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“One of the best and most underrated from Disney’s ‘dark’ early ‘80s period… a heartfelt film, touched by autumn’s chill and aching sweetness of knowing that childhood is coming to an end.” – Jessica Ritchey, RogerEbert.comNo book has ever plumbed the darker corners of childhood experience more beautifully than Ray Bradbury’s lyrical dark-fantasy masterpiece Something Wicked This Way Comes. Appropriate for children while resisting the anodyne sobriquet “kid-friendly,” Bradbury’s tale of two boys whose friendship is tested when a traveling carnival unleashes a mysterious malevolent energy on their sleepy small town was the perfect material for Disney’s so-called “Dark Age,” which saw the House of Mouse experimenting with gloomier subject matter. Starring Jonathan Pryce in a show-stopping turn as the carnival’s sinister owner, Mr. Dark, and directed by Jack Clayton, the horror maestro behind the classic chiller The Innocents, Something Wicked… is surely the scariest film ever released under the imprimatur of Walt Disney. And while it wasn’t a financial success —”Dark Age” also refers to Disney’s relative fortunes at the box office during this time—the film is a gorgeous and moving chiller, bathed in a gold-and-brown autumnal glow that has made it a cult classic for Spooky Season.
Before the film, we pay tribute to another master of kid-oriented terror, R.L. Stine, with a special Goosebumps pre-show starting at 2:30 pm.
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Arkadin Cinema & Bar, 5228 Gravois Ave, St Louis, MO 63116-2310, United States, Southhampton
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