There are a good number of frightening scenes in this movie.
Huck's "pap" threatens to kill him, and nearly carries out the threat with a knife.
Huck and Jim come across a wrecked boat. They board it, and Huck overhears two men threatening to kill another men. A dead body, with a bullet hole shown in its forehead, falls on top of Jim. It is implied obviously that all three men die as the ship sinks.(Huck and Jim barely make it off)
A slave is whipped.(we just see the man swinging the whip, the impact is not shown)
Huck is shot at the end, and they make it look like he died. (He wakes up safe and sound)