This Banned Disney Channel Movie is a Nightmare 

I found it way scarier that they banned it because I just had this vague memory of a terrifying Boogeyman movie that no one knew what I was talking about, so I thought I imagined it😭 the irony

"Actually, it's boogeyperson" Such an iconic movie that Disney refuses to release on dvd. What are you afraid of Disney?!

Fun fact about this movie, that kiss at the end was really worrisome for the Disney exces. They were worried about an inter-racial kiss between the two leads. The part of Larry originally wasn't "written as black," so there were no problems until Ty Hodges was cast. The exces wanted different versions of the kiss filmed to see which one would be the safest.

The fact it was banned just solidifies my idea Disney should make an adults-only studio for all of their content that's too dark for children. Like the original scripts for The Lion King and Zootopia.

I just realized the porcelain doll is wearing almost exactly the same outfit as the girl boogeyman is once she turns back normal . Wow it took this long to notice. From my understanding francis’ imaginary friend was based on that doll, and her brother darwin’s was based on his little cowboy thing beside his table.

i remember enjoying this movie so much that my brain disconnected it from disney for more than a decade until only 2-3 years ago when it was part of a list of iconic dcom movies. it was just such a thrill watch for little me that i couldn't believe the mouse had anything to do with it 💀

I remember watching it ONCE EVER probably around 8 years old, loving it but being terrified by it, and never ever seeing it again. Not even mentioned or referenced by anyone or anything ever again. Truly a fever dream.

Don't Look Under The Bed remains my favorite to this day. As an adult, I love it even more. It's a coming-of-age story about growing up too fast, and how an early loss of innocence affects kids. I know, dark. But I love that Disney channel wasn't afraid to "go there". You can tell Francis uses logic/reasoning to explain away as much as she can, but it's a defense mechanism against the trauma of her little brother having cancer and her, as his older sister, not being able to save him. She felt defenseless over something so illogical and random. And the Boogeyman just represents that fear that sometimes, what you're fighting against is illogical and random. But the moral of the story is that it's not enough to be smart (enough to skip a grade). You have to be brave, too. Don't look for "a logical explanation". Just fight like hell.

This movie scared the living s*it outta me as a 4 year old in the early 2000’s. The boogeyman was such a crime against fashion and needed to be stopped.

LOVED this movie as a kid. Way better than stuff like Halloweentown or Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire. It was nice to see a kid's horror movie that actually acted like a horror movie.

I talk about this movie religiously. This and the Color of Friendship are most underrated DCOM movies and so well done, you almost forget theyre DCOMs. Still watch DLUTB every year for Halloween

This movie goes HARD!!! Larry was literally one of my first crushes ever 🥵 The movie that was scary to me was “The Scream Team”. That movie was hella freaky.

Lookie here, I LOVED Don't Look Under the Bed growing up. It was so scary good lol, and I was mad when it got banned from the network! I missed watching it every October.

The Watcher in the Woods from 1980 was Disney’s first horror for younger audiences. Creeped me the hell out as a kid.

Dude I’m getting so sick of movies being banned and blacklisted. Like… I keep thinking I’m insane because I remember all these awesome movies… but no one knows what I’m talking about.

I vaguely remember being really creeped out by the movie as a kid, never knew it was banned 😭 I ended up watching it about 10 years ago when I was 18, likely around Halloween time and while it was definitely creepy, I ended up ugly crying when Frances had to let her imaginary friend go because it reminded me I was growing up which is way scarier than the boogeyman honestly 😭

Thank you for acknowledging this fever dream of a thrill. Also why are you the funniest person ever.

This has always been my favorite Disney Channel original since it released but I never once realized that it was ever 'banned' in any way cause I recorded it on a VHS by the 2nd or 3rd time it aired - I'm at least glad that they have it on Disney+ now tho cause that VHS tape is LONG dead but my little ones adored the movie when I showed it to them! edit: I will admit and own up that in my teenage years I definitely was in the camp of 'anyone scared of this movie is a little b*tch' but as an adult I have the self awareness to realize that my judgement of scary is greatly skewed by the fact that I was falling asleep to Child's Play at the age of 3

