It’s the sort of film that you watch as a teenager or even young adult and find interesting, well-acted, with some excellent design and a lot of creepy elements… and it’s the kind of film which your parents ignorantly let you watch as a younger child which will traumatise you throughout your primary school years
Considering that the 1939 film would be better known than the L Frank Baum novels to
most watchers, this unofficial sequel was, to say the least, a bold move. It’s easy to say that it involved a lot of creepy elements from the novels that the first film didn’t include, but I’ve read a couple of the Oz books and honestly this went a lot further, by including (among other things)
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bloomin attempted electroshock therapy in the Kansas scenes |
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Well, those were different times. Six years earlier The Black Hole had included an unlikely combination of cute funny (albeit annoying) robots and
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horrifying murders, with the chief villain ending the film in hell, trapped in an infernal robotic body. |
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