Something Wicked This Way Comes

Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Jack Clayton

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Actor: Diane Ladd, Jason Robards, Jonathan Pryce, Royal Dano, Vidal Peterson
Director: Jack Clayton
Cinematographer: Stephen H. Burum
Editor: Argyle Nelson Jr.
Editor: Barry Mark Gordon
Producer: Dan Kolsrud
Producer: Peter Douglas
Writer: Ray Bradbury
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-03
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Walt Disney Video

DVD Reviews of Something Wicked This Way Comes

DVD Review: All Time Favorite
Summary: 5 Stars

This was my all time favorite movie growing up as a kid. It still is. I think anyone can find a way to relate to some characters in the movie. With an edgy suspense with a carnival setting. Brings out a kid in all of us.

DVD Review: great movie
Summary: 5 Stars

The order was sent on time and was in great shape.
Price was the lowest I found any wear.

DVD Review: Something Wicked this way comes
Summary: 5 Stars

I saw this while shopping for a different DVD and thought I remembered it was good. Got it and its a timeless Bradbury Classic made into a all time classic movie. Jason Robards was excellent as were the other actors. Highly Recommend!!!! All around good for young or old!

DVD Review: Spooky
Summary: 4 Stars

An erie movie from the 80's. Look close at Mr. Dark. Does he look familiar? I'll leave that one up to you to find out who he is, and what other movie he has been in. A great halloween spooker of a movie!

DVD Review: Very good
Summary: 4 Stars

One of my daughter's fave from when she was younger. Great movie to add to your DVD collection.

Description of Something Wicked This Way Comes

One of Ray Bradbury's most popular and intriguing novels of good and evil comes to life in this spine-tingling motion picture. On a grim and gusty October day, two young boys encounter a distressed man who foretells of danger blowing their way. Soon after, the town is visited by a seductive stanger named Mr. Dark and his Pandemonium Carnival. Terrifying things begin to happen when the adventurous boys stumble onto the carnival's deadly and destructive secret! Beware: SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES ... and frightening surprises follow!

Ray Bradbury adapted his own novel for Something Wicked This Way Comes, Jack Clayton's beautiful rendering of the turn-of-the-century fantasy of a mysterious carnival that literally blows into a small town to taunt and tempt the inhabitants. Jonathan Pryce (Brazil), the handsome but demonic proprietor of Dark's Pandemonium Carnival, preys upon the vanities, the delusions, and the regrets of the townspeople by granting their wishes at the expense of their souls. Jason Robards, as the meek librarian Charles Halloway, becomes his unlikely nemesis when his son Will, with his best friend Jim Nightshade (a deliciously dark name in its own right), discovers the secret of Dark's nightmarish carnival. When they become hunted by Dark's minions (including Pam Grier as the beautiful and mysterious Dust Witch), Halloway must confront his own fears and regrets to save the boys. Clayton captures the idyll of childhood in the fall with rich autumnal colors, his camera gliding along with the energetic boys as they tear through field and forests. The climax, however, gets lost in a cacophony of competing special effects, imaginatively visualized but never very terrifying, as if producer Disney resisted the uneasy undercurrent of the story. It's more dark fantasy than horror, a nightmarish adventure filtered through the memory of a man remembering his childhood in mythic terms. --Sean Axmaker

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