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Something Wicked This Way Comes
On a grim and gusty October day in Green Town, Illinois, two young boys encounter a terrified man who foretells of dangers blowing their way. Soon they realize that frustrated and greedy people are vanishing in town and the evil Mr. Dark and the Dust Witch make their dreams come true.
















3 September 1924, Rochester, New York, USA

18 February 1908, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

19 June 1933, Wisconsin, USA


29 November 1935, Meridian, Mississippi, USA

20 March 1936, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA

6 November 1968, California, USA

10 October 1947, Illinois, USA

1 June 1947, Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, UK


26 May 1949, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

1 August 1922, Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada



March 10, 2009
The property was snapped up by Disney, which promptly sucked the life out of it, turning it into a scrubbed and innocuous coming-of-age tale. Too bad.
August 26, 2006
Try as I might to get into this movie, based on the classic Ray Bradbury tale, I've found myself blocked by its off-putting ways.
August 30, 2004
A lively, entertaining tale combining boyishness and grown-up horror in equal measure.
May 24, 2003
A film that does not seem to know whether it wants to be genuinely frightening or a fantasy fable.
November 14, 2013
Even amidst readily apparent imperfections, "Wicked" still holds a melancholy grip. That's because its supernatural elements are really but a grace note to the symphony of its everyday drama, whose elegant, elegiac qualities have diminished little.
March 10, 2009
The plot concerns a mysterious carnival outside a small town in the early 1900s that grants the wishes of the town's citizens, with dark consequences.
May 14, 2013
Along with The Watcher in the Woods, it may be Disney's only honest-to-God effort to tell us a horror story.
February 23, 2016
Book-based '80s movie about an evil carnival is scary.
August 04, 2008
WICKED needs to be viewed as a different kind of film
April 07, 2003
Two or three chilling scenes make up for the periodic patches of dead air.
March 10, 2009
Possibilities for a dark, child's view fantasy set in rural America of yore are visible throughout the $20 million production but various elements have not entirely congealed into a unified achievement.
November 03, 2003
Bradbury's tale connects fear and dread to concupiscent desire and disordered regret fantasies of wealth or women, preoccupation with lost beauty or physical ability.