Scarlett Johansson did an absolute amazing job as Kaa. She delivered her lines in the most spine-chilling way, just like when you saw your grandma eating without her dentures in the middle of the night. What made it even creepier was the CGI; Kaa was super-realistic, it was as if she was slithering and breathing down your throat. The moment she opened her mouth to devour Mowgli got us all closing our eyes and flinching.

King Louie chases Mowgli

In the original animated version, King Louie is depicted as a fun, jovial, orang utan. However, in this remake, Disney has brought King Louie up not one, but a few hundred notches by turning him into a bigger ape from the Gigantopithecus species. And instead of dancing away with Baloo and Mowgli, this Godzilla version of King Louie chased Mowgli around his temple and basically annihilated everything in his path. 

Shere Khan kills Mowgli’s father

Shere Khan kills Akela

Akela only made a brief appearance in the animated version of The Jungle Book. He had a more prominent role as the leader of the wolf pack as well as the mate for Raksha, who adopted and raised Mowgli. Akela’s death was quite vicious and sudden; it definitely caught us off guard. We couldn’t help but feel a pang of sadness seeing Shere Khan violently throw Akela off the hills to his death.  

So, what did you think of these dark scenes in The Jungle Book? Do you think that they were dark or were actually just meh. Tell us in the comment section below.