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
Brand: Disney
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, 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: Great service
Summary: 5 Stars

Our item came in a very timely manner and it was in exactly the shape advertized.

DVD Review: Wicked Ways
Summary: 5 Stars

This Ray Bradbury inspired movie was something that was missing from my collection until I ran across this on Amazon. Rarely televised, it's a great one to watch with the grandchildren, at least from my experience. Could also be a good Pam Grier trivia question since you have to check the movie credits carefully to catch her name.
As usual, Amazon comes through with hard to find items at a reasonable cost and quality guaranteed.

DVD Review: One of the best of Disney's "dark" side
Summary: 5 Stars

I saw this movie when it debuted in the 80s; it goes without saying that a LOT of time had passed since I saw it and I wanted to see if the chills still held up.

Bottom line: yes, they most certainly do. Jonathan Price as Mr. Dark is as fine a villain as has ever been envisioned. The carousel scene at the end is still one of the most chill-inducing I've seen in a PG movie. Perhaps the most haunting vision is the old teacher's dream of being the beauty she once was; she pays a hefty price for it, and I won't ruin it any more here; if you've never seen this though, the results are chilling. I cannot recall the actress' name. I just looked on IMDB, I believe it was Ellen Geer - and in the hands of anybody else, the scene would have felt phony; they found a real jewel, however, and she plays this scene brilliantly. The Dust Witch would also serve to scare me senseless as a younger man; she's still wickedly spooky 25 years later. Jason Robards seems a bit old to be the father, and he always did to me, but at the same time, he anchors this stellar cast and keeps the focus on the point of redemption that lies deep at the heart of the movie.

It doesn't hurt a thing that it's based on Bradury's novel of the same name, and when you've got fiction writing like that to draw from, it's really hard to screw the picture up. Definitely a five star for me.

DVD Review: Something wickedly wonderful
Summary: 5 Stars

having worn our video tape to destruction it was good to find this fabuulous movie on DVD. It arrived quickly, securely packaged. The disc was superb - picture quality fantastic, sound great - like being back at the movies the day it was released. Can't recommend the sellers highly enough.

DVD Review: something wicked this way comes
Summary: 4 Stars

a rather scary movie from disney which is a good adaption of ray bradbury's novel i like this dvd version of the book allan g beck from wellington nz.

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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