Return to Oz is an Absolute Nightmare

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I can’t believe I was watching this video when my mum just says “oh yeah, I played a head in that movie” EXCUSE ME MOTHER?!

"Being punished by my father" shows someone being devoured by a mountain Was your dad Cronus?

I think the Gnome King isn’t just shapeshifting. It seems more like as he turns more of Dorothy’s friends into ornaments he becomes more human like. Which always struck me as odd, was his intention to turn all of the characters into inanimate objects so that he himself could become fully human?

This movie is oddly more spooky to me now as an adult than it was when I watched it as a kid. I was just fascinated by it then, especially the rollers. And omg the scene of Dorothy finding the right items gave me SUCH anxiety as a kid. I was so scared of putting myself in her place, thinking "how would I know which were the right ones?!?!"

I think Over the Garden Wall is the closest a recent piece of media has come to capturing the vibes of these older pieces of media, or at least American ones.

The Fact that the Nome King was wearing the ruby slippers all the time is such a power move

This movie scared the hell out of me as a kid. But I was completely addicted to the characters so I just traumatized myself over and over lol. I watched it more than Wizard of Oz

The moment in the movie where princess Mombie sits up from her bed without her head, I vividly remember where I was and how old I was when I saw that scene. Even being an avid horror fan today has not changed the fact that that single scene with Mombie alone still scares me more than any other horror movie scene. I The stinging, orchestral music, the horrible shadow outline, her deep croaking voice, and just enough budget to make it look real. The wheelers were creepy and The Gnome King was pretty sketchy but I still can't watch the bedroom scene without shivers up my body

Coraline is one of the rare modern films that comes very close to nailing that Return to Oz/80’s Fantasy sense of danger and horror.

The fact that Return To Oz was closer to the original than its predecessor is yet another reason that the “Too dark and scary” criticisms it got were complete malarkey.

Return to Oz is one of my favourite childhood films - I LOVED the different character designs, and Mombi was such a good villain who just went around switching heads. Perhaps it is a generational thing, I watched the original Wizard of Oz on TNT and I thought it was pretty good as a kid, but as I got older and learnt more about how it was behind the scenes it left me feeling uncomfortable. I don’t watch the original anymore, but I can still watch Return to Oz anytime. There’s also something hilarious about Return to Oz just removing anything whimsical and rolling with the “you’re insane, you’re getting electroshock therapy” storyline

When the Nome King ate the egg and all the other Nomes went "POISON" I always lost it. Now I need an audio clip of the Nome chorus saying "POISON."

‘So, how’d you pitch your Return to Oz sequel?’ ‘Well, I’d like to start off with saying that I hate children...’

As much as Return to Oz is like a hot fever dream on bath salts, I always did love the tin man's swanky metal mustache

I remember finding an old VHS tape and find it weird that the actress name is same as mine. bcuz of that I end up watching this film almost every week, basically obsessed. Later I found out my parents had named me after the actress, because of this film. I would assume my love for dark, horror, fantasy genre came from it. I remember being obsessed trying to figure out if Gump or Tik-Tok is an actual robot or if actual person in there somewhere. I mean, the practical effects from this film still holds up to this day. Absolute flawless. I would recommend young gen should at least have seen this film once. Iconic!

I loved this movie. It was so weird and the effects and set were crazy unique and out of this world. I would literally pretend to be Dorothy and touch things around the house like it was going to turn into the scarecrow and the house would crumble. Loved it.

It would be an incredible feat to see the team behind “Over The Garden Wall” adapt the entire collection of L. Frank Baum’s original “Oz” book series into a multi-season, 2D animated series!

The most terrifying parts of the Oz books to me was the fact that no matter what pain or "death" the creatures were subjected to, no one can really die in the land of Oz. So they just go on in torment forever from what I could gather from reading them. Not sure what happened to the ones who were eating or melted down.

Return To Oz is a film I watched as a kid and I remember loving it but feeing conflicted at the time. I loved the story, but when you realise that all the main characters she meets are reflections of the abuse she has lived in childhood makes you realise this no ordinary film! I still turn to this film today. It is a brilliant film in all sense of the words, it’s harrowing, thought provoking and mind bending