Heck, the movie even opens with a murder on the steps of the Holy Cathedral.
Its for these very reasons that the film remains one of my all-time favorites.
The bravery tokeep these important and graphic scenes in a family moviecertainly took a lot.
Butthe Feast of Fools sequence remains the one that still frightens me.
And, if thats not frightening enough, it only gets scarier on repeat viewings.
Quasimodos journey is, in my humble opinion, isone of the best heros journeysof its time.
Image via Disney
Image via Disney
Image via Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
Image via Buena Vista Motion Pictures
Disney’s take on the original novel written in 1831, The Huntchback of Notre Dame is an animated musical drama that sees a kind-hearted, deformed young man named Quasimodo who yearns to see the outside world is forced to live alone in the Notre Dame Cathedral as a bell ringer. When a group of traveling performers arrives in town, Quasimodo takes his chance to head out to see them, and his life is changed forever by a chance encounter with the equally kind-hearted Esmerelda. However, his caretaker, the cruel and iron-fisted Frollo, intends to hunt the Romani people down, jeopardizing the travelers' lives.
