Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

[@wawawis]

Even the scene with Mrs. Nightshade was top notch. I love how lightening strikes right when she looks back, and the way it lights everything up. Absolutely cinematic gold! And combine it with her attire, the music, the setting & the conversation she just had with Mr. Holloway. I don't know what it is, but I absolutely love it. The mirror scene is also excellent too along with many other parts of this movie.

[@p.terodactyl6848]

2:23: "Here, the looking glass of pride and ruined vanity, where wars of time are fought and lost." Wow...only Ray Bradbury.

[@lzichon]

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[@morellapoe2814]

Yes! Can’t believe you knew the ClockDVA song 🤩

[@lzichon]

@@morellapoe2814 That's why it's here ))

[@lukasmiller486]

That’s not a quote from the book but it sounds great.

[@ItachiUchiha-ih6yy]

I guess even for me being born in '98, even for me, I don't understand this famous quote, please explain, I want to know😭😭🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@Lily-kl1of]

Satan can offer you many things but the one thing he can never give you is real true love.

[@thomasbaron5367]

Truth

[@hornetmagtfVMFA314]

Mr. Dark is basically an evil version of Willy Wonka.

[@spamlives77]

Ur weird

[@Lily-kl1of]

@@spamlives77 Thank you

[@lukasmiller486]

Hands down, the best scene.

[@MarkFloyd7451]

agree

[@suzannemcclure7412]

The scenes with the mirrors....such a heavy redemption portrayal.

[@benhuether5474]

Mr Dark is pretty much the Coachman from Pinocchio, the Child Catcher, Pennywise the Dancing Clown, and Satan himself wrapped up into one character.

[@bobsmith4690]

great movie.

[@thomasbaron5367]

One of my favorite movies 🙂

[@MarkFloyd7451]

@@thomasbaron5367 Mine too. Watch it every October right before Halloween.

[@gordonliddy7971]

**VERY TOUCHING.....**

[@MarkFloyd7451]

I love this ending even though it's not exactly like the book. In fact, I like the movie better than the book. Ray Bradbury not only wrote the book but the sceen play for the most part including the ending you see here.

[@agenttheater5]

So the barber who wanted women became a bearded lady, the cigar man who wanted money became one of those life-sized cigar machines (or what ever they were called) that keeps being given money, the football star got his youth and his missing limbs back but in the form of a boy too young to play for the crowds and the teacher became beautiful again but lost her sight, did I get that right? What do you think would have happened to Jim's mother if she'd kept waiting for Harry?

[@tayachting6345]

I've always wondered that. Perhaps since the carnival grants dearest wishes that come true in away that prevents the wisher from enjoying them, I would say something along the lines of her being kidnapped into the carnival where she would be a slave of a demonic entity that resembled her husband or perhaps killed by a replica of her husband and her soul confined to the carnival. Good thing she left although you could tell she was just tempted to stay and wait. She was lucky.

[@Xerock]

Perhaps she would be transformed into a visage of her husband or buried alive in the same coffin as he was

[@tayachting6345]

@@Xerock Perhaps; this was a very creepy film.

[@petevonstettina8627]

That's a hell of a question. I saw this when it came out and was always a fan of how deep this was. That's a deep question.

[@wawawis]

I absolutely love the juxtaposition of her in her 1930's attire and the lightening strike lighting everything up just as the turns around after saying "but, they told me". There's just something so profound about that whole moment. I don't know if it's just me, but that is just another part of the movie where the cinematography and effects are absolutely stunning! It gets me every time.

[@kaljathpanthermage3711]

It's terrifying how each of these victims have sold their souls to the devil himself!

[@theroamingcanuck49]

Was the football star a WWI veteran?

[@oooh19]

I’m betting so. The civil war was much longer ago so he’d be really old and this was the 30s so before WW2

[@josephmurphy8403]

They didn't say how he lost his limbs. But I do know the actor, James Stacy had lost them in a motorcycle accident several years before.

[@So-Be-It_890]

1983

[@MarkFloyd7451]

A good year.

[@So-Be-It_890]

@@MarkFloyd7451 What if the question "Do you like.... (insert option here)" is the same the the guy from the foreign country is saying in his original language and he asks that question repeatedly?

[@MarkFloyd7451]

Whatever happened to the child star Vidal Peterson who played Will Halloway? I thought both he and Sean Carson ,who played Jim Nightshade, were very good. I thought the scene in the Hall of Mirrors where Charles Halloway (Jason Robards) smashes thru the portal where his son Will Halloway (Vidal Peterson) is shown drowning & Charles grabs his hand and pulls him out & they embrace was very poignant. Charles Halloway atoned for his regret at his inability to do this act when Will was 4 yrs old and caught in a dangerours current in the Indigo river & all Charles could do was watch someone else (Harry Nightshade, Jim NIghtshade's dad) save his son.