06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Disney fans creeped out to learn where they've heard Lilo's voice before
A Lilo & Stitch voice star went on to appear in an iconic horror film, with the two films releasing in the same year and surprising fans of the much-loved family-friendly animated film
Fans of the hit animated Disney film Lilo & Stitch are just realising one of its stars featured in a horror classic. The animated classic has just been remade by the studio into a live action feature film.
Lilo & Stitch, first released in 2002, follows an alien called Stitch – who tries to impersonate a dog while in the care of Lilo. The voice of Lilo, Daveigh Chase, has stunned audiences though as they realise where they may have seen the star before. While neither Chase or Stitch voice actor Chris Sanders returned for the live action version of the film, some may recognise Lilo's voice star.
Fans of the r/TodayILearned subreddit shared the roles Chase had also been cast in, including a horror classic and a film which catapulted actor Jake Gyllenhaal to fame.
The user wrote: "Daveigh Chase, who was the voice of Lilo in Lilo & Stich, also played Samara, the creepy girl in The Ring."
Fans were stunned to make the connection between the horror classic and the family-friendly animated film. One user joked: "One minute you're making friends with aliens, next minute you're crawling out of TVs. Iconic."
Another user in a separate thread sharing the same information added: "The actress which interpreted the little sister of Donnie Darko (Daveigh Chase) was actually the same actress (grown-up) on the movie
The Ring, a horror film where people who view a videotape are killed by a monster crawling out of their TV screens, received a sequel in 2017 which marks Chase's final on-screen appearance.
Though her feature in the film is just archival footage, it marks her most recent role to date. She also starred in independent horror film Wild in Blue.
Chase has not appeared in anything since, though also featured in the English dub of Studio Ghibli classic, Spirited Away, as well as deleted scenes of Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence.
Lilo & Stitch and The Ring released in 2002, with the family-friendly comedy about a space monster pretending to be a dog quite the contrast to a film where Chase portrays a ghoul trapped inside a television.
Fans of Lilo & Stitch have since found her work in The Ring to be quite chilling. One wrote: "I knew there was a reason Lilo creeped me out. The Ring was the only movie to EVER give me nightmares."
Another added: "I have to thank her for giving me those sleepless nights when I was young." A third wrote: "Should have been titled: TIL Donnie Darko's kid sister was the voice of Lilo & Stitch!"
Chase also featured in the Donnie Darko sequel, S. Darko, which viewers are keen to forget. One wrote: "Wait a second, Donnie Darko had a sequel?" Another replied: "A s***y sequel, yeah."