I saw Don't Look Under the Bed on the Disney Channel when it first came out when I was a kid and I loved it. My kids and I recently found it on Disney+, I think last year actually, and they loved it too. I never knew it was a banned one that they tried to sweep under the rug. So sad that they did things like that, just like Return to Oz, another movie that I love that was kind of terrifying. I showed my husband and our oldest child that movie a few years ago and they were intrigued by it. The Black Cauldron was another one they did that to, and I've been trying to hunt down The Watcher in the Woods and Something Wicked This Way Comes. Also I kept wondering why The Nightmare Before Christmas was all of a sudden a Disney owned thing because when it released when I was a kid it was not advertised that way. I did some research and found out that Touchstone Pictures was actually a part of Disney which completely blew my mind to find out these were always Disney characters all my life and I never knew! I hope Disney continues to embrace their darker moments because they are some of my absolute favorites and have clearly proven that people love them. 🖤

I saw this for the first time a couple years ago, in my early 20s. I woke up randomly at 3 am or something, saw it on, and was scared. But I definitely appreciate the movie and that era of Disney. They don't make em like that anymore. Also, Larry was cute and I loved his iconic shades. I watched mom's got a date with a vampire on Halloween and I recognized so many of the actors, and how they went on to other works, some of which were supernatural. Like that movie had Aunt Hilda from Sabrina and the sister plays the female werewolf in the Bitten series. Or Raven's love interest in the first Cheetah Girls movie went on to play the very handsome vampire in Blood Ties.

Oh my god, I saw this movie once YEARS ago, must have been 2006, because I loved it and waited for it every year after that, but never saw it again. Eventually I forgot about it; now I’m 25, and you have just unlocked all the memories holy crap. I clicked this video on a whim and I’m so glad I did

i loved this movie growing up. im a sucker for good lore and fun twists and this film showing a good mythos on imaginary friends and a connection to the boogeymen. and saying "hey, its ok to not be ok with growing up to quickly before your ready."

Even before they banned this on Disney channel, they still aired it very infrequently. I remember thinking it was a fever dream because I caught it in TV once and never saw it again, looking out for it every year.

How did I know this was going to be about Don't Look Under the Bed 😂 For a Disney film, they didn't need to go that hard with the horror 😳 Thanks for reminding me of that trauma aha

Edited for not so fun fact: as a kid I lived in a place called middleburg as a kid and was convinced this was real. I’m approaching 30 and this movie is still the reason I don’t dangle my feet of the edge of the bed. Thanks Disney 😅

Jordy I am playing Tetris with all the furniture in my room right so they can paint our apartment. I am so stressed and literally your video is grounding me, bringing me joy and happiness, and helping align my heart chakra. Thank you!! Will comment AGAIN cuz ur work deserves that, when I’ve finished the video

This was always one of my favorite Disney movies and I was so bummed when they stopped showing it.

This and Can of Worms are the two biggest fever dreams I remember as a kid. I think I only ever remember seeing both once but they definitely left an impression on 5 year old me.

I didn’t know Disney had Cry Baby Lane ‘banned’ movie like Nickelodeon

I remember watching this movie as a kid and don't remember being scared by it. I actually thought it looked pretty cool for an original Disney Channel movie, and thought it was a little less cheesy than the channel's usual movies. However, that fear was instead overshadowed by a 10 minute stop-motion film called the The Sandman. I can't remember what network it aired on and have never seen it on TV after that day, but it left me sitting at the kitchen table petrified to move from under the ceiling light at four in the afternoon.

Odd that “Don’t Look Under The Bed” was removed from the cue because it was too terrifying yet the opening scene of “Under Wraps” of Marshall watching a horror movie that included a knife swishing in garbage disposal and the villain busting threw the window at that opportune time, was seen as less terrifying. Anytime I accidentally drop something down the garbage disposal that scene flashes through my mind…

For a second i was very confused that you said it was banned because I had a vivid memory of watching this when they were doing their 100 DCOMs celebration in 2016 when the Adventures in Babysitting movie came out and they were having the marathon of playing all the dcoms. Now i was 12 at the time so I wasn't petrified of it but i do remember it being really weird and very different for a disney movie. I think i stopped watching at some point because of how weirdly scary it was. But yeah I KNOW they played it during that marathon since it would have been part of the 100 dcoms so its interesting that they pulled it out of the vault of shame only because they HAD to stick to playing all 100 dcoms

This was one of my favorite Disney movies as a kid. Plus, it had depth, it was a great story, and it symbolized how if you don't process and deal with fear as a child, then it will deal with you when you grow up.

