Return to Oz Owes Me Financial Compensation....

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

late night video check ;)

[@DTakeshi93]

Yes

[@pokemaniac05]

here are examples of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Aussie media for you, Avery some i've seen or heard of at this point or another Grace Beside Me kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHKkfoSlj6mmfcU&ab_channel=AustralianTeachersofMedia Thalu kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5ewkGCPo5WkgKs&ab_channel=AustralianChildren%27sTelevisionFoundation YoIugu Boy kzbin.info/www/bejne/onraYZ58hdmCbqs&ab_channel=AustralianChildren%27sTelevisionFoundation The Secret Daughter kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWbNlWpsfs1sibc&ab_channel=FreeviewAustralia Double Trouble kzbin.info/www/bejne/e4OodYFmi7CtpbM&ab_channel=AustralianChildren%27sTelevisionFoundation Bran Nue Dae kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJ-qg5eXjZpsas0&ab_channel=akonter Redfern Now kzbin.info/www/bejne/gWOnoZWpgMehhrc&ab_channel=ABCTV%26iview Ready For This kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIXTfp5_m8qknJY&ab_channel=AustralianChildren%27sTelevisionFoundation Stone Bros kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5W5lKyOfdekZ6s&ab_channel=aussiefilm Samson & Delilah kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIOnnZxrj7CAm7M&ab_channel=ABCTV%26iview

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

@@pokemaniac05 thank you! I'll check them out ☺️

[@pokemaniac05]

@@AveryTalksAboutStuff so what do you think of those? also something cool, there is going to be a Round The Twist Musical in the works for Series 1 & 2 because S3 & 4, yeah we can just ignore them, even tho i like it them a bit

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

@@pokemaniac05 thats really interesting! I haven't had a chance to look over the links you sent but I'm excited to do so!

[@noahhutchins5164]

Return to Oz has some nightmare fuel imagery around every corner and would probably give most kids nightmares, but I love it so much Also, I love how all this terror came from a Disney movie. Like, who thinks of a decapitated women who tried to murder a little girl while a room full of severed heads screams when they think of the magical world of Disney

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Decapitated head: "and your watching Disney channel!" 🥳

[@FreggFaerie]

Omg the Gus clip-classic! You have such good taste 😭

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Thanks! Can't forget the classics 🙂

[@shelbymckinney8888]

Oh this classic! I will never forget those literally screaming heads. This was actually Fairuza Balks ( a.k.a Nancy from the Craft) first role. She beat out a bunch of other actresses including, believe it or not, a young Alanis Morissette.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

That's so interesting! She's an underrated actress for sure

[@shelbymckinney8888]

@@AveryTalksAboutStuff Indeed. This some of best work the henson company had the time but special shout out to Will Vinton Studios who worked on those stop motion segments with the Gnome King

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

@@shelbymckinney8888 those were also super impressive albeit terrifying 😂

[@claykennedy6790]

I found this movie on a VHS at the library in the late 90s when I was seven or eight years old. Ohhhh boy. My little mind was not prepared. I still have vivid -memories- nightmares from this film. 11/10 Children's movie will show my kids. Love the channel, always look forward to your new videos. Keep up the good work!

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Thank you so much for watching! And yeah it's total nightmare fuel but it's also just a good movie...and what's childhood without a little nightmare fuel. 😂

[@tajtay]

“ not jack take me instead” is a mood. Lol I remember having this movie, don’t remember asking for it but I had the vhs. Literally no one I knew had seen it. I love it, this probably my favorite Oz movie

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Jack must be protected at all costs. I don't remember when I first saw this movie but the funny thing is that I was scared of the original because of the flying monkeys so kid me was not prepared for this. 😂

[@tajtay]

@@AveryTalksAboutStuff I think the wheelers scared me, especially the one that keeps laughing? Oh when the witch got up in bed headless! That was scary. I read somewhere that the scarecrow was supposed to have a bigger role and be animatronic but they had to cut the budget

