The Castro Theatre
429 Castro St
415.621.5288
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Return to Oz (1985)
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Friday Aug 8, 2008 (7:30pm)
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- Price
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$10 all three films
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This '80s triple bill proves that fantasy films aren't just kid stuff. Acclaimed editor Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now) offers a much darker vision of L. Frank Baum's dreamworld in Return to Oz, his quasi-sequel to 1939's family-friendly Technicolor musical. Dorothy travels from a Kansan mental hospital to a much-changed Oz, where she searches for the Scarecrow while battling the terrifying Wheelers and a wicked witch with an arsenal of changeable heads. Next, Tim Burton's Beetlejuice presents a horror-comic update of the 1937 Cary Grant film Topper. The night ends on an offensive note with Peter Jackson's pre-LOTR Muppet massacre, Meet the Feebles, which makes Avenue Q look like Sesame Street.
