO The Care Bears Movie beat The Black Cauldron! Disney is quaking in their boots!”
neutral · AI labelView post →#Junesploitation Day 14: Free Space! Cartoons, Continued. Film #1: The Black Cauldron (1985) @fthismovie.bsky.social Trailer: youtu.be/isAtOHLiMH8?...
neutral · AI labelView post →It's a similar issue in Hollywood. Fuck remakes of Disney movies I already like, do a remake of The Black Cauldron and make up for the original's missed potential for being a damn good dark fantasy movie and improve on it. Sadly, interesting ideas like that won't make as much money
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