My sister and i loved this movie despite it scaring me deeply. I still watch it whenever i can. I love the atmosphere and set design. I also love that they show her dad doing most of the house work because he likes doing it

If you are an OG Disney Channel fan, you know in this era they rarely ever released anything on video or DVD and I'm fairly sure it did air every October for years. As far as banned Disney content, I would say its Under Wraps, they did a remake recently but that one isn't even on D+.

I loved this movie! Always felt like a "spookier" Drop Dead Fred. But I'd also seen The Shining and It by the time this came out so comparatively it was pretty tame.

To answer your question of how people watched it after Disney stopped airing it. I vaguely remember a 240p bootleg floating around on youtube. Also though I haven't found any sources to back this up, (as many early dcoms are notoriously hard to find info on when it comes to home video releases), I believe it was released on VHS through the Disney movie club, or Wonderful World of DIsney. I could also swear remembering a DVD release but my brain could be making that up.

I sleep with the blankets over my head too, because I spent 7 years homeless and discovered it was much safer for me to sleep when nobody could tell I was a girl alone. I can now sleep without a knife in my hand, but I still sleep with the blankets over my head, and my right hand gripping nothing tightly, clutched to my chest. I also instinctively curl into a ball like I learned to do to keep myself warmer, even though I now have a bed to spread out on in a room that isn’t cold, and I can’t fall asleep if I’m not leaning up against one of my dogs. Old habits die hard. I was afraid of the boogeyman too in my own way, only the one I was afraid of is real, and will hurt you if you let him see you and can’t defend yourself in the night. It’s a hard fear to let go of, and I’m autistic, which I suspect adds to the strength of my habits

It was banned!?! That is why it disappeared; I thought it was a false memory for a while

It wasn't banned. They aired it multiple times and it's on Disney+ now. Also it's on RU-vid. Definitely not a forgotten treasure! Still a treasure! As kids we LOVED being scared so it was perfect and the mythology was oddly logical.

Don’t look under the bed still haunts me in my 21 yr old self today. It was the Halloween movie on Disney that actually was horror. Nick has done creepy horror stuff like Are you Afraid of the Dark but I wasn’t part of the generation that had the old show but grew up with the three recent Are You Afraid of the Dark series. And the only one I found that was scary to me was the second Are You Afraid of the Dark because of the darkness.

I saw the title of the video and instantly knew what you were talking about. I remember watching this LESS THAN HALFWAY and crying because I was so scared 😭

BRO THANK YOU SM for making this!!! I’ve been trying to figure out what this movie was for forever!!! I also got scared of my dolls and put them in my closet, and I loved the imaginary friend, and I slept with my blankets over my head for years too 🥲 you have brought me peace with this vid.

Fascinating. Between the bright red lips, claws, sharp teeth, dark hair and pointed ears, this boogeyman reminds me a lot of the the design of the boogeyman from the real Ghostbusters cartoon in the 80s. On checking, that one even had a somewhat Victorian-looking coat.

Ive never seen your channel before tonight and I just got recommended your video on Tinkerbell and loved it, definitely agreed with all of it and thought you were really funny and resonated with your take on things, so then I watched the Preminger vid next and it was hilarious so I just went back to find something else you’ve made and you posted a brand new video??! It’s like this was meant to be girl 😂 (and thank you for including the power point on Preminger because it was a 10/10 read)

Ahh I was literally just checking your channel for this! Happy Jordyween 🎃

i honestly don’t ever remember watching this movie as a kid, but i’ve always had a very irrational fear to porcelain dolls and still to this day sleep w the covers over my head and it makes me wonder…. i would’ve been 3-6 years old when it came out

This is literally my favorite Disney channel origin movie, it's so inventive and well-made to be honest.

I remember this movie from when I was a kid it creeped me out a little and I watched it again in 6th grade and I loved it,They should've aired this movie on Disney Channel last month in October for Halloween for old times sake and put a warning at the beginning.

Loved this movie but it also scared me when I was young lol 🎃 Happy Halloween!

My parents let me watch classic slasher films when I was a child but this movie absolutely TERRIFIED me as a kid!

I don't ever remember being afraid of this movie when I was a kid, but I was also watching movies like "Signs", "Jeepers Creepers", and "IT" without getting too scared somehow. I loved "Don't Look Under The Bed" and luckily, my mom had it taped. So as a result, I never knew it was banned! Crazy.

