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'It has the appeal of an actual horror': How Return to Oz became one of the darkest children's films ever made (www.bbc.com)
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[–] memfree@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

I must have watched this as a kid because this post got me to re-watch it and I recognized parts of it, but I also read serveral of the Oz books way back when, so I could have been remembering that.

Anyway, I can see where it might scare kids, but it is no worse than the Dr. Who episodes that send kids hiding behind the sofa.