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

@@tajtay the headless witch is definitely a lot to handle...I honestly think an animatronic scarecrow may have been worse haha. At least this scarecrow seems somewhat huggable. 😅

[@tajtay]

@@AveryTalksAboutStuff I think the scarecrows eyes and mouth are supposed to move it’s a little jarring that his mouth doesn’t move when he talked. Also why the hell was he the king of oz ? Lol

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

@@tajtay yeah that's true. I think he became king in the books but I never read them so I'm not sure 🤣

[@justaguy2365]

Loved this movie as a kid!! I even had the Golden Book

[@PaxPadmaMusic]

Still fond of this one although I didn't know it had Henson's involvement until a few years back, certainly a master at his craft. Great content as always Avery!

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Such a classic...thank you for watching!

[@idle3re8u5]

I was looking for a video about this movie and started with your video. This is a nice recap and you're so charming. I'm gonna check out more of your stuff.

[@citydweller99]

If you think about it, this movie really showed how vile society was in treating people with mental health issues. Dorothy was suffering from PTSD from the tornado/OZ.. and her aunt/uncle were going to send her for electric shock treatment.. which most likely would have fried her brain. Loved this movie when I was 5 or 6

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

It's true...even though we've progressed (mostly) past this kind of treatment there's still a million problems with how we deal with it today.

[@johnreese7973]

Shock therapy still happens today in America for the worst cases of crazy. Just like lobotomy is still used for the worst cases of seizures. When the conditions are either death or shock therapy it gets done.

[@THATGuy5654]

_"Wet ass_ *CHICKEN"* My attempt to phonetically spell out the noise I made immediately after hearing that: "PHhhWHEE!"

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

😂😂😂 my brother said I should be banned from the internet after that one

[@RANima71498]

Fun fact about Tik-Tok, he is one of the very first robots ever created in literacy, having debuted in one of the sequels to Wizard of Oz, Ozma of Oz which was written in 1907. He’s actually referred to as “the prototype robot” and to get an idea of how old he is, he actually PREDATES the term of robot as we know it by 13 years. And with that in mind, and remembering that both Wizard of Oz and Ozma of Oz (as well as ALL the other original Oz books by L Frank Baum) are over 100 years old (the last sequel, Glinda of Oz was written in 1920), that means Tik-Tok, were he to exist in real life as he works in the movie, has already used up at least a 10th of his functioning lifespan! He’ll still be working perfectly for about another 900 years long after we die. Way to go. Tik-Tok!

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

That's all so amazing! I love that!

[@A113-p9e]

I like how elementals of the real work are reflected in Oz, much like in the MGM film.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

I know, I've always loved that!

[@trogdortheburninator3621]

This movie feels like a fever dream. I love it

[@FreggFaerie]

You're so good at video titles, this one is in my top five favorite 😂

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Thank you 😂 I entertain myself

[@FreggFaerie]

@@AveryTalksAboutStuff and as a bonus, me! I laughed out loud when I read it 😄

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

@@FreggFaerie yay! Thank you for appreciating it 😂

[@FreggFaerie]

@@AveryTalksAboutStuff you're very easy to appreciate 😘🥰😄

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

@@FreggFaerie awww shucks 😊

[@Kydensra]

This movie scared the crap out of me when I was little, and yet I still watched it multiple times.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Yeah, it definitely has that effect 😂

[@gokusondbz]

Technically Return To Oz was based on 2 separate books. But predominantly based on Ozma of Oz.

[@vzanto4630]

Thanks for covering this Averystyle, always excited when a new vid pops up! Love your stuff

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Thank you so much! It was a lot of fun!

[@apizzathatgiantforthesimpl5191]

I distinctly remember renting this and "The Witches" from Blockbuster. I guess I just loved terrifying children's movies. 😆

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

I can't wait to do a video on the witches!