Love your content pls never stop. It boosts my mood while doing other stuff so much

Am I remembering something that didn’t happen or when they were under the bed was there like a “honey I shrunk the kids” type effect where they had a bunch of really big props? Because I vaguely remember that being a really cool thing in this movie.

This movie terrified me as a kid and I rewatched as an adult recently and I enjoyed it but definitely haunted my dreams as a kid

Don't Look Under the Bed was my favorite. The lead-up to the premiere? I had waited. Anticipated. It was October 19th, 1999. And I watched it every replay. Was it scary? Well... only a little at first. Then I loved the concept of a world of imaginary characters. While some claim that the movie was "scary", those complaints weren't entirely made in honesty. Some were about Larry and Francis being a potential couple being "too scary for children to handle". And... this was 1999. All of my life I had believed that it was just that the movie was scary but a lot of adults decided teenagers (including an imaginary friend teenager talking to a guy in his head) being an interracial couple was the true source of their fear. If anything, this event was what really ruined my childhood. This right here. Reading those complaints.

This movie scarred me as a kid. Less terrifying as an adult but still

Truly this movie was like a fever dream... I get random flashbacks of it when something else reminds me of it, but I've never heard of anyone talk about it again until today!! It literally felt like a mandela effect before now, bc i wasnt sure if it was actually real. The main thing i remember is the crippling fear of something/someone being under my bed and grabbing me at night. Thank you for relieving the feeling of being unsure if it happened but also watching this gave me the heeb jeebs all over again 😂😭👀

i was always so freaked out by this one but no one ever knows what i'm talking about when i bring it up!! thank youuuuuuu

Loved this movie growing up! And this movie was a great representation of the trauma that kids carry when they are forced to grow up too fast!

I actually remember watching this movie as a kid! I forgot that it existed until now 😂 I do remember the dolls wigging me out and I had to put the one I had away but the rest of the movie was fine

this movie was banned?? omg?? it is a Strong formative memory, and it's such a vivid memory that i refuse to believe i haven't seen it since 2006 (which is when disney apparently stopped rebroadcasting it annually). definitely a top 5 dcom

I’ve always loved how Nickelodeon and the Disney channel was able to make horror movies and tv shows for kids and actually make them scary the scary stuff was always my fav things about these networks

thank u for the video amazing as usual🎃🦇👻 happy haloween jordy i hope u had a good one

10/10 spooky movie vid!! Very fun:D

This was the very first thing that I watched when I got my Disney+ subscription. I still remember waiting up in the middle of the night for Disney+ to launch. I couldn't wait to rewatch this.

Okay we’re going to need DCOM video essays please!! You’re incredible and am so excited I found you so early on because you’re gonna go places queen. love the content and couldn’t believe you weren’t over 500k subscribers!? Here for the journey 🥰 this nostalgia hit different and your vibe is everything.

This movie was creepy/bizarre and I absolutely loved it/was terrified of it. I watched it a few months ago and I still enjoyed it a lot😂

Okay was hoping for the nightmare fuel to be overflowing!! I haven’t seen this movie maybe now that it’s November I get caught up LOLZ I’m just weird and quirky like that

This is why Fred from courage the cowardly dog scared me! He was the one character who felt real.

This is the second video I’ve seen of yours and I thoroughly enjoyed it. You give strong “Nakey Jakey” vibes, great job and keep’em coming.

I LOVED this movie. I watch it every Halloween along with Tower of Terror which they never showed 😪

Just found a bag of dolls in the attic😮. Loved the video!!!

I was SO hoping that this was going to be about this movie when I read the videos comments. We have this on VHS still and honestly even though it was terrifying I loved it and we watched it all the time. Funny how I can never find anyone else who's seen it. Thanks for sharing!!

have been checking youtube all day for this… and i’m quoted in the video as promised! 😂😂

I am so glad and upset that someone besides me was also traumatized by this movie lmao

😂😂 the minute I saw the title I just knew it was about don’t look under the bed and you didn’t disappoint, this video is hilarious!

Watcher in the woods was way worse and shown to us in 3rd grade!! I had nightmares for months and have panic attacks if I see pictures from it.

Personally I have always been creeped out by porcelain dolls ( my sister had several ). Much like clowns, there is a reason that they so easily fall into being used in the horror genre.

