Willow (1988 film)/Nightmare Fuel

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  • The opening on the movie, in which Elora Danan's mother hands the child to the midwife before Bavmorda orders the former executed. Later, the midwife is attacked by ferocious death dogs and forced to place Elora on a makeshift raft.
  • The dragon. Willow first shoots a troll with the wand and the troll burns up into a fleshy lump and two tiny heads start to grow out before Willow kicks it in the water. The dragon emerges at full size just moments later.
  • There's a positively scarifying scene where Bavmorda transforms Airk, Madmartigan, Sorsha and their allies into pigs. All, that is, except Willow, who protects himself from the curse using a "shelter chant" Raziel taught him.
  • Queen Bavmorda looking increasingly ghoulish the longer the ritual takes. Evil Makes You Ugly indeed.
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