Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
- Directed by
- Jack Clayton
- Genre
- fantasy film, horror film
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 206 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Two young boys in a small town befriend a strange carnival that comes to town. The carnival's mysterious leader offers wishes to the townspeople with sinister consequences. The boys team up with the local librarian to stop the carnival's dark magic.
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What happens
Something Wicked This Way Comes is a 1983 American dark fantasy film directed by Jack Clayton, from a screenplay written by Ray Bradbury, based on his novel of the same name. It stars Jason Robards, Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd and Pam Grier. The title was taken from a line in Act IV of William Shakespeare's Macbeth: "By the pricking of my thumbs / Something wicked this way comes". It was filmed in Vermont and at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. It had a troubled production – Clayton fell out with Bradbury over an uncredited script rewrite, and after test screenings of the director's cut failed to meet the studio's expectations, Disney sidelined Clayton, fired the original editor, scrapped the original score, delaying the film by five months, spent $4 million on the new changes and spent many months re-shooting, re-editing and re-scoring the film before its eventual release. Produced by Walt Disney Productions, Something Wicked This Way Comes was the last Disney film to be released by the studio under its original name. It was released in the United States by Buena Vista Distribution on April 29, 1983. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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