As Christopher Lloyd explained, it was kind of payback for all the times the studio’s early films traumatized him as well. I mean the part in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs when the poor Disney princess enters the dark forest was absolutely terrifying, for me, as a kid. Or how about when Pinocchio turned into a donkey or when the poor doe’s mom is shot by a hunter in Bambi? All can be pretty traumatizing for a child.