25 of the creepiest Disney movies ever made

Toy Story 3 (Image via Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios)

17. Toy Story 3

If you were paying attention, then you could have guessed that I would return to the Toy Story franchise. There’s just so much weirdness to mine out of this film series, after all.

Remember the part where toys are seemingly immortal? In the first Toy Story, human protagonist Andy is a bonafide kid. By the time we make it to Toy Story 3, however, it’s clear that Andy has aged. In fact, he’s getting ready to head off to college. 17 year old young adults have little use for their childhood toys, so Andy plans to take cowboy Woody with him for sentimental reasons only. The other toys, including Buzz Lightyear, are thrown into a garbage bag and stored in the attic.

Where the first Toy Story held its horrors in store for us humans, the third entry in the series focuses more on the life of toys themselves. If toys are effectively immortal, then what happens to them when their owners thoughtlessly discard them? Some might get donated or passed on to other, younger children, but that can’t always be the case. At one point, Woody and the gang are literally facing their own deaths as they slide towards an incinerator. After a certain point, they stop fighting and simply hold hands as their doom approaches.

They’re all rescued at the last minute, of course. It’s still Disney, you know. But, for that brief moment, viewers of all ages were confronted with the ominous philosophical implications for toy existence in this universe. It’s enough to make you go home and put all your childhood toys into your will.