There's a very disturbing detail about Beauty and the Beast that will change the way you watch the Disney classic, and it basically turns the film into a horror movie.
The film, of course, involves a castle full of enchanted furniture: all the servants have been cursed alongside the Beast, and if he can't find true love by the time the last petal of that magical rose falls, he'll be a beast forever – and his servants will never turn back to their human selves, either.
"It seems many of the staff turned into objects don't have faces. This is clearly seen during 'Be Our Guest,'" notes one movie fan on Reddit. "Many of the staff turned into objects, appear to have turned into objects with no faces, no limbs, no real way to experience the world or express themselves. It seems only the higher-ups get those privileges."
The Redditor goes on to explain that, during that spectacular big musical number, the plates are singing, but don't actually have a face to sing from – and the same goes for the spoons (though the forks do have faces on their handles). "If the spoons do have faces in the same way as the forks, that means they are constantly forced to be upside down, also. More torture," they note.
The post continues: "Imagine that though. Some of these people have no faces, no senses, no limbs, no way to socialize – all they can do is maybe roll around and emit different pitches, not words. Actually I don't know how those plates are not just screeching that pitch constantly.
"This may be the darkest Disney movie of them all, by virtue of including such a deeply disturbing torture scenario."
That is pretty terrifying, we have to admit. An eternity doomed to be a faceless, almost-inanimate object? We don't even want to think
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