[@lindseysanders3656]

We actually watched The Witches in school. It was great, along with this film.

[@michaelaiken6482]

Very cool video I bought the DVD years back so I will always have it.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Thank you! That's really cool!

[@sauronbagginsd8032]

This is such an awesome movie, I was never terrified of it, I actually wanted one of those headless dancing girl statues for my garden 😂😂

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Lol, I love it. 😅

[@AngelDRose]

It was actually based on two of the sequel books. The marvelous land of Oz and Ozma of Oz. The little blonde girl is this movie was supposed to be “Ozma” the true heir to the throne of oz but the witch turned her into a little boy and made him a slave. He escaped by creating jack with the life powder and building the flying couch thing. I read the whole series as a kid. My best friend and I were kind of obsessed with them at one point. It was like Harry Potter before Harry Potter.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

I want to read them all because they sound super interesting! I was kind of terrified of the flying monkeys in the original movie so I think my mom had me skip the whole series to avoid nightmares. 😂

[@Adam-lc6mk]

Fairuza Balk is one of my favorite actors. I keep trying to get my friends to watch this movie with me but I guess they aren't cool enough lol

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Lol, definitely not cool enough 😂 and yeah, she's been in some true Halloween classics. 😊

[@Adam-lc6mk]

@@AveryTalksAboutStuff I know that one of my favorites w her in it is the craft

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

@@Adam-lc6mk I haven't seen that one yet! I should check it out 🙂

[@Adam-lc6mk]

@@AveryTalksAboutStuff oh it is so good. Such a classic

[@HEAVYMETALmovie1981]

I really enjoyed watching this growing up and Fairuza Balk is such a wonderful actress 😎

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

She really is underrated!

[@isodynomical]

Ever since my cousin told me about this when I was a child I've refused to believe it was real. Today those beliefs are being challenged.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

It's a whole lot but I like it for what it is 😂

[@ilikecurry2345]

I remember watching Bobsheaux riff on a 1960s-era unremarkable Oz movie which has Jack Pumpkinhead brought to life by Mombies via some magic powder and the words which I swear were "roe, toe, poe". Glad to know I'm updated now and the spelling is "reaugh, teaugh, peaugh"!

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

lol I had no idea that version existed and now I need to watch it XD

[@endrankluvsda4loko172]

lol yeah I saw this as a kid and it absolutely terrified me. Everything about it was horrific. Even just Dorthy running down the broken yellow-brick road gave younger me all kinds of anxiety.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Yep, I totally hear that. Oz is just terrifying the longer you think about it. 😅

[@angelarose6155]

My friend Emmy has this movie I saw it with her 🥰

[@fynnthefox9078]

This movie is much closer to the original Oz books than the 1939 classic. It's not all sunshine and rainbows in the land of Oz. Also the ruby slippers were only in the MGM film, to show off the colors. In the books, they're silver slippers.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Yes, I always respect an accurate movie to the books...it's part of why I've always liked Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

[@AntonWongVideo]

7:20 one of the most terrifying things? i dunno...I've seen the Ice Cream Bunny...

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Oh, the ice cream bunny would eat the wheelers for lunch 😂

[@TwilightLink77]

What’s interesting is that Jack Pumpkinhead is the inspiration for Tim Burton to create Jack Skellington

[@magicalpasta5462]

I actually found Jack kinda cute and adorable in a weird way

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

He does grow on you after a while 😅

[@TwilightLink77]

Before this film was made Walt Disney after the success of Snow White did plan to make a animated film of the Wizard of Oz, but because MGM bought the rights to the original books the Disney animated adaptation was scrapped

[@kindacoolgreg]

I love the Wheelers

[@kazuhasgloves]

this movie almost made me sh*t myself. 😭😂😂

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

BEWARE THE WHEELERS

[@kazuhasgloves]

I'M SAYIN' THO! 😭😭😭😂

[@gokusondbz]

Technically speaking the people from Oz did steal the emeralds read the books. Awesome in the books they were the silver slippers ruby slippers was an MGM creation so Disney had to pay copyrights to use that in this movie.