OH MY GOSH I remember this! When the video first started up I was like Nah, dude, I don't remember this at all, but when the Boogeyman showed up I suddenly recognized him and then she started talking about the Boogey Goo and I remembered that scene of them making it and Larry tasting it; I always fixated on the texture, what it would feel like because it just looked like delicious frosting to me, and then Larry's transformation, his eyes and everything started to look familiar. I must have seen it once years ago and forgot all about it because they never showed it again! I should go back and watch it sometime, if I can!

I stumbled upon this video and absolutely love your style and humor. Liked and subbed.

Just found your channel because of this video and I remember this movie I loved it but I’ll say I watched this movie when it first came out and it scared the crap out of me and took me a couple years before I could work up the courage to watch it all the way thru again (after the first time when it scared me so much I didn’t want to watch after the halfway point when it got scary) leading me to love this movie and never knew it was banned after 2003 just a few years after I worked up the courage to watch it all the way thru finally this movie was great and probably why I hate freak out and actively avoid anyone with those long fake nails wow thanks for the help making that connection definitely subscribing now

this movie also scared the shit out of me,, for years I too would hide under the covers except after 30 seconds I'd struggle to breath and need to work up the courage to come out from under the covers and accept my fate of being dragged down to the boogyworld 😭

Oh my gosh!! I knew you were going to say that movie! It terrified me as a kid to the point that even to this day, almost being 26, I can’t hang my legs over my bed.

don't look under the bed was one of my fav movies i always wondered what happened to it. thanks for the video!

I’m so happy I decided to check out your RU-vid page after seeing your TikTok about trying RU-vid for a month. I love your content 😊💗

Makes sense now. I LOVED that movie. I was pissed when they stopped playing it. I will say the seen where Larry realizes Francis is the reason her brother can’t see him. Scared me as a kid. Because I liked Larry and to see his eyes go bright purplish green and his voice go all evil saying “you did it” will forever be in my brain 😂😅 I Also had an imaginary friend and definitely kept believing for A while 😂

Now i remember this movie! Only after larry turns i remembered this- it wasnt scary to me only cause when i was a kid i was obsessed with horrors and it the makeup was similar style to buffy the vampire slayers, lost boys and the leprechaun

Oh man this was my favorite Disney Channel movie!! I’m surprised other kids were scared because it definitely made me feel more empowered about my little kid fears and face them. I had no idea at all people thought it was scary!

8:13 omggg!! He just brought back my memory of this movie!! I don’t remember how I was able to watch it because my mom literally band Disney around Halloween

As soon as I saw this video in the algorithm, I knew which one it was about! Great analysis. Now that I know it is on plus I may have to rewatch.

Dude I remembered when this movie premiered! And I never knew what it was called I’m so glad this randomly popped up on my recommendations. & you’re awesome I’m subbing 😊

One core Halloween Disney movie that still sticks out in the back of my mind is that one Mummy movie where there were two kids who were helping this mummy return to his sarcophagus before he perished. It was some typical forgettable adult chasing them but he doesn’t really matter cause it ends in usual Disney fashion- happily.

Don't Look Under the Bed was my favorite movie, but it TERRIFIED me. In the 2010s, I found it in a million parts on RU-vid and rewatched it a few times. When I got Disney+, it was my first watch. I was a dcom kid, but this is my favorite, handsdown, and this is a Halloween tradition watch for me now as an adult.

I loved that movie, had to watch it with my older sister because it was so scary, but it ended resolved. To this day, i only appreciate horror that ends in resolution and closure. I think that it being banned kept the replays from over saturating us with it

I showed this movie last month to my 8 year old sister and her friends and they loved how scary it was. I loved it when I was a kid because I was so scary. Thank you for talking about it

OMG you should make a video on both happily n’ever after movies, those were my favourite growing up…especially the 2nd one.

bruh I remember watching this movie when I was like five, and it TERRIFIED me, but then when I remembered the "scary imaginary friend movie" I saw on Disney channel several years later, I couldn't find any information about it. thanks for confirming that it wasn't just some weird fever dream haha

I saw this movie when I was like 4. We were out of town in a big house I wasn't used to. Only the downstairs lights were on so the upstairs landing was all shadowy and creepy. And the only other person in the house was my babysitter who was in another room. Needless to say, I had a bad time

This was one of my all-time favorite movies as a kid- but it also scared the absolute crap out of me 😅