The Black Cauldron (1985)
This morning I finished reading the first two books of The Chronicles of Prydain, so today I decided to tackle one of the two Disney pre-Renaissance films I had never seen, the infamous movie The Black Cauldron. The movie: The Black Cauldron is the 25th movie in the Disney Animated Canon. The notoriously troubled production came at the lowest point of Disney's "Dark Age," and at the time ended up being the most expensive animated movie ever made. The movie was a box office bomb and nearly caused the bankruptcy of the Walt Disney Company. The Black Cauldron is drawn in very, very loose strokes from the first two books of Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain, The Book of Threes and the Newbery Honor Book The Black Cauldron. The movie tells the story of Taran, the Assistant Pig-Keeper, who is tasked with caring for the very unique Hen Wen, a pig that has visions. After Hen Wen is captured by forces of the Horned King, Taran sets out to rescue his pig....