[@WWlogics]

I love this movie. Only 80s babies will understand.

[@vincentanuneko4269]

Ever read the oz books by l frank baum

[@ChristianMartin-s2z]

I'm personally offended that you didn't spend literally the entire length of this video gushing over how awesome Jean Marsh is.

[@Thagomizer]

This movie isn't terrifying. The way people talk about it, you'd think they were talking about Antichrist or Salo. I watched it between the ages of 7 and 9 and I wasn't remotely traumatized, just baffled as to why everything looked different from the 1939 film. Of course, I had also seen Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom at that age and loved them both.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Yeah I mean everyone handles things differently - one person's nightmare fuel movie is another person's favorite. My "comfort movie" in high school was The Woman in Black which is hilarious because it's literally a gothic horror.

[@PaulonotPaul8]

I am tiktok, and good god those wheelers, what kind of hell are they from? This and dark crystal I can't watch again, the oz world has always creeped me out anyway.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

I need to cover dark crystal so the trilogy of nightmare fuel that Henson made will finally be completed. But honestly I'm so terrified of dark crystal to this day that I'm putting it off as far as I can lol.

[@DangerDurians]

Definitely stealing the gnome king for a dnd game

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Yes!!

[@angelarose6155]

Do you have a Facebook page I love your content what's the name 🥰

[@pokemaniac05]

i've heard of this, i didn't see it myself, also puppets which i'm not creeped out for the most part, unless it's EC from Lift Off which i didn't see either, but it is the first character shown in the opening with no gender, no face basically Slenderman as a ragdoll and lot of 90s Aussie kids were freaked, but when they look at the Ferals tho, immediately they just beat the ever living crap out of each other and saying the rudest things in Australian kids tv program at the time pushing boundaries, the Ferals spinoffs were the same thing only they tone it down with each one and then some forgotten puppet tv shows like Pig's Breakfast which man i don't remember that one at all or Me and My Monsters which the little kid in that one is British and his family are Australian.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

For as much as the average puppet weirds me out, the Henson company actually did make some likable ones. Belina and Jack are both adorable I think

[@pokemaniac05]

@@AveryTalksAboutStuff i still think Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Australian shows, movies & their culture need some recognition, i've only seen a few of them like The Sapphires, a good movie and Rabbit Proof Fence, such a great one too on telling the "Stolen Generation," how the kids were separated from their families, a rather emotional one at that.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

@@pokemaniac05 that's very true! I don't know anything about aboriginal culture or media but I'd love to learn

[@THATGuy5654]

What makes this movie even more bizarre for me is that before this I had seen the main actress in a few of her adult rolls, most of which had her portraying sexy bad girls. I start watching this, and after a few minutes I begin to recognize the actress, and it just made it a smidge more surreal.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

That is bizarre, I've wanted to cover this ever since the worst witch video last October 😊

[@THATGuy5654]

@@AveryTalksAboutStuff What the - I knew I had made a comment similar to this before. Did my brain turn this and The Worst Witch into the same movie in my memory? What the hell, brain?

[@angelarose6155]

I've seen it and some of it sracy I mean I like parts of it it was alot to handle

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

oh definitely! You've gotta be in the right mind for it for sure :)

[@THATGuy5654]

Sorry for all the comments, but this also traumatized me. We're on this journey together. But anyway, the hands in both this this and Labyrinth- There were a lot of puppeteers involved in in all the Jim Henson movies, obviously. Do you think a lot of the staff had nightmares about groping hands going after them? Revenge of the puppets?

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

No worries! I appreciate the engagement 😊 and yeah I hear you. I definitely would have had at least one anxiety attack at some point. Although dark crystal I think had the worst ones 😂