Bradbury's prose is a strange hybrid of craftsmanship and lyricism. It's one of the few literary adaptations I've seen in which the film not only captures the mood and tone of the novel, but also the novel's style. There's another interesting thing about this movie. Robards is offered a choice in this movie, and it is a choice. Lovecraft!) - horror fantasies in which evil was a distinct possibility, but men also had within them the possibility of redemption.
Bradbury's world of fantasy calls back to an earlier tradition, to the fantasies of Lord Dunsany, Saki and John Collier (but not H.
The new breed of horror movies are essentially geek shows, exercises in despair in which all hope has been abandoned and evil rules the world. "Something Wicked This Way Comes" qualifies as a horror film, but it's an altogether different kind than we've been getting lately. And his assistants include the very beautiful Dust Witch, played by the stately, lovely Pam Grier in a change-of-career role after her decade of tough women. Dark ( Jonathan Pryce), is very likely a confederate of the devil. The scenes involving the carnival are an interesting blend of special effects and nostalgia, including a merry-go-round that spins backward into time. If he can resist that temptation, he can redeem the whole town. The challenge set him is a difficult one. And in the case of the Robards character, an aging small-town librarian with a young son, what he wanted the most was life and youth. What could it tempt you with? With whatever you wanted the most.
The movie is a fantasy, the story of how Dark's Pandemonium Carnival came to town one night (arriving on a glorious carnival train with no engineer at the controls and no passengers in the cars), and of how the carnival's main attraction was temptation.
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